buy a blooming wheelchair van as its such a damn PAIN to get a taxi van when you have a wheelchair person.

What a wonderful dream, not that a million is that much in todays terms. Would pay off my 2 daughters homes & give them extra cash. Put some money in the bank for my grandkids to use when they grew up and lastly do some traveling overseas if we ever are allowed out of Australia, Donate some for helping animals in need. Oh and leave some money in a special account for my funeral. :)

Travel first. Pay off bills. Donate.

Pay out all my debts and buy my daughter and her son a house.

First of all I would help my children and friends buy a family home ,I will live in it until my number is up then leave the house for my children.i would go over to Australia and travel all over there,give some money to charity

Invest some, donate some and get my house repainted and recurtained and of course help out my family if needed. But I wouldn't tell anyone about it if I could possibly not do so, as I want to donate to those I want to, and I wouldn't want to be deluged with please help me letters.

Money always brings out the worst in some. You could do all of the above, or you could not tell a sole and keep living your life and enjoy a few luxuries along the way, and invest for the future as the future none of us know, what’s ahead. But giving always makes you feel like you’re making a difference to someone

Help my family, buy a small villa for my husband and I,make sure I have enough to last us for the rest of our lives, rest goes to wards cancer foundation in my will

you know the most interesting thing would be to see how many new friends and relatives come out of the woodwork, looking /trying to get a bit of the action. would be more exciting. and hopefully you still have all the money

Invest is shares & donate some as well?

Set my kids up with a house and take a trip around Australia

new kenwood mixer and alterarions to my home

Steps towards heaven

I have no chance of inheriting a million (or winning it) so why worry about it.

invest wisely and live off the interest

buy a house, save. well. i would buy land and build my own house and do up a catio so the cats could roam without me worrying

Oh wow, I have so much I would do with One Million. Bring it on.

I WOULD PAY OFF ALL MY DEBTS THEN HELP MY KIDS WITH THERES AND LIVE A GOOD LIFE

Help the kids pay off their mortgages and keep some for myself

Zippedy Dooda Show me the MONEY! I would pay of the house, do it up, landscape the back and front yard with veggie patches and flower beds, put a verandah right around the house, keep the carport where it is and put a double garage just inside the backyard, put some aside for emergencies and then divide the rest up between my family.

I would donate some and help family.

most young couples that I know wouold use it to pay off their debts , well as far as it would go and then go to the bank to take out a mortgage for those debts left over

I’d think about it for at least six months

Worry about it....

INVEST THREE QUARTERS OF IT ON A TERM DEPOSIT

Simon and Garfunkel had a song :"silence id golden." In other words i would not tell anyone. too many hanger oner's would suddenly appear. Yes a holiday or two plus other things. I/my wife has many relatives in the Philippines so they would be helped the best we could then sit back and enjoy life [post Covid]

Invest and live of the interest, I would not tell a soul I had won so I would not suddenly have friends I had not had before. My life would remain almost the same but I would be taking more holidays. My kids would get the residue of the money when I depart this earth.

Buy a home and a new car $1m easy

If I won a million dollars, undoubtedly, I would wet myself with excitement. First thing I would do is buy some new undies.

Invest part of it and help my kids

It's nice to have a dream

It's nice to dream...

I wish

Help family, invest and donate so of it

I will do what I missed to do because lack of money.

I would set aside a small amount to address immediate needs.then I would set up a Perpetual (never ending) Trust Fund, "The Craig & Isobel Trust" the income would be divided as follows: 1/3 Re-invested in the Trust 1/3 be distributed to small charitiies which would have to produce legal evidence that all but 3% went towards helping those that Charity was set up to help. Religion-based Charities would be exempt from receiving any funds. 1/3 as my personal Income. On my Death I could either leave this income to a family member, with no chance of altering the original Fund or, if no family then that 1/3 would revert to the "Craig & Isobel Trust" with the management of it being equally administered by three of the Biggest Banks and three of Australia's Major Corporations. They would then share the 1/3 Income which I would have received as an incentive to make the Trust grow.

Pay off loans and buy my daughter a car. Which i have done.

I wish But IF I was lucky I would give $100,000 to each to my daughters (I have 2) Renovate my home, buy an investment property and relax

If its only a million I would be lucky to afford a house is Sydney - the median price is now $1.2M. I think I would just bank it; the interest although low would be enough to provide a small income.

By the time i finally bought a house & a new car there would be nothing left!!

Probably faint.

If I had family in dire straits then I would help them out but otherwise a million would be a boon. Spend 50k a year for the next 15 years and the Rellys can have what’s left ...lol

Nice thought but the chances of it happening are so remote I think I’ll just have another glass of wine.

look after the kids, and grand children, 1,000,000 divide by 9 = 111,111 each( includes me) so thats that.....could also help the neigbour pay off her mortgage say 50,000 and buy a horse, x $$... then buy another lotto ticket!

A million dollars isn’t worth what it used to be. You used to get 10% interest so you could live on $100k Now it’s just 0.1%

i would pay off the mortgage and buy a new car,not tell anyone as ive seen what happens when you get a windfall,happened to friends of ours,destroyed the family,none of them speak to each other now and a lot of the friends they had wont speak to them because they wouldsnt give these so called friends a handout,bear in mind it was just over 1 million they got,enough for them to buy a decent home,a nice car,a holiday and saved the rest for the kids educations

I am 71 with a mortgage so first things first. Would sell and buy a new place with no stairs and then see what's left over.

