If you won the Powerball...

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  • islandbeauty81
    islandbeauty81 Posts: 133 Member
    Pay off all debt. Build a house and put the rest in a trust fund for my little one.
  • sdbart
    sdbart Posts: 189 Member
    I would still work. I would give a very large donation to several of my local animal rescues. I would help fix up my church. Then I would get out of my old life and into a new one that benefited my children and me. I would not spend all the money but invest some and put the rest in savings. I know... I am boring but I want to be able to enjoy the life and money for my whole life and then my boys to enjoy it also.
  • SmartAlec03211988
    SmartAlec03211988 Posts: 1,896 Member
    Buy a car and house. Because I need a car, and would enjoy my own actual house.

    Then pay off my parents debts, and give them enough money to live off the rest of their lives carefree.

    Then go on a looooooooooong vacation to Germany.
  • timberowl
    timberowl Posts: 331 Member
    I'd immediately pay off my house, which would be a joke at the time. (I owe $142k on it). Then I'd move to Maui and find a job there.

    I'm very upset; for some reason it makes it worse that the winning ticket was sold about 30 miles from me. And I'm mad at the Powerball machine at 7-11 that failed to print better numbers for me. Not ONE of my numbers matched up. I bought two tickets--you'd think I'd at least have one matching number.
  • jbonow1231
    jbonow1231 Posts: 75 Member
    Buy a mountain and build myself a reproduction of Minas Tirith and invite people to come become my subjects, lol.
  • kimosabe1
    kimosabe1 Posts: 2,467 Member
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    I'd be a million, billion, trillion miles away!


    I would be on vacations all the time and I would invest so my family would never have money problems for hundreds of years. I just left Ohio and got powerball tickets as well.....
  • MercenaryNoetic26
    MercenaryNoetic26 Posts: 2,747 Member
    My husband got mad because I said we'd have to put his mom in some fancy retirement home in Florida because no way in hells she'd ever live with us. Of course, that's prob why we didn't win :noway: My evil thoughts are bad karma.
  • MelsAuntie
    MelsAuntie Posts: 2,833 Member
    I'd put it into the farm, help out Mikal and Mel with the house they are building, get a website set up to try to market most of the horses, get a 2-bottom plow and a gravity box, replace the Ford Explorer, which is an annoying piece of ****, and take a family vacation to Negril, Jamaica.
  • TrailRunner61
    TrailRunner61 Posts: 2,505 Member
    I had al 7 balls correct one time so I really had to think about it. Sadly, I didn't have the powerball number, just all 7 numbers. It was horrible and I was glad we DIDNT win. Within minutes, we had family asking us for money.

    In my dream world, where no one would harass me? I would:



    I'd make my husband QUIT his job or I wouldn't give him a penny. He is sick and refuses to quit, even though he could get a medical retirement.

    I'd hire a personal trainer and enter a marathon to raise money for St. Judes, then give them a big assed donation. And I'd want a personal chef to go along with that trainer! Although I do love to cook!

    I'd pay for a 24 hour attendant for my mother, who has alzheimers and should have been in a nursing home yesterday. I'd know she is safe and that she wouldn't hurt anyone.

    I'd buy a small jet, a huge motorhome and travel our amazing country with my husband of nearly 34 years.

    I'd buy my son and his fiancé a home and a car, pay off my girls' mortgages and cars.

    I'd add to my 4 1/2 grandchildren's college funds.

    I'd get a new puppy so my lab would have a friend to play with, besides me. :)

    Lastly, I'd buy a large tract of wooded land, build a huge lake on it with a beach, a main cabin, a party house and cabins for my 3 kids and their families.

    I suppose I should be buying tickets...
  • PeanutButterLuver
    PeanutButterLuver Posts: 910
    Buy a mansion in Turks & Caicos. ( luv it there)
    Buy several sports cars.
    Travel the world & bring along a tutor for my daughter. (I suck at grade 6 math. Lol)
    Give very generously to many organizations, hospitals, schools, etc.
    Pay off mortgages for friends.
    Hire a hot personal trainer.
    Hire a chef.
    And under no circumstances give money to a church!
  • brower47
    brower47 Posts: 16,356 Member
    I'd be really surprised since I don't buy tickets.


