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Subscribe to RSSIn the hopes of striking it rich, people across the country are scooping up Mega Millions tickets. NBC's Kevin Tibbles reports.
Venus Wilson has been fantasizing about winning the Mega Millions lottery. The first thing she would do? "Faint!" the security officer said at her post outside of JPMorganChase in Midtown Manhattan on Friday. "Then, when I get up, go get my check, and go shopping."
Wilson, 31, has bought seven lottery tickets. Other than passing out, she's got big plans if one ends up being a winner: She'd invest in real estate, but first, she would make sure her friends and family were taken care of.
"I would donate to St. Jude's for cancer research, for breast cancer, do stuff like that. Because come on, why not? Don't be stingy. God didn't bless you with it for no reason. Help people out. And I would pay off my parents' doctor bills, and I would help family and friends," she said. "Then I would go crazy [shopping]. I swear -- I would go crazy."
She also has plans to keep the cash flowing: Wilson wants to open soul food restaurants and laundromats, and get an accountant to invest her leftover winnings.
"You have to keep it coming. A lot of people, they win all that money, and then they're broke," she said. "Some people don't believe in the lotto. But look at the gold pot. It's like the leprechaun with the rainbow. That pot of gold is beautiful right now," Wilson said.
Wilson was among the New Yorkers canvassed Friday about the first thing they would do if they won Mega Millions, which has hit $640 million. Hundreds more gave their responses on our Facebook page.
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'A dollar and a dream'
Therese Schoenwandt, 29, has been swept up by the lottery fever. The nursing student got engaged two weeks ago and sat in Barnes & Noble on Friday, flipping through "Wedding Planning For Dummies."
Elizabeth Chuck / msnbc.com
Therese Schoenwandt, 29, a nursing student who recently got engaged, purchased a lottery ticket for the first time this week.
"I've never done a lotto ticket before. I usually don't believe in that stuff," she said. "It's all over the papers, and it's all over the news. Yesterday when I saw people lining up outside stores for it I said, 'You know what, I'm going to buy a ticket.' Peer pressure!"
Her first act if she wins: Pay off her mother's mortgage in Brooklyn. The she will plan her wedding, and put the rest in the bank.
Ivan Martinez, 50, who was handing out fliers in Manhattan's diamond district, had high hopes of helping out his family back home in Puerto Rico with the one ticket he purchased earlier in the day. "It's a dollar and a dream," he said.
Richard Gallo, a 47-year-old customer service representative in the watch industry, said if he won, the first thing he would do is jump in the car and drive. "Before I even turned the ticket in, I would take a trip. Wherever I ended up, I ended up. Basically just to step away from everything, think about it and come back. You get caught in that whirlwind."
Others weren't as confident about the dream's possibility. "It's all fixed," said a man who refused to give his name but was filling out his numbers for a ticket. "Do you know anyone who's won? It's all fixed, if you ask me." Then he continued filling out his ticket.
Personal finance expert Suze Orman weighs in on the Mega Millions craze.
On our Facebook page, many readers weighed in: "Sign the back of the ticket. Then go on a vacation to clear my mind while deciding who a good financial adviser would be to go to," wrote Christopher Ringen.
Others said they would pay off debt for family and friends or their churches, or donate to animal shelters. For some, though, it was just about making life a little more comfortable: "Never fly coach again," wrote Rebecca Hayes.
But not everybody has bought into the hype. "It doesn't really attract me," said Louis Carrasquillo, 50, a sales rep at Montecristo Cigar Shop on 5th Avenue in New York.
"Have I thought about it? Probably. I passed by the booth and I thought it would be great, but I'm just a working person. I'm not really a gambler."
If he did win that kind of cash, he would give money to his church for a new school and cafeteria, he said.
As the Mega Millions Jackpot lottery winnings continue to grow, the NOW panelists discuss how the lucky winner is not the only beneficiary of the lucrative system.
But Carrasquillo said he was turned off by some lottery tips he heard from a newscaster: "If you're going to get divorced, get divorced before you win. What's that about? Change your phone number, 'cause you're going to hear from family members you haven't heard from. You gotta be kidding me."
Why even skeptics are rushing to buy a Mega Millions ticket
Mega Millions is played in 42 states plus Washington, D.C. Friday's drawing happens at 11 p.m. ET. The largest Mega Millions jackpot ever won was $390 million in March 2007, when the prize was split between two tickets sold in Georgia and New Jersey.
