Finish fixing our one car. Buy a second more reliable car, buy that house we're wanting. Redo the roof on it and put up a new garage for it. Invest the rest - which would be around $45million. Then keep doing day care. I enjoy it.

We recently had an office pool of forty people, forty numbers for the texas lotto which was up to 145 million. I figured that lump sum =70 mil; Uncle Sam gets 35 mil, leaving everyone with a little less than 1 million. Not enough to buy planes and islands, but enough to pay off our house and our parents' houses, kill my school loans, and I'd still work, but with a fairly hefty cushion.
50 million is entirely different. My dream would be to buy an island, invite all my friends and family, recruit some people, and start my own country. I could try to get a seat at the UN, and enter myself in the olympics. Probably diving -Cannonball!
Really, I'd contact a really high powered attorney with lots of malpractice insurance. Give him the ticket, and tell him to set up a fancy trust to take care of me and avoid as much tax as possible while sheilding me from liability, so that I wouldn't have to deal with the money, and it would be his ass if he lost it. Then pay off everything of mine and my family. Then travel and write for a year, then go back to being a lawyer, but this time helping the little guy that can't afford legal help, but not taking a huge cut.

360 degree view. Few Neighbors. Private, secluded location.

sounds like my kind of missle compound!

I read an interesting study that essentially proved that people that come into a large sum of money are right back where they started in 3 to 5 years because they don't try to change their relationship with money. People that are used to money, on the other hand, typically take 3 to 5 years to become rich again after losing everything.

First thing: Get a financial advisor. You need to learn how to accumulate wealth and not just piss it away.

50 Million

5 million to parents
5 million to sister
10 million in long term investments
20 million in revenue investments
5 million for estate / car / animals (horses and dogs)
1 million for the best vacation EVER with someone special
1 million divided between my friends to get them what they always wanted (prolly no student debts)
3 million for charity

Pull out 1 million to pay off my current debt, and the debt of my family and friends.

Put everything else in to a stable investment for 1 year and not touch it until I had time to hire a superb investment counsellor and let the fact that I had just won 50 million dollars sink in. That would allow me time to plan and figure out the best plan of attack for how to handle that much money and keep a solid grounded life for my family.


Oh, and I'd probably eat out. Often... that is until I bought my new house with an awesome kitchen, stopped working, and had time to cook those awesome meals you see on the Food network.

Put it all on the line...one hand of blackjack

that would rule!

I keed

Well if I where american I would go nuts buy all family and friends cool shit....then Invest the rest so I wont have to work ever again. Then probably start my own Mod Shop!

If I had $200 million, I would buy ice cream....

For every man, woman and child...

IN THE WORLD

Aside from the normal get out of debt, help family etc

My "fantasy", not sure about the practicality, is to buy an old castle in the Highlands of Scotland, make part of it into mine and my hubby to be's "dungeon" with all the BDSM goodies, buy enuff kilts for him to wear for a LONG time.....and raise Highland Cattle

I'm shocked that so many people would keep working. There must be a lot of people that are working their dream jobs right now.

I might work again after winning that much money but I'd never work at a place directed towards making money for some group of investors that don't give a shit about the masses that work their whole lives to make what they do in a few months (or weeks in many cases).

The only work I'd do would be towards making life better for individual people of humanity as a whole.

I'd also do 2 chicks at once!

why do you need 200 Million for?


Im broke and I have done it twice:D

I dunno how many people would be doing the SAME job, maybe they just said A job.

invest most of it, buy a laptop, a few desktops, and purchase memberships to every subscription linux distro there is. i'd also donate to the red cross. now to the really selfish part. pimp car, pimp house, and pimp ladies

I've wanted to work with kids since I was 12. I hated teaching as the administration at my school was crap. With my own at home day care granted I don't make THAT much and I go nuts every winter around January but I love the kids and I don't have to deal with anyone but their parents. I can see the difference I make in the kids. I've seen growth in so many kids and growth that I've influenced. It's a fulfilling job working in an area I've always wanted to. I'd most definately keep working. I just wouldn't worry about loosing a kid when they were sick or when they moved away that sort of thing.

I'd hire some big guy to follow my roommate around, and whenever he tried to get some ice cream the big guy would slap it out of his hands and be all like "No ice cream for you, asshole!"

I'd buy a superbowl ad that just flashed the word "burrito" in green and pink letters for two minutes during halftime.

Most importantly, though, I'd finally get to see my lifelong dream of a giant robot Hitler destroying Milwaukee come to fruition.

Well there goes your 50 million ;)

I'd also like to build a race track for the NASCAR circuit....only the races run at MY track would be run in the other direction!!!

Take over the world!!!

they do that in Australia:D

i sent a mill to the TFP and 5k to Halx him self, then live simply for the rest of my days relaxing and learning.

I would lay in fields somewhere in Europe and paint. And then I too would just run some totally messed up ad campaign. Maybe not during the super bowl, but I think the world needs to be more aware of tourettes or brain freezes, something like that.

I would do anything possible to keep it a secret. I would only want my family and closest friends to know. Not even my neighboors. At first I wouldn't even buy a new house. I love my house, I love my location.

The first things i'd spend some on are
A $60,000 dollar home theater system
$50,000 completely redone basement.
$5,000 computer

I wouldnt even buy an insanly expensive car. A nice $50,000 to $70,000 car would be nice. I don't want some Lambroghini or something.

Donate some.
Play with some.
Put my kids and family through college.
Pay debts.
Invest.
Travel.
The usual
(Only, I wouldn't hand out cash to anyone -- I'd invest it and give gifts. For example, college tuition paid for with the condition that a 2.5 gpa is maintained. I hate seeing anything, including financial recourses, wasted.)

50 million dollars? Best.Computer.Ever.

And a brand new car.

More electronics than you or your GRANDFATHER can handle.

Donate to charity, sure why not.

Keep working.

that would be one damn sweet computer!