• pachrist@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    I love asking people what their first irresponsible purchase would be if they won the lottery.

    Everyone has the day dream of paying off medical debt, your parent’s mortgage, new car, fun vacation. But that’s all responsible. I want to know what the unhinged thing you probably shouldn’t do is. My favorite answer was Baja Blast on tap bedside.

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      4 days ago

      I’ve never been interested in Vegas. But recently I found out there’s a place near Vegas that lets you rent a tank and then you can run over cars and I think you can shoot it too. And you can shoot a real minigun! To shoot that gun for a minute is like $14,000. So I take a few of my friends to go do that,

    • Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works
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      4 days ago

      Idk im probably autistic but like i just wouldn’t buy anything irresponsible lmao like i dont get the question i guess, if you really enjoy something it’s not irresponsible and you’re rich as hell so go for it.

      • placebo@lemmy.zip
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        3 days ago

        if you really enjoy something it’s not irresponsible and you’re rich as hell so go for it

        That’s how lottery winners lose everything very fast.

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          3 days ago

          Not quite, they buy crazy expensive things that don’t actually make them happy – that’s the irresponsible part. Spend thousands on bottle service at the club wake up in the morning feeling empty and used and find the next socially encouraged stupid thing to soend money on. One fancy sports car won’t affect a lottery winner’s finances much, but they buy one lose the novelty of it after a few days and then they end up with 12 sports cars and now they’re actually at risk of going broke. But if they spent that money on something that actually made them happy, not just what society says is supposed to be fun, they wouldn’t become spending addicts. They’d get plenty of happiness and usage out of those things and not perpetually search for the next high.

    • NABDad@lemmy.world
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      4 days ago

      Realistically irresponsible or insanely irresponsible?

      Realistically irresponsible: I’d buy a huge piece of land out in the woods. Build a house, add a 1 acre pond with an island in the middle where I could go and sit and read.

      Insanely irresponsible: I’ve often wondered how much it would cost to live full time at Disney World. Full deal, Park passes, meal plan, etc.

      Understanding that they’d make you change rooms every month to avoid letting you have tenant rights. That’s assuming the lottery winnings aren’t enough to just buy enough stock to control the company.

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        3 days ago

        I’d strongly recommend you change the pond to a river. Just cleaner, especially if you buy all the way upstream too.

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        4 days ago

        You would read up until the mosquitos and spiders came at you from that swamp. Then the frogs would start their croaking and splashing. Followed by the chorus of crickets and cicadas. And more likely some dick blue Jay would show up and yell at you for no good fucking reason, with its ugly ass noise it makes, like can you even call that a bird call?

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          Well, the mosquitos aren’t that big a deal. The fish and the frogs take care of them. I don’t mind the noise of the frogs, crickets, or cicadas. Their sounds are nowhere near as bad as the noise people make.

          I already make ponds on the property I have. I just dream of a larger one.

    • NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.ca
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      4 days ago

      I want to hire a hairdresser that washes my hair and does the head massage every morning. Everyday my head shall be rubbed.

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      4 days ago

      Buy areas next to churches and put sex shops in them. Although, now that I think about it, those places would probably rake in cash, like 70% of pastors are massive perverts with too much money

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        I think if I was a perverted pastor and wanted lots of freaky sex stuff but felt I needed to keep that aspect of myself hidden for appearance’s sake, I’d hardly pop in to a sex shop right next to my church where members of the community would see me and where the owners of the shop, who almost certainly set up that shop in that spot specifically to be provocative, could also see me.

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        4 days ago

        Pretty sure there are programs where you can just get a castle so long as you maintain it. Hell I think both Italy and France will pay you to do it for some of the remote ones.

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          I can’t say for Italy but in France it’s basically free indeed. Maintenance costs are high and the repairs must follow strict patrimony preservation rules with certified workers.

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              3 days ago

              That is where you spend your money in practice. There is not enough state money to maintain all the castles. To be fair, there are a fuckton of them, even though our government is garbage, we can’t realistically justify to maintain all of them anyway.

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          4 days ago

          Castles are relatively cheap to buy, at least compared to luxury villas. Sure, you can throw few millions in one if you wish, but I’ve seen listings around the internet for around 50k. But you’ll still likely need few millions for upkeep and repairs, regardless of purchase price.

    • Squirrelanna@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      3 days ago

      Oh god that’s the sort of question I would have to ask if they really want to know the TRUE first thing or the first thing appropriate for general audiences lol.

    • brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 days ago

      An auto shop.

      Just spend my days fixing cars, I’d have a few dozen and just restore em. Nothing crazy, I’d have things like a pristine geo metro. All the cheap cars that I just enjoy. I’d sell em, but I like keeping old stuff working.

      Or I’d spend a year and go to every Cubs game. Just follow em around the country.

    • w3dd1e@lemmy.zip
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      4 days ago

      Rescue 99 Dalmatians so I can have the Dalmatian Plantation I was promised at the end of 101 Dalmatians.