Reply #3: A million? [View All]

Pay off my house and debts, set up college savings accounts for the kids, and roll the remainder (roughly $500k) into a retirement account for me and the wife.

$100 million? Same as above, but with a slightly larger retirement account, a nice sailboat to cruise the world in, and a place on the Oregon coast near Yachats. I'd roll $50 mil into a charitable trust to support social and environmental causes, and use the remainder to fund scientific research competitions...my own mini-version of the X-Prize with a focus on environmental projects (e.g. "The first team to figure out how to filter nitrogen from farm runoff gets a $2 million prize")