My favorite nonsexual fantasy!
If we're talking about 50 million after taxes, here is where I'd put the money...

10 million invested in stocks in various companies that make products I like and use.

10 million invested in tax-exempt municipal bonds.

10 million invested in low-cost mutual funds.

10 million invested in one or more businesses where I would spend most of my time trying to build and grow the business/businesses.

5 million in real estate.

5 million in various collectibles (art, guitars, cars, coins, antiques) just for fun!

Any after-tax profits generated by my investments/businesses would be spent on daily living expenses, reinvested in my investments/businesses, and donated to worthy charities (mostly for cancer research and children's hospitals.)

Now all I have to do is pick those winning numbers! :)

Money wont fix anything if you yourself are to screwed up to function. In fact it could make things that much worse in some cases.

I've always been curious about the American expression "winning the lottery". What's with the definite article? Do you only have one lottery? Surely, "winning a lottery" would be a more accurate term? Or is it related to the expression "playing the piano"?

i'd put in 10 mill for research on an AIDS cure

once they found it, I'd spend the rest of my life travelling the entire world and having sex with all the hookers, gigolos and tranny hookers with the remainder

and save some money for sexual regeneration serums, I guess

Build houses in Vermont, Thunder Bay, Chicago, and Zamora, with each of them having professional kitchens, and the first three having an Olympic sized ice sheet in the back.

Give 20% to my mother, and buy my grandmother a house in Spain.

Set up an enormous marijuana grow op i.e. 200+ plants including soil, coir, hydroponics, HPS, LED, and fluorescents.

Build a brewery in Colorado and hire my friends to run it for me/ship me pallets of beer.

Live the rest of my life like this.

$50 million? I'll just assume that's after taxes so I can go crazzzzzzzzy

-$15 million set aside for myself as an emergency fund. First thing I do.

-Get my parents where they want to be, and have them set for the rest of their life. Who knows how much but I'll say $3 million

-$1-2 million on a borderline mansion size home in a rural area, but not in the middle of nowhere, somewhere in Northern California/Oregon

-$500,000 total on assorted Tom Foolery inside and outside the house

-Not too sure on the price, but enough alt energy to live off the grid and sell back. I'll assume $500,000 on the high side.

-Two vehicles... something fun and something practical. I'll say $150,000 total.

-$20 for all new socks that are all the same so I never have to match them ever again

-A college education for myself, Phd's in Geology and Paleontology from the finest universities, $200,000

-A vacation every other year of my life after college say $10,000 per trip, and 20-25 trips, so $250,000

-A large plot of land somewhere in fossil rich Canada, where patrons pay an entree fee and keep any fossils they find. I'll assume $2 million to finance the initial opening. After that, all I want is to break even every year. I won $50 million, like I need more?!

-College tuition for my chillin', I say $200,000

-An sorted amount over the course of my life to charities, schools and libraries.

-None of my chillin would receive more than $3 million after my death

So, I think I've used about $30 million, leaving me with another $20 million to use for whatever I need or want.

I'm happy. :D

-I would first pay off all my debts
-Pay off all the debts of my close friends and family members
-Build the house of my dreams
-Build all my close friends and family members houses of their dreams
-Then I would start my own professional wrestling promotion
-Start my own record label
-Take all of my friends and family on a shopping spree
-Go around to poor neighborhoods and anonymously leave heaps of cash to later be discovered (the ones who actually need it, not the druggies)

Then I would call up my ex-wife and rub all of the money that she loves so much, right in her face. Then my son and I would live happily ever after :)

all the money in the world couldn't take me to the nearest galaxy to a planet with sentient lifeforms

so i'll probably give it all away

- I'll buy my own condo so I won't have to suffer accommodation troubles again. Probably close to the sea.
- A boat.
- A bar.
- A music studio with musical equipment.
- All the CDs I want with a high quality surround sound.
- Perhaps a motorbike after I get a license.
- Probably pay for an interior designer working with artwork pieces.
- Donate to charity.
- A girlfriend, shouldn't be hard to find.

This.

It's more about money management though. Most rich people have really good money management skills, which is one of the main underlying reasons they're reach. A lower class income individual who stumbles upon a million, how long would he hold on to that for before he spends it all and ends up on square one?