Grats, you won the lottery.

[CrystalShadow]

Depends... For a sensible answer... Lots of investment and careful financial planning.

For a semi-sensible answer, pay for the rest of my flying lessons to get up to a commercial pilots licence, and probably buy a Cirrus SF50 [http://cirrusaircraft.com/vision/]

Of course, that'd still leave me with many, many millions left over, given your hypothetical 100 million win, so...

I don't know. If I were being reckless, probably start a game studio, because that's a pretty high-risk thing to do... XD

And uh... Yeah, I don't really know beyond that point. I mean, I'd love to own a railway, but 100 million won't really get you very far when you get into major infrastructure projects like that...

 

[Ytomyth]

If I won that much I'd buy my own island or at the very least a plot of land big enough to support all my needs. Build a house with solar-panels, water recycling etc. etc. In short; make it fully self-sufficient. Then I'd pay to set up a sattelite connection to bring in the internets. If it's not an island I'd probably build a big wall around it too.

Should there be any left....I guess I'll start a new line of animal shelters with a drive-in or something like that.

EDIT: Of course the house would be luxurious, best that can be acquired in self-sufficiency. And a recording studio.

 

[Pyrian]

Blow it all developing an ill-conceived generic fantasy MMO that'll be released unfinished in desperation, fail to catch on, and then I'd declare bankruptcy less than two years after winning.

Just bein' honest.

 

[Pete Oddly]

First, I'd give out roughly 20 million to various family and friends, as most people would. Then, I'd invest 20 million in various places as a safety net, with the interest being dumped into a tax-free savings account.

Second, I would, of course, buy myself a decent house, with enough rooms so that I could employ a live-in maid. I would drop at least $250k on the place, to a maximum of $500k. The entertainment room would have the most attention paid to it.

Finally, I would take the remain $50 million or so, and buy about 1000 acres of land just north of my hometown (cost about $1 million, based on today's markets) and convert it into a series of outdoor and indoor movie sets (mostly outdoor). There have been several semi-major movies filmed in or around my hometown in the past five years. The area is very accommodating, as we are desperate for the influx of money into our local economy, and quiet enough not to drawn too much attention to the celebrities. Hell, Ryan Reynolds, Alan Thicke, Lawrence Fishbourne, and Vin Diesel were all in the area at one time or another, and there's people who LIVE here who still haven't heard about it. I would capitalize on a growing trend of Hollywood filming cheaper movies here in Canada, and it would create a decent amount of jobs for my hometown, which we desperately need.

If the idea goes tits up, then I always have that safety net tucked neatly away to save my ass.

 

[Pikey Mikey]

I have absolutely no idea...Pay of my loans, buy THE most roided computer available... Probably buy enough meat to make Pulled Pork to last me a year.
And just go insane and travel, either with family or friends =P

 

[fenrizz]

let's see...


* Build mansion complete with old school library and wine cellar.
* Buy a title, prefferably Lord, Earl or Duke.
* Pay the debt of my parents and siblings.
* Buy a nice house and a car for my siblings.
* Invest in something relatively safe and have my money work for me.

With a little luck my grandkids can become "old money".

Also, I'll make a bid at arranging the next World Chess Championship in the library of my mansion.

 

[BathorysGraveland2]

First thing I'd do is go and hire a couple of my favourite pornstars for a little bit of escorting action.

After the greatest priority has been taken care of, I'd then put most of it in the bank and spend only a fraction of it. Get myself a nice, comfortable house in New Zealand, The Netherlands, Norway or Sweden (or one in all four), which seem to be the nicest countries on the planet, and pay the expenses for my family and best friend to join me if they so wish. I'd donate some of it to charity to avoid any controversy, since that seems pretty obligatory for any rich person.

Other than that, I'd live a pretty humble life even while rich. Heavy metal, video games, travelling, alcohol and casual sex would take up the majority of my existence from there on. I may donate to multiple charities if I feel I have more than I'll ever spend.

Yeah, that would do me nicely.

 

[Johnny Impact]

Throw about a million apiece at my family. Eliminate debt, buy a new home, get my Dad that vintage Corvette he's always wanted. That's eight million.

Same with friends. That's another five or six million (I don't really have friends).

Buy a spot of land and have a house built to my specifications. It's a modest place, I live alone and have no plans to change that. Still, probably 3 million or so due to it being in a decent location, i.e. no more than ten minutes' drive away from 99% of the things I want. Also, has to be someplace with real internet, not the shitty 1-1.5MB/s that passes for high speed here.

Get three or four servers and a couple of smoking-hot gaming rigs. Call that a million, realistically it's less.

QUIT. MY DAMN. JOB. There has never been a single molecule of satisfaction, nothing I could ever point to and say, "I did that and I'm happy about it." It's pure frustration every moment of every day. Different flavors of frustration, perhaps, but bad is bad. Time to give that two minutes notice!

Use all the time I just gained to complete every game I care about. I have so many titles I've never even installed.

Same with books.

Buy a powerful luxury car and tour the country in it. Lots of things I'd like to see.

Hire a trainer to buy my food, plan my exercise, et cetera, at least for a while. Get slimmed down.

Take classes. Illustration, painting, piano, martial arts.

 

[Tsun Tzu]

Pay off my debts, pay off the debts of friends and family, then...well, divvy things up so that I and my loved ones/friends/hell, even acquaintances, would have a pretty nice standard of living.

Then, charity.


