I would build a state of the art Arts Centre. It would have a media/visual arts wing, a couple of bitching performance spaces (black box and maybe a traditional theatre), lots of rehearsal halls, and a loom for weaving and space for textile arts. There would also be a great hallway of rooms for artists studios and residencies.

Its programming would be split down the middle: half would be professionally mounted shows and exhibits, and the other half would be community programming and workshops.

Sigh… as you can tell, I could day-dream about this ALL DAY long… Such a fun game!!

Travel the world and be free to return as I please and work a job that makes me truly happy. Live by the ocean and sail on the weekends. Donate to good causes, like WWF and March of Dimes. Help out people in need and take care of my family.

so cheesy but this is what I would do:
1) give 30% to my parents
2) buy a condo in NyC (play Jayz and alicia song NOW plz)
3) Open up a “decorate your own cupcake” coffee shop

Wow, that’s a lot of money. I would:
~ invest and live off the interest too.
~ buy a cottage in cottage country, Ontario.
~ buy a boat for said cottage.
~ buy a new, but old style looking vespa.
~ travel around Europe.
~ pay off all debt including our measly 170,000$ mortage.
~ help parents pay off their debt too.
~ quit my job and go back to school.
~ donate to local not for profit agency.

Yeah it’s nice to dream. Ill never win the lottery because my husband and I don’t play. LOL

Take a year to travel the world.

I would travel travel travel travel!!! 🙂

Addison…a great name 🙂 (you can still use it ya know)

I would:
Pay off my parent’s mortgage/loans
Buy my parents a house
Open a BAKERY!
Travel the world with my family
Buy my Daddy a much-needed car
Donate to an orphanage
Put some of it in trust funds for my future children

Invest and Travel… probably buy a house and donate to some charities, but mainly I would travel. And blog about it. 🙂

Keep traveling and writing, without worrying about paying the bills or getting a full-time job. Pay off my parents’ mortgage.

I was just thinking about this actually!! (Hoping) 🙂

I would:
– Give money to family
– Take all my friends and family on a big trip
– Build my dream house
– Invest
– Quit work
– Travel the world
– Keep blogging

I would totally adopt more dogs!!! And travel 🙂

Love the name Addison!

-Pay off all of my loans, my husband’s loans and my brothers loans
-Pay off the rest of my parent’s mortgage
-Send my parents and in laws on a trip together (they get along great!)
-Build my dream home in Boston, buy an apartment in Manhattan and an apartment in Tel Aviv
-Travel, travel, travel
-Donate to causes I care about
-Get a sister for my dog
-Give my baby the world

Ooo I love this game! I would:
1. Give several millions to my church/missions/etc
2. QUIT MY HELLACIOUS JOB
3. Pay off my house/car/student loans
4. Pay off my parents ILs,siblings, and a couple good friends’ loans (house, car, etc)
5. Pay for my sister’s grad degree so she could go anywhere she wanted
6. Randomly walk up to strangers and give them a hundred dollar bill (or more!! I’ve always wanted to do this!!)
7. Start a scholarship for average kids – Those who try super hard, study a ton, and desperately want to go to college, but are only C/B students no matter how hard they try.
7. Travel
8. Start up my own scrapbook/stamp store.

Ooh! I love this game! I would:
Buy a bigger home along the water somewhere
Quit my job and travel … A LOT!
Upgrade to a gym with a pool
Hire a maid (I’m with you on that one!)
*sigh* … I love wishful thinking…

I would buy a house and try and pay back all those who have helped my husband and I out when we have needed it. I would also love to find a young struggling family and just give them a million dollars anonymously. How fun would that be!

oh man! I would
1. pay off all of my student loans and pay for grad school
2. give some to my sister to help her pay for college so she doesnt have debt like me
3. give money to my parents so they can live a little more comfortably.
4. put the rest in savings.

I’d pay off all my and my family’s debt. I’d buy a house. And a new car. Quit my job. Travel the world. Invest and live off the interest basically.

Move to England or Ireland and begin my dream of being somewhat self-sufficient so I’d have a big old country house with a massive garden and chickens…and an aga…oh I’d love an aga.

I think what I would love the most would be the time money buys. I’d be able to stay home and not have to work, as would my hubby, and that would buy us priceless time with our two little girls.

