OK, just for fun. You just won the $400 million jackpot. What do you do?

[krispos42]

13. All of my aunts and uncles get their mortgages paid off.

I have two uncles (one blood, one marriage) and three aunts (two blood, one widowed).

As do all of their children (my cousins). I have four of them.

Their children (my second cousins) get college funds. I have, let me see, eight of those.

I have a good lineage of those immediate family members so there won't be any "surprises" by previously-unheard-of relatives.

I'd help my great-aunt with medical care for her husband (parkinson's), and make sure her two sons don't have any mortgages either. They don't have any kids.

I'd get my brother's mortgage paid off as well as setting up college funds for their kids (one's here, one's due in May)

I'd buy a house. Finally. I'd probably get a vacation cabin up in Vermont or Minnesota, too. Someplace quiet and rural.

I'd buy my brother and his wife new cars for their birthdays (they're one year and one day apart).

I'd buy my recently-divorced-from-an-abusive-husband cousin a house as well. I'd be sorely tempted to hire somebody to beat the shit out of her ex-husband as well but I figure there are enough lawyers in Chicago for me to ruin his life legally.

I'd give everybody at my place of employment ten grand a year for as long as I was getting the payments. Basically, if you were on the company payroll when I won, you'd get an annuity regardless of your employment status.

I'd donate heavily to worthy causes such as Planned Parenthood and the ASPCA (those damn commercials...) and I'd make a big block payment to Best of the Left Podcast and the Majority Report with Sam Seder podcast.

I'd become a permanent college student, taking a course a semester of things that just interest me.

I'd get a pilot's license and own a couple of planes. I'd love to get an old World War Two bomber (maybe a B-25) and tour airshows with my son, during the summer, doing the Warbird stuff. I LOVE those Wasp radial engines...

I imagine I'd do other stuff as well. Probably buy a small sailboat.