Bye Week OT - If You Won the Lottery, You Would....

I wouldn't tell anyone. I would pay off my debt and give family gifts once, then put it all in trusts, one for me to keep the rest of it from being blown, and then for my little sisters and nieces and nephews, which pay out when college is completed or at like 25.

I would probably quit my job eventually, but not right away. And I'd find something else to do. Maybe start my own business or something. 

1) Give each immediate relative $10,000, and tell them that is all the free money they are getting.

2) Hire someone to respond to requests for gifts, loans and "business opportunities."  (Not sayin' the answer is always no.  Just sayin' I want an agent to do the due diligence.)

I'd instantly retire, move south in the winter and work on a golf course mowing greens. Then play 18 afterwards. Also would buy a house on Lake Michigan for the summers and well, play more golf. Going to all the away games would be really fun too

I'd move to South America and slowly build an army. 

Pay for a coder to update the MGo forums

England, Canada, Alaska, most of Europe

As a sports junkie I'd visit all the baseball parks with extended weekends.  I'd take a year and in the Fall I'd travel around to college football games of my choice and complete my bucket list of basketball arenas in the Winter.

For Michigan football I'd rent a place in Ann Arbor and chill there during game weeks and go on road trips.  No more game day driving for me.

That scene from Fresh Prince where Geoffrey quits. I'd do that at my job.

I feel like I answer this question a lot but that's because I think about it all the time. 

Depends on how much the lottery was for, but I'll play along: 

Whatever I won, at least half of it is going to retirement. After that, taking the fiancee and traveling for at least 1-2 months across Europe and Australia. Another chunk is going back to my parents for all the OOS tuition they paid for me to go to Michigan. 

Leave my current job, and start doing what I really want to do: always wanted to run my own dog shelter. While the prospect of making very little money doing it has scared me off from it (supporting a family on 35-40k a year is a tough pill to swallow), it's what I want to do in the event that I ever get to a point in my life where money does not matter.

That's the job I would love putting in 14 hour days for every day for the next 40 years of my life. 

And video games

Got this from a co-worker:

1 - Buy a house in one of those yuppie sub-divisions with all kinds of stupid rules.

2 - Break every rule I possibly could (e.g. park an old beat up farm tractor on the street, never cut my lawn, put up a non-approved mailbox, etc)

3 - Hire a lawyer to drag all of the disputes out FOREVER in court just to piss off the assholes in the sub-division that actually complained.

4 - Move to another yuppie sub-division, repeat.