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1. Get an attorney and an accountant
2. Set up trust funds for the kids.
3. Pay off immediate family members' debt and give them each 1 million.
4. Sega Dreamcast
Good call on the dreamcast.
Shouldn't 1. be hire a bodyguard? How much does Seal Team 6 charge an hour?
I'm with you, that Dreamcast sounds pretty sweet.
1. New condo.
2. Mega-yacht.
3. A harem filled with hookers and blow, because I hear it's what rich folks do.
4. I'd probably invest the remainder in dividend-paying blue chip stock and bonds.
The first thing I'd do is find the person that sold me the ticket and give them a BIG Tip!
efff the dreamcast; its all about the gamecast.. HA
Hmmm... The first thing to do is be quiet about it and find a good, safe place, to hide. Uncle Sam will be first in line with his hand out, expecting his share. After that, its up to each individual. As soon as the public finds out you are a winner, they will start knocking on your door at all hours of the day and night.
There would be thousands and thousands of requests for financial help, with all sorts of real and made up sob stories. It would be best to stay on track and set up a charitable foundation to consider and grant requests. Years ago, Percy Ross had a newspaper column, Thanks A Million, where he helped people needing a little help. It would be interesting to resume his efforts.
I hope there are at least five winners, rather than just one winner. Maybe the pot will reach 750 mil.
Sharing is caring comes to mind. However, one cannot win if one does not buy a ticket.
Become debt free, buy a few amenities, pay off everything any of my family owes and give away millions to unregistered charities. Find the needy and help them with after tax dollars.
Lawyer, accountant, incorporation, bodyguard, investments, trusts, foundation, quit job, gifts, travel, Nikkor lenses, Christian Louboutin shoes and lots of them, more travel, and so on and so on...in that order.
1. Take a day off.
Pay off my debt.
1 Set up a trust to cash the ticket
2 Set up a bank account with an ATM card
3 Leave the country
Find out exactly what "fair share" means.
i would give atleast 100 mil to St. Jude children's research hospital and give 90% of the rest away. I don't need much in my life, so why not let others enjoy it too.
1) Deposit funds with a personal banker
2) Have a nice dinner.
3) Write a mid 6-figure check to the Colbert Super PAC
4) Get back to writing papers and studying for finals.
5) Worry about it in May.
Hide.
1. Hire Lawyer and Accountant.
2. Donate 50% to charities.
3. Give my parents each 20 million.
4. Pay off all family member debts.
5. Buy cabin on secluded patch of land in Alaska.
6. Live out life as a hermit.
I thought about buying everything in the world, but where would I put it!
I would invest every penny of it..I'm very GREEDY..get to be like the 1 percenters!
I'd go back to sleep. If I won it, it would just be a dream.
Ask God how he would want he put it to good use serving my fellow man.
St. Jude's Childrens Hospital would be getting a huge donation. I can't stand seeing kids with cancer.
Second, call my boss with good news/bad news. Good news is, it probably won't ever happen again, but bad news, you gotta have someone else here in two weeks, cuz I won't be!
Pay off all debt, move all possessions into storage so I can fix up all the little problems with my house, and hold a contest for single mothers to get a chance at a paid off 3 BR 2 BA house in a nice neighborhood.
Then, take off like a rocket and never look back.
I don't play the lottery for the simple reason that, were I to actually win, my state would get a nice, big paycheck from income taxes (nearly $30million), and I'll be damned if I'll give that kind of money to a state that has so many anti-gay laws on the books. Though, even if that weren't enough of a deterrent, only having a 1-in-176million chance of winning certainly is. ;)
I'd want to 1st get with the "experts" (politicians) and figure out how to get that 0-15% tax rate.
You could always offset that by donating to charities that work for gay rights. My state does a lot of things I don't approve of but denying yourself a chance to win based on what they might do with the tax money is kind of silly.
I would like to change 1.12.
1 Buy the Presidency
2 Arrest all that signed the Patriot Act, NDAA, and HR 347 for instilling terror among the American population, abuse of power, and perjury of oath.
3 Send them all to Guantanamo Bay, release them and then use HR 3166 to revoke their citizenship.
4 Start over with a clean slate, and create a functional Congress.
If your gonna do it, do it big!
Sorry, couldn't help it.
Vasectomy.
I was gonna say I'd pay for birth control for all those girls at Georgetown, but, yup, vasectomy is definitely it!
Join Charles and David Kock's country club?
Take out an account at Mitt Romney's off-shore bank?