Ohhh!!! I always love the lotto question! Makes me happy! 😀
I would:
– Invest a bunch of it.
– Buy a couple of houses and then rent them out (’cause I’m greedy I guess and would make MORE money).
– Quit work and start investing my time into the projects I have been meaning to do (i.e., starting a program teaching running to the developmentally handicapped).
– Pay off the mortgages of my family members and take them on an awesome vacation.
– Travel the world for a year.
– Buy a house in New Zealand.
– Invest in something I believe in.
– Create a bucket list and start checking it off!

Yeah…now back to my job, pretending I’m doing it because I don’t need the money…

Investing, buying a house, paying off student loans, and getting some HEALTH INSURANCE!!!!!

I had been slacking completely on push-ups, which I fully realized when yesterday I couldn’t even do my usual five. I am fully commited now to doing them regularly! Upper body strength is my goal!

My Husband and I talk about this all the time.

We’ve decided to invest most of it.

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Travel as much as possible.
Give an equal amount to our siblings, and a little more to our parents.
Buy our dream house and continue living life as it is, with a little more money 😀

I would:
1- Invest my money so that I could live off it forever and ever and ever.
2- Go travelling.
3- Give money to my family.
4- Buy myself a couple of houses/apartments here and there. (one of which would have to have a swimming pool and full gym). 😉
5- Go on an international shopping spree… ooooohhhhhhhhh.
6- Hire a housekeeper, cleaner, fitness instructor, and personal chef to keep my healthy.

Funnily enough, I wouldn’t actually change my life all that much. Even though I feel totally lost where I am right now, I still believe that I need to go through it to figure out what inspires me, so that I can be really happy in my life. Running away wouldn’t do that. So, I guess in a way, I’m happy where I am…

Ah I LOVE this game!!!!

1. Buy a fabulous loft penthouse in Manhattan. My apartment would have a private elevator. Obvi. 🙂
2. Get a Swiss Mountain dog puppy.
3. Have a personal trainer 6 days a week
4. Quit my job and pursue my other interests which includes going back to school without worrying about money.
5. Volunteer 5 days a week at a local homeless shelter or with children with disabilities.
6. Have my housekeeper come once a week instead of 2x’s a month.
7. Take a vacation around the world 🙂
8. Of course include friends and family in all of my fabulosity. And eat at every restaurant in Manhattan. The end 🙂

I heart Grape Nuts—haven’t had them in 4ever though. Anyway, since I’m living paycheck to paycheck (I know, boo woo, I chose to live in NYC), I really can’t even FATHOM what it woudl be like to win the Lotto. I don’t even know where to begin. I’m sure I’d move to a bigger apt (Umm yeah, it would be sweet if I didn’t have to share a room with my sister at 29 years old!), pay off the taxes I owe for 2009, get a personal trainer and chef and shopper. Ha! Lord knows what else…just thinking about this is getting me excited, so I think it’s time to stop and step back into reality 🙂

PS. I did 4×10 pushups yesterday!

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Ooh, LOVE this game! Great reading everyone’s lists! I especially like the “leave really good tips” one. Such an easy way to make someone’s day!

Here’s mine:
– Invest 75% of it and live off the interest
– Buy a house in a nice suburb of DC, a house at a nice beach within driving distance of DC, and a flat in San Sebastian, Spain.
– Travel, travel, travel with my husband, espec. to Fiji and Phuket
– Quit my job and go back to school full time for speech pathology
– Work part time as a public school-based Speech Therapist so I can stay home most of the day with my kiddies.
– Have kiddies! More than 2 🙂
– Buy my husband a motorcycle and lessons (scares me, but he wants it so badly!)
– Buy my parents a house and pay for someone to dispose of theirs and their stuff (they’re hoarders)
– Set up a college trust fund for my BBBS “little sister”
– Donate to a school I’m passionate about in Ecuador
– Buy a Garmin for everyone in my little running group
– Hire a personal trainer and house cleaner
– Pay for a fabulous vacation for all of my girlfriends every year
– Pay for a fantastic family reunion every year
– Register for a gazillion races
– Buy all my workout clothes from lululemon
– Foster a dog or 3 🙂
Gosh – I could go on all day! But I’ll save you the space, haha.

Invest it for the interest.
Keep blogging.
Open a bakery.
Travel around the world for fun foodie bike trips like what I am doing in Italy.
Get nice furniture.
Donate a ton.
🙂

I love the lotto game 😉 have you ever watched the TLC shows on loterry winners? they run marathons of it occassionally, “how the lottery changed my life”

I would consult with attorneys/financial advisors to figure out how to invest the money so that us, our future children and our parents are set for life.

