Half a BILLION dollar Mega Millions

[timmac]

I play the lottery with my coworkers, so if we won, I'd ONLY get 1/10th of the cut. ($5.4 million) Take out a third of that for taxes, and I'd be left with ~$3.6 million.

As other PPs have mentioned, your math is off, and you'd get $54 million. More like $3.8 million if you go for the lump sum (and you probably should). It's also worth noting that taxes would almost certainly be much higher than 1/3, though... probably closer to 50%.

 

[RitaE]

As other PPs have mentioned, your math is off, and you'd get $54 million. More like $3.8 million if you go for the lump sum (and you probably should). It's also worth noting that taxes would almost certainly be much higher than 1/3, though... probably closer to 50%.

1. Hire somebody to do math for me.

 

[disneychrista]

I would pay off my mortgage & redo the Kitchen and fix the other things that I have been putting off.

I would buy a new car (nothing fancy). Maybe a Yaris or similar.

I would do a Disney "World" tour, going to all the Disney Parks around the world.

I would do a USA tour, going to different states & places that I have always wanted to go.

I would go to Canada and visit my "homeland."

With odds of something like 141 million to 1, I am just not "counting" on winning.

 

[cluvsdisney]

We talk about this all the time...LOL

We'd quit our jobs
pay off some bills
give money to our immediate family
set up trusts for our nieces and nephews
donate to charities
get a condo or something in the NYC/LI area for when we are here
buy a house someplace to live TBD
travel travel travel
get new cars

 

[Minnesota!]

I would take my family (the 4 of us) to Disney for a good 6 weeks. Each week I would fly a different group down. My brother and his family and my mom. Then my inlaws. then my friends. Then I think we would take a few week break at the coast. then back to Disney for just the 4 of us.

We would stay in a different hotel for 10 day increments, I think. Probably WL, AKL, Poly, and Beach Club.

Oh, outside of Disney I would pay off everything. Buy my mom the house on the Mississippi that she so desperately wants. Pay off her bills.

Set my brother up.

Set my inlaws up.

Set my dearest friends up.

Change my phone #

Start a fund for families going through infertility treatments.

Pay off my church's debt

Trust fund for my kids.

Travel travel travel travel.

 

[ZephyrHawk]

1. Pay off student loans
2. Pay off mortgage
3. Pay off any other random debts
4. Place the remainder in a trust (so that if folks ever ask for money, you say, "Sorry, it's in trust.")
5. And we'd probably buy into DVC

 

[Poohbug]

You realize that the odds of winning are the same as getting mauled by a polar bear and a regular bear on the same day, right?

You are 500 times more likely to be struck by lighting than you are to win a lotto jackpot over 100 million.

These two guys are going to buy some optimism.

Honestly, I can't even imagine this much money and have no idea what I would do with it all. I guess I would try to make a dent in it by paying off all my debt, finally remodel that bathroom, and invite all my friends and family on a Disney cruise. There would still be so much left over, I would have to start giving it away.

 

[DisneyLoverUSA]

I would do everything with the money that everyone else is saying. I would make sure my dad was taken care of, buy new houses or a few friends, travel all over the US. I would stay in te most expensive suite Disney has to offer for about 14 days twice a year. New cars for everyone I know. Trust funds for my kids.
Hopefully multiple ppl will win and have to split it up. That's too much money for one person to have. You don't need that kind of money.

 

[CTdiznymom]

As they say: You can't win it if you're not in it!

 

[akcire]

You are 500 times more likely to be struck by lighting than you are to win a lotto jackpot over 100 million.

That is probably true. It is also true that by spending $1 I have infinitely improved my odds of winning over someone who does not spend a $1.

Normally, if the jackpot is over $100 million I will spend $1 (in a typical year this keeps my lotto budget to about $15) I am thinking in honor of the very large jackpot, I will play $2.

A dream is worth $2

 

[Judique]

You are 500 times more likely to be struck by lighting than you are to win a lotto jackpot over 100 million.

I think most of us know that chances are pretty slim.

And talking about what is likely - I can tell you what a sure thing is - you'll never win if you don't play.

I have a system. I only play when I'm on vacation. Sooner or later I'm going to win.

And then I will try to use the money to make as many people as possible (my circle) a teeny bit happier in some way.

 

[adoptivemomx2]

Yes, yes, I would pay of the mortgage, save for college educations, and buy new houses.

But the best thing I would do with the money is:

Get a staff!!!!

Then I could yell, "Staff!" and my laundry would be done and dinner would be cooked and the floors would be vacuumed and <pant> <pant> I've gotten myself a little excited over here...

Give me an "S!" Give me a "T!" Give me an "A!" Give me an "F!" Give me another "F!"

What does that spell?!

STAFF!!!

 

[Gumbo4x4]

Buy out my employer & fire everyone I don't like!











Okay, not on my list, but a former coworker was always bragging he was gonna do this as soon as he won the lottery

 

[babyrich]

I want one of those new million dollar homes that Disney is building. My DH want to go to Key West. I said at least we would both be in Florida.

pay off both sister's mortgages, college for nieces and nephew, lump sum to sisters, than change my name and get out of dodge.

build mulit-million dollar animal shelter and hire full-time staff for it.

Rent out MK for the night and hire Aerosmith for a private concert.

Hope to live a very long life!

 

[Jeninindy]

I play the lottery with my coworkers, so if we won, I'd ONLY get 1/10th of the cut. ($5.4 million) Take out a third of that for taxes, and I'd be left with ~$3.6 million.

You just shorted yourself...you would get $54 Million before taxes....

 

[Jeninindy]

1. Hire somebody to do math for me.

LMAO!!!

 

[phamy76]

I'd be happy with only $250,000.
I could pay off the house and our debt.
I would set up college funds for my kids.
And of course a trip to Disney!

 

[punkin]

Ahhh dreams....College funds and trust funds for niece and nephews. Trust funds for my girls (I can pay for college out of pocket with that kind of money). Sell my house and move...apartment in Manhattan, a place in Florida...travel first class. Give to my favorite charities, maybe endow a chair at my alma mater in my mother's and grandmother's names and set up a charitable foundation in my sister's name and sit on its board of trustees.

 

[Gumbo4x4]

I'd be happy with only $250,000.
I could pay off the house and our debt.
I would set up college funds for my kids.
And of course a trip to Disney!

$250,000 (tax free) has always been my "magic number". Pay off the mortgage, buy a new car, build a shop, finish the girls' college funds and invest whatever's left. I feel like if I could "get ahead" by that much, I shouldn't have to have a loan for anything ever again

 

[Wish Upon A Star]

If we won, everyone in our family would be taken care of, I would set up scholarships at our local high school to kids who excel in academics but who cannot afford to go to a school of their choice, I would donate to local animal shelters and most of all, I would surely get the hell out of the over taxed State of Connecticut.