Powerball winnings - $500M!

What would YOU do with your winnings?

Dig a hole and hide out in it. People would hound me til I was crazy.







But realistically, buy a house, a car, the essential type things. Help my family out, save for my kids and blow a bunch on whatever thing sounds the most fun at that moment. I'd also have to give to various charities and I'd probably come on BG and give a bunch of money away.

I would pay off my $24k medical bills, pay off my moms mortgage, pay off her truck, buy myself a cozy little house by her, buy the truck I've been wanting, and get a personal trainer, haha.

 

Get my parents a 5 bedroom ranch style house with a big yard down south with mild weather. Get my sister a small house for them and her two kids. Pay off SO's mortgage. Buy our own house. Put my cousin through college. Donate to autism and diabetes charities.

<blockquote><b>Quoting *Mary Moon*:</b>" Get my parents a 5 bedroom ranch style house with a big yard down south with mild weather. Get my sister ... [snip!] ... her two kids. Pay off SO's mortgage. Buy our own house. Put my cousin through college. Donate to autism and diabetes charities."</blockquote>




so's parents mortgage** I wish we had a mortgage. Then I would likely have good credit and a house lol.

Pay all my bills, buy a house, buy a new car, buy nice furniture for the house, give some to my mother and DH's parents. Pocket the rest lol probably never work again  . I wouldn't buy a fancy house or cars though just average ones.

buy a new house, and nicer cars first!
Then buy my parents a nice small home, my sister in law and her 3 kids a home, and pay off her car, and my other sil is a model so she doesnt need the money. My brother is so irresponsable but I would put aside like 25k for him/or maybe buy him a couple acres of land to put a mobile home on.

Then I would sit back and relax for the rest of my life!
Send me daughter to an amazing college!

Buy TONS of land in another state... possibly buy a small town... move my entire family there and buy them all houses and cars. Then I'd travel travel travel! I really would give some to charity... wtf would I need 500 mil for?

I would give most of it to charity and give $1 mil to my parents, DH parents, and each of our siblings and buy a house and keep $1mil for ourselves.

Finish school for me & DH. Do a few things around the house (like expand the porch & get it covered). Pay off our 1 car payment (other is already paid off). Take a vacation. And probably invest the rest for the kids' college & retirement.

I would set my parents up with everything they need and pay off their debts & probably the same for my brother and his wife, get them each a house, car & essentials because none of them are financially stable. For us, I would just move us to Philly (our dream) buy us our forever home & probably buy my husband an airplane so we could stop renting one lol

1/4 to savings.

1/4 to investments.

Buy a reasonable house, two cars, and give chunks to friends and family.

Go back to school.

I was just talking to a co-worker about that.

I think the first thing I would do is hire someone to tell me how to manage that amount of money properly. Then I would take some and spend it just to get it out of my system. I would want to make sure my family was nice and comfortable forever and then I'd donate a smurf ton of it.

id do the lump sum which is about 3.75million per the radio

1/2 to savings to live off of.
1/4 to investments.

i would buy my parents home cash and giive the electric company a good amount to kep them from having to pay any blls. id clear their debts.

clear my own debt and buy myself a townhouse or house 4/ 21/2baths and id buy my dream SUV.

id prob spend some on bullsmurf. go on a trip etc. but majority is to live off of and to be able to give my son what he wants.

We'd do the lump sum as well. No one needs 500 million dollars...

I'd pay off my student loans and finish school, SO would pay off his tool bill, we'd get every other bill paid in full, we'd find a cheap house in a city somewhere where there's plenty of places for SO to find work, since he loves working, better cars that are more reliable, and we'd put aside about 200K for DD's college or whatever else she wants to do with it.

If she goes to college, she gets it as needed to pay for books and classes. If she doesn't want college, she HAS to go out and learn to live in the world and the value of a dollar first... and then at age 25, she'd be given access to her chunk.

As for the rest... we'd save it for when we need it. Of course, we'd probably get a new laptop, SO would want a TV, new stuff for DD, but other than that? It goes into the bank or in a deposit box for emergencies.