Hire Rick Santorum to explain exactly what he means by the phrase "man on dog"?
Remodel my bathroom so I can take a shower after Santorum explains the phrase?
Send Sarah Palin to an "english as a second language" class...ubetsha.
There you go Doc. How about buying a whole town in South Dakota and turn it into a readjustment community for returning vets so they can slowly reacclimate to society being around people who have gone through the same thing, complete with a VA hospital.
I've had my plan in place for years: (it's here--www.privateintoxication.com/evilthoughts/2011/02/tonights-winning-numbers/). I might tweak it a bit at this point, since there's so much money involved (and I've since learned it only costs $250,000 to buy citizenship in St. Kitt's), but the best parts of the plan are still intact.
Contribute to Mr. Zimmermans defense and give him a job, donate to the NRA
1. Say a prayer of thanksgiving.
2. Resign my m**********f******** job.
3. Hire an accountant/financial manager.
4. Pay off all bills.
5. Set up a trust.
6. Do something charitable to help the less fortunate to express my gratitude for winning.
7. Take $5000 and give my husband $5000 to spend any way we want to.
None of your business.
It would take more money that this jackpot to teach Sarah Palin to speak and comprehend English. First, however, she would have to see the Wizard of Oz to get a brain. That's big bucks!
1. rejoice
2. hire accountant/lawyer
3. go on national tv and stand there holding my 3'x6' size check with a silly grin
4. go into hiding and incognito in public
5. talk to relatives I haven't spoken to in 30 years or never (We're related?)
6. spend like there's no tomorrow
7. I owe how much in taxes for all this stuff?
8. get divorced over money disagreements, kids stop talking to me
9. file bankruptcy, lose it all
10. buy a lottery ticket in hopes to start over again
You all might as well not waste your money. I am going to win. Sorry. Then again, I am not sorry.
Hey, I won!
Then I woke up.
Sorry to rain on your parade fellow suckers but I'm not going to win and neither are any of you.
Lotteries are a way of distracting you from your falling wages and longer working hours (if you can find a job), your foreclosed home or underwater mortgage and the sky rocketing cost of your healthcare and kids college tuition.
They encourage selfishness and at the same time they make you feel you might be rich at any moment so you identify with the rich and don't go after them by raising their taxes etc.
The rich and powerful are probably laughing their asses off seeing all the long lines of "peasants" queuing up at liquor stores (how appropriate) etc.
Of course the rich don't buy any tickets themselves. They get money the old-fashioned way: They con you out of yours. They create mortgaged backed securities or sub-prime loans, or "Miracle Water" (TV preachers),or they scare you into voting huge sums of money for "security" companies, arms manufacturers, etc. etc.
If you really want to better your life and that of your children join the Occupy Movement (or some other like that) or go out on strike for higher wages etc etc. Raise a ruckus and don't give the bastards (Democrat or Republican) a moments rest and you will get a bigger share of the pie.
That's the lesson of history.
ArchStanton
While I understand your pessimism, and while most of what you write may be true, this country was founded on dreams. And even though the odds are better to become President by a write in vote than to win the lottery, it should be noted, at least by a lot of the comments on here that there is an underlying goodness to society. It can be as simple as donating money to a good cause, or as grandiose as giving the money to strangers and creating 300 millionaires that might feel the same and spread it around, it is the dreams that matter.
This country hasn't dreamt from what I have seen for a very long time, and I think it is about time they started.
Dreams are the things that can help the common man rise above and give hope to those that are willing to dream.
drugs, strippers, hookers, lap-dances, guns and more drugs.
Trust me, I thought about making the 100 mile trip to the state line to get a chance at just that:
1. Pay off all my debts and my immediate familes debts
2. Give $2 million to each of my siblings, $5 million to may parents and each of my children, and $1 Million to each of my nieces and nephews.
3. Invest $150 million to run as an independent candidate for President; as our choices right now seem to be bought and paid for by big business and their buddies. Doing this, I owe no one nothing and could be there for the good of the nation.
4. Half the rest to charity and the rest for my wife and I.
I am with John737... Dream on, dream on!
I'd play it very low key and keep my winning a secret. I'd quietly find a couple nice properties to live in, one for summer and one for winter, and then become a philanthropist.
...but I never buy lottery tickets. ;) I don't want someone like wolfpack2000 getting any of my hard-earned money.
I hope the winners of this big jackpot do what it takes to make their lives and the lives of others better, not worse.
