OT: What would you do if you won the lottery?

First I would have to do the boring stuff like investing some and setting a budget so I wouldn't blow it all. Then take care of my family and friends.

For fun I would buy some thoroughbreds and get into the racing game.

and so did many of you.   fun as it is to speculate on stuff like this, your family is your 'lottery' win.  your spouse, those kids, your siblings, etc.   your faith if you have it, your health, if you have it.  everything else is just details.

and if i did win, it would be virtually undetectible in terms of behavior or possessions.   set up my family/extended family with trusts, pay off note that the church has, work less, but not retire.  

oh, and i might throw one massive mgoblog bbq for you guys on a game day.   so there.

Give the vast majority to charity - specifically, rebuild some of the infrastructure of our town, like a new indoor skating rink and an indoor practice facility for baseball and soccer; make aesthetic improvements to our schools; and then donate whatever's left. I'd keep around $20 mil for myself and my family. I'd start a rehab business - buy old houses, rehab them, and flip them. No new stuff, just better and more vacations. 

and raise a huge family.

and raise a huge family.

Buy a nice house out here for a cool 2.5 million or so out here in Nebraska, along with a fall house in AA.

Go to the lot and purchase a Callaway C7.

Style on hoez

After all the boring stuff (buying a nice house with a man cave so covered with UM stuff it would make WD jealous, investing, making sure my family was set for), I'd travel. I am the worst-traveled person I know, so I'd put that money to use and hit the road. Two trips for sure:

1. The girlfriend and I go to London, stay in the finest hotels, see some West End shows, do the whole posh thing - and then find a London cabbie, tip him outrageously, and tell him to take us to the good places the tourists don't know about.

2. Get myself an appropriate vehicle, and do my own Civil War battlefield tour. Every place I could get to (including Washington DC), culminating in a trip to Gettysburg. There, on the early morning of July 1, I will stand in McPherson's Woods next to the 24th Michigan monument, open a bottle of Lagavulin, and drink a toast to two men: my great x 3 grandfather, who stood in those woods in 1863, and my father, who taught me about the war he fought in.

After all, if you luck into that kind of money, you ought to spend part of it on a pilgrimage.

I'd become batman. That's all.

(1) Buy a boat. 

(2) Get all of my friends and family together and put them on said boat.

(3) Slowly make our a way down to an island in the tropics.

(4) Buy the island.

(5) Never come back.

Even though  I'd have all the money I'd ever need, I would have to occupy myself in some way.  Perhaps I would start my own business and put some of that money at risk. Or I would become a professor, or work toward improving the political structure into something more ideal. 

and you'd all get a dong forrest for Christmas!

Pay off Flints debt, help the poor, buy a mansion. See if Michigan wants me now that I'm a millionare.

1) Pay off all debts.

2) Help friends that need help.

3) Start a charity for sick and abused kids, or get involved with one like Mott.