Mega millions wish list!

[vicky]

So you've just won the mega millions, what are you gonna do?
Me:
1) Buy a bakery in Park Slope. Develop my recipes, then hire a staff to bake for me. Make a guest appearance once a week.

2) Britney Vegas gtg for ML! I'll pay for flights, rooms and Brit tix

[RoxMonster]

Sell my house and move to northern California, where I will open up a small coffee shop/book store and write full-time. I'll probably also take some of my bucket list trips, like South Africa, French Polynesia, and a cruise to Antarctica.

[Deleted]

Buy my dream house, pay off all debts, take some bucket list vacations, get once a week housecleaning and have more babies.

[meganew]

1. Lots of money to charity. Possibly set up a transition home for people leaving rehab and the homeless.

2. Lots of money to family

3. Pay off all our debt (duh, lol)

4. Buy a house in Philly, LV, and San Diego. Travel back and forth between these. Buy my grandparents a house in the upscale retirement community that they'd be able to afford had they not raised me.

5. Set aside money for my kids, in a trust that they get after school and working for x number of years.

6. Take dance classes, hire a running coach, pay Shonda Rhimes to bring back Izzy and George.

[luckyval]

1. 1 million to each close friend and immediate family member
2. New house
3. Buy a house in the mountains
4. Set up a trust for my son and god daughter
5. Buy an old school RV
6. Travel to all the places

[ProfessorArtNerd]

1. House
2. cars for me and DH (mine will be big enough for one or two more kids, so obvs, a minivan)
3. Pay off my parents' house
4. soda fountain in my new house

I'd also make a generous donation to the university to convince them I should teach in Rome.

[Redpoppy]

Travel, few houses, and build karma donating awesome playgrounds.

[rex]

1. Pay off debt.
2. Pay of my parents and ILs mortgages and my sister's SLs.
4. Other monetary gifts for family.
5. Build a house.
6. New cars!
7. So much travel.
8. Volunteer with young children with ASD. This is my chosen career but I'd happily do it for free and would love to help fund the great program at a school district near me while doing so.
9. Set up a trust for L and my nieces with limitations blah blah blah.
10. Go shopping!

[Saint Monica]

Pay off my fucking student loans by hiring a chorus to bring the check to said student loan provider and sing the uncle fucker song.

[DotAndBuzz]

pay off and remodel house (kitchen, master bath, basement), rework some landscaping, replace all the windows, and tear up the driveway to install the radiant heated driveway I mentioned earlier (effing snow).

set up a healthy trust for the girls

build/buy my parents a house in NC, near/on the beach because they'll never actually do this (since it would entail selling their current house), but want to.

charity/alumni donations

hire a really effing good attorney and financial advisor

call a Nordstrom personal shopper and hire a babysitter for the weekend to go shopping at the fancy mall. Or chicago.

[birdistheword]

1. New house
2. New cars for me and DH
3. pay off parents' and ILs' houses
4. Buy a shit ton of new clothes
5. Go on some vacations
6. Hire a money manager to tell me WTF to do with the rest
7. Leave awesome tips, all the time.

[mcmel]

1) Buy a ton of gorgeous land

2) Build a house on it

3) Rescue lots of animals

[themoneytree]

A million to each parent to further pad retirement.

We would probably take the opportunity before DD starts school to travel for another 6 months. Suites and first class all the way.

Buy an apartment in London and a house on the beach.

Charitable giving.

Be happy we didn't have to save for college! ; )

Ours would be mostly about travel I think. And H quitting his job.

[CurlyQ284]

I would finally get rid of the stupid house in Mississippi since I could afford to take the loss on it and pay off debt. Build our dream house somewhere in Michigan (close to SDs) it has to be on a lake. Have another kid. Give money to family. I need a new car that seats 6, so minivan? Lol

DH would put some serious cash into his jeep for upgrades and also buy this Cadillac something or other that he's been in love with since forever. College for all the kids.

I might buy a second home here in DC for visiting family and then I would invest the majority of it and travel.

Not like I've thought this through or anything.

[jreeds]

1)Buy a better house ( just the next step up, not too crazy), pay for it in full

2)give money to my grandparents

3) travel

4) be a SAHM

5) buy some decent clothes!

