What would you do with $800,000,000?

[Cncguy]

How would you spend $800,000,000

[69CoronetRT]

Quickly, foolishly, with company and there would alcohol involved.

[Brock Lee]

I would travel the world until I got tired of it. Hit an area and stay until I saw all I wanted to see and move on. Europe would be of the most interest to me. Live in each country for a while and really experience them.

[Daytona R/T SE]

Vengeance.

[skip68]

I'd get some new tires on my truck.   

[sunfire69]

well after the dust settled.....I think...
1. booze and hookers then breakfast......
2. lease a large yacht and cruise around the Caribbean for a couple 3 months whit #1 above
3. a cost is no object 68 R/T
for starters...

[Mike DC]

 

[Ryan.C]

 

[Troy]

Well, technically, if you take the cash payout you'd have roughly $255,000,000 in the bank accounting for the difference in amortization (if you took payments) and the 50% you'll owe in taxes. Welcome to the 1%...

Troy

[WINGMAN]

  I will help other people that are in need , like going to the mission putting people to work. Give some money to my church. You cant take it with you so do some good in this world. Jay.

[chargerman69]

Cars, cars, cars and couple trucks
I wood buy out my block to farm

[polywideblock]

id buy myself a green card and move to the us         buy some land ,build a "giant" shed and start collecting seriously 

[68X426]

Buy an island ... likely Australia.

[ws23rt]

If I won I would be immediately scared.--- It would be a big change in life without buying anything. The first concern is I will lose a lot of my private life and need to hire advice for protection of my new funds to keep them from leaking or flowing away without my intent.
I can see a lot of uncomfortable days and years ahead in order to be rich.

I have a very large extended family that I will be reintroduced to that will want to hang out for old times/reunion sake.  Add to this will be lots of smiling faces from strangers that need to chat.

Like most I think I can enjoy the change in life that would come but I wonder how much of every waking day would be consumed with just dealing with the wealth.  Some are born with it and know the ropes.

After giving it due consideration --today I bought into the lottery for ten bucks. ---I hope it's not a big mistake for my future comfort. ---WTF I just may be able to handle it just fine.

[Patronus]

 My brother's GF's dad won the lotto once. Every swinging dick he ever knew showed up. Every past client sued, every relative, every jago lookin for a hand-out. It ruined him and sent him into the woods.
Be careful what you wish for...
But ya, hookers n' blow sounds pretty good. Will there be cigars? 

[skip68]

I'd buy this website from Troy and ban all those that don't worship me.       

[Back N Black]

I would buy all the General Lee's in the world and crush em!!!! 

[skip68]

I would buy all the General Lee's in the world and crush em!!!! 

[kab69440]

Write a big check to top shelf resto shop and send them my car and concept drawings. After that- gun show season, here I come!!!

[ws23rt]

I would buy the fast and loud show and make that guy with the beard tie it back to keep it out of my face.  Am I the only one?

[polywideblock]

I would buy the fast and loud show and make that guy with the beard tie it back to keep it out of my face.  Am I the only one?

don't you like the "hipster "look    do you  know how long it takes for him to put all the shit in it to make it stand out like that 

[Charger RT]

be very quiet about it and quit my job telling them it is because of medical reasons. Then move my wife and all three childrens families to a state where no one knows us.
Tim

[ws23rt]

I would buy the fast and loud show and make that guy with the beard tie it back to keep it out of my face.  Am I the only one?

don't you like the "hipster "look    do you  know how long it takes for him to put all the shit in it to make it stand out like that 

I do get his effort to do his look.

On a job I worked last year i met a guy from finland. He had a beard that passed his belt line but was braided and kept well and out of everyones faces. Btw this guy was in his early thirties and his face hair may have been from day one.

This guy on fast and loud moves his head all the time and the constant movement of the beard tends to distract. Someone needs to give him a good natured hug about him being himself and break the news gently.

[stripedelete]

Legally change my name. 
Move to another state.
Claim prize.
Move.
Change name back.
Blend in among the uber wealthy until the coast is clear.

