my buddy just won the powerball What would you do if you won the $47M?

save for college for my pay off my own college. Buy blocks and blocks of real estate and rent to have my own town-put adult size playgrounds on every block beside the kid size ones.

kinda like the sims you're better off with a private island, otherwise your renters can vote to remove the playgrounds to make way for strip malls and fast food places.

omg! Thats great

I wouldn't tell anyone. I'd get everyone in my family out of debt and make a lot of anonymous donations to deserving people and charities. I'd also be able to buy things from places like thinkgeek.com instead of just drooling over them. And I'd have one hell of a library.

I would also like to start a not for profit college for women/men that come from underpriviliged rural societies where education is not stressed and they have little oppurtunity and way too young. But that's depressing because I don't know how. So I will build my playground town.

Playgrounds are an important part of education Kids need to play, so do adults. And you could hire people to run a not for profit college, it's not like you would have to know how to do it yourself. I think it's a great idea. I would probably set up a foundation that would give grants to students - that would let them study where they wanted, they don't have to pay back grants, and they wouldn't have to deal with working part or full time to pay bills so they'd have more time to study.

much of the usual pay off debit, purchase property, invest, go back to school... insure my future. I would want to create a life for myself and family of more choice and less obligation. I would find ways to donate that was an investment. Like, not to give handouts, but rather, a leg up.