If you won the lottery, what would you do?

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  • EmmieBaby
    EmmieBaby Posts: 1,235 Member
    open up a cosplay supply store/workshop
  • stacshelb
    stacshelb Posts: 550 Member
    buy a mansion on the beach in Hawaii
  • Pirate_chick
    Pirate_chick Posts: 1,216 Member
    Pay off my mother's house, bills, etc. Buy my mom and dad their dream cars. Pay off my student loans, house, get my dream car. Send my cousin to flight school, pay off my cousins' houses, and set up college trusts for all the kids in the family so they will never have the burden of a student loan.
  • MelisMusing
    MelisMusing Posts: 421 Member
    Start up a npn-profit call Shelter Angels. I'd set up programs to help animal/womens/homeless organizations fund raise, earn money, and set up outreach programs.

    I'd also take care of my fam and do some traveling. :)
  • 1HappyTurtleRunner
    1HappyTurtleRunner Posts: 125 Member
    Buy a block on the waterfront in the Bahamas
  • SemperAnticus1643
    SemperAnticus1643 Posts: 703 Member
    How much did I win? That would determine what I would do with it. But the initial thing would be to pay off all my debt and have money to sit for the CPA exam and possibly start my own firm. Depending on what I won, I would probably build a house with my boyfriend back home since he's got 25 acres already, set my dad up real nice on some land close by where he won't have to work again unless he wanted to and coast from there. I say coast because I would continue to work. Probably have my dad work for me since he can't be part owner since he wouldn't be licensed.

    MAYBE let the boyfriend retire from the oilfield and train horses...I did say MAYBE. I kinda like the oilfield smell.
  • SrJoben
    SrJoben Posts: 484 Member
    Be really confused about how I'd won without ever buying a ticket.
  • RinnyLush
    RinnyLush Posts: 389 Member
    I would pay off any debts for my immediate family members and closest friends, buy a house, take a vacation, donate a large portion to charity, and start saving for my (future) children. I definitely wouldn't be buying anything flashy or wild. I live a pretty modest life, and I'd like to keep it that way. :smile:
  • spsanderson
    spsanderson Posts: 39 Member
    Deposit into a Trust, pay off debts and disappear to an island somewhere, where all I needed to do was sit by a fire on the beach, fish and read.
  • angf0679
    angf0679 Posts: 1,120 Member
    Pay off my student loans
    Then I would buy a car and a house (in that order)


    - All of which would be very hard to do seeing how I don't actually buy a lottery tickets!
  • SugarBaby71
    SugarBaby71 Posts: 3,630 Member
    Depends on the size of the prize... but if it was a big one...
    1. Help SG have a fantastic day.
    2. Pay off my bloody mortgage
    3. Take a big huge vacation and bring my bestie
    4. Buy some pretty nice shoes.

    and some other stuff too... big donation to the NIC unit at the hospital... you know. boring stuff.
  • thedreamsaver
    thedreamsaver Posts: 3
    WHAT WOULDN'T I DO.......
  • tomomatic
    tomomatic Posts: 1,794 Member
    New house for myself, my in-laws, and my parents.
    Invest in my old neighborhood because it breaks my heart to see how they've suffered because of the bad economy.
  • sweetpea03b
    sweetpea03b Posts: 1,123 Member
    Travel... take up photography again (for a living).... buy a summer home near my parents so I could see them more often... buy a bigger house with a HUGE yard for my puppies to run around in :)
    ETA: Pay off the debt of every one of my family members and set up college funds for my niece/nephews.
  • ThinLizzie0802
    ThinLizzie0802 Posts: 863 Member
    Pay off my debt
    Buy a house
    Keep a portion in my checking
    Give some to my parents and brother
    Invest the rest in various ways
  • 3P0X
    3P0X Posts: 302
    I would buy a small nature reserve and rehabilitate cheetahs to go back into the wild
  • climbing_trees
    climbing_trees Posts: 726 Member
    I'd buy a hippie van/converted RV.
    Spend the rest of my money traveling between concerts, music festivals, national parks. Seeing the country and meeting all kinds of interesting people.Teaching strangers to hula hoop in the park, volunteering at community gardens and farms.
    I want to be free to follow my passions of that moment, to go wherever my heart tells me I should go.
  • Escloflowne
    Escloflowne Posts: 2,038 Member
    I would make sure I died with no money in the bank!
  • SF2514
    SF2514 Posts: 794 Member
    pay off debt
    pay off moms debt
    travel to a few places
    put the rest in savings
  • angf0679
    angf0679 Posts: 1,120 Member
    Be really confused about how I'd won without ever buying a ticket.

    haha! that would be me as well!
  • Mischievous_Rascal
    Mischievous_Rascal Posts: 1,791 Member
    First, I would find a kick butt financial adviser to take care investments, etc. After that, I would pay off mine and my immediate family's debts, set up college funds for all the little munchkins in my life (including a few friends' kids, because they're awesome), buy my mom a place on the ocean, go to culinary school and then travel everywhere, with my camera.
  • Texusmc
    Texusmc Posts: 129 Member
    Build the tall ship I have plans for, pay off everyone and everything, set up the kids for life, sail around the world.

    need a pirate crew though......ARRGGHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • xinja
    xinja Posts: 1
    I would invest in teleportation technology... we're late on it as is.
  • Roughgalaxy
    Roughgalaxy Posts: 219 Member
    Keep on what I'm doing with my coaching and becoming a personal trainer, just with a bigger home an no worries about my bills haha!
  • sadiebrawl
    sadiebrawl Posts: 863 Member
    Take my kids on a kick A vacation. Make sure their education is paid for. Improve our living conditions. And probably just keep doing what I am doing. At least for a while.

    this.
  • crohnsfighter
    crohnsfighter Posts: 689 Member
    Become the next Charlie Sheen
  • evanblove
    evanblove Posts: 82 Member
    I would open a home for homeless vets to help them get back on their feet with a job and a home

    Oh yeah--like most other folks have said, I would also pay off my debts and do something extravagant too
  • smantha32
    smantha32 Posts: 6,990 Member
    Build the tall ship I have plans for, pay off everyone and everything, set up the kids for life, sail around the world.

    need a pirate crew though......ARRGGHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    would volunteer to be a pirate.
  • Jonesingmucho
    Jonesingmucho Posts: 4,902 Member
    Run away to the Caribbean.
    Change my name to JonesingNOTSOmucho.
    Only have swimsuits in my wardrobe.
    Drink all the Rum.
  • salembambi
    salembambi Posts: 5,585 Member
    depends on how much but if it was really substantial
    - set me mom up for life , new house, new car , new whatever she wants for the rest of her life
    -set up my sister - same thing as mom
    -buy myself a huge really old victorian style house and decorate the **** out of it
    -donate to Farm Sanctuaries all over Ontario
    - donate to womens shelters
    -donate lots of food to food banks every year
    -have my own green house filled with organic food

    open up my own etsy & probably just sell stuff on there paint & create for the rest of my life

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