My wife wouldn't put up the hookers, so, I may have to buy a divorce.

[skip68]

I want to buy one of those divorce things also.     
I'd buy a couple thousand acres in the forest.  Have a custom log home built and a 10,000 square foot shop garage with heat and a.c.       I'd also buy a private hideaway in Bora Bora.   

[Charger RT]

Legally change my name. 
Move to another state.
Claim prize.
Move.
Change name back.
Blend in among the uber wealthy until the coast is clear.

My wife wouldn't put up the hookers, so, I may have to buy a divorce.

I didn't think about the change the name thing. I like that. Change my hair color and shave too.

[Lennard]

I bought ten tickets today so we'll see.

[Mike DC]

             
Tons of lottery winners end up broke within a few years.  


It's a predictable story.  

The jackpot only comes once.  It's not a new yearly income.  
But the property taxes & lawyers & divorce/child payments are permanent new bills.
     

[Kern Dog]

I'd buy ad time to completely destroy the chances of a certain female politician.   

[Mopar Nut]

I would buy a new U.S. president and sell the other one.

[Mike DC]

 
$255m probably won't buy an election. 

But I like the idea.   

[skip68]

With that kind of money you can live off the interest alone.  You'd have to just be smart and don't live beyond your means.  
That's why so many musicians and actor's run into money trouble.  Eventually the large money checks stop coming in and the lifestyle doesn't stop.  
If you had $100 million you can't go out and spend half on a house.  The taxes, maintenance, utilities and other miscellaneous things will leave you broke in 20 years give or take.  
If I had $400 million I'd spend up to 5% ($20million) on an estate.
The interest alone on the rest could support my estate and lifestyle.  

[stripedelete]

Who needs interest?   225 million is 4.5 million per year for 50 years.

[jaak]

1. Buy a new Charger Hellcat.
2. Find/buy a 69 C500, F8 Green, of course.

After that 

[skip68]

Most people that get large sums of money such as inheritance or other (lottery) tend to stop buying clothes at Wal-Mart.    
Vacations are no longer RV camping in a campground.   
They are more likely to be long excursions around the world, vacation homes and expensive cars and yachts.   

[Mike DC]

Interest earnings will just keep pace with inflation.  If you're lucky.

It's gonna take more than that to hold onto the original amount of wealth you started with. 

[JT01]

HUGE!!!!!! car collection

[myk]

1. Send all 4 cars to Gas Monkey Garage for their treatment.
2. Buy a building big enough to store the 4 cars and their parts.
3. Buy a 2011 Mustang GT 5.0 as a daily driver.  
4. Guitar lessons.  
5. Drown myself in top shelf, mouth watering escorts/call girls.

That is all...

[polywideblock]

once you started splashing cash you won't have to worry about callgirls/ escorts   

   the "other "breed of female will be all over you , just look at Hugh   Hefner or any other millionaire "old guy " don't see to many of them alone unless by choice   

[skip68]

I wanna take this famous hot chick out on a date.   

[myk]

once you started splashing cash you won't have to worry about callgirls/ escorts   

   the "other "breed of female will be all over you , just look at Hugh   Hefner or any other millionaire "old guy " don't see to many of them alone unless by choice   

I wouldn't flash it around per se, I would just become a super regular client of a "reputable"  escort service.  I would also avoid non-escort women for the rest of my life for obvious reasons.  What can I say, I'm a simple man lol...

[Mike DC]

  
The jackpot is winding up near a billion now.


Wasn't there some clause in the Patriot Act that makes you exempt from all US laws once you get that rich?  
             

[Chad L. Magee]

I would live my life primarily as I do now....

[Old Moparz]

After paying a few bills & getting the cars done I'd buy a small brewery, rename it & set up a shuttle from my house to the brewery.  