Book a cruise around the world
Open Karaoke Kafe chain - open 24 hrs a day
Foundation for Design and scholarships for Jr High and High School students
Family would be set and Momma would have the best :)
john-737278
There are dreams and there are dreams, John. Some have "good" consequences and some have "bad". I have mine, too.
Call in sick.
Winnings like this, all that is required is "maybe" leaving a voice mail and surely not calling in sick, but Adios!
Call in sick? Hell, I'm callin' in WELL!
Calling in sick would be legitimate. Just tell them that you are having vision problems and can't see your butt at work.
Call in 'Rich'.
I think I'd call in rich as all get out.
They'd understand.
bassai- its called anal glaucoma. hehe
Conribute to Mr. Zimmermans defense and give him a job
yeah , sounds to me like he's going to need all the money he can get to help his wanna-be rent a cop ###!!!!!
Get good attorney and an "Independently Wealthy" savvy accountant (like Deloitte). Set up a blind monetary trust so that I'm "hidden" from the folks who want to "talk" to me about "investing". Get to work making my money work for ME.
Also, invest in a municipal bond or a few. At 3% interest, that's apx. 10 Mil per year in interest. Live off the interest, never touch the principal and then enjoy!!
you can't just give $1 million to friends and family...you get hit with the Gift Tax!
The best move, which you have seen by many lottery winners, is to set up a trust or limited partnership to get the winnings and distribute the income to everyone you would like to "give" the money to anyway. That way the winnings are only taxed once instead of the gambling winnings tax PLUS a gift tax.
Everyone says "sign your ticket", but you really don't want to until you determine what entity is the winner.
I think you might have enough money to pay the gift tax.
That doesn't mean you can't do it. Besides, what's wrong with paying taxes? You're going to be unfathomably wealthy and still be crying about paying taxes. Where are you planning on driving that new Farrari, only on private roads?
Not if you pay them in cash...no one will know.
Anything more than ten thousand dollars in cash, you would have to have a certificate of origin from the bank.traceable
starbuck49 -- that's only if they deposit it into a bank account. They can hide cash or bullion in a safe deposit box to skirt the law. Of course, cash won't earn interest and bullion has risks ... A troy oz. of gold is now $1,668.71, so a pile of 599 of them (~41 lbs.) is nearly a million dollars.
Move to Equador.
... and get kidnapped for ransom...
Nah!! Costa Rica.
It used to be that people wondered what they'd do with a Million Dollars. 640 Million and growing...really?
I'd have to call in RETIRED!
Lol - At a place I used to work a lot of folks did a lottery pool. They said if they won they were just going to call in sick. Every day. Until they got fired. Why? Just to screw with our jerky boss.
Well so far no one has said that they would buy their company and fire their old boss. Thought that one would have come up.
YES!!!! I hadn't thought of that one, but I can't think of anything better. I have three on my list I would love to see out the door.
I'd still show up at work for awhile, but with my new attitude, I'm sure I would be fired within a day or two. Sure could have some fun at your job if you really could care less about it!
Lol - yes! Show up in a hawaiian shirt and flip-flops, play solitaire on your computer all day while listening to Jimmy Buffet songs, etc. Get really drunk at lunch, come back a half hour late, singing and kissing secretaries. Love it!
Maybe every day at 2PM, you could take 1000 one dollar bills and just throw them down overtop the cubicles, yelling, "Woo-hoo! It's raining money!"
Yeah, I'd give you three days tops until you got that pink slip. But it'd be worth it.
I couldn't buy the company because I work for the government. I wouldn't want to fire my bosses because, believe it or not; I have great bosses.
I don't believe I would quit my job either, at least for a while. I have a great job with wonderful co-workers and enjoy coming to work everyday.
Laura, that's great. If you work for the government, you obviously aren't overworked. Me, I'd invest in real estate, which would be my own new job. (I live in a city which wasn't much affected by the housing crash, since real estate was never overvalued to begin with.) Also I'd buy a small "hobby farm" and see if I can actually make it a profitable enterprise. Not that I'd need the money, just to see if I could do it. I'd also do some major repairs my current house badly needs, rent it out to my son and other college students, give my son driving lessons and a decent car (used, I'm still cheap) and back in the city, buy a side by side duplex or two houses within walking distance of each other. One would be for my husband, one for me. I'd breed Siamese cats and Flemish Giant rabbits, have a Puli named Ziggy Marley, and any other pet I wanted. My husband is allergic, but hey, he'd have his own house. I guess I'd get my husband a better car, too, as well as getting a car and hiring a driver for myself. Of course I'd be a permanent student for the rest of my life. I'd set up a trust fund for my younger son, who has a psychotic disorder. My charities would be mental health research and groups seeking to alleviate hunger here and worldwide.
