If I were a rich man...

TruelightUK

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This is  a question I often ask myself;  "If you were to win the lottery tomorrow" (fat chance, I never buy a ticket, but humour me!) "what would you do with the money?"

Let's assume a fairly modest win of, say £1 million (that's around $1.3 million).  What would you do?

 

Anthony
 

TruelightUK

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To be honest, I just cannot think what anyone could possibly do with that amount of money!?!

The best answer I've come up with so far is:

I'd use about £60,000 to add to the proceeds of selling my current house and enable me to buy one close to my elderly mother, which I've been trying to do for several years but can never quite afford.

I'd consider using a further £7,000 or so to replace my current car with something more eco-friendly with a long 'shelf-life'.

I might spend around £10,000 on buying a mobile home in one of my favourite parts of the English countryside, which I could then make available to poorer families in the church whenever I wasn't using it.

I'd think about investing just enough of it to ensure myself a modest income of around £15,000 a year, so I could give up f/t employment and work as a volunteer for some 'good cause(s)'.

I'd definitely donate £40,000 to the children's project I support in Ukraine, so they could buy and furnish the house they need to expand the children's home.

I suspect I might also manage to justify squandering a certain amount on a few selfish luxuries like a holiday to somewhere I've always fancied like the Greek Islands (not in a 5-star hotel tho', cos I'd hate it!), and some top quality walking gear.

And no doubt a few presents for friends.

Which would probably still leave upward of £1/2 million, which I would pray very hard before donating to a variety of charities/missions/aid projects etc., and/or maybe setting up some kind of trust fund.

On the other hand, God-willing, I've long cherished a dream about setting up a kind of smallscale Christian community-cum-retreat centre, which would also be home/employment opportunity to a small number of people with learning disabilities (which would then probably replace the idea about a new house, holiday home and investment fund for myself).

Anthony
 
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I'd first get a new house for us, cuz your house is really small. I'd then give a bunch of homeless cats and dogs a home with me. I'd then give the rest of it to my mom to decide what to do with, but she would do the same thing I'd do and give it to Christian uses after taking some out for us kiddies for college. Of course though, since I'm only 13, I wouldn't be playing the lottery anyways hehehe!
 
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First, I'd give some of it to God, because I'm so grateful for everything He does for me, and sometimes just saying "Thank You" doesn't seem like enough. Then, I'd put aside enough to finish school without going into debt. I'd also buy a car (nothing fancy), and a new computer with printer and scanner. I'd see about investing what's left, but I'd most likely just put it in a savings account.
 
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HONESTLY? I would like to help others get out of debt. For those of us who grew up poor and in want, we seem to have an understanding of what means to go to bed and not spend the night worrying about how to pay the bills the next morning or how we are going to eat.
 
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Originally posted by TruelightUK
"what would you do with the money?" 

We like to think if we had more money, then we would be able to give more to help others. But I am not so sure it would really work out that way.

Right now, my tithe and giving to missions runs between 20 & 30%. My wife is more good than me in that she gives 50% of her money away, but a lot of it she give to people in her family to sponser them in school and that sort of stuff.

Luke 16:10  He who is faithful in what is least is faithful also in much; and he who is unjust in what is least is unjust also in much.

According to the Bible what we do with the little bit we have now is a good indication of what we would do if we had a bunch of money. We like to think that if we had more, we would give more, but the precentage of our giving now is a good indication of what percentage we would give if we had more to give.

As far as what would I spend on myself? I have most everything I want or need. So I suppose if the money were to be available, I would upgrade, or perhaps do a bit more traveling. But for the most part, God pretty well provides for whatever we want or need.

Psalm 37:4
    Delight yourself also in the Lord,
    And He shall give you the desires of your heart.
 


 


 
 
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There are Christian people who are generous with what little they have. I have always tried to give and I have know some people who had almost nothing yet would give what they had to others in need (often going without themselves). These are the kind of people that could use that "million" for the right reason.
 
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I would give some to the church first, and definetely bless alot of unfortunate people.
Buy a old junker of a car, maybe a 1956 Chevy Belair and fix it up to racing specs.
Lots of things, open a buisness, travel, buy a house, then chill out for a bit.
Oh, and lots of golf :D
 
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Originally posted by TruelightUK
To be honest, I just cannot think what anyone could possibly do with that amount of money!?! 

You would be surprised, it is not that much money. Also, in this state they pay it out over a 20 year period of time. So after taxes it works out to what most people make for a living.

The Bible says that those who are faithful in the little things will be faithful in the big things. Whatever we are doing, with what "little bit" of money we have now, is most likely what we would do if we had a "lot" of money.
 
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