What Would You Do with Half a Billion?

Things are revving up with the game. A sign at the local gas station reads $540 million. Yup. You read that right.

No matter how you feel about the lottery, that's a lot of cash with many, many possibilities. So we asked Facebook readers what they would do with the money and here are their responses:

• Chris Moffett: I would reopen the Gaslighter Theater
• Bethany Curran: College fund for the kiddos, buy a house, lots of vacation :)
• Chris Moffett: OR, just by a seat on the Council. (That would be enought money, right?)
• Dave Molloy: Buy you a coffee
• Heather Malamisura: Quit my job. Pay off my debt. Pay off my house. Pay off my brother and sister-in-law's house. Put aside money for my niece (and future nieces/nephews) to go to college. Pay off my best friend's house. Pay for her upcoming honeymoon. Go on one freaking LONG A$$ VACATION!!! Come home. Buy a Grand Prix level dressage schoolmaster. Train every day and go to the 2020 Olympics and win gold in Individual Freestyle. I mean, while I'm dreaming, may as well dream big.
• Heather Malamisura: Of course, to do any of this I'd actually have to buy a ticket for the lottery for once.
• Jeff Dalbec: Omg where do I begin.... First bills be gone! Buy a fab house in Campbell. Take the whole fam to Jamacia. Upgrade the race car big time and start racing full time. Put the rest in a high interest savings and chill with my wife.
• Donna Swartwood Federspiel: Everything I've ever dreamed.........
• Lionel Tc Chan: actually buy a house in Campbell? :)
• Meghan Aldershoff-Newell: I'd donate some of it to local charities like the Rabbit Haven, pay off school loan debt, and open my own business
• Carmen Yepez: Buy a few shares of Apple just because I could.
• Dana Smith: I would buy Campbell Patch and give everybody there a bonus!

What would you do with half a billion dollars?