First I would give God his 10%, after all He owns it anyways. Then I would make sure all of my five children have a brand new house, and car, and make sure they paid all their bills, then I would buy myself a new car and a house, and then give to everyone I know that has been struggling financially, but of course if they were lazy and didnt want to work I would require that they get a job, and keep everything in my name if they didnt stick with it. Then I would go where the homeless live and set them up in an apartment with new clothes and new furniture, and give them only vouchers to pay their bills and to buy food an gas, that way they couldnt buy drugs with the cash.
I'd throw God's share in the air. Whatever God catches, God keeps.
When you pastor is in a $10,000 suit and has his own private planes and airstrip your guaranteed entrance into heaven.
Lol at Jonathan - best comment in the thread!
Irony would be a big a$$ed wind coming up just then and blowing it away.
Maybe invite Donald Trump to dinner.
Jesus said that when God wants money, he'll do like Caesar, and print some with his picture on it. God wants nothing to do with that 10%. He thinks it's evil. He thinks the organisation that accepts it in his name is even more evil. Stop listening to false and self serving interpretations of scripture from people on pulpits, and just read it yourself.
Now to re-rail.
My boss has been pretty good to me, I'd put in my two weeks notice. Then I'd go to my favorite bar and tip everybody with new cars.
I was thinking more along the lines Angelina or Charlize!...: p
First: 10% goes to Charities. I will not spend the rest (not a dime) for 6 months. 2. Will deposit all the money into chunks of CDs & other investments where principal is protected. 3. Ask my spouse to keep working as I will keep working, but will take a month long vacation if employer allows. 3. During this vacation, will make a list of families & friends I'd like to buy each a house outright. Anybody who dares to ask me for $$ or to pay off their debts, I will just politely say NO. 4. Will fund 150 or more people to do missionary work abroad: anywhere in Africa, Haiti, India, China, etc. 5. Retire when the right time comes to do mostly missionary work. 6. Will NOT go ballistic on shopping because I already OWN more than I need, including several properties.
First - I'd call my bankruptcy attorney to pay OFF the debts - get some credit back again (maybe?)
Second - Get an attorney.
Third - Get a new(ish) car - mine is 20 years old.
Fourth - Get a new kitchen faucet with COLD water that works (and doesn't drip all night.)
After that? Family - friends - charities.
N.C. - *chuckle* love the fourth one, especially since you put that above family and friends.
@640 million who cares about what your credit rating is. You wouldn't even need a credit account. You would be accepted everywhere.
If you won, first you'd want to check the credit rating of the bank that you were going to deposit the funds in. Forget them checking YOUR credit rating.
First I would sit down and make sure my heart was safe from an attack and thank God for the gift!
Second I would contact an attorney/financial planner and set up a foundation for charitable giving.
Third I would set up trusts for my children and grandchildren.
Fourth I would set up trusts for friends living on limited funds in retirement.
Fifth I would take all my friends on a cruise.
Sixth I would try to live a fuller life and remember those with hardships and see if I can help them.
Lin1945, I love your first answer I love all your answers! I would do the same things as except the cruise. If anyone or persons do win this they need to thank the Lord and pray they use the money wisely and also give back to the poorest of our world.
1. Get an attorney and an accountant
2. Set up trust funds for the kids.
3. Pay off immediate family members' debt and give them each 1 million.plus gift tax.
4. take 50 million for my self.
5. give away the rest to st. judes cancer hospital in chicago ill
6. go back to work.
Gift tax is paid by the giver! And you wont go back to work!! LOLOL
I'd go back to work, I love my job (it's complicated math problems most of the day ;) ). My hubby will quit and become a full time fisherman.
My focus would be- pay off bills (mine and immediate family), buy a house(3rd floor apartment scks), new vehicles, charity, and throw most into safe investments.
Definitely #1, need that accountant and attorney!
Set up trusts for niece and nephew and National Tiger Sanctuary (loves my tiger friends!!)
Pay off my debts and my best friend's debts
Take my mom on a vacation wherever she wanted to go!
And definitely quit work :)
Learn accounting, Pay debts, finish fixing my house, pay off some of my Families debts,Set up wducation trusts fund for Daughter, niece and nephew. invest in some realestate. Buy a new car and a truck for the Wife.
