What would you do if you won the Powerball?!

[gsgary]

I would pay to have all reality tv shows removed from television

 

[BillM]

Oh - one more thing: I'd help @limr set up the animal rescue refuge farm. Of course I'd have to get unlimited visitation to the dogs and cats and turtles and birds.

Here's the engine.

Oh, I would SO have an animal refuge farm! Don't forget to visit the goats and sheep and porcupines and bunnies and guinea pigs

I can also have animals on the land/house I'd want to buy in Portugal as well, of course.

Just move to my sisters house lol

 

[limr30 3]

Just move to my sisters house lol

Don't think I'm not tempted! Best sleep I've had in years. But I think it's best for all if Buzz and I have our own house and animals Still, her's are pretty damn cute:


Bah Ram Ewe by limrodrigues, on Flickr

 

[minicoop1985]

I'd buy a house, probably in the $500,000 range (anything more is just too large for my needs) with a LARGE garage, start a small car collection: Ferrari F40 and 275GTB, Mercedes 300SL Gullwing, maybe a Koenigsegg and a Lamborghini.

 

[NancyMoranG]

Now we're talk in' real money!!
I need a bigger list

 

[Didereaux]

Think about this. The payoff is now over a billion dollars. You would have to spend $1,000 per day for one thousand years to spend all of the billion dollars.

 

[cherylynne1]

Honestly, at this point I think it's too much money. It's going to ruin someone's life and probably everyone in their family too.

 

[KmH]

Yep.
Lots and lots of lottery winners have come to grief in some way shape or form because they suddenly became wealthy, or have blown their new fortune in a relatively short period of time.

A lot of the money will go to taxes so the winner should only count on actually winding up with about 1/2 the amount they win.

 

[limr30 3]

Yep.
Lots and lots of lottery winners have come to grief in some way shape or form because they suddenly became wealthy, or have blown their new fortune in a relatively short period of time.

A lot of the money will go to taxes so the winner should only count on actually winding up with about 1/2 the amount they win.

I would not turn my nose up at half that amount. But then again, I don't play the lottery, so my nose will never even have the chance to do anything with that money.

 

[Buckster]

Yep.
Lots and lots of lottery winners have come to grief in some way shape or form because they suddenly became wealthy, or have blown their new fortune in a relatively short period of time.

A lot of the money will go to taxes so the winner should only count on actually winding up with about 1/2 the amount they win.

Less than that, if they take a one-time payment instead of the 26 year payout. I saw a calculation on the $800 million number for one-time payment less taxes came to about $300 million. If that 3/8 percentage holds true as the jackpot goes up, $1.3 Billion would yield... $487.5 million?

 

[snowbear115 47]

Yep.
Lots and lots of lottery winners have come to grief in some way shape or form because they suddenly became wealthy, or have blown their new fortune in a relatively short period of time.

A lot of the money will go to taxes so the winner should only count on actually winding up with about 1/2 the amount they win.

Less than that, if they take a one-time payment instead of the 26 year payout. I saw a calculation on the $800 million number for one-time payment less taxes came to about $300 million. If that 3/8 percentage holds true as the jackpot goes up, $1.3 Billion would yield $487.5 million.

And I would be extremely happy with 1% of that.

 

[snowbear115 47]

Guards will be ex presidential secret service

You mean the ones that got the hookers while on an assignment?

 

[NancyMoranG]

Think about this. The payoff is now over a billion dollars. You would have to spend $1,000 per day for one thousand years to spend all of the billion dollars.

It would be hard but I like challenges

 

[AdrianBeaky]

Yep.
Lots and lots of lottery winners have come to grief in some way shape or form because they suddenly became wealthy, or have blown their new fortune in a relatively short period of time.

A lot of the money will go to taxes so the winner should only count on actually winding up with about 1/2 the amount they win.

Less than that, if they take a one-time payment instead of the 26 year payout. I saw a calculation on the $800 million number for one-time payment less taxes came to about $300 million. If that 3/8 percentage holds true as the jackpot goes up, $1.3 Billion would yield... $487.5 million?

Still. 487.5 million I'll take. It won't change my plan if I have 1 billion or 487 million. Either way it's more money than I'd know what to do with.

 

[minicoop1985]

I know exactly what I'd do with most of it. Stable investments. Things I can liquidate QUICKLY if needed.