You have just won one million dollars:
1. Who do you call first? My husband first, and then a first-rate financial planner.
2. What is the first thing you buy for yourself? I’d fix up the Prussian Green Money Pit and pay off the mortgage. Then I’d sell the PGMP, get a house I liked better, and get some furniture for it.
3. What is the first thing you buy for someone else? Living room furniture for my mother.
4. Do you give any away? If yes, to whom? Oh yes, 10% off the top — I have a nice assortment of charities in mind.
5. Do you invest any? If so, how? Oh, I don’t know, some kind of mix of investments. I would try to invest it so that my dh could retire immediately (or else as soon as possible) and so that Hambet could go to college (and even grad school) without taking out those hated student loans.