1 Billion

404 ERROR wrote:

No need to undercut. We can team up and split the duties, monopolize this!

Deal. That works for me !!!

ThunderLund78 wrote:

Invest a good amount into personal security – you’ll need it.

That is one thing that has always bothered me. Some states you can claim winnings without your name being published. Others you can not.

fishthumper wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>ThunderLund78 wrote:</div>
Invest a good amount into personal security – you’ll need it.

That is one thing that has always bothered me. Some states you can claim winnings without your name being published. Others you can not.

I think you now can claim anonymously in MN HOWEVER with an enormous amount of money like this it should be done through a third party. You find the best and biggest law firm there is in the twin cities and become a client.

I’d quickly become among the most miserable folks on earth. My new job would be giving the money away(after keeping a few mill for myself). Imagine all the deadbeat panhandlers you’d need to sort through/screen just to get to the truly needy. I’d probably buy a bunch of businesses and turn them into non-profits(with the intention of burning through the money slower, while training folks in marketable trades & skills). So, in summary, if I’m gonna win that money, I’d better get busy hunting and fishing right now, ’cause I ain’t gonna have the time after I win.

The idea of having boats and cabins on multiple lakes sounds like every man’s dream, until you think of the logistics…It would be a nightmare to manage them all, or even manage to have someone manage them all.

Your life would be far less stressful and far more fun blowing some of that money at resorts.

There’s nothing easier than walking into a full service resort with a pocketful of $100 bills. They have the boats, the beds and the beers. Just bring money and let them handle the logistics

B-man wrote:

The idea of having boats and cabins on multiple lakes sounds like every man’s dream, until you think of the logistics…It would be a nightmare to manage them all, or even manage to have someone manage them all.

Your life would be far less stressful and far more fun blowing some of that money at resorts.

There’s nothing easier than walking into a full service resort with a pocketful of $100 bills. They have the boats, the beds and the beers. Just bring money and let them handle the logistics

Agree. And then just purchase land and a nice cabin. Not some wild multi million dollar cabin but a modest one that can be easily cared for

I don’t think you would have to be miserable. Smart but not miserable.
Look at a guy like Shaq. He gives money away all the time. Sometimes he just walks into a store and buys some things for kids or a needy person on the street. We would be less famous than he is. I have a pretty small family and network of friends now at my age. Take care of those ones and take off for a while. I know a guy that sold his first tech company for a 3/4 of a billion at 35 years old. Dude definitely not miserable. Smart but not miserable.
It would be pretty easy to make it all go away if you wanted to.

B-man wrote:

The idea of having boats and cabins on multiple lakes sounds like every man’s dream, until you think of the logistics…It would be a nightmare to manage them all, or even manage to have someone manage them all.

Your life would be far less stressful and far more fun blowing some of that money at resorts.

There’s nothing easier than walking into a full service resort with a pocketful of $100 bills. They have the boats, the beds and the beers. Just bring money and let them handle the logistics

Oh there would be plenty of destination fishing trips to be had.

I don’t think I’d have a problem telling people no, and would enjoy it for a few in particular lol. I’d buy a few nice properties for my family around the western world and AirBnB them when I’m not around. Take care of my immediate family, and then offer lines of credit to close friends and extended family at 1-3% interest, and hire friends/family to run my rental and lending contract businesses. At 40 years old you have a pretty good idea who to trust, and the lawyer and accountant on staff would be tasked to audit them. But I agree with the previous post on setting it up for revenue streams for my grand kids grand kids.

I could care less about investing it, bigger problem is spending it.
I want my last check to bounce, the one for my funeral.

We talked about this before but I’d up my game a bit.
I’d customize a new 737 w/ pilot on call of course
150 footer in the South of France and a Chalet in Monte Carlo
Lodge in Yellowstone
Villa in Italy
Gotta have someplace to stay in Thailand
Homes all over the US, all over

Yes, Security, Trusted Accounting firm to pay my bills, Merican Eagle to drive me around.
What more ya need?

After that, I’d really start spending money.

When your that rich everything is basically free. Everything!

Definitely would pay off all the debts for me and my family, pay off a few friend’s houses, that kind of stuff.

I’d buy a place in St. John high up on the mountain with a westward view to St. Thomas to watch the sunsets. Aim to more or less live there in the winter. Buy a nice saltwater boat and a nice dinghy, moor them in Cruz Bay and Coral Bay so I can go fishing and visit the BVI when we want. Puttzing around the north side of St. john on a daily basis with my own boat would be amazing.

Probably buy a place in Northern MN or NW Ontario. Upgrade homes in the cities here as we’d live here until the kids get through high school.

Travel. A lot.

Do every amazing fishing trip I’ve ever wanted to do. Every year. Great Slave, Tree River, Taltson Bay, Cedros Island, Alaska, etc.

And be ready to spend a lot of money flying friends/family around with us, as we’d get bored traveling by ourselves.

B-man wrote:

The idea of having boats and cabins on multiple lakes sounds like every man’s dream, until you think of the logistics…It would be a nightmare to manage them all, or even manage to have someone manage them all.

Your life would be far less stressful and far more fun blowing some of that money at resorts.

