WWYD with Mega Millions $636M jackpot?

[BonBon]

What would you do with all that money? Besides the obvious consulting with an atty/financial planner.

I think I would largely live the same life, except I would design another house. Probably about the same size, but more like a mountain chalet or something. I would keep my car because I adore it. Maybe put a really sweet gym in my house and have a personal trainer come to me. Definitely set up college funds for my nieces and nephew, as well as gift their parents with a sizeable amount. Buy our mothers new homes, if desired.

What I would love to do is finance a new building for our local SPCA. They need more space. Fund some local parks. ????

Oh, and I would have a lot of fun telling all my new-found friends and family to kiss off. (I'm talking about the people that come out of the woodwork)

[WolfpackWife]

Ah, my fantasy. Obviously #1 would be pay off all of DH's school loans - undergrad and med school. As well as tuck plenty away to pay in full for the rest of the ride. I'd buy him a new car, ASAP because he needs one desperately. Then I'd opt to give Cooper a hip surgery because it would really improve his quality of life and I don't want him to live the second half of his life in varying states of arthritic soreness. Buy a house. Give sizeable amounts to the various Lab Rescue's we've worked with - so many of those dogs are pulled out of shelters needing expensive medical care. I want to fix all of them. Put it the rest of it in various savings and investment accounts and then look at them each every day and gleefully rejoice that we don't have to worry about money anymore. Ever.

So many more things...I can't even list them!

[spotty_dog]

How many tickets do you have? It's all mine!

I'd take the cash payout, which would amount to $255M after taxes.

Not much would change. DH would back down to working maybe once a week, no nights. We might move to Hawaii, since my big roadblock to living there is COL and expense of visiting family. I might hire someone to clean house once a week. DH would probably get his *real* dream bicycle. I might hire an interior decorator and finally get this place painted and curtained!

[medpedspouse]

Go live somewhere in the world where DH can actually practice medicine 100% of his work time instead of doing paperwork, coding, sitting in committee meetings that are all talk and no action, hunting down non compliant patients, avoiding getting roped in to the hospital politics, etc. etc.

[MrsK]

That's more money than I can imagine. I think I'd do the pay out too. It would be nice to just not worry about having enough money for retirement, my children's education, travel, etc. and to be able to shop without guilt or budgeting. I really would like to make generous donations when asked. I'm often frustrated that I can only give a little here and there.

[Vanquisher]

DH would retire immediately, and we'd travel extensively. It'd be sweet.

[WolfpackWife]

DH would retire immediately, and we'd travel extensively. It'd be sweet.

Hell, if we won, maybe I could just convince DH to quit while he's ahead and we'd never have to endure most of this sadistic career path!

[Mrs. MD, Esq.]

I'd take the payout as well.

I'd pay off my loans, pay off DH's loans...

Buy a 3-bedroom condo in the city.

Travel to places we haven't gone for budgetary reasons.

Put most everything else in savings and get the interest...for the most part, I'm pretty happy with our life, so it's hard to think of things I'd change drastically.

[Phoebe]

I'd do a pay out. I would pay off all student loans. Dh would quit working holidays and weekends. He might become a teacher of some sort. (He already wants to do this now.) I would make my mom retire and buy her a house in a place of her choice. I would buy a beach house in SC or Lake MI. I would hire a babysitter more often and learn to knit.

[Vanquisher]

Hell, if we won, maybe I could just convince DH to quit while he's ahead and we'd never have to endure most of this sadistic career path!

Yes. Immediately.

For one, practicing medicine with that kind of bank account and notoriety is like begging to be sued.

Plus, I hate to be cynical, but it would make finishing training nearly mentally impossible. "I don't need this shit." Literally, you'd quit. We felt a hairs breadth from quitting MANY times, but couldn't. If we could have? No way we would have made it through.

Yeah, he'd retire. No question.

[WolfpackWife]

Yes. Immediately.

For one, practicing medicine with that kind of bank account and notoriety is like begging to be sued.

Plus, I hate to be cynical, but it would make finishing training nearly mentally impossible. "I don't need this shit." Literally, you'd quit. We felt a hairs breadth from quitting MANY times, but couldn't. If we could have? No way we would have made it through.

Yeah, he'd retire. No question.

Ahh...if only *wistfully imagines a future that involves a husband who isn't worked half to death in a career that has sunk us into over a quarter million dollars of debt*

[moonlight]

I would take care of our debts and a couple other family members but the rest can kiss off. I'm not sure if DH would quit working totally because he seems to really love his work. I would set up a foundation and think about the ways I would like to help others. I also think it would be really fun to occasionally give on a random basis. You know those stories about the random $100 bill found in the Salvation Army bucket? Stuff like that.

[Meenah]

Makes my head spin to even imagine it. Definitely pay off debt, set up all kids with a trust, take care of the local SPCA and rescue groups. I could go on and on. Oh, and I would enjoy telling the hospital Admin to kiss off until there is a new administration!!!

[SuzySunshine]

Well crap! I forgot to buy my ticket, I thought the drawing was tomorrow. Oh well - if no one wins and I win the next drawing...

The first thing I would do is claim it anonymously which you can do in my state, DH wouldn't let me play otherwise because he won't retire, he truly loves his job to much. Hopefully he would cut back but he wouldn't retire.

I'd buy or build my dream house in the same area we're in, pay off some debts of some family (houses, student loans), set up educational trust funds for all of my kids, nieces and nephews and otherwise I'd start a foundation and dole it out.

Working as a doc when you're rich is possible, we knew a doc in training who didn't need his salary he was the son of a family that started a very successful chain of convenience stores. He was paid a normal salary (for some reason he had to draw one) but then donated it all back to the hospital or hospital's foundation except for $1.

[Sheherezade]

Go buy it now! I think they sell them until 10 pm.

Angie


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