580 Million Dollars

[MDB111™]

If you won it. What would you do?


And no posting bullshit feel good stuff. You can do all that and I would too but I want to hear about the insane spending you'd do.

So there it is 580 million. After you do your boy scout deeds what do you buy?

 

[nvanprooyen]

Well, if you took the lump sum and after taxes it would be considerably less than that....but still a **** ton of money. I would probably buy an island and chill for the rest of my life.

E.g. http://www.privateislandsonline.com/islands/sandy-cay-bahamas

Probably travel a bunch. Then setup investments and some trusts to make sure that my kids, family, grandkids, their kids etc are all taken care of for life.

 

[Monk]

Nothing. Office Space style.

 

[nvanprooyen]

Two chicks at the same time?

 

[X]

New houses...one here, one in Fla, one a different country, one for my grandma here...

invest in a shitload of restaurants and safe stocks.

buy a helicopter.

buy a pilot for the helicopter

Do something ridiculous for my dog...like a miniature 2 story house, 1500 sq ft or something dumb for her to run around in...just to be epic.

Pay Rick Reilly to stop leaving his home.

Pay the difference for an NHL season.

Season tickets to everything, everywhere.

a banana.

 

[BearsMod1]

buy Kate Upton for starters

 

[Tjodalv]

I'd also have to go with a shit-ton of real estate; primary home in Tennessee with a considerable amount of river access (I love fishing), a nice little place in the rain forest (Belize perhaps), a swanky apartment in Vienna, maybe another little forest home in southeast Asia somewhere, and a beach house in Tahiti or some other Pacific island.

Then I'd have to start in on the vintage and exotic cars. Something rare like the new McLaren, followed up by a Zephyr, a few resto-mod muscle cars, etc.

Oh, I'd also have a pipe organ installed in my house and I'd have to buy either a Steinway or a Fazioli.

After that I'm not really sure...lots of really good booze and tons of travel I suppose.

 

[MDB111™]

X,
Restaurants fail all the time. It's not safe. You'd set up your family for life by just throwing a lump sum into a low reward/interest CD.


I'd buy all the Bears fans in here season tickets for sure. I'd want to know who I'm giving them to though so I'd have a party and anyone that is a Bears fan could come get their tickets.

I too will be in need of a helicopter and Pilot. I'd also buy the neighborhood I grew up in(yes the whole neighborhood), build one giant castle in it and put a moat around it.

I'd also start a big giant orphanage where the kids live large and don't worry about a thing. I'd have the craziest security and backgroun d checks so no asshole, weirdo jerry sandusky types come near it. It'd be the first of its kind and would revolutionize the bullshit social services corridor of most of our local governments.

I'd buy a Corvette from each decade and each era. I'd buy a mustang from all the eras.

I'd also look into .com start ups.
I'd start a brewery.
I'd buy tons of beers

I'd rent a yacht a sail around the world. I'd take my helicopter if I got bored.
I'd hire a trainer to whip my old aging body into shape
hire a chef. and a nutritionist.

buy a house in all 50 states.

I would see and do everything. all while being gracious enough and invite whoever along with the family. Kind of like "hey I'm going to Alabama to shoot wild boars with a .50 calibur cannon mounted inside a helicopter" "Then after that going to Atlantis to enter a poker tournament and swim in the tropics" "anyone wanna join me all expenses paid?" Something to that effect.

It'd be great







and then I wake up

 

[1COBearsfan]

I would invest a bunch so it would be hard to run out, first of all. Then: A couple modest houses around the country. Travel a lot and buy a couple more modest houses around the globe. I'd set my family up with a sizeable lump sum of cash. My main residence wouldn't really be too bonkers but it would have a ridiculous garage. And, believe it or not, I'd find a very understanding employer and get a part time job

 

[MDB111™]

I would invest a bunch so it would be hard to run out, first of all. Then: A couple modest houses around the country. Travel a lot and buy a couple more modest houses around the globe. I'd set my family up with a sizeable lump sum of cash. My main residence wouldn't really be too bonkers but it would have a ridiculous garage. And, believe it or not, I'd find a very understanding employer and get a part time job

everyone says that. You'd find a job and the first bad day. you'd go Half baked.


"**** you, **** you, you're cool, **** you, **** you. I'm out!"

 

[1COBearsfan]

everyone says that. You'd find a job and the first bad day. you'd go Half baked.


"**** you, **** you, you're cool, **** you, **** you. I'm out!"

Like I said, find a very understanding employer. But you're right, If an employer said this situation was acceptable and then started jumping my shit I cause a huge scene, spit in his face and leave

 

[Omeletpants]

I would use the money to buy additional critical body organs in case I ever need them

 

[Mr. Cub]

It would probably be up to my family or courts/state whoever......

'Cause I would by lots of drugs and alcohol aaaaaand probably die!

 

[emcee]

Two chicks at the same time?

Fuckin' A.

 

[Omeletpants]

Belive me that you dont want to win this lottery at 500 million dollars. Your life will be shit forever after.

Around 1978 some big dumb polack in Chicago won the first big lottery. It was only for about $37 million but it was big news then. For the last 35 years he has been constantly hounded for money. He still gets hundreds of letter a week from people begging for money. He lost most of it to family sqaublles and it changed his life for the worst.

Now, take 500 million and you will be one of the most famous and hunted people in the world. You will have thousands of people showing up on your front door. You wont be able to leave the house for all the cameras and people following you. You will be hated by 95% of them fro what you have. Your family will be jealous and everyone will expect you to support them. There wont be a place in the world where you can go to get away from it

 

[Stapler]

Anybody can buy pussy, I'd buy hearts and minds.

I'd give 10% to the Salvation Army off the top; set up scholarship endowments at some schools I like; then I would use the rest of the money to maintain anonymity.

 

[Gustavus Adolphus]

I'm seeing a lot of posts in here that hold the fact true that 80-something% of all lottery winners go broke eventually.

If I found out I won, the FIRST thing I would do is tell only one person, and that is the guy who handles my retirement account. I'd promise him a good chunk of $$ to set up accounts/IRA's/off shore banking that would make sure that money is protected until the day my great-grandchildren die. I would do nothing different. Absolutely nothing.

Matter of fact, I'd probably spend less.

 

[nwfisch]

I'm seeing a lot of posts in here that hold the fact true that 80-something% of all lottery winners go broke eventually.

If I found out I won, the FIRST thing I would do is tell only one person, and that is the guy who handles my retirement account. I'd promise him a good chunk of $$ to set up accounts/IRA's/off shore banking that would make sure that money is protected until the day my great-grandchildren die. I would do nothing different. Absolutely nothing.

Matter of fact, I'd probably spend less.

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news...ry-winners-anonymous-mega-millions/54441676/1

 

[nvanprooyen]

I'm seeing a lot of posts in here that hold the fact true that 80-something% of all lottery winners go broke eventually.

If I found out I won, the FIRST thing I would do is tell only one person, and that is the guy who handles my retirement account. I'd promise him a good chunk of $$ to set up accounts/IRA's/off shore banking that would make sure that money is protected until the day my great-grandchildren die. I would do nothing different. Absolutely nothing.

Matter of fact, I'd probably spend less.

I think there is a balance in there somewhere. I guarantee if I won, the amount of money I had when I died...would be more than I initially got via a windfall. But...I would have a shitload of fun with it for sure.

 

[nvanprooyen]

Anybody can buy pussy, I'd buy hearts and minds.

I'd give 10% to the Salvation Army off the top; set up scholarship endowments at some schools I like; then I would use the rest of the money to maintain anonymity.

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