Your New Shop

[torker]

maybe160 mil.; would you buy a complete shop and hire employees,

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!
You have got to be kidding.

[Peter Neill]

peter its too bloody hot to do any thing out here.
dripping sweat all over everything ,evrything rusts .
I would prefer to move everything where it is cold and rains all the time , or maybe snows,and it never has any sun.

Which place from above is here? Lucky bugger
Mind you its a bit hot and sweaty here today too - measured over 36 degrees trying to work in the little garage this afternoon.

Peter

[CCWKen]

I'd put up a bigger new shop and continue what I'm doing. Might even buy a new pair of jeans and a Stetson. I could get by without the Stetson though.

[Wayne02]

I'd put up a bigger new shop and continue what I'm doing. Might even buy a new pair of jeans and a Stetson. I could get by without the Stetson though.

Do you have air-conditioning in that shop?

[John Stevenson]

Which place from above is here? Lucky bugger
Mind you its a bit hot and sweaty here today too - measured over 36 degrees trying to work in the little garage this afternoon.

Peter

You lucky bugger, it was 66 degrees here yesterday, 30 in the morning and 36 in the afternoon

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[darryl]

The first obvious answer is quit the day job, unless it's something that you really enjoy.

With that kind of financial freedom, I would quit my day job, but not right away. I would spend some time doing what I'm used to while getting used to the idea of having all that munny at my disposal.

I would fulfill many of the dreams that are still circling around in my noggin. My dream home would be a place in the country, running water nearby, maybe a natural pond or lake. I would design and build a home myself, enlisting the aid of tradespeople where appropriate to facilitate the completion of it to spec and to code. Of course, a suitable shop would be part of this, and in my case would be the more important of the buildings. I would probably make a large breezeway between the home and the shop, where a barbeque facility and lounge area would be. Also in this area would be room for a number of vehicles, so I could have the option of working on them under cover whilst remaining outside. I would also have a few guest rooms with basic utilities open to this area. I can see myself wanting to have the option of mosquito netting the entire perimeter of this breezeway.

There would be more to it of course, but basically the design, constriuction, and use of this 'facility' would cater to the creative side of me, and I would hope to have others feel inspired in some way to be here. Familiy and friends could come and go, and have relative privacy if desired. Parents and grandparents could have a 'place of their own' here if they so wished, and I can imagine that pretty much whatever it takes to care for them would be arranged.

I guess what I'm talking about is pretty much a small scale retirement village, having room and facilities to allow people here to pretty much do whatever they want. I don't want to live with my relatives, but if I did come into that kind of cashola, I think I , or we ( it wouldn't be just me) could make some comfortable arrangements for our elders without having to be in each other's faces all the time.

I'm not that far from retirement age, but I would remain active, and could probably be found more often than not in the workshop. My close friend would probably be right there as well, since we share the same desire to be doing things, making things, hiking in the forest, riding our motorcycles, etc. I daresay we'd have some home brew beer going on, and I would hope that between the lot of us that we would keep a decent garden happening.

Of course I would have two or three lathes, more than one mill, and other machinery as well. It would be procured basically as required, meaning that I wouldn't be going all out and buying a bunch of cnc machines, presses, brakes, saws, blah, blah, etc, just because I could suddenly afford it. When the ongoing practice of my hobbies warranted it, at that point I would see about adding some needed tool or machine to the collection. I would be just as happy to bring something in to suit the needs of another resident here also.

The entire process of creating this place would be my ongoing project. It would be part of me, and a continuing thing. There would be lots to do, a good variety of things, so there wouldn't exist any good reason to be bored. I would have a tv, probably a big screen of some kind, but I don't see myself sitting in front of it very often.

I can kind of sum up this whole thing with a few words- I would want to continue to function, to do things, to mess with materials, etc, as opposed to throwing money at a problem so I could be lazy and not get my hands dirty. The value of that lottery win would be in enabling me to bring together the materials to create this vision, and to maintain it, for myself and for others who would be at my side to share in the experience.

I would travel a bit, but not excessively. There are places I would like to see, but I don't need to 'see the world'. I don't 'need' a sports car, though I think I could have some fun with one, maybe restore something as a shared project with a friend.

With 160 mil in my pocket, I'd cook hotdogs for the kids and make homemade potato salad. Cut, split, and stack some firewood, and make a special trip to Tim Hortons for some titanox laced cappachinos. Figure out which way to make the led taillights for my honda, and hope the latest edition of HSM is in the mailbox when I check it.

That kind of money comes with it's own job, one which is unenviable (at least to me), but must be done. That is to manage it wisely.

[Peter Neill]

You lucky bugger, it was 66 degrees here yesterday, 30 in the morning and 36 in the afternoon

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Don't worry, it's going to cool down a bit and rain next week, but only twice. Once for 3 days and once for 4 days.

Peter

[IOWOLF]

Quit your day job? Don't tell anyone about your win,It would be hard,but try. Then go and get a little payback,That superviser you don't get along with, drop a viagra in his coffee or soda.Childish ?Yes, but do you think several million would make one grow up?
Hell no .

[A.K. Boomer]

I would take on some crazy inventions, I would definitly build me that deisel powered pogo-stick iv been talking about, the machines would be the finest CNC, I would feed my apetite with some of the worlds greatest sports cars and motorcycles,,, And the girls,,, I would keep in mind that I was looking for that "special someone" but keep my fingers crossed that i didnt find her, actually i guess thats about the only thing that would remain the same!

Besides the cars the machines and the girls i would pursue a couple of my lifes dreams, i would get me a really nice sailboat and learn how to sail and go all over the world that way, I would also get my pilots license and learn how to fly a glider plane...

I would also experiment with some very mild machinery porn, very tastfull and classy and girls that are of the finest but also still clad in bathing suits, maybe laying on thier backs on a 48" milling table with the head cocked at a 60 degree angle and the quill sticking all the way out, maybe make a calender with all the different manufacturures and such, I need a calender like that in my little shop, i have a great one in my garage but it is of cars, someone needs to combine women and machinery and do it up right...

[Frank Ford]

I'd put up a big comercial building, fill it with tools & benches, and offer free instruction to qualified young luthiers who'd like to keep my craft/trade alive and growing in the future. . .