$1 billion+ (915 million euros)--What would be the first thing you'd do if you won?

Killer Wench

Me? I'd kick out the relative who has been sleeping on my couch for the last six months. Give 'em $10,000 to get their own place. The slacker.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/powerball-numbers-drawn-500-million-jackpot-n491751

xLisaBx

I'd found my own charity, work in that charity as a volunteer so I know exactly all the money raised is donated.

I'd also do a post doctorate in English, and buy a whole lot of MAC Makeup

Charlie19

I'd buy a truck load of silicone for all those poor people down in Athlone.

Mountainsandh

Pay off my mortgage, give money to my family, and pack my (and my own family's) suitcases to travel the world.

Austria!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUeYJKoE3yc

PTH2009

A plane

Private suites in Croker, the Aviva and the 3arena.

A mansion and a plush apartment in Dublin

Bit to family ,friends ,charity etc

Jim Bob Scratcher

I'd give up my job and sign on.

masti123

Change my phone number

kneemos

Would ya be happy though?

Those people are never happy.

Digital Solitude

I'd get loads of takeaway pizza and buy a gaff, give myself a reasonable allowance and keep going to college.

I'm boring and sensible

Bring the family on a holiday too

Hollister11

https://www.facebook.com/paddypower/videos/10153857274354914/

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

kneemos wrote: »

Would ya be happy though?

Those people are never happy.

I would. I would be very happy indeed.

newacc2015

Powerballs are highly taxed. I imagine you will get 35% less when you take away the tax and the fact you getting it in a lump sum. Most lotto winners in the US go bankrupt rather quickly. So I would get a fee based financial advisor and invest it wisely. Why settle for €400m when you can have billions?

Ficheall

xLisaBx wrote: »

I'd also do a post doctorate in English

Why?



Aside from making sure that myself and family and friends were very well provided for, I'd probably use the rest for prize funds for running competitions which amused me.

Badly Drunk Boy

Digital Solitude wrote: »

I'm boring and sensible

Bring the family on a holiday too

I'd send the family on holiday.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

I'd collect it. No point in getting carried away booking holidays when you're so excited and forget in the excitement you don't have the cold hard cash to play with.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

Then obviously I'd hire myself a slave, build a doggie palace and hire people to play ball with my dogs all day long until the dogs got bored. They would eat roasts, and steaks and basically anything they'd like. I would rescue many dogs as I could from unhappy homes and pounds. I would like a giant ball pit with slides and doggie treats hidden all over the place.

My slave would do my hair and makeup every day, we would buy a ridiculous amount of shoes (I don't want a scruffy slave)
She would be good at making crisp sandwiches and cheeseboards for dinner.
I would be hooked up to a permanent iv to a nice Chardonnay
Slave can hire her own slave to clean and tidy and do ironing
I would have an on site spa, to have massage wraps and facials anytime I wanted


I'd prob be broke again in 5 years, but what a 5 years it would be

Wibbs

PTH2009 wrote: »

A plane

Not a good plan. If it flies, floats or f*cks, far cheaper to hire than buy. Easier to upgrade too.

Invest it, buy nothing(maybe a gaff with a bit of land as a bolt hole so even if you lose the lot…), keep your outgoings low. Don't do the live like a millionaire showing off nonsense. If any part of your plumbing is gold plated, you're going too far.

kneemos wrote: »

Would ya be happy though?

Yes. Now if you're a miserable sod born minus the happy gene, the initial buzz won't last, but if you're a glass half full type you're going to have a far better life and more choices and more time than you would without the money.

Ush1

I'm not greedy.

As long as I have my rocket car, solid gold house and millions of dollars, I'm happy.

boobar

4 day week straight away.

Dr Turk Turkelton

Jim Bob Scratcher wrote: »

I'd give up my job and sign on.

This is where the real money is. Fcuk the lotto.

Charles Babbage

I'd buy boards.is.

gramar

kneemos wrote: »

Would ya be happy though?

Those people are never happy.

Yeah...always wanting more.

Championship Vinyl

Save a ton of domestic animals and set up animal sanctuaries throughout the world.

Grandeeod

Charles Babbage wrote: »

I'd buy boards.is.

And close it down.

c_man

I'd pay the Ruskies or whoever for a flight to the ISS. If they've stopped doing it, I'd offer more.

Tbh, I'd give away a fair chunk of it. I certainly don't need that much money.

Charles Babbage wrote: »

I'd buy boards.is.

I'd buy a subscription.

Heisenberg1

I definitely wouldn't work a bank holiday again, and I could go for some liver and onions right now.

smash

Remember people, this is in the states. After taxes, the winner will probably only get a quarter of the money if they're lucky.

