thenightdances asked: You have $19 million. The person giving you the $19 million wants you to give at least $100,00 to charity. What charity do you choose and why? What do you do with the rest of the money?
This is one of those questions that I think about when going to sleep at night - if I won the lotto, what would I do with a large sum of money?
In recent years I’ve been thinking that I would donate the vast majority of the money, or spend it in a way that many people can benefit. I can live on very little. Of $19 million, I would probably only spend $1 million on myself. I would buy a modest home, a nice car that I could fix up, build myself a video studio and editing lab, and finally a home theater room.
Donation-wise I think I would give a decent amount to organizations in the Philippines. Living there for a month last year showed me how much some people really need help, and that experience brought me perspective on how lucky we have it in the US and Canada.
I think I would also donate to various Children’s Hospitals around Metro Detroit.
The last thing I would do with my lottery money could only happen if I received the money today or tomorrow. There’s an old movie theatre in St. Clair Shores, aptly named the Shores Theater, that I would like to purchase, and either restore as an old-school super-classy movie theatre, or refurbish and modify into a live music venue. Growing up in the SCS, I’m familiar with the whole “there’s nothing to do here” mantra the youth have.
And also pay of debt, student loans, yadda yadda yadda.
