If you win tonight the 1.6 Billion $, how will you spend the money?

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Some options:
1. Leica M10 (in pure gold with diamond red Leica logo?)
2. Retire.
3. Dump all cameras you own.
4. Do nothing ever again.

Hm. This does not look good! Maybe we should NOT win the lottery! :D
 
Go on holiday with one camera, one lens, no backup & a bag of film (tri-X & FP4+). The camera....my M4 black paint, 35mm (doesn't matter, pre-a summilux, summicron or summaron). Oh 1.6B...wait....maybe buy back the black paint M2 i sold for $1400. :rolleyes: & a steel rimmed summilux w/ ollux hood. modest replacements. & print until the cows come home
 
I'd donate $250 million to my college's endowment so it could get permanently out of deficit financing. Another $50 million to full-ride scholarships for underprivileged students.

Then I'd likely spend a couple million or so on a new home (preferably up in the Catskills, right off a trout stream like the Delaware River), with a modest sport car (say, an Alfa) for summer and a practical AWD Subaru for winter.

After that, an Alpa 12 TC would be in my immediate future.

And I'd retire to paint, make photographs, and fly fish; and I'm guessing my wife would retire too so she could go full-time into ceramics.
 
I've never bought a lottery ticket, but if someone handed me the winning ticket, I'd buy a enough land to secede and make my own country.
 
After paying the taxes, I'd give at least three quarters of it to the Democrats to help them defeat the Republicans in the upcoming elections.

And I could use some new underwear.
 
I'd pay off my student loans (as well as those of my close friends and girlfriend), give my parents enough money to retire, set up trusts for my siblings, buy property and build a house in Oregon, buy an M10-P and every Leica lens ending in "lux," set up a veterans scholarship at my law school, travel, donate a bunch to the SPCA, and definitely get a few more dogs.
 
1 - Retire.
2 - Set up trust fund for my granddaughter.
3 - Buy my sensei a new dojo.
4 - Some worthy charities.

That's about it. I'm not exactly financially OK, but I'm OK overall. Good life. No complaints.
 
I will hunt down and buy every single collectible Leica ever made. I will unseal every special wrapping. I will put actual film in each one. I will turn the knobs, install a strap, remove the bottom protector plastic. I will fire the shutter, repeatedly.

Each one will then be put on Ebay at a buy it now price of $18.00, free shipping.
 
I would never work in a job I do not like again...and I would hope my wife would do the same. I would photograph a lot more. I might open a gallery and show exactly what I want to show even if it costs me money. I would make photo books of people`s work that I like...even if they did not sell. I would give some to friends and family of course (well, the ones that remain normal). Travel a little more... donate a little.

As far as cameras... I`d probably have too many. Fujifilm GFX-50R and all of the lenses to start with. A Leica M10-D and 35mm & 50mm Summilux lenses. A few iPhone XS-es...as my disposable cameras.

I live in Santiago, Chile now, but i am still in an office pool at my old job in NYC. My jackpot would be significantly less, but still enough for me.
 
Being a cheap Bohemian, I would not spend it.

Gas station was a mob scene today with fools buying tickets. It was on TV poor families spend $410 annually on tickets , middle class $1xx.oo. Top families do not buy, neither do I. I am glad someone else is paying my taxes.
 
I'd keep $1million for myself and set up a foundation to donate over time the rest. Or heck maybe Blackrock would sell their stake in Leica?
 
With that much money it would be hard to spend even the interest.

I'd travel and give away most of it over time.

The one thing most people don't think about is with that much money material goods mean nothing because you will never want for anything that you can't just buy immediately.
 
" If you win tonight the 1.6 Billion $, how will you spend the money?"

Buy the most collectible version of a Leica M10......that's about how much they cost, right?
 
  1. Pay the taxes.
  2. Secure my retirement fund.
  3. Donate to worthy causes.
  4. Discuss with my partner whether we want to upgrade our living quarters.
  5. Help fund my brother's new business.
  6. Donate a reasonable amount to support politicians whom I don't want to see strangled for the good of mankind.
  7. Donate a reasonable amount to support both the local schools and support institutions for Special Children.
  8. Maybe buy small toy or two ... That's the hardest one, because I already have all the toys I want.

All in the appropriate measure.
 
lynnb said:
$1.6b? You could almost buy a house in Sydney for that.
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Funny because it's true... :D

Beyond all the usual stuff (pay off the house, buy a 35/f2.8 Summaron etc...) I'd probably set up a fund to purchase and manage high conservation value land under private ownership (outside the reserve estate).
 
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