Wow, y'all are much less shallow than I am!
The last mega millions jackpot billboard I spotted read $253 million, so with that in mind (and assuming we're in a utopia where there would be no taxes taken out), here is my dream list of crap I'd want (and oh yeah, I'd put the money in a savings account so it could be accruing interest while I took my time getting all of the purchases in order
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-Pay off all debts (student loans mostly, some medical stuff, and the car)
-Pay to fix the repairs we need to resolve at our (rental) house
-Go back to school to finish my Bachelor's and also get my Master's and possibly a PhD
-Buy a house in Augusta or Aiken with 3-4 bedrooms and a big fenced in yard (preferably with a pool) to live in while we figured out things
-Buy a ton of crap to fill the house up with: 3 flatscreen t.v.'s (one for the living room, master bedroom, and finished basement), 3 sound systems with Blue Ray players, an amazing washer and dryer, all new kitchen appliances (fridge, oven/range, dishwasher, garbage disposal, microwave, toaster, blender), ironing board and iron, FURNITURE galore (entertainment center, new bedroom suite for us (old bedroom suite would go to the guest bedroom), new bedroom suite and hope chest for Meredith, dining set, living room set, art pieces for the walls, lamps, benches, hat racks, room dividers, etc. etc. etc.)
-Two words: designer shoes. (And dresses, purses, shirts, pants, skirts, scarves, jewelry, perfume, et al.)
-Hire a nanny and a maid...the maid I would literally use every day (well 5 days a week), but the nanny would only be on an as-needed basis
-Hire a really high end agent and start going on auditions; for that matter, do whatever it takes to get my Equity card
-Buy a single engine airplane and get my pilot's lisence
-Buy several new cars: A Corvette for my husband, a black Mercedes convertible (a la Lauren Conrad's car) for me, and a couple of hybrid SUV's; one for off-roading and one for looking swank in the city
After satisfying all of my petty material needs, I would obviously make many large contributions to various organizations. I would probably donate something like $100,000 to each of the following: Delta Gamma Foundation, American Heart Association, the United Way of Aiken County, SC; the Democratic Party, New Hope Baptist Church in Thomson, GA, and getting a community theatre started up in Thomson, GA. Additionally, I would like to set up a scholarship endowment for theatre majors at UGA and for Delta Gammas at UGA.
But of course I'd take care of my family, too. These are the things I'd do for them:
-Pay off my parents' house and all their other debt
-Buy my sister a new car and give her enough money for a down payment on a house (and I'd likely finance her mortgage too but I wouldn't just buy a house for her outright unless we were just rolling in so much money we truly didn't know what to do with it)
-Establish $500,000 trust funds for each of my ten nieces and nephews and for Meredith for them to pay for college and then some
-Pay for my sister to finish college
-Pay for my other sister to finish college
-Give my brother a big chunk of change for whatever he wanted it for (he's pretty responsible, more or less)
-Pay for my sister-in-law to go to school to become an RN
-Buy my mother-in-law a house (she really deserves it)
Alright, I've been keeping track of the estimated costs for all of these things and I'm still sitting on $141,585,650. So to complete my fantasy, we'd keep our GA/SC home as a vacation home, move to either LA or NY where I'd pursue my acting career, and enroll Meredith in the best private school available. All this is while my remaining winnings sit pretty collecting interest, and my husband would probably want to start a grocery delivery business or something else to satisfy his need to be somebody's boss.
Ahh, to live in a fantasy world!
But I suppose the adage is true...I have no hopes of winning the lottery if I never buy a ticket!
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