[cbwm1]

Trust fund for the kid and my nephew
Buy or build our dream house. Idk where this would be
Pay off all debt
Throw some cash at our parents
Travel
Buy my way onto the board of directors for a non-profit. Not sure which one

[picaflora]

1 - pay off debt
2 - buy/build reasonable dream house - pay in full
3 - $$ to my parents
4 - $$ to in-laws (I guess...)
5 - Put $$ aside for niece and nephew's college
6 - TRAVEL
7 - Go through infertility treatments/adoption process (most likely both)
8 - Something awesomely job-related. That changes daily.

[Jalapeñomel]

Take my family and friends on vacation.

[shostakovich]

1) Pay off credit cards and student loans
2) Buy a house here
3) Set up college funds (full ride) for my niece and nephews
4) Buy a house in my H's native country
5) Become a trustee at the city library
6) Make some investments, and pay out of them to help out family when needed
7) Become super awesome blingy platinum members of all the local museums, orchestras, theaters, etc.
8) Travel EVERYWHERE
9) Set up a foundation in my hometown, to help small business owners get started establishing new businesses in the downtown area.

[Deleted]

This pot is big enough for my one real super rich wish: to never fly commercially again. Jet share!

And to move somewhere warm, near the ocean and still have 2-5 acres.

[Deleted]

Dec 17, 2013 8:19:12 GMT -5 Jalapeñomel said:

Take my family and friends on vacation.

I like this idea a lot. I'd take my parents to Italy. They've never been to Europe and my mom in particularly has wanted to go to Italy so much.

[Marle]

Pay off debt for my family and my husband's family.
Open a florist/event organization business that also funds the non-profit I volunteer for and take charge of managing and organizing their events.

[sonrisa]

Buy a time machine to go back in time and hire a surrogate so I don't have to get this baby out. Then hire a great night nanny. Perhaps I'm a little single minded today.

[JamaicanPineapple]

After paying off all of my debt (and my parents, sisters, and ILs debt)...

Hire a financial advisor

Work with a builder to build a new house on our land. We'd live in our house until the new one was ready, salvage anything we want from our current house, then tear it down and live in the new one.

Buy a vacation house in the 1000 Islands

Put money away for the girls college/future, and for my niece

Travel, a lot. Alone, with the kids, with friends and family. Disney, Europe, take my bucket list vacation (train across Canada, drive back across US), Hawaii

Donate...to the agency I work for, other local charities, schools

[meganew]

What I really want to do with it is buy out every house in a cute neighborhood and give one to each friend (about 8 houses in all). Then we would all live together and each house would have one cool thing- one house has the pool, one house has the movie theater, one house has the insane grill/fire pit, one has the huge playground set for all the kids. My friends and I may have spent a long time discussing this. Lol

[noodle]

Quit my job (H would likely go part time or back to freelancing), buy a house, give money to family, become a mom.

[laceylaplante]

1) Buy a home
2) Get cars that aren't from the 1990's
3) set our parents up for retirement
4) Go to Akron Children's Hospital, among others, with bundles of cash to hand to families. I feel like this would have more impact than giving to a charity.
5) Invest in a small business for H and I to run.
6) Save, save, save!
7) Oh yeah, some vacations as well.

[candreco]

Off the bat, it would be a big ass party, pay off the house and the car, hire cleaning service and landscapers, quit work and volunteer, remodel the kitchen and bathrooms in the house, maybe hire a decorator to actually finish stuff. Donations to our college, church and some work-related organizations. Travel.

Eventually, decide where we WANT to live, and open a microbrewery and restaurant. Make sure my parents and DH's are set for retirement. Keep traveling. Do whatever the heck I want!

[Deleted]

Hire a financial advisor/attorney

Pay off debts. Pay off debts for family/close friends

Build an awesome house

Set up an animal rescue

Go on vacation with H. Go on more vacations with my BFF

Buy a private island

[schitzengiggles]

Pay off all debt and my parents debt, give some realllly amazing Christmas gifts to immediate family and closest 1 or 2 friends, invest/college funds for kids, charity, dream home, new vehicle for DH, modest cabin on a nice piece of lakefront property, pontoon boat & fishing boat, new wardrobes for both DH and I, travel (Australia first!)....
I could go on and on. :-)