You have one million dollars...

akaporn

Give it all to my parents...

carld256

One thing I wouldn't do is turn it all into gold and try to swim in it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMyk7MXsseg

BlisterLamb

1. Pay off all debts for us, my sister and her family and my parents
2. Buy a Stand Up Paddle board
3. Buy a Vespa

Finigan84

Move back to Halifax
Buy a house
Go back to school

MrDude_1

Only one million?
Sadly, that is not enough money to retire on so;
1: Pay off my house. (that leaves me with with about 850K left).

2: Purchase a brand new Full size cargo van and equip it with all kinds of tools. (Now I have about 800K left.

3: start purchasing forclosed and short sale houses and flipping them. (I should be able to do this for about 5 years, building up wealth. (I should be at around 2 Mil in the bank now.

4: Purchase a block of town houses and start renting them.

Now I have recurring revenue with minimal risk and I can now go away and retire with a continual source of income.

similar here...
Then, with a continual source of income I would go enjoy some of the other things people here are talking about.

most people here are great examples of how someone can go broke after being given such a huge amount of money.

DarlingNikki2011

Only one million?
Sadly, that is not enough money to retire on so;
1: Pay off my house. (that leaves me with with about 850K left).

2: Purchase a brand new Full size cargo van and equip it with all kinds of tools. (Now I have about 800K left.

3: start purchasing forclosed and short sale houses and flipping them. (I should be able to do this for about 5 years, building up wealth. (I should be at around 2 Mil in the bank now.

4: Purchase a block of town houses and start renting them.

Now I have recurring revenue with minimal risk and I can now go away and retire with a continual source of income.

Pretty close to what I was thinking. Except for house it would be student loans. Instead of van it's be a pretty nice car. And with the additional revenue I'll have some later to put aside for kids college funds.

AmyFett

I'd move to NC
buy a house
buy a car

musicstardust67

1. Save the money for college

2. buy a mansion probably (equipped with a hot tob, a chef....etc etc...

3. give a lot of it to my dad.

Bijoux_Bug

1) buy a house
2) get a nice car
3) save the rest for whenever it's needed