You're a Winner!

[Turd Fergueson]

I didn't find this in search, so here we go...

You discover that the Mega Millions ticket you bought in the end of March was one of the 3 winning tickets. $640 Million split 3 ways is ~$212 Million. You went for the cash payout and after taxes you are $70,000,000.00 in the black.

What would you do in the first 30 days?

Buy a new house out in the middle of nowhere, complete with a shooting range, some livestock maybe, and a well. Buy some ATVs and a helicopter, and a shitload of fuel. Upgrade my gun collection to a great degree. Build an underground bunker. Buy a ridiculous amount of ammo. Buy enough food to last 20 people for at least ten years.
Invest. Open several businesses, ranging from picking up a couple McDonald's franchises, open a few bars, invest in promising, up and coming companies.

[bcvojak]

I would buy some art.

A Picasso, or a Garfunkel.

I'd buy the Bryant Street Theater. . . . . . And eat Kraft dinners. . . . . .

[0122358]

Fund lobbyists to remove a certain 1986 law and make those NFA cards a reality.

To me...not far enough...repleal NFA34

Ok ive thought about this...origionally it was 100 million in my fantasy but 70 will work.

First i would find a way to make it grow while i finish school so id have about 5 years for it to grow before i got serious. Before all of this, get hooked up with appropiate lawyers and all that.

Buy all my dream vehicles and outfit them accordingliy: 1991 K5 Blazer, 1970 Nova, 1981 Chevy S10 w/ diesel conversion, 1985 Chevy Diesel K20, and a early 1990s Jeep Cherokee for my future wife.

Buy 50 acres of land in the mountians of Idaho and build my awsome wood cabin style retreat. Have it hooked to the grid, but have it completly ready to self sustain with solar, wind, and hydro power from a nearby stream. Its own garden and small lifestock area

Own all the firearms i want with as much training as i can get.

Finish getting my degrees and then get degrees in gunsmithing, electrical, carpentry, auto mechianics, and some medical training.

Get in shape

in addition to my cabin, have an additional shop that mimics a mehcanics garage with all nessesary tools to overhual all my vehicles with every sparte part imaginable and its own hydralic lift. It would be two stories with a bar and mini gym up stairs.

Oh and my retreat will have its own 2000 yard range

Get my Internet buissnesses fianlly running.

Get a couple of good suits and as many movies, music cds, and vedio games as i can get.

Buy some land in in Washington both in the Olympics and Cascades and buy a small plot in Montana.

Get my pilots licence and buy a small chopper...maybe.

Pay off my parents debt and house.

Give all my best firends 50k, family 50k

Give charity to NRA, March of Dimes, Wounded Warrior, ZS, and Gun Owners of America

Plus a few other things.

I did the math...i could build my retreat and stock it for 20 people for 10 years for about 10-12 million.

[bbg2d]

1. Keep things quiet
2. Lawyer/accountant up, get invested and clear debts
3. create a shell corporation/business entity to hide my involvement
4. Buy a large plot of land with potential for wind, solar, and hydroelectric power
5. Build my dream home http://www.monolithic.com/topics/homes, following the KISS principle on all systems
6. Buy/customize my ideal BOV (Saracen/Stryker/Unimog)
7. Stockpile non-perishable supplies/ammo
8. Upgrade my existing arsenal to ideal conditions
9. Buy a small, secure garage in town for my street-only car(s)
10. Install high-quality satellite communications/internet

[shrimpwd]

1. Lawyer/Accountant blah, blah, blah...
2. Place $50m into income-generating accounts and such. (even 1% return after expenses is fine, but I'd love higher yield)*
3. Find a modest size piece of land (would 42 acres be enough for everything, or would I need 420?) that I can build a dozen or so houses on, with a basement system that connects to each other. Off-grid. Each close relative and true friend gets offered a house. No donations, only this option.
4. Stock said houses for a year or 2. All needs, plus a vehicle of their choice. (regular DD type thing)
5. $1m donation to each of the two charities I care about.
(about $60m in now? with at least $500k/year income, after taxes, and without working)
6. Computer network server for the land. I think a Petabyte of storage (RAID, plus a backup a few hundred yards away) would do.
7. Outfit my computer room with at least three nice systems in a U-shape, each with three monitors (23-24" 1080p each would work).
8. Purchase books for a private library on the land. (This could be very expensive...)
9. Keep $1m for other fun uses I think of, but in 20 different accounts. (keeps me from splurging a bit, if I only bring one card at a time with me?)
10. hike the AT. perhaps a few times.
11. build a full-size replica of Serenity. (including Jayne's room)
12. whatever I feel like doing.

*money to be invested indefinitely (or to a specific date, like 50 years from now or something, or if the returns aren't still worthwhile. Inflation could possibly kill the interest at some point.), interest going to me, then to a specified group of people/charities when, you know...

[Tater Raider]

You can be pretty self-sufficent on 1 acre of land (including house), though 5 is a lot more comfortable. 15 is what I'd like.