You Just Won The Lottery - Now What?

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by kepp

1. Hire lawyer / financial advisor
2. Take bulk cash payment
3. Probably quit my job...maybe not right away though
4. Set up some sort of trust for family members (with me not in charge)
5. Give a good portion to church/charity
6. Buy an abandoned missile silo complex and do a bad@ss renovation
7. Buy lots of acreage in various locations (Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, etc)
8. Live life...travel, learn new things, take up new hobbies

I would consider buying 10,000 acres of land, but I'd buy it one acre wide and 10,000 acres long. That way I could go for long treks on my property, but I could also turn left or right and find a Dairy Queen within ten minutes.