List the very first three things you would do after you win a 100M lottery!

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AStar617

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Sep 29, 2002
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If I won $100M, I'd be the first black man to own a Newport mansion on Bellevue Avenue... I can hear the Vanderbilts rolling in their graves already. :laugh:

Then I'd hold my Video Game Sabbatical (in which I obtain every console system I've ever owned, and systematically compete every game until all checklists are complete). This may take some months(years?). I've tried this already but that pesky "real life" seems to get in the way.

Finally, I'd actually return to being a responsible adult, get a lawyer/accountant to set up my family's finances, and live a lowprofile life of comfortably not working 40hrs a day.
 

LordMorpheus

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Aug 14, 2002
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1 - 1967 Lincoln Continental Convertable. Updated engine, trans, brakes, suspension.
2 - Pay off college debt, but stay here (I like it)
3 - Bank.
 

Brackis

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Nov 14, 2004
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Party like it's 1040 ;)



Probably also start volunteering/mentoring underprivilidged kids and provide them with money for schools.
 

Number1

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Feb 24, 2006
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Buy new cars, houses, boats, skidoo, seadoo, 4wheeler, motorcycle, plasma TV, computers, DSLR and hire a maid(5M budgeted).

Donate 2 M to every family members up to a max of 25M

Put left over money (70M) in the bank, live off the interest.

Please note: I am canadian so I would NOT have to pay any taxes on the initial prize.
 

CKent

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Aug 17, 2005
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1. Picture Scrooge McDuck's money bin, only filled with a different kind of "green"
2 & 3. Who cares, I'm not gonna remember the next 5 years or so anyway
 

BoomerD

No Lifer
Feb 26, 2006
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AFTER I pick myself up off the floor...
Hold a mega-yardsale(with one of those companies who maximize profits from such things)
Donate the proceeds to a favorite charity
Move to Maui...(unless I can convince my wife to move to Tahiti or Australia)
Live well in tropical splendor...

(edit...maybe take typing lessons so I don't have to edit stupid mistakes...)
 

Pocatello

Diamond Member
Oct 11, 1999
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I don't even play the lottery, but...
I would pay all my debts
buy a nice house for my parents
take a trip around the world
 

Dr. Detroit

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Sep 25, 2004
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1) Penis Enlargement
2) Call Pamela Anderson
3) Invite her friend


Honestly:

1) Quit my job
2) Buy island house in carribean
3) Invite friends to island




 

JS80

Lifer
Oct 24, 2005
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Originally posted by: Kwaipie
Assuming hiring a lawyer and a tax accountant
1. Buy houses for my 5 sisters and 3 brothers, pay off their debts.
2. Start voting Republican.
3. custom build house with 100% self-sufficient power generation

fixed for reality
 

Coquito

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Nov 30, 2003
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Originally posted by: Ktulu
Originally posted by: spidey07
1) Hire very good attorney
2) Hire two CPAs who compete with each other for accuracy
3) Hire another attorney to watch the CPAs
4) Hire Personal Investigator to tail all of the above.
5) Hire therapist to cure paranoia?

Hire additional investigator, because said therapist is sleeping with one of the CPAs.
 

uhohs

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Oct 29, 2005
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buy home for family
buy apartment in tokyo for myself
move to japan
profit
 
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Well, since two chicks at the same time has already been said (though it is the honest choice for things 1, 2, & 3):

1. quit any form of work (other than at the college since I enjoy it)
2. give most of the money away to charities and people I know
3. build myself a small (but expandable) little castle on a BIG piece of land somewhere in the NW or Alaska.
 

UberNeuman

Lifer
Nov 4, 1999
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I would use the money to get neutralizer two chicks at the same time, then I'd use the remaining 99,999,980.00 to live my dream of millionaire playboy by day, crime fighter at night...

/I am the night! I am UberNeumanMan!
 

SmoochyTX

Lifer
Apr 19, 2003
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1. Hire a CPA
2. Hire an attorney
3. Tell my family to fvck themselves when they call.

If hiring a CPA and an attorney were automatic assumptions:

1. Tell my family to fvck themselves when they call.
2. Buy a nice house.
3. Tell my long lost family to fvck themselves when they call.

:)
 

lokiju

Lifer
May 29, 2003
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Buy a house
Travel the world
Buy a new car
Get a ATV and wave runner
Get some really good camera gear.

 

Tobolo

Diamond Member
Aug 17, 2005
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Pay off all my bills.
Pay off all my family's bill.
Buy and engagement ring.
 

BoomerD

No Lifer
Feb 26, 2006
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Originally posted by: her209
I'd buy up the ghetto part of town and kick the poor people out.



Spoken like a good republican...then you'd bitch about all the homeless in your area...;)
 

ultimatebob

Lifer
Jul 1, 2001
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I think that I'd hire a good accountant first, and then hire an administrative assistant to tell all the investment scammers and long lost "relatives" to go screw themselves. Then I'd buy a really cool Jaguar.
 

fuzzybabybunny

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Jan 2, 2006
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1. Put into interest earning account so that I can live off of interest.
2. Take finals.
3. Eat strawberries! Yay!!!
 

malbojah

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Dec 6, 2000
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1. Quit
2. Give 1 mil to each of my co-managers, none to the owner (us managers already agreed upon this)
3. Move to the middle of East Nowheresville, then buy everybody out.