What if you won the Lottery

[Rerun]

The 2 last winners of the Mega Million got to Split 130 million!

They lived 125 miles apart from each other and I'm in the middle of them!

It got me to thinking!

If I won I would try to give a million to my church but some churches have said they would not take it because it came from gambling, so I would try....

Then I would give a million to my donor's family from 25 years ago because they saved my life.

Then I would help my family and friends

Then I would give a million to IHD so they could stay in business.

Then I would buy a new coat as mine is 20 years old.

Then I would give my house in Sacramento to some lucky sucker so I could be rid of it.

Then I would pay back Medicare because I feel guilty.

Then I would buy a new house.

I'd probably fly to the Philippines and get a new kidney since it is illegal to buy one here.

Then I'd invest the rest.

What would you do?   

[RichardMEL]

The psychic who correctly predicted my transplant in a number of aspects has also told me I would win between $380,000 - $400,000. Not quite $65 million, but still it would do me

I would give some percentage to a dear friend of mine, struggling single mum etc, to help her pay off a home.

I would enjoy a celebration dinner with family.

I would invest the rest in a high interest bearing account and use the interest in my travel fund.

[jbeany]

Not go public!  Although it might be tempting to be able to laugh at my ex and my sister's ex as well, as they wallow in their current bankruptcies, both brought on by former mistresses, now wives.  But I'm trying to stick to the high road, here (mostly).    

So, I'm not going public unless I can have video of them both hearing about it for the first time.....

Seriously, can you imagine how many "bestest friends ever" would crawl out of the woodwork?

Other than that, yes, lots to my favorite charities, I wouldn't have a single friend with a bill left to pay, and fab vacations/houses/cars for all.  My immediate family would never have to work again if they didn't want to.  I could go on to law school and do nothing but pro bono work.  After that, invest the rest in something boring and safe and live off interest.

[Desert Dancer]

Hmmm... just off the top of my head:

Give half to Heifer International

Get all of Andy's medical issues taken care of

Pay off my mother-in-law's house

Buy the house we're renting and build another in the mountains to escape to for the summers

Anonymously have people's cars and houses repaired when they're not around

Pay off medical bills

Go back to college and get a degree in something like synthetic biology

I can't really think of too much because I already have everything I could possibly want!

[Riki]

I've already decided that if I ever win the lottery, the first thing I'm going to do is replace all the chairs in my dialysis unit with heated massage chairs.  No more frozen numb butt!!

After that, I'd look after my Mom and my grandparents, and maybe even my brother and my dad. *L*

I'd also make sure that my best friend never needs to worry about being homeless again

I'd like to find a place near downtown Charlottetown to build a house for my Mom and myself, a duplex.. one side for her and the other for me.. it's an independence thing for me.. it would need to have space for both a pool table, and an indoor pool.

When my parents split last year, Mom didn't want to tell my grandfather, in case it upset him, when in fact, he actually celebrated. *L*  Not long after she told him, he called to tell her that he had a dream that Mom won the lottery, and she asked him to claim it so that she wouldn't have to share it with Dad.. *LOL*

[RightSide]

I would purchase a mail-order bride.

[thegrammalady]

the first thing i would do is walk into make a wish and grant every wish on their books!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

all 4 of my grandsons would go to college and graduate school if they wanted to.

we'd plan an ihd meeting somewhere and i'd pay for everyone who wanted to come.

i'd move into a snazy retirement center and never clean or cook again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i'd invest

i'd change my phone number.

[galvo]

Only one, RightSide?

[Ang]

 

[motreasures]

I would get my Hubby on every transplant list within a 8 hour flying radius; then pay to keep the pilot/plane on-call.

Pay off all our siblings homes (I'm one of 10, have 3 In-laws)

Set up a foundation for people like us...people who are living on limited funds with high medical/hotel/transportation costs for medical needs

Buy a home in Vegas

Build a new home on our property with wind turbines, an infection controlled safe environment for dialysis (with all the amenities), closets, work-out room and a chef who would cook heart/renal healthy meals that my Hubbie would eat.    

Travel the world with a dialysis nurse at a whim.

Buy all the Belgian chocolate I want.   

Obviously, I'm not the only one who has fantasized about the lottery...I like what I see here. 

[Stoday]

I'd claim a miracle because I have never entered the lottery and never will.

