What is the first thing you do if you win Lotto?

Answer 1

PURCHASE THE CRAPPY TOWN I LIVE IN AND BULLDOZE IT.

Answer 2

a) Quit my second job. (and stop worrying about how little I get paid at my first job.)

b) Pay off my debts including school loans and car loans

c) Plan to finish college.

d) Buy and furnish a decent house (stop renting!).

e) Figure out how not to become broke again like all the other former lotto winners. Investment, lawyer, accountant, whatever.

f) Take away my mother's debt so she can finish law school without worrying so extremely much.

I think if I sat here longer, I'd have a full itinerary....

Answer 3

Get together with someone skilled in starting a non-profit organization and then build a home that can house 12 pregnant teens at a time, with room for them to stay up to 6 months after the child is born.

Here's how it would work.

There would be house rules.

1. Everyone is committed to a schedule of house duties: cleaning and maintenance (not plumbing, but basic maintenance - changing lightbulbs, shopping, etc...) Anyone consistently not pulling their weight will eventually be asked to leave (barring medical reasons for not assisting).

2. No male visitors after 6:00pm. If the father of the child wants to visit, then 8:00pm. But no overnight guests.

3. Caught drinking or doing drugs, DCFS will be called.

4. Mandatory counseling session - it will vary. Part will focus on the normal issues pregnant teens deal with. Part will focus on issues that arrive after delivery.

5. Mandatory school attendance. If the child has her GED, then she will have to enroll in some sort of continuing education. Scholarship assistance will be offered.

6. Mandatory pre-natal care. No excuses for missing scheduled appointments.

7. For those out of school, at least a part time job is required.

8. They must take a course in money management. This course will also direct them to agencies designed to help young mothers receive the financial assistance they need in order to help them become successful on their own.

9. They must commit to try at least 6 weeks of breast feeding.

10. Optional family counseling for the extended family and the mother.

11. When infants are in the home, part of the duties of all the girls will be to assist in taking care of the child. This will help prepare them for the responsibilities that they will soon be facing, as well as forming what will hopefully become lifelong bonds that double as a support system with each other.

12. A commitment to volunteer a certain number of hours speaking at schools or other places about their experience as a young, unwed mother (this will be when their child is old enough to go to school or day care).

Obviously, some girls will choose to take the care I would offer without ever honoring some of these commitments (like the speaking in public part). I won't be able to force them to do so. But I would be making sure that at least during the time the child is "cooking," their mother will be getting lessons that could be invaluable - and at the same time keeping the forming baby healthy. That's the top priority, really.

I think that almost 2 years of living in a safe, structured environment can be vital to becoming a successful mother. The things I described above are not a lot to ask - when the child comes, a young girl who's had no structure in her life will be completely incapable of taking care of it.

Answer 4

The first thing I would do if pay off all my bills. After that I would make a donation to a place called the Pavarello House that helps battered women and their children. Depending on how much is left, I would like to buy my mom, my mother-in-law, my brother, and sister-in-law all houses so they could live the rest of their lives without a morgage payment!

Answer 5

Not. Tell. Anyone. One thing I WOULDN'T do is that stupid lump-sum thing, because that takes away a whole lot of your winnings. I'd get savings bonds, too, because they double! Just for ignorning them for seven years! That seems insane to me.

Probably the first thing I'd do though, is buy a few more lottery tickets (before I claimed my winnings on this one) and try to find receipts for previous lottery tickets. Because if you have receipts, you can write off "gambling" as a hobby, and then Uncle Sam can't take nearly as much of your winnings.

Answer 6

The first thing I would do is take care of my immediate family, then my brothers and sisters, my husband's family, I would give to breast cancer research, aplastic anaemia research, diabetes foundation, heart and stroke foundation. After all is taking care of, I would book a trip for three to the 2007 Rugby World Cup and finally a real vacation, probably Tahiti. There. Happy? Cheers!

Answer 7

I would do several things but since I do not know how much money i have won, i'll put possible scenarios up.

if i won:

$1000: I would spend it on myself or use it rent.

$5000: put 50% in my bank account and spend the rest on something.

$10,000: I would put 50% in the bank, the other half goes directly to my family or placed for emergency use. (my aunts and uncles are dropping out like flies so i would need to allocate my funds to them if they are going to tick away soon).

$50,000: $10,000 in the bank, 10 grand goes to the relative emergency fund, 10 grand goes to organizations that help protect nature from illegal logging and so on. that leaves 20 grand for family and siblings.

$50,000 +: I would be too corrupt and spoiled beyond repair to become humble.

Answer 8

Retain an attoney skilled in finances and taxes.

Answer 9

Pay off my bills, and invest the rest.

Answer 10

Quit my jobs.