  I have just won one million dollars: By Duf "Ain't Nuttin to a Pimp Like Me" Fer For starters, I am going to say something strange (indulge me in an Austin Powers moment for just a second). One million dollars is a lot of money, but it is not a life changing amount of money to me. Does that make me hopelessly middle class? For fun, I am answering as though I have one million tax free dollars. 1. Who do you call first?
My financial advisor at Merrill Lynch. 2. What is the first thing you buy for yourself? A Rolex Oyster Perpetual Date (stainless steel) in the 36 mm size ($7,500) 3. What is the first thing you buy for someone else? I buy Mrs. Duf Fer a Jaguar (her dream car) ($50,000) 4. Do you give any away? If yes, to whom? To charity- Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy ($50,000) Minnesota Literacy Council ($50,000) Minnesotans Against the Death Penalty ($50,000) Ramsey County Humane Society ($50,000) To Family- My mom ($100,000) My brother and his family ($100,000) 5.
Do you invest any? If so, how? I invest the remainding $542, 500 by putting $50,000 in TinyEs 529 plan (which, with the present amount plus 15 years of growth, should pay for Bennington or Radcliffe or Princeton or Kansas University or any other school she wants to go to) and by allocating the last $492,500 as recommended by my advisor (though I suspect a healthy portion of it would go into residential real estate). 
