I never buy them. The odds are a billion to one. My best friend is always really lucky with our local CA lottery but not sure if he is participating in this big one. I wouldn't want to win a billion dollars.

Winning the lottery wouldn't change my life in terms of having what I want but it would change a lot of other people's lives that I would certainly give financial security to. DH buys one lottery ticket a week. $2 is all we will gamble. LOL

If we were the sole winners I would buy my son's house pay off our mortgage and build a log cabin in Colorado wit a swimming pool in the bottom with two bedrooms for our two GDD's and a storage room for all our stuff. Our table in the kitchen would become a game table. We'd have d raw wall on the insides and lots of bookcases. We'd have a washing machine and dryer room. I have sewing room the lenght of the hallway with bookshelf for my books and magazines and shelving under the windows for my fabric I'd have a plug for my tv and one for my sewing machine and I have room for my cutting table and shelving for all the boxes I have. I would also room for my computer.There would be enough room for a statler stichter. There would also be a half bath for me.

I do hope there are many winners tonight, me being one of them of course. I truly do not want to win the whole lottery, probably would spend the rest of my life worrying about how to protect my winnings and not living life. I would be perfectly HAPPY to win one million. I could retire, quilt til my hands hurt and travel around in this great country we live in. :)

I bought a few for this big one. I would pay off all loans of mine and children, donate to Wounded Warriors and few other charities then I would just love like.

after family is taken care of, I would buy the local wildlife center, tear it down and build a huge new one. I took a squirrel there last week that was hit by a car and people were bringing in baby raccoons, possums, a pelican and a parrot just in the 10 minutes I was there.....I do donate to them now, but would love to do more.....

Same here! My kids live in another state. I would definitely help them with their needs. they work hard. Have never been lazy. Help them with career they would really enjoy. Have a medical fund/trust set up.

I don't normally play but this time, with the pot being so huge, I had DH go buy us some quick pick numbers. I'm also in the lottery pool at work - we joke that it's our retirement plan but I play mostly so if there's a big win I won't be the only person left in the office! Plus it's fun to dream.

I would create college and "first house" trust funds for my niece and nephews; buy a cute little house for my mom and get her better healthcare and a live-in helper. I'd buy my sister anything she wants - she's amazing and she deserves it all. My cousins' children would get trust funds too. I'd buy homes for my in-laws too, in fact I'd buy my husband's mom a house closer to me than the one I'd buy for my mom, LOL.

But if I somehow got the whole big huge pot to myself I'd have to create a foundation to spend it properly and get part of it invested so it could keep helping people indefinitely. I'd have a hard time deciding what to focus on...literacy, homelessness, mental health, shelter and legal help for abused people, helping the disabled, clean water and healthcare to "third-world" communities...there are so many things I'd want to get involved in! If I had that kind of money I'd want to invest some of it into technology, too - particularly medical technology. I think remote-operated surgical robots will someday save many lives in remote places and I'd like to help bring that about.

For myself...I want a big piece of land and some helpers so I can shelter all sorts of stray and neglected animals and have a farm of sorts. And finally have room for that longarm I've been drooling over! I'd retire from my "real" job and spend all my time administering my charitable foundation, making quilts, taking art classes, puttering around in the garden, and feeding strays of all sorts. :)

OH, and I'd buy a Tesla. Those are NEAT cars and I WANT one!

I have always joked that I only buy one ticket and if the lottery gods want me to win, I will win -- but I think the lottery gods are on break.

Haven't bought a ticket in years, but bought one last evening at the restaurant where we had dinner. DH and I spent some time talking about the need to "learn" philanthropy and how to set up a foundation. There are lots of world-wide needs that can be addressed with hundreds of millions of dollars (yes -- I'm dreaming big!)

Not serious, of course. I heard you stand a better chance of ending up in the emergency room with a pogo stick injury than you do of winning PowerBall.

DH plays occasionally and got into the pool at work for the last drawing. Each week I write down the numbers I would play. Each week I take the $2 I saved by not buying a ticket and put it in the Christmas savings account. So far I have occasionally had one number out of the six so I'm guessing I'm not a very lucky person. If I ever hit all the numbers and could have won but didn't because I don't play I'll be so mad at myself!