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

[Feuer Frei!]

Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

What do you do?

Have a heart attack

Go to work tomorrow?

Nope, i'd ring in sick and get the med cert to cover the heart attack

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

I'd still be in hospital, recovering.

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 )

Here in this country it depends if you are a registered or non-registered lottery player.
If registered, they send you a cheque. If not, i would take the ticket to the place where i bought it for verification, fill out the form and get a cheque sent to me.
So nho driving necessary, i'll just sit back in my lounge chair and get drunk!

Get in touch with a financial advisor?

My parents would be my financial advisors.

Who do you tell? Anyone? No one?

My parents, my 2 best friends and my eldest daughter.

So, you collect the $$$, I assume it goes into multiple bank accounts.

Yep, multiple, split up the amount, some to my parents, to my 3 daughters, some into a trust fund, managed, and then go from there.

What's next? Quit your job? What do you tell them?

You betcha! I've been looking for a good excuse to quit that sorry excuse of a place! Seriously though, i would, jobs in that industry are a dime a dozen, so no probs for future employment. Take a year off, have a nice break. Re-evaluate after that. What do i tell them? None of their business!

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

No wife, so home and hosed there
Parties to rival Hugh's ones?
Maybe

How would you invest it?

Real Estate, Real Estate and Real Estate.

What would you change about your life?

Nothing. I would try to stay the same person that i am now.
I paid my bills off, so would be even happier now.

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

My kids.

[Anthony W.]

Originally Posted by Feuer Frei!

Here in this country it depends if you are a registered or non-registered lottery player.
If registered, they send you a cheque. If not, i would take the ticket to the place where i bought it for verification, fill out the form and get a cheque sent to me.
So no driving necessary, i'll just sit back in my lounge chair and get drunk

Deutschland?

[Feuer Frei!]

Originally Posted by Anthony W.

Deutschland?

Australia