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Following on from the last post, with a million dollars I would:
1. Ask a financial consultant how much I can donate to charity before I'm in the next lowest tax bracket. If it's not much, I'd donate that amount to Farm Sanctuary http://www.farmsanctuary.org/farm/ca/ and some to a human charity, probably Alzheimer's research that doesn't use lab animals.
2. Then I'd pay off my student loans.
3. I'd give around half the money to my parents so my Mom could immediately stop working and my Dad could, um, do whatever he wants, probably work part time. This will come with the stipulation that, as retirees, my parents could not start wearing stretch-waist jeans, polyster slacks, bucket hats, or fisherman's vests. I'd also do something awesome for my Nana.
4. Although I live in the most splendid house in the world, I would look into moving to a smaller splendid (rented) residence nearby and persuade Historian to live in it as my kept man.
5. Polo! Every week I'd have a lesson or two, some stick-and-ball, and play an instructional chukka. And I'd buy a hat, gloves, knee pads, and riding jeans.
6. I would spend this winter on a working holiday in/near a desert.
7. I'd do various things for my friends, like pay off some of A's loans and send the un-Sister on an awesome culinary course and take Lubaya on an overseas adventure of some sort.
8. I'd try to save at least 20% of the money and conservatively invest most of it. But I'd keep just enough in my account that I'd be able to use taxis willy-nilly, buy a Miss Katie waistcoat corset in green taffeta with cream ribbon, and eat all the Ribblesdale smoked goat's cheese I want.
1. Ask a financial consultant how much I can donate to charity before I'm in the next lowest tax bracket. If it's not much, I'd donate that amount to Farm Sanctuary http://www.farmsanctuary.org/farm/ca/ and some to a human charity, probably Alzheimer's research that doesn't use lab animals.
2. Then I'd pay off my student loans.
3. I'd give around half the money to my parents so my Mom could immediately stop working and my Dad could, um, do whatever he wants, probably work part time. This will come with the stipulation that, as retirees, my parents could not start wearing stretch-waist jeans, polyster slacks, bucket hats, or fisherman's vests. I'd also do something awesome for my Nana.
4. Although I live in the most splendid house in the world, I would look into moving to a smaller splendid (rented) residence nearby and persuade Historian to live in it as my kept man.
5. Polo! Every week I'd have a lesson or two, some stick-and-ball, and play an instructional chukka. And I'd buy a hat, gloves, knee pads, and riding jeans.
6. I would spend this winter on a working holiday in/near a desert.
7. I'd do various things for my friends, like pay off some of A's loans and send the un-Sister on an awesome culinary course and take Lubaya on an overseas adventure of some sort.
8. I'd try to save at least 20% of the money and conservatively invest most of it. But I'd keep just enough in my account that I'd be able to use taxis willy-nilly, buy a Miss Katie waistcoat corset in green taffeta with cream ribbon, and eat all the Ribblesdale smoked goat's cheese I want.