I plan on winning the Powerball tonight!! What would you do if you won?

[RgrPark]

I'm so sick and tired of being poor with my Army pay check...I decided to go for the 51 Million dollar Powerball jackpot tonight... Nothing out there that says an Anandtecher can't win the lotto...Anyways, what would you do if you won? I'm just gonna convert my '91 300zx into a twin turbo and give the rest to a reputable financial advisers to handle for me...

 

[ultimatebob]

You mean, besides two women at once?










(Sorry, but someone had to say it!)

 

[dum]

i would do absolutely nothing

 

[Zenmervolt]

If I won?

I'd buy a house with a nice big barn and a workshop. I'd stock the workshop with tools. Then I'd take the rest of the money and sink it all into low-risk T-Bills. Even if you only get $25,500,000 after taxes and I spent $1 million on the house and the workshop I could still live off of the interest. Heck, at 1% I'd be able to live off of the interest and never touch the capital.

ZV

 

[Sluggo]

Why, I would have to buy a BMW right?

Isnt BMW the ultimate status symbol?


In all reality, I would pay-off all my remaining bills, do some nice stuff for my folks, then pop the rest in the bank live well off of the interest.

 

[Mallow]

I would buy a viper, nuf said Err, neff said.

 

[Krk3561]

Get a dual 2.8GHz Xeon rig with Vapochill cooling, 4GBs of RAM, and 1TB RAID Array.

 

[bubbadu]

I would buy AT and get rid of the left ads!

-Bubbadu

 

[Pocatello]

Buy a house, in all the continents, except in Antartica.

 

[Atrail]

Give the forum regulars a $1,000 bucks a piece so we could afford to get rid of those ads to the left....

 

[milagro]

Originally posted by: Krk3561
Get a dual 2.8GHz Xeon rig with Vapochill cooling, 4GBs of RAM, and 1TB RAID Array.

dude...you could build your own fricken data center and have an entire cluster of those

 

[pennylane]

1. buy an ipod
2. subscribe to anandtech so i wouldn't have those ads on the left!
3. get a car

 

[wyvrn]

Get new wheels.
Buy my dream house.
Pay off all current debts.
Give $1 million to American Cancer Society (both parents died of cancer).
Finish school, then not get a job
Buy a lot of land and real estate.
Give rest of my money to an accountant.

 

[m2kewl]

buy ferrari 355 spyder
buy grand prix track
invite all ATOT for weekend fun

(booze, food, chics and cars provided, of course)

 

[RossMAN]

If it were $10 million or more I could probably retire.

Wishlist:
1) Quit both of our jobs.
2) Payoff all of our (my) debt.
3) Travel around the US & Canada.
4) Travel to or move to Australia.

 

[everman]

Smart investing to live off the interest for the rest of my life. Then probably get my masters and maybe PHd. Then go fishing.

 

[NuclearFusi0n]

Buy a car, and a few thousand dollars worth of audio equipment.

 

[Atrail]

Originally posted by: NuclearFusi0n
Buy a car, and a few thousand dollars worth of audio equipment.

And move to Canada.....

 

[bubbadu]

Originally posted by: RossMAN
If it were $10 million or more I could probably retire.

Wishlist:
1) Quit both of our jobs.
2) Payoff all of our (my) debt.
3) Travel around the US & Canada.
4) Travel to or move to Australia.

You missed a couple...

5) Buy Canon
6) Buy Dell
7) Give lots of HD and coupons to all ATers!!!

-Bubbadu

 

[NuclearFusi0n]

Originally posted by: Atrail

Originally posted by: NuclearFusi0n
Buy a car, and a few thousand dollars worth of audio equipment.

And move to Canada.....

money wont get me out of school and family.

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: bubbadu

Originally posted by: RossMAN
If it were $10 million or more I could probably retire.

Wishlist:
1) Quit both of our jobs.
2) Payoff all of our (my) debt.
3) Travel around the US & Canada.
4) Travel to or move to Australia.

You missed a couple...

5) Buy Canon
6) Buy Dell
7) Give lots of HD and coupons to all ATers!!!

-Bubbadu

8) Buy out Staples.com and fire all the mother fsckers!

 

[HappyPuppy]

When my wife and I got married she told me that amongst her and her friends they considered that a person had "made it" when they had a Beemer and a Cross pen. 7 years later I presented her with a Beemer, a gold Cross pen and a Rolex. Heh, heh, I went one step further. Needless to say that 30 years later she still loves me even though the Beemer has long since gone to the junkyard, the Cross pen was lost and the Rolex is broken.

Life isn't about money, it's about relationships.

Just my 2 cents.

 

[Howard]

Wow, grunts have feelings?

Just playin'...

 

[freebee]

<---would never have to wipe own butt again. Will either have maid or water spray...or combination.

 

[Marshallj]

I'd probably take a demeaning job, and then occasionally remind my asshole boss that I can buy the whole company and fire him if I wanted to.