What would you do with a HALF A BILLION?

nooshinjohn
nooshinjohn Posts: 25,396
edited April 2012 in The Clubhouse
The current Mega-MILLIONS jackpot is approaching that figure at an estimated 476,000,000. After taxes here, and the cashout option, the take-home will still be around 250 million!

Who's playing and what will you do IF you win?

After I pay enough in taxes for a couple of fighter jets I will never get a chance to fly, I will spend half of that on apartment buildings and setting up a property management company to care for them, invest half of what's left in securities/metals and oil. The remainder will be put to use buying homes for my family, savings and travelling to exotic places like diving on the Titanic.
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  • decal
    decal Posts: 3,205
    edited March 2012
    I'd buy some exotic speaker cables !!!!!!!:cheesygrin:
    If you can't hear a difference, don't waste your money.
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 32,957
    edited March 2012
    John, don't forget........you have friends.:cheesygrin::cheesygrin:

    I'd buy lots of stuff. House on the Amalfi coast, Carmel, Carribean....maybe my own island where I can make the laws.:smile:

    If you win big guy, can I have those mono tube amps ? You'd have to eat the shipping too, unless you'd care to hand deliver, in which case I'd be forced to make you a damn fine dinner.
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  • gudnoyez
    gudnoyez Posts: 8,114
    edited March 2012
    I would have to make you an offer you could'nt refuse on your 2 channel set up.
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  • Polkersince85
    Polkersince85 Posts: 2,883
    edited March 2012
    It's going to be a long week next week for the folks that spend this week's paycheck on tickets. I'll thank them personally when I cash the big one in.
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  • grimmace19
    grimmace19 Posts: 1,429
    edited March 2012
    I'll be playing... hopefully winning... likely losing... and going back to work the next day.
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  • falconcry72
    falconcry72 Posts: 3,580
    edited March 2012
    We've got a pool going at work. We'll get about 500 tickets total. We've been doing it for a few weeks. I'm gonna keep playing as long as this one keeps growing.
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  • cincycat13
    cincycat13 Posts: 882
    edited March 2012
    I'd set my kids up, set my family up (its ok its a small group), karma my friends, buy a motorhome and tour the nascar circuit for the rest of the season. i'd also have to send a bottle of scotch to Ricardo...
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  • Systems
    Systems Posts: 14,873
    edited March 2012
    Drugs, booze and hookers.

    Oh, and I'd blow a bunch on collectible beanie babies!:cheesygrin:
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  • starkiller
    starkiller Posts: 2,723
    edited March 2012
    My animal charities would come first. Nice house on a cliff overlooking the ocean in Oregon. Help out family members. Then, one heck of a nice home theater and two channel system, and thousands of mint, I say MINT LP's:mrgreen:
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  • Syndil
    Syndil Posts: 1,582
    edited March 2012
    The same thing I always do with half a billion.

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  • jbooker82
    jbooker82 Posts: 1,627
    edited March 2012
    falconcry72 wrote: »
    We've got a pool going at work. We'll get about 500 tickets total. We've been doing it for a few weeks. I'm gonna keep playing as long as this one keeps growing.

    Make sure the guy who buys the tickets doesnt quit his job and take off after the drawing with out telling anybody.
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  • obieone
    obieone Posts: 5,077
    edited March 2012
    I'd buy a third world country, and become dictator:loneranger:.
    I refuse to argue with idiots, because people can't tell the DIFFERENCE!
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 32,957
    edited March 2012
    obieone wrote: »
    I'd buy a third world country, and become dictator:loneranger:.

    Or you could stay here and buy a few congressmen, half a billion should net you at least 3 or 4.:smile:
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  • Willow
    Willow Posts: 11,008
    edited March 2012
    Sucks that you guys get taxed, not that 250 mil is bad......but if that were up here we'd get to keep the whole thing GL to all who are playing
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  • codyc1ark
    codyc1ark Posts: 2,532
    edited March 2012
    pepster wrote: »
    Drugs, booze and hookers.

    Oh, and I'd blow a bunch on collectible beanie babies!:cheesygrin:

    So... Business as usual? :eek:

    I'd quit my job, buy a house in the mountains, and another on the beach, and never see them because I would be touring the world. I'd love to get back to Italy and spend about a month there eating everything. Women included!
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  • inspiredsports
    inspiredsports Posts: 5,501
    edited March 2012
    I don't have any idea what I'd do with it, but I pooled $20 with a group of 10 of us so I'll only have to worry about 10% of the total :mrgreen:
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  • tommyt21
    tommyt21 Posts: 685
    edited March 2012
    I would set up a foundation to help needy children. At my current job I see homeless kids every day. Winning that much money there is no way I could turn my back on them. :cry:
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  • Joe08867
    Joe08867 Posts: 3,919
    edited March 2012
    Stock answer, Whatever the heck I feel like. :lol:

    I would pay off everything, by a summer home in Myrtle Beach or similar. And then I would take an extended vacation to figure out what I was going to do from then on.