It would go to the cottage we are building

No, I don't really have older relatives as such. Plus I never really liked the idea of money or having a lot of it. From what I've seen it often brings out the worst in people. Yes I like to have things and travel, but I like doing it on my own and as a reward.

I was meant to be in my grandmother's will, my mother and i were supposed to equally share Mum's 20% (we'd each get 10%) but one of Mum's siblings found out and forced my grandmother to take me out of the will (even though it would not have affected their share). That money would have been life changing for me, it would not have been a lot, but it would have been enough for a house deposit and would have given my little family the ability to be more independent. Hypothetically, if i was to win $1m, i would buy a home, and make sure the rest was used for the future bills (rates, insurance, school fees, etc). That way we could use our current income for savings and those little luxuries like movie nights, dinners out, etc which we currently can't afford.

I tried to fullfill the wishes of someone who left me money. I found out that it wasn't donating anymore according to Centrelink but was now gifting, because next tax time I would have received money that Centrelink had no control over. We bought a new fridge, washer & tv in 1 day, I had to take my bank statement into Centrelink every month. Next day I got a phone call asking what we had spent so much money on - answer was I'll be glad to tell you after you've told me what you spend your money on. Apparently that's none of my business which was my reply to them. I anonymously gifted money to 1 charity, received another call & had exact repeat of previous call. I thought it was our money left to me to do as we liked & help people who needed help. We still donate our money & our time but I won't tell you who to because that's not Centrelinks business either.

It is a standing joke amongst my friends who also live in Bali. If we won money we would move to a tropical island and drink beer all day. There is always the new comer who will look at us and say "but you already do that"

I woul'd invest most of it.

My bank account is --. Would have a great, happy life & no money would go to my relatives haha

Would just sit on it and do nothing for at least a couple of months, without a plan it will all be gone before you know it

Would be nice but not life changing. I would lose my pension and all its benefits.So maybe a bit better off.

Retire my partner and travel.

Retire comfortably

Have a whole lot of fun!! Save half for my two children. Donate to animal welfare.

Only one mill ??.

I would disappear with my family, last thing I'd want is relatives knocking on my door.....

The heading says 1 Million which at first sounds liek a lot but in reality will not buy a house in most cities.

I would travel when we can again

I would invest some for both my children Donate to good causes like IHC, starship, and be able to help out when some good cause comes along

I would donate to a variety of causes and I'd invest, probably in shares

I would donate more money to animal welfare. So much cruelty out there towards animals.

One million wouldn't go far today with House prices the way they are in NZ in parts of the Country you would be lucky to get a good house for that. But if I won Millions in a lottery I would buy 3 blocks of land together of about 10 acres each, 1 for us, 1 for our daughter and 1 for my brother. I would get them well fenced and landscaped. I would go to several vet clinics and give them money to neuter and vacinate animals and donate to wildlife funds. If I had any left over I would buy some houses and let people rent to buy them and as the money started coming back in buy some more. Might even go to some places I have never seen.

invest, save, buy a home car a wonderful place for my mom and donate to an alcohol drug treatment center

i would buy a new car then give some to the children to help them out

We can all dream think ?? I would pay house off get a new roof Because mine is aspestos and gutters pay any outstanding debts .and live above the poverty line where I've scrimp and saved for many years to be able to go to the supermarket and know you would have enough money ?? to pay for the groceries with little luxuries in the trolley would be Nice??. Would I tell my kids and family no I gave them everything for their whole life it's my turn to be selfish and stress free and know there's money there for utility bills each quarter .oh well back to reality now it's pension day today by this afternoon I'll be broke till next fortnight ...

Invest some & help the family but it will never happen so why dream?

Hi Zing - LIKE your post. I am old - I would use all of it to fatten up my living in an expensive retirement villa account - unless I am diagnosis with a terminal disease before I move into an expensive retirement villa - under that scenario - it is PARTY TIME!!! Unfortunately - my family is nowhere near being RICH, hence no inheritance in my future?!Edited 29-Apr-21 05:24am

I would uses some of the money from one million dollars to start my own business and save the rest of the money.

Money is the root of all evil Gave most of mine away to help family in these hard times I’m happy with just enough to live a simple life Worked hard for 50 years

I would pay off my mortgage, take my boys on a round the world trip and set up orphanages and animal rescue centres were needed most Oh and get a personal trainer, I sure need one lolEdited 29-Apr-21 16:52pm

Stop living in poverty

MAKE IT THE START OF A NICE LITTLE NEST EGG.

One million is not a lot. I'll clear some debts, go for a holiday somewhere that's hopefully COVID free and save the rest.Edited 29-Apr-21 02:17am

One million wouldn’t even get me a house in Melbourne. Move the decimal point along so I can’t start dreaming of more than a roof over my head Zing!

Ha ha from my family? You have to be kidding me!! They kicked me out of home more than 30 years ago so no, this will never happen!!

I would quit my job. Then I would save some of the money and then travel the world for a year.

I AM the senior family member and I surely haven't any chance now of inheriting $1 let alone $M1, so I guess it's going to have to be lotto.....

I would give to my daughters, enough to ease their lives