discussion You win $454,065,044 on Powerball - 10 things you're spending it on in 2023?

[jakeisphat]

1. Student Loans
2. House + Car - Paid Off
3. Jaguar F-Type
4. 1920s Tudor Estate worth $4,000,000
5. Whips for my b*****s
6. Opening a gin distillery 
7. Birkin Bag for madre
8. Porsche 911 for padre
9. Vacation to Malé, Maldives
10. Renaissance tickets at NOLA 

[venuss]

I'd hire a financial planner and start to invest, then buy a house by the beach and retire 

[Devin]

Honestly, I live a regular life and slowly upgrade things like I didn’t win $$$ but

 

1. New place + car 
2. Upgrade wardrobe
3. Give my mom $5M
4. Travel every summer
5. Invest & save the rest 

[99sandthe2000s]

1. paying off debt

2. retire my mother [helping select family/loved ones]

3. investment/financial planning

4. buy a home

5. buy everything in my amazon, etsy, and ebay carts

6. travel

7. donate

 

... live wealthily ever after

[Roman_xxi]

I’d immediately start getting into real estate and flip the houses in rhe near future 

[gardendreams]

Besides paying off my debts and renovating my house..

 

I would want to make a community center in my neighborhood just for fun things and maybe start buying houses near me so I can let my friends live rent free! 

[Vespertine]

Art  

[Sabrina Carpenter]

1. Clothes, bags, etc.

2. House

3. Car

4. Travelling

5. Investing

6. Sharing it with my family

7. Donating to animal charities

8. Plastic Surgery

9-10. Miscellaneous stuff 

 

just realized how life changing winning that much money is omg

[jakeisphat]

2 minutes ago, onapearl said:

 

I think about this kind of thing a lot. 

Me too. 

[God_Donna]

A lot of food 

[Johnny Jacobs]

Donate 10 mil to charities 

Buy a mansion in Calabasas

Buy a range rover and a g wagon 

Give my family a few millions 

Live my life care free

[loveisdead9582]

1) Pay off what little debt I have left. 
2) Leave the country for a bit while I get my accountant to settle everything. 

3) Pay off my parents mortgage

4) pay off my siblings student loan debt

5) Have most of the money invested and/or diversified in various high interest accounts. 
6) Get enough to cover a California king bed with hundreds and roll around naked in that money. 
7) upgrade my car to a newer model (with self driving preferred)

8) change number to new unlisted private number (this should really be number 1)

9)tour Europe and maybe Japan?
 10) upgrade wardrobe. Nothing too flashy but nice quality outfits

11) buy a couple of small places in lovely locations and have a rental company use them for Airbnb’s when I’m not staying there.

12) legally change my name and make my primary residence in a place where I can work part time so I don’t get too ridiculously entrapped in the whole “lifestyles of the rich and the famous” mentality. 
13) have the accountant set it up so that I could live quite comfortably off the interest alone of all my investments

14) donate money to lgbtq+ charities. 
15) get Botox again. This time not at a place that serves cocktails while they give it to you. 
16) buy and/or open a bar or two. I’ve been working on concepts for a long time. 
17) spend a year just traveling and going to concerts and festivals. 

 

[Onyxmage]

1) Hire a wigologist to help me with my hair issues.

2) Tear down 2 bars that I hate in west hollywood

3) Pay off the debt of all my family members except the one sister I hate.

4) Donate none of it to charity.

5) Buy Tinashe her deserved Grammy

 

I cant think of anything else right now.

[CottageHore]

1. Student loans

 

2. Paying off my parents’ mortgage and taking my entire family on a vacation, but first I’d start just randomly covering the bill at family dinners or any time I do things with my family, making them wonder wtf is going on until they finally figure out that I won the lottery.

 

3. A modest cottage in the woods with a ton of property for gardens and a small hobby farm, put a pond in as well, pay for amazing landscaping, perhaps some swans for the pond.

 

4. Invest it

 

5. Put $2 million dollars aside for each family member or friend who I like and who deserves the money.

 

6. Charity work, specifically for the homeless.

 

7. My art, buy all the equipment and connections I need to make my art successful.

 

8. New car, I don’t care what it is just as long as it’s a new car for once.

 

9. Open a beautiful, big coffee shop with fire places, comfortable seating, and a designated area for meditation and yoga + an upstairs studio that artists can host wellness events at, such as an art class, sound bath meditations, yoga classes, daily nap time.

