Self-Made Billionaire
Tenebrous_D
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What are YOU going to do when you win the Mega Millions drawing tonight?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-mega-millions-jackpot-nears-1-billion-hours-100812956--sector.html
https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-mega-millions-jackpot-nears-1-billion-hours-100812956--sector.html
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buy my own island and allow only my MFP friends to visit.
I'll even provide transportation. 4 -
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i wouldn't tell anybody i won.
prob pay off some debt first. for me then my brother and my dad.
i think i'd keep working at my job- but maaaaaan i'd become so increasingly difficult to work with.
like i'd want to see how far i could take things before they tried to discipline or otherwise transfer me to another division. then on the day it happens i'd quit.
i'd go out and get a 1978 pace car edition corvette.
i'd get a really awful toupee.
lots of cargo shorts.
i feel like those things specifically ^ along with the money and i could really indulge in a good old fashioned mid-life crisis.10 -
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The local orphanage would have an amazing Christmas6
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1. Hire a lawyer
2. Hire an accountant
3. Pay off all my debts
4. Set up a trust fund for family who thinks I owe them something, they get no more than the non taxable amount once.
5. Buy some property, set up turrets, and build my own fortress with all the cars I want
6. Travel all over so when the feds raid the fortress for no reason I'm not there.5 -
Buy a bunch of kittens.
Build a cool cat house.
Build a house for each of my boys so when they annoy me I can say "go to your house right now!"
Have a chef and a maid.0 -
Tenebrous_D wrote: »Keto_N_Iron wrote: »buy my own island and allow only my MFP friends to visit. I'll even provide transportation.
That's a reality show I would watch. MFP Island. Daily competitions between Chit Chat and Fun & Games for supremacy.
That's a whole other topic right there...
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I would pay off my bills and my families bills. I would quit my job either buy some land in Scotland or Ireland maybe both with no one around me and have some sheep and huskies. And I would buy my own private island and name it Sparkles Island. I'd also donate to St Judes and the shrines hospital for kids. I'd also give to local animal shelters. Buy my mom new house and a new car and set up college funds for my 3 nephews.1
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I would create a YouTube channel about my son and I chronicling our search for histories greatest lost treasure and mythical creatures1
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Retire.
Buy my daughters all a home and set up retirement accounts for them.
Buy a second home for my wife and I. Somewhere warm.
Set up College Funds for my grandaughters.
Divide the balance into three accounts. Third to myself, third to my wife and third into the Household account.
Relax.
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Not that I would, but if I did, I would buy a house, pay off my parents' debts and invest the rest to give me monthly interest payouts that I could use to supplement my income1
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hmm...
Pay off all my bills
Pay off all the bills of everyone in my immediate family (parents and siblings)
Pay off my parent's house
Build my own house (with a built in home theater)
Give each of my brothers and sisters a chunk for themselves and their families (or future families)
Donate to a few charities that are close to my heart
Set up a college fund, trust fund, retirement fund, and any other kind of fund, for my baby girl
Set up my retirement
Travel the world
Get my home gym and a personal trainer that comes to my house
Get a maid service
Move my friend and her family across the country to live next door to me
So many things..... haha
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Try and keep it quiet...build a house with some land...get the best therapist for my son with autism...get involved with a great charity to help others.1
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You're going to be the same person after winning as before, only after winning you'll get into a billion times the trouble as you were in before.0
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Pay for college for kids0
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Share it with people I like, way too much money for one person2
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Disappear2
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I'm gonna become part owner of the OKC Thunder. Buy my girls a badass house with a pool and an art studio for us to paint in. Give my sis some cash so she will leave her loser husband. Make sure all my parents' medical bills are paid. Get some cute doggos. Pay someone to do my house cleaning and grocery shopping. Buy all the seasons of Beverly Hills 90210 on dvd. Go get a shitton of lipo. 😊 Find a hot pool boy to feed me grapes and stuff.4
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Purchase mfp and turn it into the dating site it was always meant to be. Haha12
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Do exactly what i do now, except id do it for free. I would fix up houses and give them away to people that need them.....id train people for free, and the kids i work with could get much more of my time.7
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Tenebrous_D wrote: »What are YOU going to do when you win the Mega Millions drawing tonight?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-mega-millions-jackpot-nears-1-billion-hours-100812956--sector.html
$168 Million after all the deductions from $1billion is still a tidy penny. I'd keep $68M to disperse and use per my needs and desires. $100M I would take to Goldman Sachs to be divided into sets of $50M, for investments, one for profit and the other to fund my philanthropic interests, using exchange risk hedging +/- @6-8 months maturity, so all I will be spending/allotting are my ROIs.2 -
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@sarahbums If you took the lump sum (smarter way) you would be out of money pretty quick, after fed taxes you are left with 406 million. Texas has no state income on taxes.
What it actually comes out to be after taxes by state:
https://twocents.lifehacker.com/how-much-youll-actually-take-home-from-the-900m-mega-m-1829841029
What type of person are you?:
A: Playing the lottery is for fools, you will never win.
B: pffft, I don't usually play but for two bucks at a chance for a billon I will play.
C: OMG OMG I play it ALL the time! You gotta be in it to win it, I spend as much money as I can on lottery! I am going to win!!!1!!! I know it!!!!
Good thinking.777Gemma888 wrote: »divided into sets of $50M, for investments
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As much as I'd like to live lavishly I know a year after winning the lottery I'd just be sitting on an exercise ball in an empty suburban tract home with no furniture trying to make sense of why one person deserves having all that money in their possession. It would conflict my inner dharma.4
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Wait. If you win it then you're not self-made.1
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.... while wiping your tears on $100 bills.As much as I'd like to live lavishly I know a year after winning the lottery I'd just be sitting on an exercise ball in an empty suburban tract home with no furniture trying to make sense of why one person deserves having all that money in their possession. It would conflict my inner dharma.
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