Mega Millions is at $470M

Two chicks at the same time.

Back on topic...

If I won the whole enchilada I'd end up building a compound (reasonable house, lots of land, big freakin shop/warehouse) near my parents and buy a vacation spot in Park City, Utah so I can spend my time building cars, skiing or exploring Utah.

5-10 million payout I'd probably walk out the front door after I had everything squared away.

I'd be tempted to put it all in stock of a company I used to work for.  That might give me enough votes to get rid of some of the board members & shiny happy person executives.  

sobe_death said:

Two chicks at the same time.

 

I'd travel for 2 years before purchasing any property. But locations to eventually purchase homes, Iceland, Anzores, New Zealand, Figi and Utah. I'd have a boat in the carribean. Vehicles, I'd have a Boulder V8 in Iceland, A ZL1 in New Zealand, a Diesel ZR2 Colorado in Utah, an RF in Utah and I'd keep an Example Element in the Keys for when my Carribean sailing takes me to the states.  and I'd wait until the next generation Miata before deciding whether to get a V8 ND (likely) and I'd have to decide upon what Cayman I'd want, I'd likely have Tuthill build a GT4 R-GT car. The BG chassis would see ice racing fun. 

Well, I got my ticket. Guess I better sit down and work on my spreadsheet so I am ready when they call my numbers. 

Come on 11:00!

If I get half a billion dollars I don’t want to see another spreadsheet again.

Wally said:

If I get half a billion dollars I don’t want to see another spreadsheet again.

I'll still need spreadsheets to track cars, parts, maintienance...............unless I just pay a minion to do all that for me............  Anyone want to be a minion?

In reply to Adrian_Thompson :

55k a year and insurance? Where do i sign?

In reply to Adrian_Thompson :

I figured those would be tasks best left to more qualified people. 

In reply to Adrian_Thompson :

I'm not very good with spreadsheets, but I would be willing to relocate to help with one of the other projects. 

Assuming I don't just buy an island somewhere warm. 

Dangit

What's it up to now?

In reply to Justjim75 :

$654 million

berkeley you, I'm taking my space ship somewhere else money, basically. 

I might have another go, what the hell...

$2. What the hell, I've spent more on a Pepsi.

I bought 9 numbers on the way back from the Challenge today.  I did the numbers and the lump sum after 25% income tax (W.A.G.) is enough to put a $250,000,000 in the bank (like $7.5 million a year at 3%) and after giving every living or in utero relative an even million bucks we would only have $28.6 million bucks left to spend on cars and houses.  Well, until the next years interest payment (dividend?).  My son said $1,000,000 didnt seem like enough but understood when I said he just too damn good a person, too nice, and too smart to waste being a spoiled rich kid.

Fresh drinking water for the world!

And a racetrack in the yard

In reply to Justjim75 :

Years ago during one of the big lotto run ups several of us at work decided that our “sharing” would be becoming the “mortgage fairy”.   Obviously put away the bulk of the money in something secure but fairly lucrative (money market etc) and never touch the principle.  Each year take the dividend, take out the amount you live on and then go around paying off people’s mortgages.

The mortgage is most people’s largest expense and getting free of it would help them travel more, learn more, do more, just be better versions of themselves all around.  Start with immediate family and work outward to distant cousins, friends, the woman who cuts your hair, whatever.

Mortgage fairy has sorta been the biggest motivation for me to waste money on lotto tickets. That and a set of matched gp5 rallycars say maybe half a dozen,  and transporter, so me and my pals can go play at local events and then also Monaco and Finland and New Zealand and that one event in the Azores and...

And maybe a nice little villa on Lake Como. That area kinda calls to me.

I'd really like to bless people like me and a lot of my friends, easing the financial burdens of people that work hard but dont have the skills or connections to make a more comfortable living.  There are a whole lot of folks that work 2 jobs 6.5 days a week and at the end of the month all they have to show for it is a new set of bills to pay.  That's who I want to give money to.

I wonder how many Toyota Corolla and mini vans you could buy and give away for $20,000,000?

when's the next drawing?  

Tomorrow night

$868,000,000

After my commute this morning, it will be $868,000,010