Easy. I hire an accountant to manga it for me.
But you don’t even play golf…
Y’all are jinxing your chances of winning by dreaming of hitting the lottery! I have $25 in free play coupons from the state lotto just for playing their daily spin to win app. I’m conflicted on whether to drop it all on the mega lotto using easy pick or just buy $1 scratch offs.
Will she recommend investing in Japanese comics?
Spend it. If you sell power tools, or cool cars, or really good food you want me to win. If you sell toys you want me to win. If you sell giant TVs, or pretty much any impractically oversized items then you want me to win. There’s gonna be a lot of people happy that I won.
Are we talking real dreams or silly dreams?
Silly dream - I heard a comedian once talk about blowing a megamillions jackpot on buying a major league baseball team, then make them play in tights and tutus. I thought would be kind of awesome, since I was a big baseball fan. Maybe I’d buy the Pirates and right the ship that’s been sinking for 28 years, actually help them win instead of what the current ownership does.
Real dream - I’d like to travel, see various sights, and get a nice apartment or penthouse in a couple places that I especially liked. I never wanted to live their full-time, but I thought it might be nice to spend a lot of time in New York, if I were rich. All kinds of things to do, and I’d do them. Maybe get a place in The Dakota. Seems like a fun way to spend an obscene amount of money. 
I would buy several houses in my neighborhood and refurbish them as guest houses. When the first one is done, we would move in while our house is redone. I suppose you would call it a “compound.”
I would like to sail around the world, but am now too old to gain the skills needed. So I suppose we could rent a super-yacht to see if we like the lifestyle. If we do, buy one, with a professional crew, and visit obscure island communities all over for a few years.
If not a yacht, rent a Rock Star bus for a monthslong tour of the American continent. Get a married couple to drive. When we get back, the houses should be ready. Hire a real professional gardener.
I wonder if I could hire a ghost writer to help me really produce a creditable novel.
Spoil the grandkids. Get a greyhound.
Buy the Washington Redskins. Change the name to the Washington Honkies.
Travel to Scotland.
Visit the town of Twatt, Shetland.
Visit the town of Twatt, Orkney.
Find a worthy gentleman with family roots in both towns.
Bribe the Crown to make him a Lord of Parliament.
My wife and I won $50,000 in the Powerball lottery last year. Walked out of the lottery office with a check for $38,000. Used about half on a couple home improvements (new deck and garage doors), the rest went into my retirement account. Missed $170 million by one transposed number. And I still buy tickets hoping for the next big win.
Tuesday’s Lotto Max is $65,000,000 Canadian, or about $50 million USD. Lotteries here are not taxed, and you get the entire amount up front. If I win, I go downtown, fill out a few forms and show them my ID, have them a blank check, and they would immediately wire me the full amount.
Obviously I’d never have to worry about bills again. There would be vacations and stuff, sure. Lots of fun, at least after a months-long period of cooling down and ensuring I had an excellent lawyer helping me with the dough.
What I’d end up doing for sure, though, is setting up a charitable foundation I’d work on, directing money to worthy causes of my choosing.
The thread is more than ten years old, but I’ll answer anyway. Why not?
I would buy a condo unit for a few family members, and (for that amount of money) immediately retire.
I’m not sure any lottery payout would be for enough to bribe the British Crown.
I’d give half of it to the people who organize the selection of the winning numbers. … whoever they are. Just PM me here.
There’s an agreement among MMP folks that if any of us hit a big jackpot that we’d either create a community for ourselves, or maybe charter a cruise ship for ourselves and party at sea!
I’d totally do that, but first, I suppose, I need to buy a ticket or two.
You know, Covid really puts the kibosh on a lot of the ‘traditional’ blow a lot of money activities. Travel? Where? Buy lots of houses? Why, so you can self-quarantine with variety?
After I take care of close relatives – pay off mortgages and college debts, set up college funds for the younger ones, such like – I can’t really think of much. Okay, hire some servants to take care of all the chores I never want to have to do. Maybe get a big screen theater built onto my house? I dunno. Mostly just wait and hope for a good Covid vaccine to happen soon enough to go back to the travel/multiple house thing.
If COVID-19 means you can’t do that stuff for a year, that’s for the best. It’s a good idea to not do anything much for awhile, get a good lawyer, plan, and become accustomed to having that much dough.