5k to charity - the Maine chapter of NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness), to fund their speakers’ bureau.
$45k to go to South Africa and stay in a private game preserve until the money ran out.
5k to charity. 5k to me and my husband. 20k to daughter and son in law. 20k to son.
The charity would be some local soup kitchens I know work so well.
The real point seems to be self-indulgence, which I find hard to deal with at Thanksgiving and Christmas. But I’ll bite and say, several months living nicely in Paris (not necessarily expensively, I’d make it stretch,) with some nice side trips.
Then, a longer summer stay in Maine, a couple of winter weeks in someplace warm. Again, expensive isn’t the point. And yes, including the kids.
But really, the house could use it, too.
Pay off debt. Whoopee, not very exciting! 
5k to charity. Trip to Australia/New Zealand with adult kids. Another trip we would pick as a family, maybe to Africa.
if we had any left, going to shows and concerts would be fun, maybe a trip to NYC and see a couple of shows.
I don’t think the point was self indulgence, this relative was asking to know our “wants” not our " needs". What desires did we value? I will tell you that this question arose out of the death of a very close person to this relative. One who never fufilled any real " wants". And the relatives desire to have us think about that and our own priorities in that regard. It was very intersting to discuss. And also like here everyone listed their charities ( limited to the 10 percent so we’d focus on the " wants")
5K to be given to schools in the form of art supplies.
45K to be spent on turning our pole barn and woods into the most terrifying fantastically amazing haunted event ever. Complete with a vortex tunnel, Fog and laser effects, and room after room of deliciously crafted psychological ruin that boggles all of the senses into insanity. LOL.
And all of our friends would come over and have sculpting parties with unlimited latex to create fantasy monsters. And we’d hire the local theater kids to populate our zombie shoot out and scare actors.
And it would be so insanely successful that we would expand and buy the abandoned train station down town and create a premiere haunted attraction that would rank our little town as a top ten national scare destination…peeving off all the stuffy little church ladies…and inspiring a massive autumn carnival with a permanent carousel house with a custom carved carousel full of headless horses and pumpkin carriages and ghost stags and unicorns and zombie horses. We would become Halloween Town USA and have ziplines between buildings where motorized ghosts and witches zip over the road.
I want rooms that fill up with balls over your head, air filled squeeze shoots, swamp monsters that lick your ankles, and a dark room full of a dozen empty dog houses that smell like a wet dog…where you hear something growling in the black black dark, and the dragging sound of a chain. I want giant naked alien rabbits with fangs. I want terrifying two story monsters puppeteer by hydrolic robot arms. I want a fire breathing dragon outside that breathes fire, and transvestites. I want tranny ticket takers and fortune tellers. And elephant ears. And hot chocolate. And cider.
And we’d all be able to quit our boring jobs and do scare theater and art full time, making all of our dreams become realities and some of our realities become dreams.
$15,000 for new flooring, $35,000 on family travel.
Hey! People are listing home improvements (besides furniture!) I thought that wasn’t allowed - cause it was was that’s where a good chunk of my cash would be going. Read the OP post. 
Do those expensive educational college alumni tours where some of the money is considered a donation to the alma mater count as donations or as travel? Or would it depend on what cut the alma mater gets? Because I would like to do some of the trips my alum associations offer.
Yes, cruise down the Danube with a Medieval History professor… sounds relaxing!
Ok, if I stick to the rules… $5k to Planned Parenthood, and the rest will cover my family’s vacations to Hawaii for the next 5 years. I am this kind of boring.
5k to St Jude
25k for our family of 5 to go Germany
10k for milestone Anniversary trip to somewhere warm
10k for dining out/fun fund for 5 years
(Of course if I found a genie bottle at the swap meet, I’d buy that too…and wish for more money for new carpet/paint/furniture!)
I guess we’d do $5k on the charity I founded and the rest on trips and dining with loved ones for the next 5 years.
I would like to spend some to upgrade from my usual utilitarian car to add some cushy upgrades like heated seats! I think that counts as a “want”.
Otherwise, some to charity, a new dining room set and new bed, some jewelry and the rest on travel, theater, art, and great dining with the kids, extended family and friends. And perhaps a bit of a splurge on clothes, shoes and accessories.
Not sure I get the point. What else is there to spend it on, if you have to spend it, can’t give it away, and can’t use it to pay for your house, car, expenses or college? Would never happen in real life as it would go to necessities first (with a nice vacation thrown in).
I think the idea was what do you prioritize. What percentage on clothes and furniture (things) what on trips and meals (experiences). Also something like this is happening in real life with a trust with limitations on what it can be used for (though don’t have to decide right away like in the game). And none can be used for charity. There is another trust for that. Also I am not a recipient. Lol. Just asked to play the “game” to help him make decisions on limitations.
My $5K would join BunsenBurner’s at Planned Parenthood, and it would be donated in the name of the VP-elect.
The rest would be spent on travel. Each of my two children would be given money for a trip-for-2 to a destination of their choice. Then there’d be a family trip to Nepal/India/Thailand. A trip for my sister and her SO to wherever they wanted. And because we’re all cheap, and there’d be money left over, we’d do something many people on CC have done, but I have not: a family meal at a Michelin-starred restaurant.
I want to redo my kitchen and add a bathroom. I gather those aren’t allowed.
Well, if home repairs/improvements aren’t allowed, I’ll have to change to $45000 on travel. That’ll cover lots of travel!
I think it’s interesting that the rules don’t allow for making your home nicer, forcing us to pick other options. I think it says something good that so many of us don’t need/want vacations but would rather spend the money making our nest a little cozier.