None of you even think about wasting your money. I’m winning the Mega Millions drawing tomorrow. I told myself that if the jackpot ever went over $200 mil that I was going to buy a ticket. It’s totally worth the opportunity cost of NOT getting one, in my opinion. Plus I figured we could use the extra cash…

Now all I have to do is decide whether to take the lump sum payout of the distributions. I think I’d be Ok with a few hundred g’s per year, so that’s how I think I’d roll… what about you? How would you spend your $208-after-taxes-a-lot-less-million?

My shopping list — in some sorta order…

  1. Pay off the mortgage and credit card
  2. Go on a European vacation with S
  3. Take care of bad debt for immediate family members
  4. Get my mother in law a new car cause she REAAALLLY needs one
  5. Set up a “Giving Fellowship” for Vineyard
  6. Put money away for E-man
  7. Get a Wii. And RockBand. Definitely.
  8. Make donations to local foodbanks, shelters and orphanages.
  9. Purchase a new phatty keyboard
  10. Put an addition on the house, redo the kitchen and put in a bathroom upstairs.

That’s all for now… I think I’ve spent enough.