if you won the Lottery
 

what would you do with the cash? Short term and long term.

Let's assume it's crazy money. $300,000,000 US

somebody has to win

you can't win if you don't play

One way ticket to Amsterdam.

Blow the rest on hashish and whores.

I've given this some srs thought in the past.

World tour then chill out in private with family somewhere. Give some to a charity, probably a few different ones. Party, definitely. Tell practically no one.

quit job. get a new car and a nice small house, or possibly a condo. set aside $10 million to give away to family (less than 10 ppl), $1 million for friends (5-10 ppl), and give everyone i work with $5,000 (about 100 ppl). donate $10 million to a small charity i believe in. that should leave more than $250 mil, easy. get a really good accountant, lawyer, and financial consultant.

finish last 1 1/2 years of bachelor's degree. spend a gap year in another country doing psych-related volunteer work. find the perfect graduate school with exact program and mentor i want, regardless of the price.

i would travel for 6 months. I'd visit every distillery in Scotland. I'd attend every single day of Octoberfest. I'd get drunk at pub in London and riot with English footballers. I'd spend a month in france drinking nothing but Cabernet. And i'd finish my trek in Kentucky, parked for a week outside the Maker's Mark factory.

i would give 10% to my parent's to retire and travel. and give 1 million to each brother to keep them forever indebted to me. i'd pay my grandma back the $100 i owe her, and kick my father some money so he doesn't die poor. oh, plus 2 million to my bff because i love her.

for myself i would pay off my debts, get a haircut, buy nicer clothes, pay people to do my homework, quit work and just volunteer, and buy a motorcycle. when it's time to leave chicago i would buy a badass home in arizona like this:


plus i'd buy a horse, but pay for it to be taken care of - i just want to ride it.

i'd buy a car for tim, too, and give him anything he wanted (unless i didn't want him to have it ;)).

i would donate a lot and get my name on some shit.

oh yes nicer clothes for sure. good call.

Probably bail out the local arts college, which is about to be merged with another university's art department. And set up scholarships, fellowships and residencies for writers.

I dunno if I'd keep any. I think about it sometimes and wonder if I'd be happier in the long run, if I could know inside myself that I hadn't kept any for myself.

I would probably seek to fulfill my lifelong dream of hunting a human being and consuming their flesh, knowing full well that my wealth will keep me insulated from reprisal.

First thing I would do is buy my parents houses. I would invest a whole bunch of the money and then take a bunch and go traveling for who knows how long, maybe forever. I would probably bankroll some charities and non-profits. I would take guitar lessons and blow some money on new instruments and gear. Beyond that I don't really know how I could possibly spend so much money.

$40 undershirts here I come

Acquire large amount of land somewhere cool like CA.
Construct large beautiful house with 20 car garage.
Fill it with shit I don't need.

Invest the rest in more lottery tickets obv.

Donate it to netphoria.

Awesome post.

...and cryptocurrency, right?

Nah no need at that point, why convert my tons of USD to ETH or BTC?

Although with 300 mil at my disposal I could completely disrupt any market I want then write thousands of smart contracts to bot my millions to suckers for more than I paid by creating a false sense of tremendous demand....

Be Batman.

Run for president on a platform of fear and ignorance?

start a cult

sex orgies and all the free drugs that money can buy

also a room full of Billy's guitars, cuz I hear he needs the $$$

roller coasters

Get a small house near a university. Smoke tons of weed and earn degree after degree after degree at university. Tell no one I'm rich, don't act like it except maybe nice, custom made clothes.

i'd buy myself happiness and someone to love me

Good call. That way you can avoid dealing with estranged family members suddenly and inexplicably showing up at your door, telling you how they have missed you so much over the years and mysteriously just now they want to regain touch with you.

I have a silly dream of buying up farmland outside the city and setting up a sustainable no till working farm. I don't actually want to be a farmer I'd hire a farmer to run it. But I could use it for maximum Liberal Progressive cred. People would say of me, there goes that millionaire leftist organic farmer..dammit he really has his shit together.

I would also like to start an endowment that would provide free college tuition for kids who graduate from the public schools in my hometown. Some anonymous rich bastard did that in Kalamazoo. I have no idea how much money that would require but I'll pretend it's 200 million.

I don't even want to think about that. I have a very large extended family. I would need a personal assistant to deal with the begging that would ensue should they find out about my windfall