You Just Won $500 Million in The Lottery.....Free & Clear; What Will You Do With This Money, And How Will It Help You??

Buy an icecream!

Buy an island that has good soil and a fresh water supply.

Hookers and Cocaine! I might even invite my wife! Hell I might invite OPs wife to!

1. Quit my job immediately by e-mail.
2. Don't tell ANYONE about winning, ESPECIALLY family.
3. After paying taxes, donate 90 percent to organizations that I care about (no left wing orgs, no churches).
4. Buy a new, modest one story brick home in a mountainous area.
5. Spend the rest of my days hiking, traveling, and basically doing whatever I want.

Cocaine and Hookers!

I'd anonymously donate 4/5ths to various local causes and then disappear with the remaining $100 million.

That's my 2nd move, family first, friends next, etc. Right after building a new house.

Bitcoin and Coinbase shares.

Bug out money.

Land, compound, supplies, arms, security.

I WOULD NOT use it to upset the socio economic chain or attempt to overthrow the illuminati.

I REPEAT, i will be subservient.

Please let me win your lottery, massa.

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Let's live in reality. What if this or that is all BS and futile. What's next? What if you were 10 feet tall would you play basketball? What if you have a choice of marrying Kim Kardashian or Halle Berry who would you choose? Waste of time thinking of what-if questions.

Take the money and make a giant movie about the Union push into the south in 1864.

Build the MEGA church of "No MA'am"!

Land for the family, invest in tools, equipment, and more marketable assets. Insure next ten generations of family are protected financially.

Set up a foundation to help targeted charities as well as set up a charity to help those who have been financially impacted, which includes courses in financial literacy among many other things.

Step 1- Hire an attorney to protect me from public disclosure.
Step 2- Buy GLP and turn AC posting back off.
Step 3- Invest the rest in the most stable income producing assets determinable.
Step 4- Use the income to slowly begin elevating the lives of everyone in my tribe.

I already do 3 and 4, just at a much lower level. I'd love to ramp it up.

Fun thoughts. :)

How much is that in present value after taxes, or do I need to take the 20 year payout after taxes?

Does anyone here know how the lottery works and understand the above two questions?

Of that 500 million, you might get 250 million in present value or spread over 20 years

$250 million??? I'd have to keep my job has a Congressman. Need a least billion or 2 in a 'foundation' to be happy.

I'm going to bury it in the back yard and leave a French Poodle to guard it.

A farm and a forest - totally self sufficient. Running courses in how to grow food. Would have one of the worlds biggest greenhouses, show how permaculture/wild sits beside cultivation in balance... etc.

Very first; accountant, financial planner, attorney.

Second- get away from the area quietly. Lay low for a while.

Pay off mortgage/car, buy substantial plot of land to build dream home on, plus a townhome/condo in the city.

Retire.

Buy kiddo (23) townhomes unit, pay off car & give him a modest (in relation) lump sum to start biz/invest. <300k

Build in-laws addition they’ve always wanted or new home, whichever they want; pay off any debt they may have & a new car.

Make sure $’s going into business investments to maintain income for future generations. (Hopefully many, many generations!) I’d like to help my young hairdresser build her dream spa business.

Anonymously: Pay off neighbors cancer treatment bills.
A friend’s mortgage & debt.
A service provider’s debt & purchase her a new home & car. (Single Mom w medically expensive child)
College expenses for single Dad friend w 2kids.
donations (100k+) to several local charities we already support. (Horse rescue/Vets & families/Food Bank/Homeless support/tragic grief support/pet rescue/wildlife rescue)

Give all family member groups some portion of winnings, set up trust for young family members to use for college/trade school/home purchase, etc.

Set up scholarship for single Moms in my Mother’s name, build & endow some community gardens in her honor- especially in heavily elder/low income/treatment facility areas.

Rest of money to establish charitable foundation; our primary interests would be military families/Veterans, homeless/low income families, mental health availability, medical support initiatives, community support initiatives, rehabilitation support, elder support. Establish rotating board including extended family members.

Two all expenses paid full family vacations- both sides! Then buy a vacation property just for shared family usage.

Lifetime box season tickets to area sports teams for us & charity use.

Buy hubs new vehicle & probably an extra “fun” car.

Buy a nice houseboat.

Travel North America in an RV for a few years; see our hockey team play in every arena in one season, then work on our bucket list international travel.

I am buying farmland.

Get drunk, grill steak, smoke ribs daily until I croak or run out of money.

Fund the inphowar.

Ditto that, plus farm land and some rental properties.. maybe. It is easy to make money, but hard to maintain the wealth.

nice. I would build free community vertical aquaculture farms. free food for anyone and everyone. expand. end hunger in my state and possibly beyond.

Try to find a place somewhere very VERY fucking far away from the rest of humanity and grow weed and food for myself.

No internet, no books, no nothing. Just me, nature and weed.
Lots of weed. And Mushrooms, that would be nice, too.

And most important: None of them fucked up piece of shit humans anywhere near !

^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Your intelligence is showing!

Open a newspaper.

Lol. Seriously, what Trio said.

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1) Build a place in the Black Hills. Put in three wells.
2) Build a robust internet backbone for my home -> trick out with top security.
3) Buy 500 head of cattle
4) Buy 300 head of sheep
5) Buy Humvee for each family member, put in a 10k tank for diesel.

Track down food and ammo... buy up an internet add agency.

Not sure after that...