Posted by StrawberriesYum on October 29, 2005, at 23:53:39
In reply to Quit, move, go back to school., posted by Dinah on October 29, 2005, at 19:47:26
This was something I recently was asked, but regarding $100,000,000.
5 things I'd do with $100,000,000.00 (one hundred million): 1. Tithing.
2. Donate to appropriate research and charities regarding autism, especially genetics research, and education, and NAMI, a wonderful organization, and Bipolar and Anxiety Disorders groups, research, education, and a Mental Health Crisis Center that is wanted to be built in **** County, and *** Zoo cause they REALLY need the help. (And they need dolphins, I'd pay part of the cost to bring some here.) Dolphin communication research, and Save the Dolphins type of things, and Save the Sharks kind of things too because it's horrible to just cut off their fin, throw them back and have them slowly die. There are, of course, so many things that are horrible in this world, but you have to pick a few. I'd also fund some wells to be drilled for villages in Africa. As well as (all for Africa) for schooling for children, basic health care, and AIDS education measures. And I know I can't donate to everything, but the horrible situation in some African countries of girls and teens being assaulted in the worst ways, as well as sold into slavery, I would fund efforts to help these girls and women, because I know there are people and organizations trying to help, and free them too. Operation Give, which is an organization that gathers toys, school & medical supplies, and other things, for the children in Iraq and schools & hospitals that desperately need things. Programs in the U.S. for food and necessities for the poor.
I count all that donating as one thing, so now on to number 3. Swim with dolphins several times a year for the rest of my life. And any family and friends who wanted to as well. Sometimes these opportunities are on cruises, and so family and friends to come with me there too.
4. Pay off all family and close friends' bills, buy them all cars, make sure they have housing suitable to their life and needs, and of course buy my husband and I a house, with a fenced-in pool with all the best features, and most safety features as well. A house that is both environmentally-friendly as well as really easy-to clean, with a cool design, layout, and lots of nifty storage and organizational options. Also buy boats, water toys, and vehicles to pull such, and maybe even a Lake *** Houseboat or two for friends and family to go enjoy with and/or without us. And all the water fun parephernalia that goes along with, even if I never could get up on water skis no matter how hard I tried, once I moved to ***.
5. Travel! All over, and with any friends and family who want to come, like BIL & SIL to Italy, we could do some stuff together and some stuff separate cause of course everybody needs time as a couple alone, especially in the romantic countryside of Italy! His translating would come in handy of course, if he wanted to. Mexico with my husband, where he served his mission, and any other Spanish-speaking countries, and if other BIL wanted to show us Nicaragua. Oh, and another foreign country, TEXAS! Yet another BIL & SIL could show us around there. If my friend and her husband wanted to we'd pay of course, being filthy rich, and she could show us around Japan, where she lived when she was younger, and all sorts of other places they went. As they wanted to, when they wanted to, and if they wanted to. European travel of course. And I want to see the Pyramids of Egypt, although I'm nervous about traveling to that region, with some unrest and alot of anti-americanism. I'd like to see the Pyramids before I leave this earth, and marvel at them. Perhaps the Great Wall of China too, and those cool mountains that are like nothing anywhere else on earth, but some nerves about traveling there too. Well, I spose that's about enough. Lol
Very long, but I spose it's almost a kind of intro about me too. Lol. Hi . . . she said sort of shyly and yet manicly at the same time . . ..
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