[FishNChips]

OP : you sound like a paranoid tight-ass. Are there risks to you and your family if you win $47Mil and your name/face are plastered everywhere, sure. Do you need to flee the country in secrecy immediately, um, don't think so.

Assuming that it happens in the next 3 months, we wouldn't do much since we've got a baby due on 7/27. So, running off to Vegas or Europe ain't happening.

But, I'm quitting my job ASAP. First thing. Absolute first thing. Probably calling my boss as soon as I get confirmation that I'm getting the $$$.

Second : call immediate family (parents / brothers) to let them know so they don't hear it on the news.

so that's the first hour.

The next 3 days will include a financial planner. A lot of notebook paper. A lot of tough discussions with my wife about who in our family to help/take care of and how best to do that (I have a ginormous extended family and she has a few aunts/uncles/cousins). Some of them we'd want to help, others we wouldn't.

Its an interesting question, I just don't think that I'd be doing anything drastic up front. It would certainly make summer vacations a lot more fun for us and the kids though!



~FishNChips