I'm kind of simple like that, I suppose.

 

[small]

buy a new pair of sneakers

with whats left over, 1/3 each for music for relief, reach out world wide, and doctors without borders

 

[Old Father Eternity]

Leave a bit for family, some charities, then pull a disappearing act and live quietly in some remoteish spot.

 

[TallanKhan]

Ok I would build a Doom Fortress inside a major world landmark and set about taking over the world... Sharks with friggin lasers and all that jazz...

Seriously, I wouldn't really want to win that kind of money. Don't get me wrong I would like to be wealthy, but if I got there by winning the lottery I would always feel as if I had cheated.

Still if we assume I do, I would give a few large chunks of cash (sat 10million) to 3 or 4 few charities I would want to support (mostly smaller ones). Then I would set myself up with a nice main residence, a flat in central London for the weekends and a holiday home somewhere exoitic. A nice £30 million investment pot to maintain my standard of living and then with the £20 million or so I would have left I would set up my own charity fund specifically aimed at doing nice things for individual people.

 

[JayRPG]

If I won 100 million, I wouldn't give anything to anybody because I don't owe anyone anything. If I won 100 million it would be more like relief than excitement because life has finally repaid me for the first 23 years of shitting on me.

I would hire an architect to design me a house than has a flowing river throughout, so I could swim to other rooms in the house, I would buy a Lexus LFA, fill my house with big extravagant things, then live out the rest of my life comfortably without having to work for peanuts. The money itself would probably attract at least 1 girl (finally) so I probably wouldn't need to spend it on escorts for company.

I'd probably drop a good 50 million into research to make me immortal (give me all those stem cells so my body doesn't disintegrate).

 

[Summerstorm]

Invest about 5 million so i can live comfortable to the end of my life.

Buy all my sisters, nephews, parents and old, good friends everything they want (Mostly small apartments or tiny houses for my older nephews and a sweet car for my sisters or friends - but only if they really want to) - Hell maybe makes some investments for my sisters too (not other family though, they have to work, just don't have any immediate money-problems.

I am in the process of buying a cheap apartment at the moment (from money i don't have. YAY - 14 years in debt). That i might keep or get myself a sweet upgrade. Also getting me a 1969 Stingray - modernized.

So overall, let's say i pump~6 million into making me "a rich guy without any worry in the world" and happy friends&family.

Then i might waste about 50 millions for getting some of my projects on the road. (Some game-related projects, also an idea for a TV-series based on some short stories i wrote (when i was young and creative *g*).

Rest is for altruistic behavior and campaigning (I do hate politics... but money=megaphones, so people can hear)

Also i will invest in having a statue of me made (Where i am wearing an EVIL cloak and crush "the world" in my iron fist - for fun.

I won't work a day in my life and invest only in my hobbies and fun distracting projects where i can be "the idea-man" or just a supervisor/creative consultant and have other do what they like for a sweet salary. (I hate it when people are underpayed).
Also i will travel a lot. (Loved it, but never got the money and the time. Let's pump 100.000 into that too.

Too bad i never win any lottery, since i never play... sigh.

 

[DirgeNovak]

I would be pretty boring with that money.
I'd pay off my debts, buy a house (but not a palace, 4-5 bedrooms is plenty), invest some and put the rest in the bank.
I'd be able to afford pretty much anything I wanted, but I wouldn't do anything really extravagant.

 

[DANEgerous]

Bank it live off the interest start a youtube gaming channel (why not more money) and donate half of it to charity and half of it will be given to my kids. Seriously I have one expensive taste and that is occasionally food okay Booze at times. Other than that? No If I have hot running water, A functioning kitchen, food and drink and, the Internet. I am good and that is 98% of the USA.

 

[prowll]

10 Mil in blue-chip stocks. I can live off the interest.
10 Mil in tech stocks. Higher risk, but usually better rewards.
The rest goes to college funds for my niece, a fund to make sure my parents never get put into a home (they're well-off, but you never know.), I have several friends with stupid student debt/medical debt... Charity begins at home.

There'd be plenty left over; start a fund to reduce/buy off student debt for lower-class citizens that worked through college.

 

[kasperbbs]

I would build myself a nice house with a gym a mini theatre and whatnot. I would give at least 25 mil to each of my parents and 5 mil to my grandparents to live comfortably for the rest of their lives and i would put the rest in a savings account for my children. And i doubt that i would give any of it to charities, most of it would get wasted on their CEO's fancy new car anyway.

 

[Lilikins]

After reading through all these posts, one definete thing that popped into my head haha...

Id build my 'gaming room' to be a panic room haha. lock myself in there and sorta...have my steam account accessible etc etc and be along the lines of 'wtv..do what you want...Ive got enough games in here to last me about a year. Then if I stock it up to the brim with a freezer/drink cabinett and mini bar.....(Cant forget the mini bar...) Id basically..yeah be set for a while haha^^ they can rummage whatever they want.

 

[Trippy Turtle]

I'd keep my splurging to a few grand, and set up a 'Random shit' account with a few million.
The rest I'd hold onto in case I ever need it.
I don't care much for expensive holidays. I'd prefer a nice cozy room to read in or something.
I'd buy a property but definitely not for over a million bucks. I don't need it. I'd just treat my friends to random games and stuff on steam as well I guess.
I hope I'd have enough restraint to save the majority of it. Live off the interest or something.

Pay off my parents houses or something while I'm at it.