    I think I would like to restore old cars and bikes as a hobby for at least a little while. Of course that is when I am not traveling the world.
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  • thsmith
    thsmith Posts: 6,082
    edited March 2012
    I often think about that but never buy the tickets so I will never win. But if somehow I did I would retire and build a shopping complex with open an Audio store, topless barber shop and topless car wash. I would have the best 2 channel system, look clean cut and car would always shine. My main job would be interviewing new emnplyees.
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  • unclebiskabobka
    unclebiskabobka Posts: 109
    edited March 2012
    http://www.steinwaylyngdorf.com/products/model-c-speaker/model-c-speaker-overview
    That would be my first purchase, and a room with perfect acoustics would come soon after that.

    Past that, who knows...
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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,538
    edited March 2012
    I would DO nothing.
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 32,957
    edited March 2012
    steveinaz wrote: »
    I would DO nothing.

    .....and you'd get bored pretty quick.

    I would find a way to help people for sure, while also living the dream.
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  • soundfreak1
    soundfreak1 Posts: 3,414
    edited March 2012
    If you win it amd i dont i have a suggistion what u could do with it!LOL
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,396
    edited March 2012
    Jackpot is now 540,000,000.00

    The largest ever jackpot in the world!

    I suppose I could buy my fellow polkies a set of LSiM 707's (must be members in good standing for more than one year, have more than 250 posts and not be on the ignore list.:cheesygrin:)
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  • SDA1C
    SDA1C Posts: 2,072
    edited March 2012
    unclebiskabobka wrote: »
    http://www.steinwaylyngdorf.com/products/model-c-speaker/model-c-speaker-overview
    That would be my first purchase, and a room with perfect acoustics would come soon after that.

    Past that, who knows...

    YEEEOWSA! That stuff is Sexy! Probably take all 540 though lol
    Too much **** to list....
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,396
    edited March 2012
    Thank's to you, it just grew by one.
    You cannot view this post because Dskip is on your ignore list.

    :cheesygrin::wink:
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  • BlueFox
    BlueFox Posts: 15,251
    edited March 2012
    I will let you know after I pick up the check. My concern is how will I fit the money under my mattress!
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  • mudwrx
    mudwrx Posts: 367
    edited March 2012
    nooshinjohn wrote: »

    I will spend half of that on apartment buildings and setting up a property management company to care for them, invest half of what's left in securities/metals and oil. The remainder will be put to use buying homes for my family, savings and travelling to exotic places like diving on the Titanic.

    If half is spent on real estate and half is spent on securities/metal investments, I have some bad news. There would be no remainder to buy homes, travel, etc.

    Half + half = all of it

    Anyway, it would be nice to have these worries, what to do with all that money.

    One thing that has always struck me as strange is when a jackpot gets this large you see these stories of office pools and people traveling across state lines, waiting in long lines to buy their tickets. So for $400M or $500M you would do this, but for, let's say $35M for instance, it's not worth your trouble?

    "Nah, I don't want to get a ticket when it's only $35M. Not worth it. Let me know when it's like over $150M and I'll get some." Hmmm....
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  • snow
    snow Posts: 4,337
    edited March 2012
    mudwrx wrote: »
    If half is spent on real estate and half is spent on securities/metal investments, I have some bad news. There would be no remainder to buy homes, travel, etc.

    Half + half = all of it

    Anyway, it would be nice to have these worries, what to do with all that money.

    One thing that has always struck me as strange is when a jackpot gets this large you see these stories of office pools and people traveling across state lines, waiting in long lines to buy their tickets. So for $400M or $500M you would do this, but for, let's say $35M for instance, it's not worth your trouble?

    "Nah, I don't want to get a ticket when it's only $35M. Not worth it. Let me know when it's like over $150M and I'll get some." Hmmm....
    He is only spending 75% on real estate and investments which leaves him 25% to blow on fun stuff.



    REGARDS SNOW
    Well, I just pulled off the impossible by doing a double-blind comparison all by myself, purely by virtue of the fact that I completely and stupidly forgot what I did last. I guess that getting old does have its advantages after all :D
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  • WilliamM2
    WilliamM2 Posts: 4,773
    edited March 2012
    mudwrx wrote: »
    One thing that has always struck me as strange is when a jackpot gets this large you see these stories of office pools and people traveling across state lines, waiting in long lines to buy their tickets. So for $400M or $500M you would do this, but for, let's say $35M for instance, it's not worth your trouble?

    And when you consider the increased ticket sales, the odds are they will be splitting that jackpot between more winners.
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