[Lokibob]

When I take my car to quick lube, the kid brings the air cleaner into the waiting room and tells me that I need to replace it. I always ask him to just blow air thru it, and knock down the dust.

If I won $100 million, I probably would have him replace it.

[BigSkyFreeper]

What would you do with $340 million

Deny I had extended relatives.

[Huntress]

I would pay off all my debts, continue to live modestly, donate a lot to charity, and try to remain as anonymous as possible.

[Crazieman]

Stick it in a savings account and live off the interest, continue to live anonymously and be frugal with my spending.

Except on computers.

[decal]

If I won $100 million, I'd buy PJ that new computer so he wouldn't have to go to the library with the other bums and preverts to write up the DUFUs...

[Nexus6]

Now my question is: what would you do with $100 million?

I'd call Clark Howard and tell him I'm spending every penny like a drunken sailor on shore leave.

[coconutt2000]

I would take half and create a trust fund specifically for providing education scholarships to family members, startup/venture capital for family members who want to start businesses, and create a family corporation that will decide what to do with the money generated by the trust that isn't tied up directly in the primary missions of providing relatives with options, education, and mortgage assistance.

The other half would be managed independently by myself with the primary mission of growing it through investments, passive and active. A small slice would be sliced off to buy a home, pay off my father's mortgage on our family home, and set up a trust fund using $10 million to generate a guaranteed income for myself.

But that is neither here or now because I don't have $100 million.

[Always Right]

Way too much money to spend on myself. I would probably try to setup a charitable organization that could get the money tax free. I would pay myself a decent salary to run it, and I would feed and shelter needy people and spread the love of Jesus to people who did not have it.

[Squantos]

Give it all to charity..........< /sarcasm>

[Mark]

Get a good lawyer and fight for the full 340 million amount.

[Keith in Iowa]

Send enough to JimRob so we don't have to have those stinkin' quarterly fund raisers...

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Lotteries should allow winners to remain anonymous. Just publish the county or city that the winner won in. There's no need to publicize the winner when he/she has to worry about crazed relatives/friends and their well-being.

Powerball is for suckers anyway. I don't know why people don't play the lower odds games with jackpots around $50,000.

[HarleyLady27]

After picking myself up off the floor...I have NO idea what I would do, probably be so scared I couldn't mention it to anyone for a few days....

[jocon307]

I would buy the finest house in Bayonne, NJ. I would definately quit my job. I would know that NRTL and the Salvation Army would be very happy. I would get me a super souped up little Dodge Neon. That is all!

[g'nad]

Tithe...

Extend muh hundred acres to about a thousand...

live off the interest, dedicate my time to my kids and the local youth...

[bmwcyle]

The FreeRepublic would be funded for at least one year if not more. That would only be a start.

[dennisw]

If I won this money I would help family and friends. Then I would set up a think tank to study the Islamic threat and the Chinese threat. I would set up a think tank to study greater use of clean coal technology for energy. Another think tank to study cold fusion.

I would buy a lot of rural land and set up a free school of organic agriculture.

[R. Scott]

$100,000,000 ain’t what it used to be but …
1. By an RV.
2. Put my Camaro in a “Overhauling” shop with my dream sheet.
3. Give my favorite waitress a really big tip.
4. Hit the road for an extended vacation and look for a nice place to live out in the middle of nowhere.
5. Mail a sizable check to my daughter just to see how many shoes she would buy.

[oceanperch]

Open a state of the art group home for the severely physically disabled with well paid professionals and assistants and college funds for all those living in the home.

A home that REALLY provides 24 hr care. Non Profit.

Also a group home just for respite so Moms and Dads who have spent their lives caring for a severly disabled child/adult can take a break on a reg. basis.

Buy a bus with state of the art with barrier free lifts and all the medical support so I could take King Vanity around the United States independtly, and hire a professional driver.

And of coarse the Labs would come too.

[chgomac]

My idea of having fun with the money:

1) donate ultrasound machines to every right to life organization.
2)huge amount to Fischer Houses....build lots of them
3) ipods and hi-tech toys in abundance to every recovering Veteran
4) youth, adult & senior scholarships $$ to deserving people
5) flowers & goodie baskets to folks going through rough times

I'd do it all anonomously....like the old TV show "The Millionaire"

[Dawgreg]

Well, first of all I'd pay off all my bills then with the 100 bucks I had left, we'd go to IHOP for breakfast.(kidding)......I'd pay my bills, pay off my childrens' mortgages, buy a new truck, donate to the Salvation Army and Smaritans Purse.......take out all our retirement savings and give that to our church.........(don't think the church would want lottery money) then sit back and relax and watch the world go by wondering how in the cat hair we ever got to a point to where a government could take so much out for itself. :(