MegaMillions winning ticket -- share your fantasy
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Anonymous
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About $100 k into our current home (paint, redo family room, landscaping, etc.)
New cars for me and spouse (ours are 10 and 12 years old right now), would be practical, replace the Honda with a Honda for example Fully fund college and grad school for our kids Set up trust to fund college and grad school for all future descendents $20 million to fund our retirement, which would begin the day after we found out we won Start a foundation to give the rest away |
Anonymous
| I would buy TWO bushels of crabs, and fill up both our gas tanks |
Anonymous
LOL think big. |
Anonymous
| Bought tickets jointly with my siblings. We would each take $20 million to play, and then set up a family foundation to (a) fund descendants educations and (b) donate to our favorite charities. |
Anonymous
| I would quit my job. Move back to my hometown and buy a house. Travel . Pay my boyfriend to quit his job and travel with me. |
Anonymous
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I would buy my parents and my brother a new house and new cars.
I would buy an apartment in Manhattan, a beach house and a ski house. I would buy Dh a nice watch. I can’t think of anything I would buy myself. I truly don’t want or need anything. I wouldn’t necessarily buy my kids anything because we won the lotto. I would try to lay low and invest. |
Anonymous
| Start shopping at Wholefoods… |
Anonymous
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First, I’d take the long-term payout rather than the lump sum.
I’d finally renovate my kitchen and add a screen porch where my deck currently is ( assuming I’m the only winner; DCUM conventional wisdom is that adding a screen porch would be more than a $440 million winner could afford). I’ve always thought I would split a lottery win 3 ways: 1/3 to protect me and my immediate family’s long term financial security, 1/3 to family and friends — give a bunch of people $1-$2 million dollars, set up college trusts for the kids of everyone I know, etc, and 1/3 to charity. I would use the Mackenzie Bezos model— give it out now, rather than setting up a foundation to give it away slowly. |
Anonymous
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Financial advisor.
Take a week vacation. Sell our house. Pay off our debt. Get a new house Fund "retirement" and college and a trust. Get another dog. Pay off my best friend's house and fund their college. Pay off DHs parents debt and put enough money away for his mom when she needs full time dementia care. Get braces. |
Anonymous
That's the whole check right there! |
Anonymous
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First, each sibling gets $10m so I can focus on other stuff and they will be busy figuring put what yo do with that.
Luckily, I work for a big firm with amazing family office consultants, so I’d call the national leader and set up an appointment for Friday. Short term - house on Wellfleet, ski house close to Bretton Woods. Keep kids in our local school and hopefully stay in our home. Long term - full scholarships for all kids in my hometown and significant contributions to their schools and town infrastructure. Needless to say, the town struggles. Political contributions to moderate Republicans and Democrats. Figure out the world of lobbying. Travel the world. Get a chef and personal trainer. Set up trusts for nieces/nephews. Broader trust for cousins to help with education, trade school, entrepreneurial grants and home down payments. Invest in hydroponic greenhouses in colder climates to provide fresh food without shipping it in across the country. |
Anonymous
| Buy a yacht and an Italian villa. Hire full-time staff for said yacht and Italian villa. |
Anonymous
But first I would quit. Same day. Of course I totally forgot to buy a ticket. |
Anonymous
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-Financial advisor to set up all the stuff so we would be set for life without worry, same for the kids.
-quit my job - find and book some sort of vacation spa fitness place that’s really nice but more in line with what they had on the show The Biggest Loser. I could do nothing for a while except focus on health and fitness while others cook for me. I’m so overweight and this would be great. -buy a new house or a few new houses. Pay off bills for relatives, set up trusts… |
Anonymous
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1. Pay off student loans.
2. Give some money to family. 3. Quit jobs, sell house, buy dream house in Maine. 4. Hire a stylist and get a new wardrobe. 5. Travel a LOT. |