Current Events > You win a billion USD in the lottery. What do you do first?

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After celebrating and getting your money, what's the first thing you do?

Go on a trip? Buy something super expensive? I'm curious.
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I'd travel for awhile.
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Stay at home and play Skyrim
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Porsche Panamera Turbo S E-Hybrid.

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Invest it to make it $100 billion.
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Nobody's getting shit so I'd be extremely reserved with my purchases until I found a highly worthy cause and the means to fund it.
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Donate all of it to Planned Parenthood.
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Quit my job

Start preparing for the CCIE Route/Switch certification

Do whatever I want
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Invest most, keep a bit in a money market account, and life as normal.
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Book a trip to Vegas
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Buy a bunch of blue chip dividend stocks.
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Pay off all my debts, buy a moderately sized home in a remote area, travel for a while, give a few million to my immediate family and anyone who has invested in me over the years, buy a few guns.

Then I'd probably go back to work.
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Deed until my dick falls off
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Id roll up a couple hundred dollar bills and deed with them.

Id also use it as toilet paper
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Pay off all my debts.
Buy a decent house.
Buy an Acura NSX.

Invest the rest and keep my daytime job.
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Patchwork posted...

Then I'd probably go back to work.

So many people say this, I highly doubt many follow through when it really happens. Or at least, they rarely go into "wage slaving" again.
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start my own 501(c)(4) to compete with the local Koch and Chamber of Commerce goons
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Mansion, I need a base of operations. Then trips.
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Twelf posted...

Nobody's getting shit so I'd be extremely reserved with my purchases until I found a highly worthy cause and the means to fund it.

Yeah, I'd probably quit working and spend some time on hobbies but I'd keep it quiet and not throw a lot of money around and do that.
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Call my immediate family up and pay off all of their debts and tell them they don't have to work anymore
Set up a fund that will pay them all monthly a comfortable amount to live on
Buy a Dodge Viper
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I'd start a sex toy company. We'd make the best buttplugs in the world.
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Tell my boss I will be leaving as soon as they find my replacement and I train them.
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synth_real posted...

I'd start a sex toy company. We'd make the best buttplugs in the world.

Good luck competing with njoy.
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hollow_shrine posted...

Donate all of it to Planned Parenthood.

You could just open a free abortion clinic and name it the hollow shrine. Sounds about accurate for something so perverse.
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Touch posted...

Deed until my dick falls off

Why not fuck a high class hooker until it falls off?
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Never tell anyone.

Living a filthy rich people's lifestyle isn't for me.

I'd go to "business trips" every so often though.
Hmm, but i wouldn't work for the rest of my life so it would have to be some kind of other trip.

become a cute anime girl
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Place a fourth in the bank for living, a fourth split among close family and friends, and the remaining half is going into investments.
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Give some of it to my mom and brother
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Give my family and friends money, den sit down and try to woo a cegal
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Tithe $100 million.
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Panic.
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After paying off all debts of my extended family, I would buy a nice car and house before starting a volunteer job that I loved to do. I definitely wouldn't return to my day job.
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UnholyMudcrab posted...

Panic.

Actually, this, yeah. I'd be very worried there was an error or something and then when I'm told it's not a mistake and it's mine I'd take a few days digesting everything.
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Quit my job, buy a modest house, invest the rest.
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Convert it to CAD and enjoy life.
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1. Buy GameFAQs
2. Ban DEM LIBERALS
3. Laugh my ass off

Real talk: Hire a lawyer and see a financial adviser
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After getting affairs in order (diversifying money in separate accounts, keeping some liquid assets, lawyers, moving, etc), I'd probably go on a trip somewhere.
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EverDownward posted...

UnholyMudcrab posted...

Panic.

Actually, this, yeah. I'd be very worried there was an error or something and then when I'm told it's not a mistake and it's mine I'd take a few days digesting everything.

I mean, I'd panic because it puts a giant target on my back and I have no idea how to deal with that
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UnholyMudcrab posted...

EverDownward posted...

UnholyMudcrab posted...

Panic.

Actually, this, yeah. I'd be very worried there was an error or something and then when I'm told it's not a mistake and it's mine I'd take a few days digesting everything.

I mean, I'd panic because it puts a giant target on my back and I have no idea how to deal with that

Target?
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Electrokinesis posted...

Convert it to CAD and enjoy life.

2000 chicks at the same time, man.
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Get into politics
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EverDownward posted...

UnholyMudcrab posted...

EverDownward posted...

UnholyMudcrab posted...

Panic.

Actually, this, yeah. I'd be very worried there was an error or something and then when I'm told it's not a mistake and it's mine I'd take a few days digesting everything.

I mean, I'd panic because it puts a giant target on my back and I have no idea how to deal with that

Target?

In the sense that you're probably not going to live a single day for the rest of your life without people asking/begging you for money, and sometimes people don't stop there...
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hookers & blow

Begin the planning stages of my awesome new secluded living place.
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quit my job
hire an attorney and financial advisor with fiduciary responsibilities.
call my brother and parents. set them up so they can retire if they want.
start looking for the perfect property to build my dream house on. would need water on the property. A few years ago there was a property with its own (small) 80' waterfall in the foothills of the Cascades that would have been perfect. But could be coastal, lake, river. would likely take months or years to find the perfect place, but the look would begin immediately.
buy a new NSX
buy a new Ford Raptor
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Pay off debts.
Id still finish Law school, but I wouldnt bother going into practice. I just simply enjoy having the advanced legal knowledge.
Id buy a house.
Live pretty moderately.

If I did so anything crazy it would be to produce a video game company. I got a lot of ideas for games that I wished existed, and that I believe would do well.
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UnholyMudcrab posted...

EverDownward posted...

UnholyMudcrab posted...

EverDownward posted...

UnholyMudcrab posted...

Panic.

Actually, this, yeah. I'd be very worried there was an error or something and then when I'm told it's not a mistake and it's mine I'd take a few days digesting everything.

I mean, I'd panic because it puts a giant target on my back and I have no idea how to deal with that

Target?

In the sense that you're probably not going to live a single day for the rest of your life without people asking/begging you for money, and sometimes people don't stop there...

Ah. I see. I would probably do what another person on here said and go live in the middle of nowhere, but I don't think I'd realistically do that. I'd just buy a plot of land in the town I grew up in, have a house built there, and do that. I don't want to be very far from home.
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Hire my friends mom's boyfriend. Hes a the top regional financial consultant for Wells Fargo. Have hung out with him socially and hes a stand up guy whose top of his profession in the area.
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