If you won the powerball lottery...First thing you'd buy?

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  • AgentOrangeJuice
    AgentOrangeJuice Posts: 1,069 Member
    I'd also start a business, hire a management company to run the business, secretly hire myself as a part time employee.
  • queenbea77
    queenbea77 Posts: 404 Member
    Vacation home after hiring a financial planner. Of course help the kids with their debt and give to charity.
  • Need2Exerc1se
    Need2Exerc1se Posts: 13,575 Member
    A new tractor.
  • lmr0528
    lmr0528 Posts: 427 Member
    A house. Nothing crazy expensive, just a nice house to start our family in. The I'd pay off all debt... student loans, car loans, credit cards. I'd give some to our families & friends, whatever they needed. My hubby would probably want to buy a new car just to have fun with, and Rally-X.
  • lborsato1
    lborsato1 Posts: 1,011 Member
    first thing ? Alot of drinks !!! LOL
  • JohnBarth
    JohnBarth Posts: 672 Member
    A burner phone, a good lawyer and good accountant.
  • salembambi
    salembambi Posts: 5,585 Member
    the very first thing id do is tell my mom she can have whatever she wants and will never work another day in her life

  • Bill8855
    Bill8855 Posts: 4,267 Member
    Showtime1978 wrote: »
    Bill8855 wrote: »
    A plane ticket somewhere where I can wrap my head around what just happened. Then a retainer for a lawyer.

    That sounds sad.... :(

    Lots of people all of a sudden that come looking for handouts. I'll take care of the people that are close to me. The others will have to fend for themselves. Not meant to be sad. Just realistic.
  • chivalryder
    chivalryder Posts: 4,391 Member
    Bill8855 wrote: »
    Showtime1978 wrote: »
    Bill8855 wrote: »
    A plane ticket somewhere where I can wrap my head around what just happened. Then a retainer for a lawyer.

    That sounds sad.... :(

    Lots of people all of a sudden that come looking for handouts. I'll take care of the people that are close to me. The others will have to fend for themselves. Not meant to be sad. Just realistic.

    Amen. I've heard many stories of lottery winners who suddenly became flooded with people begging for money - even complete strangers!

    I'd consider buying an island somewhere and building a home on it. I believe you can get one for $2MIL and then fully develop it for another $2MIL.

    That will make it hard for people to come bug you.
  • AgentOrangeJuice
    AgentOrangeJuice Posts: 1,069 Member
    A few years ago, a person I came to know after he won 365 million from the power ball, basically ruined his own life with the money. I wouldn't wish it on anyone.
  • HumboldtFred
    HumboldtFred Posts: 159 Member
    Obama's birth certificate.
  • Awolkawasaki
    Awolkawasaki Posts: 379 Member
    Planet fitness franchise
  • Showtime1978
    Showtime1978 Posts: 109 Member
    Thatfordguy85 wrote: »
    Planet fitness franchise
    Are you trolling? I hope so...

  • Timshel_
    Timshel_ Posts: 22,834 Member
    Nice acreage with a log cabin far away from people but close to a lake.
  • ActiveGuy81
    ActiveGuy81 Posts: 705 Member
    justinegibbons wrote: »
    I'm boring. I'd pay off my student loans and then buy houses for myself, my parents and my sister.

    I was thinking the same thing and paying those damn school loans off, then take care of the parents, they took care of me for 18 years.
  • cdcruizer05
    cdcruizer05 Posts: 1,006 Member
    My mom would probably want a new house, definitely do something special for my grandmother she's 82. Give like most of my cousins $1k-$5k each...tithe my 10% to church...finally would be able to open a used car dealership!
  • Misshodge64
    Misshodge64 Posts: 8,588 Member
    CHARITY FIRST, THAN PROPERTY PAID IN FULL THAN OFF TO PARIS
  • TheRoadDog
    TheRoadDog Posts: 11,788 Member
    My Financial Adviser lives 1,100 miles away. The first thing I would do is buy him a first class ticket and Hotel to meet with me, so that I could sit down with him and make a plan. Then I would start designing my new life and the lives of my family.
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  • MaxPower0102
    MaxPower0102 Posts: 2,654 Member
    More Powerball tickets!!!!!! Double-down, baby!!!!!!!
  • Follow_me
    Follow_me Posts: 6,120 Member
    All my MFP friends a cruise ticket. Let's have a party!
  • JoJoTheModern
    JoJoTheModern Posts: 20 Member
    Very first thing? An iPad for my bf because he really wants one. I'd give it to him then ask him to guess how I had the money for it. :D
  • iamlynn74
    iamlynn74 Posts: 502 Member
    Season tickets
  • wetwookie1988
    wetwookie1988 Posts: 149
    Beans and rice. They're recession-proof.
  • qn4bx9pzg8aifd
    qn4bx9pzg8aifd Posts: 258 Member
    A lawyer (if nothing else, to look over every word of any document I'd be signing that was associated with the winnings, let alone to create a very carefully structured will)...

    ...and then take care of my family...

    ...and then... in addition to creating college funds for my young relatives, and creating scholarships in honor of various friends and relatives who have passed, I'd be off to graduate school...
  • gamesandgains
    gamesandgains Posts: 640 Member
    I'd pay off my mothers debt, purchase property, new truck, invest. In that order.
  • WebFootFreak
    WebFootFreak Posts: 119 Member
    After becoming completely debt free... A new house. There's 6 of us in a 3br house now. I'd love to give the brood their own spaces.
  • sadiebrawl
    sadiebrawl Posts: 863 Member
    vacations vacation vacations!!!!
  • rockstarginaa
    rockstarginaa Posts: 1,529 Member
    Property
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