• If you are having problems logging in please use the Contact Us in the lower right hand corner of the forum page for assistance.

If You Had A Million Bucks???

N

Northern Rancher

Well-known member
Joined
Feb 10, 2005
Messages
12,247
Location
saskatchewan
I was just looking at some rough stock that's for sale-if you had a million to spend how would you spend it. We'll take paying ouyr bills and putting the kids through school as a given. I'd try and buy Cool Alley, Painted Smile and a few other good mares then I'd kidnap Grated Coconut. It would be fun to pull a trailer to all the rodeos and skim the cream off every pen of broncs. I would of liked to bring Skeena Belle home from Williams Lake maybe I can get Gcreetch to swipe her for me.
 
Well, a million bucks wouldn't quite be enough, but along those lines I'd probably do like all the other monied people and buy a pretty ranch in a place that's not very suited to running cattle and then hire some guys to operate the thing so I can rope at the branding and do no other labor unless I choose to. Build a roping arena, buy some top-rate rope horses and then never use either one, just sit by the pool and get fat while drinking cocktails. In the winter, you could find me in some island resort town. Three years later I'd sell the ranch for a huge profit and then the "rich get richer" snowball would continue to roll and keep me in the lifestyle that I had become accustomed to. :lol: :shock:

Naw, I wouldn't do it quite that way, but it's entertaining to think about it. Not a real productive existence, I don' t suppose. :lol: 8)

In reality I might be able to tell the employer to "cram it" since I could finally afford to cowboy for a living. :D Then I'd be back to broke before long wishing for another million bucks. :roll:

HP
 
1. school fund for the kids that doesn't cover the whole shot but is just enough that they don't forget they have to work for things.
2. there is a block of 6 quarters of native right by home that would be nice if economics weren't an object
3. a couple of good cutting horses (about 14 hands high)
4. a few more cows to mess around with (do I have any money left now)

On a real big windfall I would donate air ambulance helicopters to Saskatoon and Regina and send a bunch to the Lois Hole in Edmonton.
 
Like high plains said a million isn't enough money these days. But I would sure take it :wink: I would use it to pay off the rest of my loans, land, house and equipment etc, then go get another loan to start all over again :lol:
 
I'd pay off my house, stash a little for the kids and use the rest to buy some grazing ground. Probably would finally get my new stock trailer too! With the other $900,000 i'd buy a place next to Gcreek and start a purebred wolf ranch! Or i'd move in next to Soap and start complaining about his windmills screwing up my veiw! :wink: :D
 
I'd keep on ranchin' until it was all used up!

In a perfect world I'd either buy my hay or aquire enough land to have my hay put up on shares so I could spend more time cowboyin' and paying attention to the herd.
And a little more team ropin' on the side :oops:
 
hmmmmm pay off "gus" then I could have shoer home more often.
get a cute log cabin house with about 10 acres a barn and a couple dead head horses...too dang old to be hitting the ground.
Get a garden going, maybe have a milk cow, and a BUNCH of family size tea bags and sugar.
2 Hatteras rocking chairs ( the big ones) a rocking 3 seater and a couple tables to sit out on the porch and drink tea and watch the animlas and the sunset.
The rest put in the bank to pay the taxes LOL
 
Buy a little place and some cows free and clear, finish getting my wife thru school so I can stay at home and bake cookies ;)

bart.

<><

Edited to add that in addition to my tithe, I sure would like to help our church get a down payment on a building to go with their land.
 
Stay right where we are, except without ever having to worry about money again, and never pay one cent of interest for the rest of our lives. 8)

Get the dogs a heated dog house.

Take a vacation. Maybe even ride in a plane. We're the only people left on the planet who've never flown anywhere. :roll: :roll:

Better yet, take that vacation in Scotland.

Get high speed internet. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: Then waste my time watching dumb videos on Youtube. 8)
 
Put half away after taxes for retirement and kids college fund. Split the remainder with the wife she can buy what she wants and I will have the hundred acre woodlot that borders my back pasture and some new equipment.
 
Build our dream house. Put up a new pole barn to keep all of our equipment here at home and a new calving set up with a milking parlor for my milk cow.
 
Pay off the few loans we have. Make a good size donation to a couple churches. Of course pay for college..... Then put the rest in the bank, and live off the interest. Maybe take a vacation to go see Jassy n Soapweeds windmill views :wink:
 
Well, got an email from home last night - the farm next door is coming up for sale - just after we spent every available penny and a bit more on some land clearing and drainage - which I would have delayed indefinitely to buy the adjacent land if we had known in advance.

This would be the real benefit of having available cash on hand - those impromptu purchases

BC
 
I'd buy myself a fancy rig and a good rope horse. Then I would try and get fake ID so I could start Old Man's Breakaway roping before I was 50. I think I have this deal figured out with the fancy pickup and trailer I would attract the ladies breakaway ropers to split the gas money, but I am not looking for the high maintenance ladies that apply warpaint with a paint brush. I want a couple that can saddle my horse and push a steer but also clean up and look good for the rodeo dance, that way all the single men will buy them drinks and then I can drink the extras. :lol:

Oh I would by TTB a new scoop shovel for cleaning out the bull bunks.

have a cold one

lazy ace
 

Latest posts

Back
Top