If I win 540 million dollar Mega-Lotto tonight

[bgb]

$192 Million is still rather a lot of money and if you are not used to having lots of money it could cause some serious stress.
Better to win $100 and take a friend to dinner.

 

[sahe69]

I'm a Eurojackpot winner!!!!

Now what shall I do with all that - 9,1 euros?

 

[TXForester]

650 now. I guess I'll have to put more on the bucket list.
1 Finish the pilot's license I started 30 years ago and buy a Cub.
2 Need and old pickup for a weekend vehicle. I'm thinking some from the 1940s. I'll get a hybrid for week days.
3 Go back to riding motorcyles. I'll need a Norton 750 Commmando, an old Ducatti SS, BSA Goldstar, well you get the picture.
4 Land. I work as a forester but majored in wildlife, so enough acreage for wildlife management and I always wanted to get into hardwood restoration and management.
5 More cane fly rods. I still don't cast well, but a cane rod is a thing of beauty.

 

[ssmc]

Even though I don't reside int he USA, here's what I would do (we can all dream, eh?)

- satisfy all my GAS needs (fun, easy and, with that sort of green, guilt-free!)

- donate $$$ to IFAW and other deserving charities

- buy another motorcycle or two or three (got out of it in '97 and been having pangs of regret ever since)

- buy a nice house


- put whatever it takes toward saving the greatest camera of them all: a robotic mission to boost the Hubble Space Telescope into a high orbit where it can one day be retrieved by some future spacecraft and put in the Smithsonian where it belongs, instead of cheaping out and burning it up over the Pacific...

 

[Al Patterson]

That's why i Bought 2

One winner and one quaranteed loser?

 

[rizraz]

.... pay all my debts, including my wife's (that's not that much)
.... put some in a trust for my lovely daughter
.... save some for my wife
.... buy a very large fridge/freezer
.... buy loads of film, to fill the fridge
.... quit my job
.... see the world and capture the moment....... let's see where do I want to go, Laos, Myanmar, Bangladesh again, India, Nepal etc......


anyway, the chance of me winning is zilch, but it doesn't hurt to dream 🙂

 

[akptc]

Clearly, the winner should buy all RFF members with 1500+ posts a black Leica MP with the latest Noctilux 😉

 

[Mike Ip]

If I were to win...
I would not take the lump sum, instead I would take the annual payments. I know myself too well. And if I were to take the lump sum, I'd some how spend it all.

but the short list...
- I'd establish a photojournalism scholarship for students wanting to attend Western Kentucky University (where I went to school).
- I'd donate some to some war veterans charities (as I am one myself).
- I'd probably buy a couple new pairs of shoes and some more clothes.
- I'd buy a one bedroom apartment in the West Village in Manhattan.

I would not quit my job.
I will not spend extravagantly.
I would invest a lot of the money.

I would look at it as "additional income" rather than winnings and try to justify my earning it.

 

[huntjump]

If I were to win...
I would not take the lump sum, instead I would take the annual payments. I know myself too well. And if I were to take the lump sum, I'd some how spend it all.

going to buy an island or two? Maybe a small country? I cant even comprehend how i'd blow 300+ million in my lifetime.

 

[Todd.Hanz]

I'd spend most of it on women, drugs and booze.

...probably just waste the rest

I'd give some to freeranger so he could spend it on women, drugs and booze...best idea and most honest person yet!

Todd

 

[Phil_F_NM]

I'd pay off my credit card, student loans, the loans of my little sister, pay for her wedding, pay the taxes on the half billion, then hopefully have just enough left over for a burger, fries and a large frosty at Wendy's. (no our loans aren't that much but the taxes on that winning are going to be atrocious!) 😀
(we need a smiley for hyperbole)

Phil Forrest

 

[ChrisPlatt]

I'd buy some new work clothes and bring home a sack of White Castles.
Might get the old jalopy pinstriped and oh yeah, we could use a new shower curtain.

Chris

 

[Mike Ip]

going to buy an island or two? Maybe a small country? I cant even comprehend how i'd blow 300+ million in my lifetime.

I wouldn't think so either, but I've heard all the stories of so many lottery winners blowing through their winnings so fast. I just wouldn't want to become that.

 

[Phil_F_NM]

Oooh! Ooh! I'd fly Iron Maiden in to town then fly friends in and we'd all have a private concert. (that's how i could blow over a hundred million easy)

Phil Forrest

 

[clicker]

I would buy every rrf member the camera of their choice and give the rest to charity.

 

[Al Patterson]

I'd buy some new work clothes and bring home a sack of White Castles.

Chris

You could probagly BUY White Castle, the chain, not just a large sack...

 

[randolph45]

the odds

the odds

I don't think it works that way Cal... 😀

If I remember correctly the odds on winning the top jackpot on an old 3 reel Liberty Bell slot machine is 1 in 87,000.Each pull is considered a complete game,no change in odds at all.The odds for winning the Publishers Clearing House Sweepstakes is even greater then your mega lotto🙂 Plus the chance of multiple winning number holders is greater because of overselling total number combinations

 

[Keith]

I would buy every rrf member the camera of their choice and give the rest to charity.

I don't think charity would get much from that deal! 😛

 

[mrisney]

I'd buy a Holga 120WPC 6x12, a shipping crate of Porta 160, and give the rest away.

 

[Al Patterson]

I don't think charity would get much from that deal! 😛

Charity as defined by RFF, sure, but charity defined a defferent way......


With half a bilion pre tax US dollars, you can define charity as you want....