    But, if it did happen, I'd buy Gypsy Vanner, Friesian and Andalusian horses (one of each) and hire a full time trainer/groom for them. Oh, and an indoor riding arena would be nice too.
  • dorthymcconnel
    dorthymcconnel Posts: 237 Member
    If I won the first thing I would do is give a huge chunk to the church --divided amongst several congregations my family has been part of, with the stipulation that the money go to support missionaries and help the needy in the area with food, utility bills and such.

    Secondly, I would buy a chunk of land and build three houses: One for my brother, one for my mom, and a larger, J proof home for my husband, son and myself. While the houses were being built i would search for loving people to provide respite, and also care for J. Then I'd send my mom on trip to Hawaii, to Graceland, and finally to Washington state so she can see family again. Hubby and I would run off to Puerto Rico for a few weeks.

    I would pay off all our bills, set up a trust fund for J to be taken care of all his life (he has severe autism) and I would work toward building a home specifically for children/adults with autism and oversee the staffing of it. There is not enough care facilities in my area and I know my family is not the only one stressed to the max.

    Finally, I would have the surgeries I need (health related), talk my mother in law's land lady into selling or pay her rent and utilities for twenty years, and let my husband decide if he wanted to continue working or retire to work on his non GMO farm that he's wanted for so long. And I would write the books that are in my head knowing my family is finally taken care of. I need this. Too bad I dont ever buy the tickets.:smile:
  • DalekBrittany
    DalekBrittany Posts: 1,748 Member
    Glad this thread is still going! I thought if you got all the numbers but the powerball you still got a million?

    We bought five tickets...not one number :grumble:
  • onwarddownward
    onwarddownward Posts: 1,683 Member
    I would pay off my friend Liz's house for her, then pay off my husband's student loans. We're debt free, so there are no bills to pay.

    Then go on a two week vacation to Walt Disney World with my husband, kids, Liz, my grandkids, all staying at Fort Wilderness resort at WDW and enjoying the heck out of it all.

    While there, I would want to renew our vows and watch lots of fireworks.

    Next would be setting aside money for my abdominoplasty and boob job.

    Ah. That would be nice. Too bad I don't gamble.
  • debbylee_maxine
    debbylee_maxine Posts: 24 Member
    Man, I would hike the entire Appalachian trail. Yes. Yes that is what I'd do with a lotto winning. XD
  • oX_Vanessa_Xo
    oX_Vanessa_Xo Posts: 478
    Pay bills
    Pay debt
    New house where each of my kids have their own rooms
    New waredrobe for everyone
    Get a dog
    Go to Disneyland
    Tummy tuck
    Adopt an older kid
    Donate to shelters
    Get a new car
    Put some money away for my kids
    Go to Ireland
  • DalekBrittany
    DalekBrittany Posts: 1,748 Member
    Go to Ireland

    I'd probably buy a second house in Ireland. That's on my list too.
  • peopletalk
    peopletalk Posts: 519 Member
    probably donate a bit, share a good chunk with my family so my mom can finally retire in peace.
    take an extremely luxurious vacation, buy a few pets including a pig or something.
    hire a personal chef and a trainer.

    take a year off, but after that probably go back to part time work. i would go crazy not doing anything with my life.
  • mommylifter
    mommylifter Posts: 123
    Get a divorce
  • DalekBrittany
    DalekBrittany Posts: 1,748 Member
    Get a divorce

    Winner of most honest answer lol
  • mustang289
    mustang289 Posts: 299 Member
    A year-round reservation at the Grand Floridian Resort in Walt Disney World.
  • debbylee_maxine
    debbylee_maxine Posts: 24 Member
    We were actually talking about this last night and so I've revised my answer.

    -Hike the Appalachian Trail. I want to hike the trail so badly but it would seriously be like, a 6 month long camping trip. XD
    -Finalize my divorce. I don't have the money to do it, and the awful waste of space spouse refused to do it.
    -Pay the Taxes and shove the rest into a savings account. I could live comfortably for the rest of my life on the interest on that alone.

    But seriously. The Appalachians....

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