Kintarō Hattori

Well I can't say I've actually seriously thought about what I'd do if I won a lottery but it'd go a little something like this:

Buy a modest but pleasant house in the countryside with enough space to grow fruit/veg, for dogs to run around
Open a business or two as you need something to focus on and keep your feet on the ground
I wouldn't just necessarily give family money. I'd look at who is actually deserving of some help and either help them financially or in a manner suitable to them
I'd certainly look helping out an animal rescue of some sort. I'd possibly deposit a sizeable lump sum to generate a healthy interest amount for them each year
I'd look to see how my locality could improve, there are areas which could do with some investment but have never been developed
I would like to travel but would still do so modestly. A private jet, 5 star hotels aren't going to make things that much better

Overall though I'd seek out good advice to make sure I stayed grounded and work to figure out how best the money could be used to benefit other people without being frittered away. I think when you have that amount of money you have a responsibility to help genuine people who are worse off than you.

paulbok

c_man wrote: »

I'd buy a subscription.

But is that enough to do so?
I heard only Bill gates, Zuckerberg and Pat Kenny have boards.ie subscriptions.



And the Rothschilds, to keep an eye on what's posted in the conspiracy forum.:cool:

Duggy747

Probably buy a pack of Dunne Stores donuts.

Maybe.

smash

Kintarō Hattori wrote: »

Overall though I'd seek out good advice to make sure I stayed grounded and work to figure out how best the money could be used to benefit other people without being frittered away.

Careful now... Remember there were reports that when Dolores McNamara did this with Eddie Hobbs she lost a couple of dozen million...

Eugene Norman

Mountainsandh wrote: »

Pay off my mortgage, give money to my family, and pack my (and my own family's) suitcases to travel the world.

You must have a huge mortgage.

Wibbs

I'd actually collect even more odds and ends for my existing cabinet of curiosities. As it is I've the makings of a museum exhibit or three, with that kinda buying power, oh man I'd be leaving one helluva legacy to the state when I pegged it.

Permabear

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Eugene Norman

Most people are reacting to this win as if it were a $1m. Or $2m.

You could pay off your extended family with $100,000 each and still be left with largely the same capital. Similarly your mortgage isn't going to make a dent. You could pay that off with the first interest payment. A small pad in the country? First interest payment.

I'd buy a newspaper and investigate the billionaires now owing newspapers.

Eugene Norman

LexieOnRale wrote: »

Then obviously I'd hire myself a slave, build a doggie palace and hire people to play ball with my dogs all day long until the dogs got bored. They would eat roasts, and steaks and basically anything they'd like. I would rescue many dogs as I could from unhappy homes and pounds. I would like a giant ball pit with slides and doggie treats hidden all over the place.

My slave would do my hair and makeup every day, we would buy a ridiculous amount of shoes (I don't want a scruffy slave)
She would be good at making crisp sandwiches and cheeseboards for dinner.
I would be hooked up to a permanent iv to a nice Chardonnay
Slave can hire her own slave to clean and tidy and do ironing
I would have an on site spa, to have massage wraps and facials anytime I wanted


I'd prob be broke again in 5 years, but what a 5 years it would be

No you wouldn't be broke. Not if you had the $700M. That would be interest.

(I assume you mean well placed servant not slave).

KillerShamrock

Buy A reasonably sized Island, make it its own nation, legalize sport killing of humans then scatter weapons (knives, guns, frying pans, giant pink dildos etc) around the place.
100% camera coverage and monitoring of the island Create zones on the island that are dangerous to be in at certain times, buy 30 or so GPS explosive neck collars. Put and ad in a paper/online saying how far will you go for 10 million dollars and broadcast it live on the internets.

Profit!!!!!!!!!!!


(I know 100% battle royal but sure why not)

Sleepy

After the obvious (family, house, holidays etc.) I'd probably take on the government, or more specifically the Dept of Education.

Of the $400m or so I'd have after tax, I can't imagine myself of my family having any use for more than $50m of that so I'd use the rest to open both a primary and a secondary school in my locality with an Atheist / Humanist ethos (currently illegal in Ireland) that refuse to waste time teaching Irish.

I'm a firm believer that education is the only "silver bullet" solution in existence and I'd spend the rest of my life trying to prove that by building the sort of school we can only dream about at present with highly paid, highly performing teachers and massive investment in facilities and teaching resources.

I'd go with an enrolment policy that prioritises unbaptised children, siblings of existing students and first come, first served after that. As I can't imagine the first two schools requiring endowments beyond $50m or so to create, I'd have the rest invested in low risk stock indexes standing by to extend the number of schools under my charity's patronage.

SEPT 23 1989

buy a football club

Eugene Norman

Sleepy wrote: »

After the obvious (family, house, holidays etc.) I'd probably take on the government, or more specifically the Dept of Education.