1. Take care of all the legal stuff
2. Buy a house
3. Buy a Ferrari 458 Italia
4. Take a trip to a tropical island with the gf
At least you have class...Ferrari 485 Italia!!!
Ferrari? No - Maserati.
Other than that? Sure.
Class? Pshaw.
Hispano-Suiza T-68 V12, all the way.
Hire someone to drive me around and let her pick the cars.
Right On! SonofMollyM. Driving is the pits! Get a limo so that one can enjoy a glass of vino while traveling.
I don't think I'd want a limo. Too hard to park, and I'd feel very silly carrying my groceries from Aldi's or Bottom Dollar to a limo! A used Honda Civic or Ford Escort is more my style. I'd be an ANONYMOUS rich person.
First - Pick myself up off the floor
Second - Sign the back of the ticket
Third - Find an attorney
Sign the ticket as soon as you buy it, FYI. Don't wait to find out you won. Ask past winners that lost the ticket between the pulling of the numbers whom later discovered the ticket's 'Bearer without signature' clause. ;)
I'd invest the money in my city -- Buy up empty properties, especially empty factories, and rebuild what 40 years of decay have wrought. The key would be to invest in projects that are self-sustaining and contribute to further growth, rather than just prop things up until my money runs out.
But the very first thing? Fix up my house and go on a vacation. Yay!
so you would play Monopoly with real buildings? sounds fun
Lol...yes. Nothing depresses me more than a neighboorhood full of depressed and unemployed people surrounding a shuttered up factory that used to mean a middle class life for their grandparents. If I could do something to change that in even one city, I would.
But I want to be the shoe. Someone else can be the iron. I hate that!
Pay for every homeless person in America to set up camp in front of Rosanne Barr and Spike Lee's homes. I would charter cargo planes to fly them in.
Contact a lawyer
Have a fake funeral so people won't ask for never ending handouts
Anonymously hand out money to strangers
Build a "green" self sustaining house in the middle of nowhere
After doing the Attorney thing, and taking care of my family and friends, time to work on my bucket list. I've always wanted to harpoon a whale. That would be a blast.
I would buy one of Hugette Clarks NYC apartments that just went on the block or her house in the Connecticut woods...
I saw those apts., very nice indeed
I'm thinking one of the things that I would put on the list to do is build a new high school in my hometown. Not that I'm overly nostalgic or anything. But I got to college I realized that high school didn't really prepare me. I'm sure they did the best they could with what they had, but I'd like to think they could do better if someone would put up the money for a better school.
Praise God first, then not report it to anyone for a month until I secured a lawyer, accountant, and an investment officer. I would have my lawyer find a way to secure my privacy as best as possible and then report my winnings to lottery officials. I would take the annuity payments and pay off my debt, pay off immediate relative's debt and buy a farm, as well as two new cars. Then I would set up a corporation and let my immediate relatives have a small interest so that they can receive payouts each year without having to pay a gift tax. I would invest half of the annuity payments for that year and the other half would come to me in monthly increments which I could then decide would go to certain charities and investments into my farm. I would announce it to my immediate family by inviting them over to the "farm" where I will reveal to them that they are now debt free.
"Hi, I won't be into work today... I'm calling in... rich"
I'd pay off my college, credit cards, and other debt, as well as the cars, homes, and debt for my parents and family. I'd give a fair amount to local projects and organizations in my hometown area.
DOn't tell anyone
Pay off my house mortgages
Pay off my kid's houses
buy my dream pick up
buy my husband his dream pickup
Get a maid
Buy up vacant houses, rehab and rent.
Buy my dream business
Enjoy the rest of my life.
"Get a maid"
Yes, especially if I can get the younger one from American Horror Story.
Get a personal assistant [Jeeves], a housekeeper, a cook, a gardener, and an accountant. Make sure my dog approves of them all and that they arw willing to dog sit whenever needed.
Yours is the best plan yet, Mrs. Killer.
Oh yeah, call in rich and resign.
Other than passing out...I have no idea.
1) SIGN THE BACK OF THE TICKET.
2) Put into plastic ziplock bag.
3) Duct tape bag to my chest.
4) Call a trusted attorney.
5) Buy a hand gun?
6) Unfriend everyone on Facebook
7) Go into hiding.
Hilarious!!!! With my 26 aunts and uncles, 83 first cousins, 56 second cousins and 23 third cousins I know personally....I certainly feel where you're coming from!
*chuckle* unfriend everyone on facebook :p I like that one!