If we are talking REAL money and not some $1 scratch...

I would disappear to France for as long as a VISA allows. I would help one of my good friends who lives there with what she needed.

When time to come back, I would see what it would take to have a new house custom built to resemble the place I grew up as much as possible. It wasn't even anything fancy but it was home.

Other than that, there isn't much I really would need.

I thought about this and came to the conclusion that at my age I have everything I need materially and so choosing what to do with a large sum of money would be quite difficult. I don't want to leave it where there would be a lot of inheritance tax to pay on the day I depart this part of my life so I would want to give as much as I could away now to places that could benefit from it.

It's fairly academic because I don't play the lottery, but I do invest in the British government Premium Bonds which could bring me £1 million as a prize, but the advantage is I never lose my investment and most months I get much smaller amounts added to my current account. I'm pretty sure that I'll never have to worry about it.

Edited because the dictation into the computer came out as nonsense in sentence one 🤦‍♀

I’d take M on a holiday trip to the islands. And then I’d spread joy to the good people here who need it. And I’d get me that new truck I wanted.

After that, maybe some tacos.

I'd buy me all the kind of different and expensive food I want to try because I'm a foodie.
I'll invest with some of it
also I would want to give back to my community, so helping my love ones, the elderly and orphans.

Nothing for a while except dealing with how to manage it. Once set up .. I'd retire.

Purchase a new truck and a camper .. then disappear out west for about a year. Fly my kids out to join me some.

Full health check on my cat and whatever it takes to keep her as healthy as possible.

Make sure my kids were taken care of for the rest of their lives.

Give some to my kids

Probably buy an urn for my ashes, because I have like 2 weeks left to live.

I'd move and buy a home

Go incognito mode

Invest.

Fix my Mom's house, or buy her a new one.

i'd buy a house and pay off the mortgage
thats it, that's all of it gone.

How much am I winning?

Pay off my house.

I would just put it in the stock market and never save for retirement again.

Three month vacation

Ensure my winning is not made public.

Move to a new place

Pay off bills.. go to Israel..

Pay down all my debt 💸

Move and buy a nice house.

Buy a big farm and rescue animals.

Get the taxes sorted out. Before I spent anything.

Either fix this old house up our move to a turnkey house probably the latter

Buy a house that isn't a compromise

Clear debt.

Then retire slowly ...cutting down work hours

Seek council and Arrange taxes shelters.

Find a way to turn at least half of it into a profit

Put it in the bank. Live off the interest.

Not tell anyone and move to a state that has favorable income tax laws
Then claim the prize

I'd buy a big farm and keep farming until my lottery winnings were all gone.

You mean after making the mad dash to the bathroom so I don't shit myself? Lol!!! 😂 Probably look at doing some home improvements. New windows. A new driveway.