Pay off our mortgage & build a house WE want WHERE we want it.

Buy 2 houses in NC – one for my parents and one for my husbands family (we like to vacation in Nagshead every year w/ them

i would go back to school to get my RD

hubby would continue working and then eventually open a restaurant that I would help him with 🙂

buy a house in tropical place

travel

hubby would want lots of cars

Hmm, this is a fun one to think about…I love hearing everyone’s responses.

First thing I’d do is pay the friggin’ taxes on it because shoot, the IRS gets you for real on that stuff. Then, I’d…

1. sell my house and buy one with sunny spots for my nice big garden.

2. travel with my husband during the off-gardening season.

3. pay off my parents and in-laws mortgages and whatever debt they might have.

4. Stay home with my family and live a quiet and happy life with friends and family around me while my money either sits in the bank or grow with interest in smart investments.

I guess I’m not extravagant but I do hear stories about people who win that much money and then go bankrupt.

I love this question. My husband and I often do the what if game.

1) Give each couple in our family $1million.

2) Set up college funds for our nieces.

3) Pay off my parent’s mortgage so they don’t have to work so hard.

4) Buy our Toy Hauler and travel the country with the bike.

5) Buy a piece of property in Montana, Utah, Colorado, or one of the Dakotas and build a totally green house.

6) Quit my job. Go to school to be a nutritionist and personal trainer. This is a dream but what the heck!

I have a friend who just had a baby and named her Addison Bailey! Her initials are ABC 😀
If I won the lottery I would… pay my parents back for their help with my original college degree
Quit my job and go back to school full time
Upgrade my living situation, probably buy a condo?
Buy clothes!
But mostly invest it so that I can re-establish myself easily after I get my 2nd degree in nutrition!

stop wondering about what i SHOULD do and instead focus on what i CAN do. and how i can leave as much brightness and good vibes in this life and on this earth as possible… without worrying about the small stuff 🙂 like, bills. rent. all the fun things!

I would def get daily massages. My friends in Cartagena have a lady come to the house each day for a massage. I want that!

I love this game too!!!! I would take my entire family to Hawaii, start up my own organic coffee shop/bistro, study abroad, take my mom to Finland, buy a subaru… the list goes on and on.

Good question! I would donate a big chunk of it to find a cure for cystic fibrosis. Then I’d give enough to each of my parents to retire comfortably, buy myself and the bf a house, go on a trip with my best girl friends, get my Masters in Writing, and buy a flat in Paris. Mmm that would be nice! 🙂

I’d definitely invest some, but I would also buy a nice, but not too fancy house where I could live comfortably. And a personal trainer and maid would be at the top of my list, too! 🙂

The husband said he would build a church with some of it.

Yes! I’m late to the game, but this is one of my FAVOURITE daydreams! I’d set up Medical centres in hotspots for HIV/AIDs and TB worldwide- e.g. Subsaharan Africa, Russia etc, complete with free medical facilities, free meals for patients, an outreach service, research laboratories, and teams to liase with the big pharma companies to give us the much needed drugs! HIV/AIDs is no longer a death sentence, it doesn’t even have to shorten someones life, so its tragic what it is doing to many in the world. Other than that, I’d invest, invest, support my family and any other causes that I thought I could help with, and keep enough money behind to buy loads of tanks, guns, armed helicopters and a huge army and force the world to turn vegetarian he he 😉

This is a great question.

1) Pay off my mortgage and student loans.
2) Take a Leave of Absence from work and travel the world.
3) Save at least half. $50 million is still a lot to play with!
4) Open a bar, and then possibly quit said job that I took the LOA from.
5) Buy a “vacation” home somewhere.
6) Give my brother enough money to buy a place when he gets his masters’ degree.
7) Pay for my cousin to finish up her bachelor’s with no loans.
8) Give my parents a good chunk so they can BOTH retire this year and never have to worry about money.
9) Buy a condo in Boston.

$100 million? Buy a golf course and golf everyday, Give 1-2 million each to immediate family members and tell them to leave me alone(you know don’t ask for $ again), go on a “my favorite blogger” tour visiting the bloggers and cities they live in, many more things I imagine.