Re: Okay, obvious but fun question o' the night.

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Jimmy:

Aug 4, 2023, 9:42 PM

As a procedural matter, first what do is call my tax attorney friend, financial planner, and anybody else they recommend to get a strategy setup and everything into place.

But to the meat of the question...what do.

Right off 10% gets set aside for the Big Man. So Foundation setup for our church. Big gift to the local homeless ministry here. I also would love to permanently fund some solid health insurance benefits for the teachers/staff at our kid's daycare because dang if they don't deserve it. And then fund various Christian ministries close to my heart -- prison ministries, inner-city outreach, etc.

Obviously quit work, and I'd like to fill my time (when not enjoying life) overseeing venture capital funding ops, but also starting some nonprofits. I have this dream of a non-profit that buy older used cars, fixes them up, and gives them away. I guess you could buy new cars, but new cars come with an annual tax burden that isn't so great for the people who get them. Used cars would avoid that. I'd also want to work with local tech schools, especially if they have an automotive program (or start one for them) and fund that program which could use the cars as teaching projects. And/or put a bunch of mechanics on staff.

I haven't really thought about if we'd stay around Charlotte. I guess I always assumed we would, but now I'm not sure why if we weren't tied to a job, and would conceivably be able to move our families to wherever we wanted. But new house. Nothing overly big because big houses just get lonely. But nicer and more fun. Perhaps Richie Rich but without the Biltmore.

But honestly the philanthropy side has always been the more interesting aspect of dreaming about the lottery. I guess there's more to it than just "VACAY TIL I DIE." Or, "HOOKERS AND BLOW TIL I DIE," depending on your life status.

The giving away aspect is more exciting too.

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Set up a Foundation to fund projects at home and certainly abroad to feed the hungry and bring potable and readily accessible water to the 3rd world.

Probably give a nice chunk to Samaritan's Purse and fund some worthwhile projects in Greenville such as Neighborhood Focus.Fund tutors and private schools for kids at risk in the Upstate, beginning K-3 to increase access to college and professional careers for poor white kids and minorities.

Put a nice chunk aside in a trust for my kids and grandkids but not accessible until age 55 so they don't become totally worthless and move to Asheville.

Some of the "fun tickets" would be a ranch in TX for deer, turkey and quail hunting, trips to Alaska for fishing several weeks a year, the same in Patagonia and New Zealand.

Probably spend the Spring chasing turkeys from FL, out west and finish up the end of May in New England.

Primary Lindsay Graham and only stay in DC for one term.

Okay, obvious but fun question o' the night.

Buy a mountain compound

Jimmy:

I'd also hire Cooch an electrician so he doesn't die.***

With $1.2B, or whatever it's at now, I could crush the

Well they say live a balanced life.***

Restore my 1988 Pontiac Fiero to its former magnificent