What would you do if you'd win the lottery?

[Kirsten]

Seeing my savings constantly wane, I often dream about winning the lottery. Stupid, I know, but you can still have dreams, right?

Anyway, there are some things I would like to do if I had more money.

If I would win 10,000 Euro or so, I would save the most of it (and enjoy the feeling of not having to worry about things breaking, like my car, or my pc, or about vet bills etc.). But I would spend some money on a nice cat room. They already have a room where they have their scratching posts and their food, but I would love to make a real cat paradise out of it, a playground like those you sometimes see in cat magazines. I would love to have something like that for my girls!


If I'd win a real lot of money, like several millions (which will never happen LOL), I would like to use the money to help animals in need. I would love to have a house to foster cats, and maybe I'd take courses to become a cat behaviorist and therapist. I'd really like to do more for animals than I do now.

What would be your dream if you'd win the lottery?

Kirsten

[Bengalz]

I would enjoy more quality time with my kitty, my husband and family, my home and my community. Having worked all my life and still do, it would be so nice to have the freedom to choose what I do with my time. I don't need millions to make me happy, just time and the comfort of knowing that finances are not an issue.

Kristen, it is nice to dream

[Daisy and Delilah]

Helping pets in need has to be the best choice of all. After that....pay off all my bills and share with family and friends. Travel if there's anything left.

[caseysmom]

I would retire and travel.

[RedHedd]

First: Pay off all my bills
Second: Get all my medical and dental stuff taken care of, including a few nips and tucks here and there
Third: Buy a home, condo or townhouse in San Francisco and a vacation home in Hawaii, all with special accommodations for the fur kids.
Fourth: Travel!
Fifth: Buy a hybrid new car.
Would I quit my job? Maybe .... I really enjoy what I do, so perhaps I'd go part-time.

[caseysmom]

I would probably buy some really nice rv so the furkids could travel with me. Of course this would be put on hold for a couple of years so I could get my kids through high school.

[carole]

I guess i would buy a bigger home with everything i wanted in it, cat fencing the property would be the first thing i would do,and i would have a hydrotherapy spa, i would give all my family money,and invest a lot of it, so i would never have to worry about money ever again, and i am sure i would help all my friends out, and give some to charity, or start my own kitty shelter.

A world trip would be on the cards, first class, as i have trouble traveling, that would be the only way i could manage it,first stop would be the land of my birth Scotland.

[Jessika]

Half of my winnings (or half of my monthly/yearly installments if that's how I chose to receive payment) would go straight into a high-yield savings account or CD that I could not access for at least 10 years.

Then I would use whatever was left to help pay off my debt, my parents' house, my parent-in-law's house and cars. Then I would probably buy a new car, and depending on how much I won.... buy stuff for my close friends and family (like if they needed a car, or down payment for a house, whatever).

Move out to the country with at least 15 acres of land, build my dream of owning a kennel and when I become a vet operate from my own home as well as run a boarding facility for cats, dogs, horses, etc.

And donate a lot as well to random organizations and charities.

[Pawsitive Thinking]

I'd stop work pronto! and then concentrate on enjoying the rest of my life debt-free

[lizbud]

Talk about winners. One woman from Ohio won 1 million dollars.


Indebted Mom Finds $10, Buys $1M Lottery Ticket
Woman To Take Cash Payments Over 20 Years

POSTED: 8:54 am EDT May 21, 2007



NORTH CANTON, Ohio -- A deeply-in-debt gas station clerk found a $10 bill, bought the last lottery ticket on a roll at the store where she works and wound up a millionaire, and it's not a movie.

It really happened Friday to Kristina Schneider in North Canton, Ohio.

She said she always jokes that the last ticket on a roll is the winner, and she even tried to persuade a customer to buy it, but he only had enough money for three tickets.


Then the single mother with nine maxed-out credit cards and $8,500 in debt for her associate's degree bought it herself with a $10 bill she had found in the store. It turned out to be a winner in the Magnificent Millions lottery game. Schneider promptly locked the store while she went to the restroom to be sick.

Schneider said she's still numb.

The 32-year-old woman said she'll take 20 yearly payments of about $34,500 after taxes. She said a lump sum payment would have left her "broke again in five years."

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[animal_rescue]

If I won a huge amount I would.

1. Thank God this happened to me!
2. Put a bunch away
3. Buy my parents a house
4. Buy me a house with lots of land
5. Spoil my pets
6. Start an animal sanctuary and shelter

[KitCat]

I was at a breakfast restaurant that doesn't take gredit cards and a woman and I observed an elderly woman rooting around her purse to find enough cash. The woman next to me said, "I wish I would win the lottery and I could help people that need money." I thought about if I won the lottery I would be obsessed about getting out of debt before I even thought about anyone else and I said, "I hope you win the lottery." And I still do!

[Tollers-n-Dobes]

If I won the lottery someday, I'd buy a moderate sized house (big enough for me, a few dogs, and guests) on about 5 acres, with quite a few trees and a pond. I'd give some to my parents and brother. Depending on the amount I won, I'd probably never work again. I'd also get another dog. I'd travel to a few places and after that, I'd save what was left.

[Argranade]

I'd buy a toucan & take my friends all over the place with the money.

I'd also go to many concerts.

[smokey the elder]

1. Pay off my and my SO's debts.
2. Make sure my mom and grandmother are in the best possible quality assisted living.
3. Set up a perpetual trust for my rescue group so they can FINALLY buy a shelter.
4. Set up a perpetual trust for the care of my cats after I'm gone.
5. Endow a scholarship at RPI.
6. FINALLY renovate my house.
7. Spend about 3 months traveling 1st class around the world.