What would you do if yoy won the lottery???

[seminolewind]

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I would call in RICH

 

[nightshade]

1- I would buy a nice farm somewhere because heaven knows that were we are will never have enough room for all our "new" critters we would get
2- help my mom out she has a lot of bills from my dad being ill and passing away
3-hubby would become a professional coon hunter I am sure
4- go to the local horse sale and find someone out of the meat pen that needs a good home. Okay probably more then one someone hence the new farm

5- rent for free the new farm out (cause I frankly don't want to move from my homestead once we get there) to our best friends, one who will be also hubby's dog handler and his wife who can help around the farm.

 

[chickenbottom]

well if i did first i would give 10 percent to god because he gave me the money in the first place next i would give some to charity of any kind then i would buy a new house lol and more chickens and a huge shed from home depot to make a new coop and have someone add run to it for me then i would pay off my unpaid bills lol um then i would put the rest of it away for either life savings or when i need it for emergencies

 

[william9792]

BUY MORE CHICKENS, BUY MORE CHICKENS, BUY MORE CHICKENS, then new car for wife

 

[joerogrz]

Buy a new vehicle and travel all over the country... Even to AK. Stop at good hole-in-the-wall restaurants and over tip the waitresses. Give bums some money. Pretty much charity work without the middle man.

Buy my parents property and sell it at a huge loss... Just because they want to get out of it. Get them a smaller more manageable place somewhere else. Give some money to my family and friends to help them out.

This list could go on and on...

 

[Kanchii]

If I stood there with the winning lotto in my hand, reading and rereading the numbers a million times, I wouldn't believe it at first. I wouldn't want to get excited and have it turn out to be a mistake on my part. So The first thing I'd probably do is calmly go to someone and have them check. Once they confirmed I won I'd probably walk back to my room, sit down for a couple minutes until it sunk in, then start jumping around the room screaming so loud that the police would be called to my house. I'd be in such a state of hysterics that I wouldn't be able to tell them what happened, just wave the lotto ticket in their faces until they figured out what I was screaming about. Then I'd call in to the lotto thingy (what DO you do when you win?) or I guess go to the gas station so they can put it thru the comp that I won, and once I knew that my money was coming I'd call EVERYONE I knew and tell them (and try very hard not to brag, which probably wouldn't work out too well).

Then, I'd take care of my families bills, buy property and begin construction on my PERFECT HOUSE in Sonoma County, surrounded by vineyards. Buy a couple other houses around the country as extras, and begin touring the world- with a bunch of my friends. I'd buy them all hot cars and pay off their bills.

After traveling the entire time my house is built, I'd return and begin finding first class chooks to fill my very big, very fancy, large chicken house thing. And I'd win at every show ever. BWAHAHAHAHA

 

[English Chick]

Scream and pass out........then...

Buy:-

Nantleys Hall....
Buy everyone in my family a house and pay off their debts....
Have state of the art chicken coops made ......
Buy more chickens ..............
Buy my Dh more cattle ........
Buy computers for the village school........and a mini bus ....

Buy and maintain a Mini Bus for the village community hall so the elderly especially can gt out and about......

Travel.........

Send Nifty enough money to maintain BYC for ever!!!!!!

cant think of anything else at the moment...

But it's so nice to dream sometimes..............

 

[DuckLady]

I would keep quiet until I decided what to do with it once it sunk in.

Just like with inheritance, once you win the lottery you would have relatives coming out of the woodwork telling you how you were always their favorite relative...with their hands out.

I would of course help my family and pay my bills. Other than that, I will let you know when I ever win it.

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Hi!
The first thing I'd do if I won a lottery is start planning my move back to GA --- someplace nearer my Mom.

Lisa

 

[I have WHAT in my yard?]

No one would know it was me. I would first call lawyer, accountant and PR firm. Have them accept the lottery for me. Establish trust funds for certain family members, (with strict parameters!) Create trust funds for my kids. Establish a charitable trust to run the charity part and have the PR person direct any and all inevitable hard luck cases to that firm.

After all that was done I'd build my dream house - off the grid! Buy all the property around us one piece at a time until I owned the whole "block".

Be able to tell DH he could quit. But, I'd probably still work part time. I'd finally start working on that research that work gets in the way of.

Hire staff.

Of course this all depends on the size of the winnings. A few million would make life easier and less scary, but these days a few million would not allow us to even just quit our jobs let alone all of this other stuff.

But remember - most lottery winners are dead broke five years later and often say they wish they had never won. Most of us have no real idea how to handle real wealth