Of the $400m or so I'd have after tax, I can't imagine myself of my family having any use for more than $50m of that so I'd use the rest to open both a primary and a secondary school in my locality with an Atheist / Humanist ethos (currently illegal in Ireland) that refuse to waste time teaching Irish.

I'm a firm believer that education is the only "silver bullet" solution in existence and I'd spend the rest of my life trying to prove that by building the sort of school we can only dream about at present with an enrolment policy that prioritises unbaptised children, siblings of existing students and first come, first served after that. As I can't imagine the first two schools requiring endowments beyond $50m or so to create, I'd have the rest invested in low risk stock indexes standing by to extend the number of schools under my charity's patronage.

I remember a largely academic humanist education in the catholic school I went to.

Neyite

kneemos wrote: »

Would ya be happy though?

Those people are never happy.

At least if you are miserable in a Maserati its better than being miserable in a battered little banger. A better class of misery, if you will.

Permabear

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Andre 3000

Sleepy wrote: »

After the obvious (family, house, holidays etc.) I'd probably take on the government, or more specifically the Dept of Education.

Of the $400m or so I'd have after tax, I can't imagine myself of my family having any use for more than $50m of that so I'd use the rest to open both a primary and a secondary school in my locality with an Atheist / Humanist ethos (currently illegal in Ireland) that refuse to waste time teaching Irish.

I'm a firm believer that education is the only "silver bullet" solution in existence and I'd spend the rest of my life trying to prove that by building the sort of school we can only dream about at present with an enrolment policy that prioritises unbaptised children, siblings of existing students and first come, first served after that. As I can't imagine the first two schools requiring endowments beyond $50m or so to create, I'd have the rest invested in low risk stock indexes standing by to extend the number of schools under my charity's patronage.

You think unbaptised children should get first Preference?

osarusan

I've though this more often and for longer than is sensible or mature.

I'd buy Limerick FC, and build a proper ground, and make them the best team in the country.

I have literally made my wife agree that if we ever win the lottery (we hardly ever even buy tickets!), a certain (large) percentage is set aside for Limerick FC, rising to an even higher percentage, depending on how much the lottery win is.

PandaX9

The ideal circumstances would be:

1. Buy a reasonably large plot of land in a location not too far from Dublin with plenty of air and star visibility at night, but still have access to amenities and neighbours. Then, build my dream house on it. Nothing too grandiose, just enough room to have space for my family and a couple of spare rooms to accommodate guests.

2. I would like to think that I would Increase my standing order with the DSPCA (all of my pets have been rescues), they need all the help they can get.

3. Set up a trust fund for future children, try to ensure that their educations will be provided for when the time comes.

4. Set up some sort of bank account that I will lodge most if not all of the remaining money to, where I have to give notice and go through at least two people if I want to withdraw money from it. Also set up a standing order from that account into my personal account of x amount per month, probably will be boring and safe by having a limit of not allowing more than 50% of my net monthly income allowed in so that I don't lose the run of myself.

4. Other than that, make sure my parents and grandmother are well provided for. They spent the majority of their lives doing so for me, it's the least I could do. Most likely include moving them into my house or giving them the option to live either on my property or reasonably close by.



Given the above, I think that's a pretty modest approach. Apart from building my own house, I don't see any visible extravagant spending there and I think it unlikely that anyone bar my immediate family would find out.

I'm a college student who currently lives way beyond their means so I have no idea where this sensibility is coming from :pac:

smash

Permabear wrote: »

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Exactly. And this is why so many lottery winners in the states go bankrupt. They think they have more than they actually do. If you took the 428.4 and paid 40% in taxes you're walking away with around 257 million. It's not 25% but it really isn't far off.

Jesus Wept

100 tacos for $100

Permabear

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Mesrine65

Disappear permanently with the OH to Saint Barthélemy in the West Indies.

Buy a modest property in a nicely secluded area & cultivate my bonsai's & indica's/sativa's in privacy.

Establish a microbrewery on the island so I can unleash my fine ales on an unsuspecting population & bring employment to my new home of choice.

Invest in local businesses, bars, restaurants etc., insuring a steady economy on the island for all to benefit from.

Grow older disgracefully

smash

Permabear wrote: »

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Yep. Take someone in the states who wins 120,000,000 over a 30 yr period. They're getting around 4,000,000 a year before tax so maybe 3,000,000 after tax if they're lucky. Nice sum if you can get it, but these people tend to go out and buy a load of houses and a few hypercars and then realise that their 3m a year doesn't cover the mortgages and car loan repayments. Things get repossessed and they end in the shit. And that's an extreme example. Most large winning are nowhere near that amount but people always consider the top line figure and not the actual income.