What would you do with... $640,000,000?

[Dragon]

Simple.  

New house - medium/large log cabin in the hills of TN probably.

2 new cars - new Range Rover for the wife and Maserati Quattroporte for me.

new boat - 30 ft or so.  

Gift about 500,000 to family members.


Then travel....a lot.

[mthrockmor]

Winning? As it was pointed out last night...if you took a picture of every single Russian (150 million +), put those pictures in a hat then drew out the picture of Putin...about the same odds.

If I won, do a little yada yada yada, put most of it into a foundation and spend the rest of my life improving education via grants and research. By improving education, specifically economic literacy, policies would change getting us off the "European socialist" bandwagon.

Boo

[Midway]

Pay each AH player $100/month to play (have to be in the air at least 30hrs/month), up to a total payout of $50,000,000 for 20 years, first 20,000 to hit 30hrs each month.  Give HiTech $10,000,000 to spend as he wishes as reward for creating this awesome environment, and another $10,000,000 to enhance game further.  Then $20,000,000 for prize/training pay for top pilots that win contests and train people over the next 20 years.

$150,000,000 to charity.

Remaining $400,000,000 into stocks and other investments.

Oh and my FPHs and a few others (incl all members of The Few) would each get $50,000 per year for 20 years off of my $40,000,000 annual investment returns on the $400,000,000 invested.  FPHs, of course, would get four times as much and my bestest FPH would get double the four times amount.  A real Spitfire would also be sent to his nearest airport so he can enjoy some real life Spitfire flying.

All the rest would go to support my family, friends, and myself.

Hoping all along that the money won't ruin anyone as it has for so many other lottery winners.

Would have to think about it more... but that's where I'd start.

[Grayeagle]

Well .. first ..

Ya can't win if ya don't play.
Odds are about the same if you buy a ticket or not I hear.

Setup my family for life aye, then..
I'd prolly spend a day or two shopping.
Bubble store a ZR-1 Vette, another for a daily driver.

Then put together some gearheads in a decent shop and build cars I'd like to see,
..perhaps even grow a client base as I am sure others would like to have similar rides.

First up would be a '68 Hemi Cuda setup as a daily driver.
Ya .. politically incorrect as it could be, prolly 4mpg, cragar S/S's all round,
..FUN to drive tho.

Heck I may even build a coupla airplanes once I get the shop up an runnin good

-Frank aka GE

[mthrockmor]

Actually, I would pay Skuzzy et al $50k or so for a...
P-61
F8F
F7F
Spit 21
Do-234

That should do it!

Boo

[mensa180]

Pay for my sister's law school, buy my parents a nicer home to retire in, finance my own schooling.  Make an account in the mensa family name that can only be accessed for the purpose of college tuition, deposit 50 million, my family will be educated for generations.

selfish pleasures: upgrade my PC, obtain pilot's license time willing, invest in SpaceX, and probably lots more science-y things.

[Ardy123]

You have a better chance of being the president than winning the lottery....

Its 1:175,000,000 I think.
you have 175x better chance at getting struck by lightning.

BTW, can non-California residents even partake in it?

[Flench]

I buy all the drug's I could get in the trunk of my new ride , lol J/K ....
I say let's get a pool up asap . Someone that has Paypal and can get ticket's easly . I can get ticket's but it's a 2 hour drive .

[Nathan60]

LOL Im in apool but I have a conondrum I only had a card on me so I borrowed a dollar to get into the pool so If I win what shoudl I do pay back a dollar or give a lil extra liek a 100 bucks? Theres 26 others in the pool so you guys keep buying tickets  So i can win more aslo don't think your getting 640mil  Uncle sam is gonna tax the hell out of  the winnings so more like 400 mill

[morfiend]

lottery = idiot tax.

 I tend to agree,however I do buy an occasional ticket when the prize goes over 15 million.

  In Canada the lottery winnings are tax free but you do get taxed on and interest urned at about 50%.

   A friend won the lottery,6 million back in 83/84,we called him the 6million dollar man...

    It about drove him crazy,his phone rang all the time,salesmen showed up at his house with almost anything,once a 30 ft. sailboat was park outside his house in hopes of an impulse buy.


 Be carefull what you ask for,you just might get it!


   

[Seanaldinho]

First thing Im doin is buying a gated condo and not just one room but the whole condo. Then hiring a team of former seals and other assorted BA's as my personal protection force. Probably look into buying an F-16, a C-130, and a PBY.

Of course I would invest to help keep money flowing.

[cobia38]

 i would buy a 3rd world country   

[Melvin]

i would buy a 3rd world country   

I would buy New Jersey, and then sell it to the Canadians so they have a place to swim and interact with real, live Italians.

[LCAMerciful]

If I win I'll give everyone in this thread a new computer!

With that much money what can you really do?  Seriously.. I could buy everything I've always wanted and still have well over $635,000,000 left over (I know I know taxes.. sheesh).

I'd have a blast just setting up everybody I know for life.  Like them or hate them.. If I know them they're getting taken care of in some way or another!  I haven't talked to my mom in years but she wouldn't have to worry about working every again.  My dad would be able to afford anything he wanted and not have to worry about medical bills for his cancer any more.  My brother... well I'd enable him to sit on his butt and play WoW for the rest of his life (although he doesn't really need money to do that in the first place).

Even my ex- wife would get a healthy share.  "Here's a couple of hundred grand thanks for the memories now buh bye!"  Of course I might neglect to tell her that I reported her earnings to the IRS

Really.. I could set up everyone I know even the people I don't much like and still have many more times the money that I could ever want to spend.  It's just that much money!

[ScottyK]

I would buy New Jersey, and then sell it to the Canadians so they have a place to swim and interact with real, live Italians.

thats awesome.