 

10. Whatever comes to mind as long as I’m spending wisely and not being greedy and hoarding it all to myself.

 

Edited September 2, 2023 by CottageHore

[CottageHore]

13 minutes ago, loveisdead9582 said:

1) Pay off what little debt I have left. 
2) Leave the country for a bit while I get my accountant to settle everything. 

3) Pay off my parents mortgage

4) pay off my siblings student loan debt

5) Have most of the money invested and/or diversified in various high interest accounts. 
6) Get enough to cover a California king bed with hundreds and roll around naked in that money. 
7) upgrade my car to a newer model (with self driving preferred)

8) change number to new unlisted private number (this should really be number 1)

9)tour Europe and maybe Japan?
 10) upgrade wardrobe. Nothing too flashy but nice quality outfits

11) buy a couple of small places in lovely locations and have a rental company use them for Airbnb’s when I’m not staying there.

12) legally change my name and make my primary residence in a place where I can work part time so I don’t get too ridiculously entrapped in the whole “lifestyles of the rich and the famous” mentality. 
13) have the accountant set it up so that I could live quite comfortably off the interest alone of all my investments

14) donate money to lgbtq+ charities. 
15) get Botox again. This time not at a place that serves cocktails while they give it to you. 
16) buy and/or open a bar or two. I’ve been working on concepts for a long time. 
17) spend a year just traveling and going to concerts and festivals. 

 

I also said “pay off my parents’ mortgage” is this a zillenial curse? 

[truthteller]

start a company to keep buying properties and rent them all out for stable constant income while writing off taxable income with questionable donation costs 

[Alldeezy]

Buy a 2nd car (my car is getting old)

Buy the best gaming PC/set Up

Pay Allday to play a personal gig for me and my friends 

Get My Own Place Back in Melbourne 

Tickets for VIP, Front Row Tickets! 

Put the rest $ Away

[uusagii]

New house, student loans, drugs, dark web assassins, personal chef, a building

Edited September 2, 2023 by uusagii

[Breathe On Moi]

1. take care of family and set them up for success.

2. invest in real estate to continue my wealth. 
3. invest/create a brand for legacy sake.

4. disappear. 

[aesthetic bih]

Gonna hire someone who's smart with finance and investments because I'm scared to hold that much money

 

Hire security personnel for sure.

 

Anyway, the first thing I'm gonna buy is a house and lot for sure.

 

[JustHoran]

1. Buy a house

2. Buy a new car

3. Pay off my moms car, possibly get her another new car

4. Buy my mom and loved ones a house (mom, brother, cousin, etc.)

5. Donate to charity 

6. Go and treat myself for a little shopping

7. Vacation

 

I'm not sure what else I'd do, but I would absolutely give back a lot to my loved ones and charities (animals, kids, LGBTQ+, planned parenthood)

Edited September 2, 2023 by JustHoran

[Triton]

- Get 3 lawyers, ask them all if they can handle an “inheritance my grandmother left me” (They keep each other in check)

- start a non profit for animals and pets (they truly deserve the world), maybe extend it to plants or some sort of greenery/gardening program 

- claim the ticket under the non profit (no taxes paid) 

- pay myself like 20K a month as an employee of said non profit or change that amount depending on what I need. 
- hire my partner and parents to work for that non profit and pay them what they need. 
 

Spending… 

 

- Pay my partners debt off 

- custom build a house for my parents, have them live comfortably 

- upgrade my devices/home/wardrobe but that’s a given, I wouldn’t take much from those millions

- I would just travel and take classes all over the world about whatever piques my interest. Like cooking in Italy, suit making in Seville Row, Haute Couture in Paris, wildlife in Australia. Just hire experts left and right on things I want to explore and know them well. 
- Start my own clothing line maybe. 
 

Oh yeah, pay Beyoncé for those damn visuals. 
 

[Maleficent]

I don't have a specific list, but the only thing I'm 100% certain of is that I'd make sure both my parents can retire and live comfortably. Not to sound corny, but they have helped me so much throughout the course of my life that it's the least I could do.

[loveisdead9582]

1 hour ago, CottageHore said:

I also said “pay off my parents’ mortgage” is this a zillenial curse? 

Nah. My parents are good to go without help. Pretty sure they’re almost done anyways (I don’t ask about their finances). I’d just do it as a thank you for their help through the years in my adult life. 

[ugo]

Start or buy a winery in Oregon making both pinot noir and chardonnay.