1988RedT2 wrote:Wally wrote:Flounder Alert! I disagree. The worst would be to piss it away by donating it to the US government to pay down the national debt! A drop in the liberal spendaholic bucket!914Driver wrote: I would buy Buffalo, NY.Congratulations, Of everything I've heard today that is easily the worst possible use of lottery winnings .
We have a winnah!!!
I've bought two tickets in my life. I did ask SWMBO to pick up a couple for this drawing. We won't win, but still, a man can dream.
My list. Tell my business partner I quit, pay off the houses, CTS-V wagon, long vacation traveling around the country with the wife and kids. Might have to buy a bus for that with a trailer to tow the wagon. Then start all the projects I've dreamed up, but never had the money or the time. I might even finish some of them. 
I would grow a magnificent beard.
You kids get off my island.
Buy a big warehouse and start spending the rest of my life filling it...
Hire contractors to finish the g/f's effing renovation..
Buy a 5th wheel race-hauler rig with living quarters, Tim's Group 44 GT6, pack some bikes and a few guitars and hit the road to vintage racing events across the country.
Conquest351, put me down to come play with you. I'll even bring the beer.
I am still game for my "Luxo-car Demolition Derby" and I still claim the Bentley Arnage.
Curmudgeon wrote: Conquest351, put me down to come play with you. I'll even bring the beer.
Done...
We have a pool at work. 50 people, which works out to only like 3.5MM each after lump sum/taxes. I would toss it in the bank and let it earn me interest. I'd spend about $80K on tools for myself to start my own business, but otherwise maintain the same lifestyle I do now (cheapass).
Buy island chain. Rename "BOBLAND", build runway, airport and C17 cargo plane. Invite all the people I like to live there. Everyone else GTFO.
Set up a retirement: $300,000 a year for the next 70 years. Donate a lot to various charities. Might also build a giant autocross spot for the local club.
$200M Challenge?
Racetrack, island, and space rocket.
Pay off house, Pay off remaining bills, Buy BMW R1200r and BMW m6 Put rest in savings.
Don't tell anyone!
Missile silo. All the machining machines. Welding/fab school. Make cool stuff. FOREVER.
mtn wrote: Set up a retirement: $300,000 a year for the next 70 years. Donate a lot to various charities. Might also build a giant autocross spot for the local club.
I don't think I understand you completely. What kind of "retirement" would you set up? By my figures you could take the 350 mil payoff and make about 10 million a year on interest. I do believe I could live on that and never have to touch the 350 million.
Is $540 mil enough to buy a squadron of P-51 Mustangs?
16vCorey wrote:mtn wrote: Set up a retirement: $300,000 a year for the next 70 years. Donate a lot to various charities. Might also build a giant autocross spot for the local club.I don't think I understand you completely. What kind of "retirement" would you set up? By my figures you could take the 350 mil payoff and make about 10 million a year on interest. I do believe I could live on that and never have to touch the 350 million.
No idea, I figure I'll figure it out when I win
It is basically the same idea as yours, but the rest (of the 10 mil yearly interest) would be donated to charity/stuff I like/trust fund for descendants/etc. Maybe more than $300,000; but I figure that I could live a life nicer than I ever imagined on that every year. I also wouldn't want people to know that I had won.
http://www.controller.com/listingsdetail/aircraft-for-sale/NORTH-AMERICAN-P-51-MUSTANG/1945-NORTH-AMERICAN-P-51-MUSTANG/1147803.htm?
Sources say- yes. They appear to go about 2mil or so a piece. You could buy 50 of them and have 250mil left over.
xflowgolf wrote: I would grow a magnificent beard.
You don't need money for that. All you need is lazy.
I'm in w/ the gang on midnite shift.
We'll walk out en masse when we nail that kitty.... serves them berkeleyed up company biotches right
mndsm wrote: http://www.controller.com/listingsdetail/aircraft-for-sale/NORTH-AMERICAN-P-51-MUSTANG/1945-NORTH-AMERICAN-P-51-MUSTANG/1147803.htm? Sources say- yes. They appear to go about 2mil or so a piece. You could buy 50 of them and have 250mil left over.
E36 M3, I'll add Warbird museum to my racetrack island paradise evil layer then. Let's see... P-51, P-38, A6M2, F4U, F6F, Bf-109, FW-190, Me-262, F-86, F-4, A-10, and an F-16 for me to screw around in sounds good to start.
mndsm wrote:xflowgolf wrote: I would grow a magnificent beard.You don't need money for that. All you need is lazy.
He didn't say what he would grow the beard ON.
Start a Grand Am GT team, hire all ex-F1 crew members.
Build my Buick Regal GTR off of the last C6R GT1, go and set some sort of record at the 'Ring.
Buy an old 2 story, 1940s elementary school, build a 2 story go-kart track.
Buy the Ferrari F2008, rent Road Atlanta and set the track record
Date Mila Kunis
Lots of land in the mountains somewhere, private road course and big ol' 'skid pad' for AXes which would make the Michelin 'Black Lake' look like a mud puddle.
Roughly 3000 SF house, any more and I'd just be waggling my financial dong. But of course a big ol' shop and equip it with every sort of machine tool I could dream of.
Corner the market on Jensen Healeys, Jensen GTs and Interceptors. Maybe even an FF,
I'd have lots of dirt bikes, while I'm at it restore all the old '70's and '80's bikes I wanted but couldn't afford.
Give $10 mil or so to the Blue Ribbon Coalition, put them on equal footing with the eco wackos.
Then start ticking off my car racing bucket list: do some stage rally, follow WRC for a year or two, drive the Ring, drive every race course I could possibly get to.
I figure that would probably suck up $200 mil or so, the rest would go into investments and I'd just watch it grow. Every so often I would send statements and a real nice Christmas card to a few people who I would love to watch eat their livers. 
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