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

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What would you do if you won the record lottery amount? The record for a single ticket claim is $590.5M which came out to a payout of $370.9M to one lucky person in Florida two years ago.

How would you celebrate? Would you buy anything right off the bat? Would you quit your job in a fun way? Would go big and buy a mega-house in a fancy location?

Would you do anything Michigan-related? Perhaps go and watch them play in bowl games, the CFP or NCAA Tournaments in Basketball?

lilpenny1316

March 17th, 2015 at 9:34 PM ^

Plus there's too much scrutiny.  I remember when a middle aged guy in WV won the lottery and a year or two later he had tens of thousands of dollars stolen from his vehicle outside a strip club.  He was the victim, but everyone had an opinion about how he should've spent his money.

megaswami

March 17th, 2015 at 9:31 PM ^

I would go to work as if nothing had changed, but I would not bite my tongue as often as I do now. I would say I'm thinking about making a sizable donation to the school and laugh at the ensuing ass-kissing!




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Blue24

March 17th, 2015 at 9:32 PM ^

Payoff my parents house, my wife's parents & my brothers. Quit my job as a tax accountant and travel the world for a year. Come back and take a high school coaching job with my brother and enjoy life with my family.




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meechiganman14

March 17th, 2015 at 10:00 PM ^

Sounds a lot like what I would do. Pay off family debt and just travel for a while. 

Then buy a nice house on Old Mission Peninsula in Traverse  City, a home on a golf course in Naples, FL and a condo at a ski resort (probably Deer Valley). There's no where on earth better to live in the summer than Traverse City and no where better in the winter than southwest Florida (admittedly I'm biased). And I really like Deer Valley. 

AMazinBlue

March 17th, 2015 at 11:34 PM ^

I beg to differ on "no better place to live in the Summer..."  I'll see your Tarverse City and RAISE you with the North Shore of crysatal-clear Glen Lake, just 30 minutes west of Traverse City right near Sleeping Bear Dunes.

There may not be a more beautiful body of water on the planet.

I would pay off my house, my truck, buy my wife the Jeep she wants, buy my step daughters each a house, and after quiting my job in epic fashion, I would buy a home on Glen Lake with the biggest beach and watch sunsets in the summer while writing a book.

And buy four seats in the bIg House in the front of Chairback section for the rest of my life.

...And go to the Masters

rob f

March 18th, 2015 at 1:12 AM ^

is very close to the same as mine on two particular things you posted:

1) moving to the Sleeping Bear Dunes/Glen Lake area.

and

2)  Upgrading my season tickets (although I was thinking Outdoor Box rather than Chairback.  Either one would work for me, though---mainly because if it's Michigan Football at The Big House, I'm outdoors with 100000+ other Michigan fans and alumni, not indoors, away from real.

Maize and Blue…

March 17th, 2015 at 10:36 PM ^

1) Take financial care of my family and friends - so they never want.

2) Donate to Mott and St.Judes Children's Hospitals - to try and make a difference.

3) Buy a place back up in A.A. - to enjoy the Summer and Fall and see games.

4) Go to Columbus and pay their players and recruits in such a way that I will get caught, and the Ohio State program will get slapped with recruiting violations, and then pay the media to keep the story alive, and embarass the N.C.A.A. into doing something about it. Then do it again, and again, until they get the Death Penalty.

5) Enjoy what is left of my life, and pass on what I have learned to the kids in my family.

the_benjy_vortex

March 17th, 2015 at 9:34 PM ^

I'd use some money to make a few people on my list dead. Then, I'd parlay the rest on house quinellas at the Bellagio.




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ThadMattasagoblin

March 17th, 2015 at 9:37 PM ^

-Buy football/basketball/hockey tickets.

-Go to every Michigan game home, away, or neutral site for the rest of my life.

-Donate 50 million dollars to the university/donate 50 million dollars to the athletic department

Yes, my priorities are out of wack.

HANCOCK

March 17th, 2015 at 10:42 PM ^

I would just donate the $50 million and tell them that my only consideration is that I get to go to any athletic event I ever want to go to.

 

Sideline/Courtside seats? No problem sir. 

 

If I feel like using Crisler for a pickup game one day? No problem sir.

 

I want to play video games on the jumbotron at Michigan Stadium? No problem sir.

 

 

 

 

julesh

March 17th, 2015 at 9:37 PM ^

Take the lump sum. Not tell anyone I didn't have to. Set up trusts for my nieces and nephews and siblings. Write checks to pay my parents back for raising me. Not loan money to anyone. Pay off student loans. Buy a house with cash (nothing extravagent). Keep working for a while, I have good medical, but set up a plan to go into business for myself. Invest the rest into an annuity paying me a couple hundred a year.

Not that I've thought of it.

lilpenny1316

March 17th, 2015 at 9:38 PM ^

1. First 10% goes to my church, then:

2. Buy a winter home in the Keys.

2. Buy a summer home in the North Carolina mountains.

3, Buy a condo in Ann Arbor for football and basketball games.

4. Put a Michigan-themed man cave in each place.

4a. Each man-cave will have a wall of televisions so I can watch all the sporting events I'm wagering on.