Since there's a poll about the same old overused questions, I figured I'd throw out one that I haven't seen before.
What you'd do *if* you won a jackpot has been beaten to death, but what would you do *to* win a jackpot?
This came out of the story about the 43 yo dying about a year and a half after winning a large jackpot. I'm not nearly old enough for winning but dying 18 months later to be a good deal, but I'm guessing the 18 months between winning the jackpot and dying would be better than the 36 months before winning.
I don't expect money to solve all of my problems, but it would certainly solve some of them, as well as give me a lot more opportunity for the things that make life good. If I win MM tonight I'd probably spend a couple of months getting plans squared away, but in the 15 or 16 months after that I'd probably have as much fun as I've had in the last 60 to 75 months. In 15 months I could easily manage more than the 20 to 25 weeks of travel I've done over the last 4 to 5 years, and many of the days I wouldn't need to work would be spent having fun closer to home. FWIW, a lot of that fun would be free or very cheap. Time required for work is more of a limitation than money for many of the things I'd do with the extra free time. If time is money, how much time would be sensible to trade for the money?
So, what would you do or sacrifice in exchange for netting 5, 10, 20 million dollars, or something that would let you routinely win smaller prizes that gave you a couple of hundred grand a year? Sell your soul? Sell your first born? Give up x years of your life?