So, you got home and found that you won the state lottery. Now what?

[Onkel Neal]

Hypothetical situation:

You get home from work, dig out your lottery ticket, check it and lo-and-behold: all SIX numbers match. The lottery drawing date is correct. It's the real thing, and the cash option value is a little over $9 million.

What do you do?

Go to work tomorrow?

Go to the state lottery headquarters bright and early in the morning (a 3 hour drive for me).

Do you drive yourself or hire a town car and a pro driver? (Nothing like getting killed on I-10 on the way to collect $9 million )

Get in touch with a financial advisor?

Who do you tell? Anyone? No one?

So, you collect the $$$, I assume it goes into multiple bank accounts. What's next? Quit your job? What do you tell them?

What about the wife? Stay married or split the dough 50/50 and start planning parties that would put Hugh Hefner to shame?

How would you invest it?

What would you change about your life?

What's the very first thing you would spend it on?