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What are the top 5 things would you do if you win Friday's Mega Million?

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1. find a lawyer and figure out how to best claim funds
2. wait a few months to start making big changes, trying not to look suspicious
3. quit job
4. ????
5. duh, winning
 
1. Pay off student loans
2. Buy land and create awesome shooting range for all types of guns.
3. Help parents pay off their debt and get them into the house of their dreams
4. Buy more guns... the fun(er) ones
5. Pay doctor to fix the heart damage I suffered from realizing I won
 
1. Pay off debt for all blood relatives and my GF and her family.
2. Stay in current job until 30 and then go back and become a full time rowing coach.
3. Purchase land around Claytor Lake, VA, hire an A/E and design a boathouse for VT rowing team, and then donate the money and land with the requirement that they build that design on that land.
4. Purchase or start my own dropzone in someplace warm.
5. Hookers & blow
 
1. Spaceflight, bitches!

2. Challenger Deep, bitches! (F James Cameron; he's about to realize a dream I've had since I was eight!)

3. Take care of the family.

4. Use my money to attract other monies to create irresistibly huge "X Prizes" for things like carbon nanotube cables (hello, space elevator), inexpensive-but-super-high-storage-density batteries (hello, ubiquitous electric passenger vehicles), super-cheap photovoltaic panels (PV panels on every dwelling in the world), cure for AIDS (we could probably amass enough for a multi-billion-dollar prize for this one), et cetera.

5. Spend the rest of my life's free time traveling about the planet, studying whatever topics tickled my fancy.
 
I would do the following provided I get at least $5 million:

1) Pay off debts (a cool $5000 or so)
2) Hire some big wig tax dude like everyone else.
3) Invest money in safe places, maybe a couple high risk ventures in order to live off of interest and hopefully make some extra while continuing to live as cheap as possible
4) Quit job
5) Travel the world
 
Take a stack of twenty dollar bills and cut them in thirds. Leave crumpled third twenties all over the place. Throw them in urinals, shove them under dog poop, leave them crumpled up in the worst filth of the city. Then laugh and laugh and laugh.
 
I read this from Forbes magazine (a story from one of the Billionaires from their annual Billionaires list): Pay the diner bill for everyone at a nice restaurant - annonymously.
 
I would give most of it away.

To family, friends, co-workers, strangers, charities, institutions, etc.
 
quit my job
start hunting for a good financial adviser
work with said financial adviser to pay off my parents and sister's houses
setup college funds for my nieces
move my grandmother into a first-class nursing home for her final years
 
What's really sad is Florida is promoting this Mega Million game with a grand prize of $500 million (I know it's know way over that in the last day or so) and we don't sell it here. However; we have Mega Money with a grand prize of 500,000. People were lining up today on my way to work and while shopping at three stores tonight thinking they are buying the right thing.

One old lady today at my morning diet coke stop bought $100 in Mega Dollars and then as she got to the door asked what's the prize up too?

I never saw an old lady lose her mind that badly, it was sad. She wanted a refund. Kicked the door on the way out and then hurt her foot.

Ironically her chances of winning that $500k are much better and would change her life.
 
Svnla said:
I read this from Forbes magazine (a story from one of the Billionaires from their annual Billionaires list): Pay the diner bill for everyone at a nice restaurant - annonymously.
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At a nice restaurant you really are probably only doing a really good deed for 1-2 tables that made it some kind of turning event in their life.

If you really want to see people light up, pay off lay-aways at during the holidays or even just randomly during the year. Esp. things like school clothes and things you know would help some little kid that the parents are struggling to finally own.

My life turned around quite a bit these last couple years, last year at Christmas I made some very special tips to certain people that work a not so lucrative type of job, yet always do their very best and are always aware they are their for the customer. Special tips of $25, $50, $75 and a couple $100 ones for those that not only like serving us will make sure they get our table, vehicle, bags, haircut, etc knowing others may let us down and they want us to keep coming back. We are always pleasent to them and we tip usually 20% or higher for decent service (not spectacular, just ok).

If I had that $300+ million after taxes in the bank, I'd eat out daily at places I know I wouldn't ever be annoyed by some letting their kids run around, screaming on a cellphone, etc. I try to avoid those places now, but every few times some asshat sneaks in and the restaurants in this economy at my level need that business.
 
IronWing said:
Take a stack of twenty dollar bills and cut them in thirds. Leave crumpled third twenties all over the place. Throw them in urinals, shove them under dog poop, leave them crumpled up in the worst filth of the city. Then laugh and laugh and laugh.
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I'd laugh while you got pounded in the ass, federal prison style.
 
Probably fund a black ops mission to infiltrate Iran and North Korea to completely wreck their shit to kingdom come..I'd guess 10 million would do it.

Then maybe buy a nice dual sport bike, GS1200 fully decked out..but maybe too soon for that..

Play some high stakes poker.

Hire two of the best nannies.

Take up heli-boarding.
 
I'm pretty sure i would be ordering tons of small things from Amazon. I would have a shit load of boxes outside my house.
 
SZLiao214 said:
I'm pretty sure i would be ordering tons of small things from Amazon. I would have a shit load of boxes outside my house.
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I would definitely keep my Amazon.com Prime and Netflix, regardless of how many 000000000000's are in my bank account.
 
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