OK You've just won the lottery!
 

You woke up this morning and checked online and found your ticket just won 10,000,000 !

What would you do first?
Second?
Buy first?
? :woot:

First: Crap myself
Second: Take a shower
Buy first: My mortgage

Hmm...
1) Give some to my parents
2) Quit my job
3) Look after my kids full-time
First thing i'd buy is a brand new home, where the kids and i would live, happily ever after...or until they grow up and wanna see the world :up:

1. Make sure it was perfectly legit
2. Buy myself, my sister and my parents a moderate house each
3. Start a business to bring in a steady profit.

1) Hire a good tax lawyer

2) Put 25% of after-tax total into offshore account, give 50% to various people/institutions, save 25% for business venture (below)

3) 1/2 scale fully-functional 3rd-rate ship-of -the-line replica tricked out like a pirate ship and furnished with belowdecks restaurant/bar and several leisure areas. Available for private parties, dinner cruises, educational field trips, and children's birthday parties. Resarrrrrvations required.:arrgh!:

I'll fill you in when you get here with the paperwork and the promotional check we use for the publicity photos....

Surprised no-one's offered to 'waste' their money on buying out Ubisoft?
SH6 anyone?

Take 10% and splurge. New home, car, trip, etc.

Invest the rest in tax-free municipal bonds. Live off the interest. :cool:

Immediately move to hide from the sudden influx of relatives who would just happen to take this time to "get to know me". :nope:

I don't know if I would quit my job. I might reclassify as a consultant and only work on the projects that interest me though.

But I would definitely, buy my farm out in the country for my animal rescue work. :yep:

I might have to buy a new hat.

No, but I might hire some programmers to make a submarine simulator to MY specifications for my personal use though. :yeah:

And if someone would want to play MY simulator the way I programmed it, they would be welcome to it. But it would be first, and foremost, MY simulator.

You're lazy:O:

Why not chart a course for a rewarding career aboard my pirate ship? Competitive wages, flexible hours, full medical and dental, and I'm planning on hiring ex-hooters girls for bar wenches:D Thar be no map needed to find that booty, matey:arrgh!:

Finally!!!
Someone brave enough to come to the rescue!

Lance, I can't help but feel that your entire plan is a build up to that Resarrrvations pun. Immense kudos!

Me, I don't know. Possibly a new hat. Definitely a new hat. Good idea.

1. Pay off all outstanding debts
2. Buy a new car
3. Buy a nice condo
4. Pay off debts/mortgages etc. for a very select group of close family & friends
5. Put a nice chunk away for retirement

I honestly don't know if I'd quit my job or not. We used to have a lottery pool for the Powerball at my office and everybody would throw in a dollar once a week and then if we won we'd divvy up the jackpot. The standing joke was that if we did win the big jackpot, nobody would show up the next day except for me and the office manager. Probably true. At the very least I'd keep at it until they were sorted as far as hiring/training someone else to do my job (since I'm the only one there who knows how to do 80% of what I do, and the cash flow is pretty much dependent on it getting done).

Maybe eventually, if I could live off the interest from investing what remained after 1-5 above, I could find something else I really wanted to do and not have to worry about making a living from it. I might volunteer here and there for causes close to my heart, or even look into the possibility of teaching martial arts as a vocation.

The main thing to me would be to get my life as it is now sorted out to my satisfaction, financially speaking, and to help the people I care for most do the same. After that - who knows?

I do know that I'd probably travel to a lot of places I've always wanted to visit but would likely never get to otherwise.

Unfortunately I don't wear hats so buying a new one would just seem wasteful. :O:

1. Enjoy life to the full.

2. Ditto

3. Ditto