[chargerman69]

http://www.msn.com/en-ca/entertainment/news/playboy-mansion-up-for-sale-for-dollar200-mn-report/ar-CClmX5?ocid=iehp
if your looking for a house

[ITSA426]

I might buy lottery tickets to win $1.3 billion.  All you have to do is buy one of each possible combination, and hope no one else lucks into a winning ticket so you don't have to share.

[Troy]

http://www.msn.com/en-ca/entertainment/news/playboy-mansion-up-for-sale-for-dollar200-mn-report/ar-CClmX5?ocid=iehp
if your looking for a house

Yeah, but you have to let Heff live in it until he dies.

Troy

[chargerman69]

I read that too
Does that mean the bunnys too

[Mike DC]

   
Playboy switches to non-nude, and now is selling the Mansion while Hef is still living in it (described in the article as "in a state of disrepair")?  This picture doesn't bode well for Hef and the magazine. 

[r4daytona]

1. hire body guards and disconnect my phone
2. buy every Hemi car I could find
3. buy the rare coins I've always wanted
4. buy the playboy mansion and the girls in it for my summer home
5. 4 chicks from the above mentioned property
6. Have a huge party with all my friends and people that pretend to be my friends, hire Don Rickles insult the pretenders and have the bodyguards kick them out
7. buy a nuclear missile silo for the coming apocalypse, store the coins, cars, bodyguards and a new batch of girls - hey, I'm single

that's it for now anyway

[myk]

I think it's safe to say that you probably won't have any real friends after winning money on that scale...

[skip68]

I don't want to think about it anymore.   
I don't wanna play anymore but I'm sure my wife will buy more today.     
The higher the numbers go the more people play.   This makes the odds so far stacked against you it's crazy. 
I think once the money gets so high like this the average person has no need for it.  It's more than enough to do whatever you could ever possibly dream of.   

[Chad L. Magee]

3. buy the rare coins I've always wanted

Part of the Tom Reynolds early large cent collection is going up for auction at the end of this month:

http://www.coinworld.com/news/us-coins/2015/08/tom-reynolds-early-large-cents-coming-to-auction.all.html#

[Mike DC]

          

The higher the numbers go the more people play.   This makes the odds so far stacked against you it's crazy.

The numbers are stacked sky-high against winning every single week of the year.  If that's affecting your decision to play lotto then don't ever play it.  Even on a good week the odds are up there with getting struck by lightning or eaten by a shark.  



Me, I just don't bother with petty throwaway prizes like $50 mil.  If it's not at least 1/4 billion (after payout & taxes) then it's not worth my time.    

[skip68]

  
The odds.     You're more likely to get struck by lightning while being eaten by a shark.        
They actually said this morning on the news that you're more likely to be struck by lightning.
You're more likely to drown. 
Then, under that they said you're more likely to be struck by lightning while you're drowning than win this lottery.     
I was laughing my ass off.   

[myk]

True, but the fact remains that someone WILL win it, regardless of the odds against them doing so.  Bottom line is you have ZERO chance if you don't play at all...

[ws23rt]

True, but the fact remains that someone WILL win it, regardless of the odds against them doing so.  Bottom line is you have ZERO chance if you don't play at all...

If I found an unsigned ticket on the ground and it was a winner would it be considered "playing" if I chose to cash it in without having purchased it?

Of course I would advertise to try to find the poor sap that lost it.   

[Chad L. Magee]

True, but the fact remains that someone WILL win it, regardless of the odds against them doing so.  Bottom line is you have ZERO chance if you don't play at all...

If I found an unsigned ticket on the ground and it was a winner would it be considered "playing" if I chose to cash it in without having purchased it?

Yes, it would.  But the chances that the winning ticket gets lost by the purchaser and found by you that way is likely above 1 in a trillion...

For retrospective: If you take a coin out and flip it onto the same side (no cheating!) 28 times in a row, the odds are 2^28 = 268,435,456 to one.  (The stated odds by the lottery is 292 million to one to win the big prize.)  Every ten same side flips in a row is equivalent to roughly 1000x the starting odds.  So, you would have to flip the coin on the same side 40+ times in a row to get in the ballpark the odds that you could win it by finding it that way.....

