Okay, it IS partly sour grapes but $2.04 billion dollars?

@HootyTheNightOwl I've seen some talk shows where people won a "few" million and lost it all pretty quickly

I aimage it would take a little longer to lose 900 million but still -

I wonder how much I would consider too much - growing up there was a tv show called "the millionaire" and the prmise was that a rich guy would give a million bucks (back when a milion bucks was real money and not the price of a house in california).

so I wonder how much I would keep? 10 million and live off the interest?

I would probably buy SW for starters and elect myself dictator for life

but after that and a paid for place to live - and a decent car..I wouldn't need a whole lot to make me happy.

but 900 milliion?
no thanks

@Pretzel Nah... SW is more hassle than it's worth, to be fair - just look at what happens whenever admin release an update....

I don't that you would be able to offload such large amounts of money so easily, though. It's watched and you usually have to have something to show for it.

With 900 million as an example, you could probably put half of it in a high interest savings account straight off the bat and live on the interest alone - a mansion is about one million to buy, do it up and run it as a wedding venue. With that money you could choose how involved you would like to be in the day to day running. And it generates you future income at the same time.

@HootyTheNightOwl oh you'd show up on transaction reports sure enough

I'd find plenty of charities to give away to - and I'd follow the advice I heard once on tv when family ask for money

"how much do you want? one time shot? never ask again"

it would be worth it not to hear from them again :)

at my age I doubt there would be any more work involved. maybe traveling a little here and there - but to out of the way and backwoods places.

set up a trust for my daughter so that even inflation wouldn't bother her.

my biggest fear is that I would get greedy/stingy and jaded from all the money

@Pretzel Does the one and only approach really work, though???

Lol, I know some people who worked into their 70's - so I wasn't about to judge based on your age if you might want to keep some earnings flowing or not... plus that sort of money places you in a position where you can hire all the work out and just collect your profits.

The thing with charities is that they tend to add you to the "suckers" list once you start donating and they come back for more. You may be better off using the money to facilitate changes to your local area that would benefit the community as a whole.

@HootyTheNightOwl I suspect my donations would be on a cashier's check dropped off at the office with a warning that there would never be another dime if my name (not on the check) were disclosed or I was solicited.

changes in the community sound good - but I suspect the same thing would happen - only people would be more like to know the source of the funds.

thankfully - my life won't be that complicated :)