<p>Build a chain of totally free boarding schools with very high standards for talented but poor kids from all races and geographies. My estimate is that the spend per kid will need to be around $40k. To support say 500 kids in each state across 10 grades, or 25000 total, I would need $100M/year. I would need to be a billionaire to be able to support this, which, alas, I am not. However, if I could do this someday, out of the 2500 kids graduating each year, I am sure that I would totally monopolize HYPSM.</p>
<p>Servants… 
Yes… I want servants. Privacy can go straight to hades. :D</p>
<p>Retire. Travel a lot. Buy art and antiquities.</p>
<p>A seventeenth century pied a terre on the Place des Vosges</p>
<p>oh yah…and world peace. (just wanted y’all to know how wonderful I am)</p>
<p>A house with a library wing.</p>
<p>Remodel the house
And the yard
Buy a beach house
And a condo in the mountains.</p>
<p>Travel
Personal trainer
A new car</p>
<p>I wouldn’t have a cleaning lady, but my new busy exciting life would require a personal assistant or concierge type person. :)</p>
<p>And I would have my own personal office, sitting area and bathroom added to the house. (I live with packrats)</p>
<p>And my office would have a butler, who would see if I was ‘at home to callers’ :D</p>
<p>Travel (and not coach!), massages, personal trainer. Gifts to relatives to make their lives easier/better. Major gifts to several favorite charities. A new kitchen. Lots of All-Clad cookware and sterling silver flatware.</p>
<p>College Living Experience for son with Aspergers.</p>
<p>@musicamerica - given all the world spends on defense and weapons, looks like no one can buy world peace!</p>
<p>10 acres where I can plant my dream garden, fruit trees, vegetables and a couple of horses to keep me agile.</p>
<p>NJ2001—
that was just my lame attempt at window dressing
I will stick with the apartment in Paris(vaguely do-able 
)</p>
<p>Refresh the current house, sell it and buy an older but updated house with loads of character and outside living space in the nearby small town I dream about living in.</p>
<p>Take a full fledged vacation trip each year.</p>
<p>Put aside a chunk of $$ for each child’s wedding.</p>
<p>Buy an Ipad. :)</p>
<p>New furniture - what I want, not what I can afford.</p>
<p>^^ Same on our cars.</p>
<p>Take a very part time job that I enjoy but that I don’t have to make lots of $$ at or be so obligated to.</p>
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<p>I figured no money in the world would buy world peace, so I chose the oceanfront lot. :)</p>
<p>If the money supply was truly unlimited, I’d buy health insurance for everyone in the US.</p>
<p>I don’t know about world peace, but I’d feel very peaceful sitting in my libary wing.</p>
<p>I love this thread!
Along with traveling around the world following Pearl Jam ( & becoming a familiar enough figure that Eddie eventually hands me a tambourine as he did to one of my friends), I also have less selfish objectives like funding health ins/education and social security.</p>
<p>Oh & just to reduce future fuel costs, I would buy an electric car.
[But honey: it will save money in the long run!](<a href=“Roadster | Tesla”>Roadster | Tesla)</p>
<p>Travel, travel, travel. Everyone I know has a “dream trip.” It would be so wonderful to be able to do that for my loved ones.</p>
<p>Ooooooh, Kitty! I got a ride in a Tesla Roadster last summer. It’s sort of like riding in a roller coaster, except without tracks. And so quiet - just the electric whine of the engine and the sound of the wind whistling past your ears. I’ve never lusted after a car before like I lusted after that one. You have to have good knees and hips to get out of it at the end of the ride, however.</p>
<p>I’d also like to have the money to be a philanthropist, but not anonymous. My aunt and uncle left a significant portion of their estate to non-profits and I got invited to some nice parties as their executrix. The smart non-profits make giving a really fun experience.</p>
<p>Fly private.</p>