[ws23rt]

Their are lot's of unclaimed lottery winners out their.

Some years back I bought into powerball but burned the ticket by mistake in the fireplace with the paper bag it was in. This was no big deal until it was announced that the winner of that one was sold in Oregon.
I was sweating this one hoping a winner would come forward. (They did about two weeks later)  Had no one come forward I would always believe my burned ticket was the winner.

[skip68]

If nobody wins I bet it goes up to $2.3 billion.   This kinda money makes millionaires look poor.   

[TruckDriver]

I won $60. on a state only lottery last night. I won $30 on Sunday with the numbers, then another $30 last night on the same ticket with the same numbers.

But one thing I would do is find another '69 Charger 383 4spd car to replace the one my now ex made me sell. Then also look to open a Swiss bank account so all the money is insured. Remember, bank here only insure the first $200k. No one talks about that. Then I would take care of my mom, my kids, and then myself to rid myself of my health issues. After that, built a house and buy more cars and old semi trucks.

[Cncguy]

I haven't chimed in yet so here goes. Firstly I would take the payments, you'll get more and have time to learn to deal with the large sums of money. I would definitely attend Mecum at Kissimmee this weekend. I want to do something big that would make a big impact on my local economy, what that is I haven't figured out yet. As of this writing we stand at 1.5 Billion.

[tan top]

 knowing my luck &  murphy !  & his law ,  is !   my best buddy sometimes  ,  soon as I won  , would prolly get struck by  lightning twice !  , as they were carrying me out to the ambulance , a great white shark , that was sucked up by a tornado , would fall out the sky crush me  
seriously , would not really change me  or do anything really different  but  ,
in no particular  order
1    , visit  all my dodge charger dot com buddies   & see all your awesome mopars and  & have a beer or 3  
2  prolly have a massive workshop / paint shop built  , so all my charger mopar buddies  could come & work on their car , only pay for parts etc . also for me  to restore any , more chargers / mopars  that I cant resist buying   ,
3    buy a Y2 69 C500  J code with a four speed , if I can find one
4  buy an original grand national charger Daytona race car , if I can find one   .  
5    assortment of other chargers  
6   few other  muscle cars of various makes  
7  financially  help  family ,
8  hire an army of private detectives/ investigators , to  look for my  original engine from the charger I have now .
9  not tell the girl friend  or anyone else except close family ( mom & dad ) about the dough or just mention a much smaller amount a few   thousand  
10  buy a car transporter
11  , nother house , modern build  , not real big , but must have a massive  garage work shop  , with  lots of land  , miles away from my nearest neighbours ,  so if I want to break in a cam with open headers , 9 am on a sunday morning , there will be no trouble    
12 would prolly end up giving some of the dough   away too , to good causes .
13 ,   show my appreciation of  this site ,   Thanks Troy   , for giving us all   , this awesome site to share , & donate a chunk of dough for the running costs  
14 charger hellcat , in red
would prolly think of some other stuff  if I gave it some thought

[DeltaV]

Vanish

[lukedukem]

buy out Fiat and turn Chrysler around.

Luke

[hemi68charger]

What would I do with 800 million? If this means what would I do if I WON it or it was leftover from a previous win...

If I won it... I would:

1. Tithe my 10% to my church ( making sure it went to causes we do throughout the world )
2. Make sure my immediate family and friends were in good shape ( I define friends, they don't define me as a friend ) for the rest of their lives via trusts and endowements
3. Find a place or two that my wife and I would love to hang up our hats to call "Home".. ( Heck, that might be Disneyworld )
4. Facilitate the ability for Kim and I to do our favorite hobbies.. For me personally, I would start up a Mopar-restoration business in nice shop. The front entrance would look something like the famous Richard Petty Superbird advertisement..
5. Start a friendly rivalry with Tim Wellborn on the best Mopar collection.. 

[skip68]

Looks like there's 3 winners.