There’s nothing easier than walking into a full service resort with a pocketful of $100 bills. They have the boats, the beds and the beers. Just bring money and let them handle the logistics

Ok after thinking about it your right except I would still want my own boat with all the goodies.

Dream all you guys want,, I bought the winner a couple hours ago.

If you take the lump sum option, there will be a federal tax of 24% on your winnings — about $143.2 million. You’d also owe more at tax time, another 13% or about $77.5 million, according to the USA Mega website, which would bring your total winnings to $375,958,045.10

Tough to make ends meet paying those taxes.

Looks like it going to 1.5 billion ! Until the cash is in the hand most people don’t know how this will change your life. Because it will most definitely change lives. For a few it will be good and the rest, well the problems that come with receiving big money are well documented. Now where is my winning ticket LOl

I’d arrange fishing contests for $1 million winner takes all – biggest fish. No electronics, motors/boats or gear manufactured after 1980 allowed.

One for open water and one for hard water.

Anyone caught cheating will be tatooed “cheater” on their forehead.

Investing? Saving? Planning for future generations? No thanks. I came into this world with nothing and I will go out the same way. You need to look no further than the gossip rags to see what a pile of generational cash does to some. I will buy a home for relatives and enough cash to retire then they are on their own. Not another dime ever.

Bunch for the food shelves, homeless shelters, battered women / kids homes.

Rest is mine and stay out of the way while I blow it.

Don Meier wrote:

Looks like it going to 1.5 billion ! Until the cash is in the hand most people don’t know how this will change your life. Because it will most definitely change lives. For a few it will be good and the rest, well the problems that come with receiving big money are well documented. Now where is my winning ticket LOl

No ticked for me.
I don’t need to be looking over my shoulder the rest of my life.

The wife bought 10 tickets and we got a number and the powerball for a whopping $4. You know, we should get the people of IDO all together to invest as a group. I think we could have a lot of fun blowing that money together! LOL We used to do it at work, but havent done it in years because the gal that did it retired. Perhaps she won and never told us LOL

CaptainMusky wrote:

The wife bought 10 tickets and we got a number and the powerball for a whopping $4. You know, we should get the people of IDO all together to invest as a group. I think we could have a lot of fun blowing that money together! LOL We used to do it at work, but havent done it in years because the gal that did it retired. Perhaps she won and never told us LOL

I’m in. I got 20 on it.

Eelpoutguy wrote:

I could care less about investing it, bigger problem is spending it.
I want my last check to bounce, the one for my funeral.

We talked about this before but I’d up my game a bit.
I’d customize a new 737 w/ pilot on call of course
150 footer in the South of France and a Chalet in Monte Carlo
Lodge in Yellowstone
Villa in Italy
Gotta have someplace to stay in Thailand
Homes all over the US, all over

Yes, Security, Trusted Accounting firm to pay my bills, Merican Eagle to drive me around.
What more ya need?

After that, I’d really start spending money.

When your that rich everything is basically free. Everything!

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YEP!!
But then once again,

“I could care less about investing it, bigger problem is spending it.
I want my last check to bounce, the one for my funeral.”

I’d throw away all of my socks and buy 100 pairs of new ones. Never have mismatched socks again.

A guy can dream….

My luxury item would be a fresh chocolate torte cake for me every day. At the end of the week, send all the uneaten cake to a church, nursing home, hospital, etc.

Bass Pundit wrote:

My luxury item would be a fresh chocolate torte cake for me every day. At the end of the week, send all the uneaten cake to a church, nursing home, hospital, etc.

Guy wins a billion dollars, sends a half eaten torte cake to poor people

Sorry, left a softball there

Bass Pundit wrote:

My luxury item would be a fresh chocolate torte cake for me every day. At the end of the week, send all the uneaten cake to a church, nursing home, hospital, etc.

Not sure any of those places would even accept a partially eaten cake in this day and age.

MX1825 wrote:

Not sure any of those places would even accept a partially eaten cake in this day and age.

I dont know who would take that at any time. Gross.

MX1825 wrote:

Not sure any of those places would even accept a partially eaten cake in this day and age.

Back at several of my past jobs, you could get rid of anything by leaving it in the employee lounge that is closest to the engineering and/or software dev group. It’s like an alligator farm at feeding time, whatever I would throw in there was gobbled up in seconds.

My father was a teacher, principal, and supt of schools and his contention was that you could put anything in the teacher’s lounge and it would disappear within minutes.

MX1825 wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>Bass Pundit wrote:</div>
My luxury item would be a fresh chocolate torte cake for me every day. At the end of the week, send all the uneaten cake to a church, nursing home, hospital, etc.

Not sure any of those places would even accept a partially eaten cake in this day and age.

Anyone remember the Seinfeld episode when they tried to donate all the muffin “stumps”…..

One of the most memorable episodes for me

#1 Just because I were to get a fresh cake every day wouldn’t mean I ate a fresh piece of cake every day. The cakes that had pieces taken from them would go to employee lounges. That is precisely what I had in mind, actually. If your privileged ass turns its nose up at a high-quality, expensive cake because somebody took a piece, and it’s a day or two old, that is your business. Lots of people would be grateful for the gesture. I find the thought of putting an edible high-quality cake in the garbage grossly wasteful. Beyond gross, in fact, I find the thought morally disgusting.