Current Events > You win a billion USD in the lottery. What do you do first?

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Ilishe posted...

After celebrating and getting your money, what's the first thing you do?

Go on a trip? Buy something super expensive? I'm curious.

Sleep...I'm willing to bet I won't sleep the first week after finding out I won.
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Order a lot of shit on Amazon. Buy a house. A car.
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voldothegr8 posted...

Patchwork posted...

Then I'd probably go back to work.

So many people say this, I highly doubt many follow through when it really happens. Or at least, they rarely go into "wage slaving" again.

I love my job. It isn't about the money so much as I just enjoy what I do.

I wouldn't dream of working again if I didn't love it.
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Aside from buying a house and the usual stuff, my first real project would be to buy some property in a highly populated city, tear down whatever was on it previously and in its place build a giant statue of Trump.
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all of the drugs
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Buy an island
Move to island
Build a mansion/fortress to keep the thieves out
Never leave the island and die lonely because everyone will want to rob/kill me
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Begin systematically removing myself from my present sphere of influence.
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Anarchy_Juiblex posted...

synth_real posted...

I'd start a sex toy company. We'd make the best buttplugs in the world.

Good luck competing with njoy.

I actually own one from them (XL size, of course) They're pretty good, but they don't vibrate, nobody makes a big vibrating plug that's actually any good (that I've been able to find, anyway)
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Get three more degrees.
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1. Pay off my parents' debt, if they have any. I don't actually know if they still owe on anything they have, like the house. They never really shared much info in terms of finances with me or my brother, but we have always been pretty well off. So I think the house is probably the only thing they might still be paying for. If that's the case, I'd finish paying off the house completely and then hire a contractor to take care of the remodeling they've talked about for years but never gotten around to doing.

2. Pay off my brother & his wife's debt/house.

3. Create college funds for my niece and nephew.

4. Pay off my friend Danielle's debt. She's always been there for me, through some very rough times, and even talked me down from suicide one night about 10 years ago. I owe her more than I could ever repay.

5. Pay off my friend Desiree and her family's debt. They're literally a second family to me. I've been invited to spend Christmas and New Years with them the past 2 years, a literal family reunion (I was the only non-blood-relative out of over 20 people there), her nephews' birthdays, her sister's graduation from her Masters program...you name it, they want me there. I love them all dearly, and wish there was more I could do to help them out.

6. Buy myself a small house. Nothing fancy, just something modern so that I won't have to worry about constantly fixing old broken crap.

7. Invest most of the rest in something stable and low-risk. I don't need high-reward when I'm working with a billion dollars in capital. Even 0.01% annual interest is a hundred thousand dollars a year. I'll be perfectly happy living on that.
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Spooking posted...

Give money to family, give money to SpaceX, buy something to visit SpaceX, pay for some cool video game KickStarters, donate to some ASMRists that I enjoy, give to some Twitch folks, buy a new CPU, new car and grab a new home.

i don't think elon musk needs your money.
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HypnoCoosh posted...

Tell my boss I will be leaving as soon as they find my replacement and I train them.

I like my boss and don't hate my job, and I'd like to think I'd do that or at least give a solid two week notice... but man it'd be really hard to be productive. >_> I might end up just telling my boss, "Hey, sorry, I know this is going to be rough for you without me so suddenly... but here's an envelope of cash that might make it easier for you to pick up the slack until I'm replaced."
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The Top Crusader posted...

HypnoCoosh posted...

Tell my boss I will be leaving as soon as they find my replacement and I train them.

I like my boss and don't hate my job, and I'd like to think I'd do that or at least give a solid two week notice... but man it'd be really hard to be productive. >_> I might end up just telling my boss, "Hey, sorry, I know this is going to be rough for you without me so suddenly... but here's an envelope of cash that might make it easier for you to pick up the slack until I'm replaced."

WTF I would probably pay to have my boss assassinated. How do I get your workplaces?
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Pay off my house
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Quit job
Ask gf to marry me

Go from there
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Very first thing?

Pay off my student loans.
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Buy another, nicer, house.
Higher a personal shopper.
Never leave said house again.
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