[Rerun]

I also may start my own dialysis center called "I Hate Dialysis" and have it be a Spa type of atmosphere.  We would start by serving any type of coffee of espresso and a snack.

OOOPS  I said the D word on Off Topic.  Sorry!

[rsudock]

I would quit teaching in the ghetto immediately! I would even let them keep all the stuff in the room!!

I would go to school and become a principal.

Open my own charter school.

Hire a publisher and write a book.

Buy a house with an extra room for D.

Get a D nurse to come to my home.

Pay off my debts.

Take my boyfriend on a vacation.

Hire a personal chef.

Donate money to the make a wish foundation and national kidney foundation.

[carol1987]

I would stay out of the media...

Buy a house...

Go to Disney...

Donate to PKD research...

Give to IHD.com...

Give to my church....

Pay bills off....

College for kids... and I would go back to finish my degree....

Help Mom and Mom in Law with Bills...

Get season tickets to the NJ Devils...

Give to research for improvements/replacement for the "D" word...

Help people who need Transplants fund them.....

Make sure people who get transplants can continue to stay on their medications....

Buy a new coat for Rerun!!

Go to an Olympics....

[Poppylicious]

I would pinch myself.  If I didn't wake up I'd build a lovely house with a special area for Blokey to have dialysis.  I'd even hire a nurse (he'd like that, and I'm quite a generous soul) for him so that I don't have to do anything and have more time to spend my money. We'd buy an Aston Martin.  I'd take my entire family away somewhere dead posh for a weekend and throw money at them (the sort of place where even the staff have been privately educated and look down on us for being so common).

I don't know what I'd do with the remaining 120million. 

 

I dream of winning the lottery but I think that some amounts are ridiculously excessive.  I'd be happy with a mere 10 million. *grin*

I also may start my own dialysis center called "I Hate Dialysis" and have it be a Spa type of atmosphere.  We would start by serving any type of coffee of espresso and a snack.

OOOPS  I said the D word on Off Topic.  Sorry!

*chuckles* I LOVE that idea! 

[kitkatz]

Pay off the house and all the bills.

Buy a black market kidney in some underworld nation. Hang the laws.

[Darthvadar]

I would purchase a mail-order bride.

I might think about buying a Mail Order Husband... I've been on the shelf for so long, my ass has woodworm!.... 

[KICKSTART]

Buy a massive farm . Start an animal sanctuary ..simple as .

[Bajanne]

First order of business - college and post-grad for my daughter.
A  big house in the British Virgin Islands, and  a big one in Barbados
Investment for my grandsons
A transplant overseas.
6 months in France
6 months in the US, meeting IHD members
A meeting place for believers in Tortola and St.Thomas.
Donation to IHD.
Anything else.....

[looneytunes]

If I won, I would not go public.  I would become a secret santa type person and leave anonymous gifts for folks who could use a little help. 

[RichardMEL]

Hire out one of Branson's private tropical islands for a week and fly all my IHD "friends" (aka hot women  ) over for... well.. some R&R

 

Deinitely DON'T tell anyone. OMG imagine all the amazing new friends you never knew you had - ugh. Charities and others would harass you endlessly - I find I already get a bit of that when I went up in some income you get on various databases and suddenly everyone wants a piece of you. I object to that because *I* want to decide who to give to and what I do not be made to feel that I'm bad because I won't give to the local orphans ski trip fund or whatever.

[Jean]

First, a donation to my church
then, a donation to IHD
Pay off all my kids mortgages ( thats 6 of them )
Buy the land this mobile home park sits on and everyone would get free rent for a year.
YES, a weekend in Vegas for all the IHD'ers to come who wanted to and all the gambling and food money they needed.
Get the largest coach that sits here in this park, my husband has it listed and its only $90,000.00
Two new cars
Gosh, then I guess just live off the investments.

[Rerun]

I bought a Power Ball ticket for Saturday!  You can't win unless you buy just one!

       

[rsudock]

If I won, I would not go public.  I would become a secret santa type person and leave anonymous gifts for folks who could use a little help. 

This reminds me of my brother...a few years back he got into this kick of buying flowers and having them delivered to someone on their birthday. The thing was he wouldn't put on the card who they were from just, "Happy Birthday From a Friend."

[Bajanne]

Hire out one of Branson's private tropical islands for a week

Did you know that Branson's private tropical island is one of our islands?  Necker Island in the British Virgin Islands.  Only costs $51,000 per night and you can have 26 people there!