If you won a lottery ...

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Sqrl said:

I wouldn't do much with it in the way of entertainment...not right away anyways...

I would invest it...probably around 5m would go into my super secret investment deal another 10m into stock investments, 12m into savings. The remaining 3m would go to pay of a few bills, and anything left over would be spending money. Luckily bills aren't that big at the moment.

From there I would buy a new house..nothing fancy just something in the $400k range (which where I live is probably like a house that cost around 2m in the LA area) drop another $80k on fully furnishing and wiring it up to my specs. Maybe buy a nice car but I wouldn't spend more than $40k on that...then I'd basically have $2.4m in my checking account...I would probably do some things for family but nobody would directly receive money...too many ways for that to become an "issue".

Close friends who were my friends before I won would get some help...I know 2 people struggling to work and go to college and I would make a deal with them that if they're willing to lay out a their course planning and go full time I would cover it. The only thing I would ask they do in return is not squander the opportunity and do their best to learn as much as they can.

 Eery. That's almost exactly what I did do when I won the lottery. Good luck.