August 29, 2009
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$333 Mega Millions Lottery Jackpot
So the Mega Millions Lottery Jackpot created a buzz this week when the payout reached $333 million.
I was reading an article that asked the question “If you win Friday Night’s Mega Millions Lottery drawing, how would you spend the cash?” Here is the link: Link
If you won $333 million in the Mega Millions Lottery, how would you spend the cash?
Comments (79)
Chocolate, lots and lots of chocolate.
shopping! defintely a luxury car and a yacht too. also, i would refuse to every buy anything under $100 ever again.
The vast majority would end up in charities, but I very much would enjoy what I did not give away
college loans.
i would just go around paying off people’s college loans.
a ton of shit i would regret.
@faetal_es - you are awesome
condoms
The basic stuff, my dream cars, a house, college money enough to get my degree and pilots license. But then the rest would go to cancer research, invested in charities and programs, to stocks and bonds, all that jazz. I want it to grow as well as give it to those who would need it.
@Husker89 -
i just know it’d nice (if someone paid off mine).
I have thought about this a lot recently. (Being poor makes you wonder what you would do with money.
) I would buy a nice house with plenty of space for parties and company. Then i would buy my boyfriend a new truck, pay off my parents’ house, and give my best friend the money she needs to start a business. After that i would take my sister on a trip around the world, so we could get drunk in every language.
I probably stop working and start traveling. Donate to chariites, and try to do something big.
i’ll buy xanga premium
Pay taxes, first of all, lol.
Then…
Finish college. Pay my mom back for stuff. Pay for my brother and sister’s college. Get a house, keep a little extra just in case…
Donate the rest to charity, probably. Or start my own charity.
College …
paying off my mom’s house, car & driveway payments
buy a bunch of guinea pigs
& tons & tons of LAFFY TAFFY !!!!
@faetal_es - Yeah, you are awesome. I hope you do win big money!
I’d buy more lottery tickets.
College.
A vehicle.
Pay off my parents house, cars, and other such debit related items.
Saving/Investment.
A couple of computers.
A Xanga trip around the world.
A house in Ireland.
Acreage and the dream house.
A large amount to friends for college, car, whatever.
(And of course I would pay whatever taxes I would need to pay to keep the IRS far away.)
*Note this is not necessarily in order, but mostly.
@The44thHour - xanga trip around the world sounds fascinating!
@FluffyTheRedOne - ahaha, if only i’d play the lottery.
Lots and lots of ladies of the night.
very first thing I would spend it on would be my college, my sister’s college… and my brother’s college.
after all colleges are paid off, I would definitely use it to start a business. (obviously we wouldn’t need to work if we had fcking 333 million XD but I’ve always wanted to own a business).
Yep. i guess I’d make some donations here and there.. and throw a lot in the bank for the beautiful interest rate.
What would I do with $333,000,000?
…everything.
you won’t get all of it -remember the IRS
I would want to create my own clothing line, i’ve always wanted my own business ever since i was little…
Start a new state!!!!!
I’d pay all my taxes, buy myself a new computer, and publish my books. -^^- Then I’d start selling stuff on Ebay and make even more money to pay my taxes. -^^-
I’d invest most of it.
This questions makes me sad. I know I’ll never win the damn thing, my chances are higher to be struck by lightening, or appearing on The Tonight Show, yet I still play. :’(
Fuck you Mega Millions.
College loans, a house of my own, travel, and flight school.
Pay off mortgage, create college funds for grandkids…..and I damn sure wouldn’t be going to work on Monday.
Buy a new house far far away so that my “friends” from my town don’t ask me for money all the damn time.
Pay off debts and then who knows…
I would pay off me and my supposed future family of 4 national debt, and write a letter to the white house stating:
“Dear Government:
Here enclosed is my money for the national debt.
Now please FUCK OFF.
And as well the other taxes that I will pay for the rest of the year, will be in tomorrow.
Thank you, and have a nice day.
Sincerely,
Gerald Washington”
I would buy me a giant metal suit to wear, just like Iron Man has.
I’d pay off student loans, get a really nice car, not have to worry about where my money for this semester is coming from…
Then I’d help my parents and family out as much as possible.
And then I would save. Can you imagine the interest that would collect?
pay off the rest of my college loans
pay off my parents’ mortgage
buy them another house (sell/rent the old one)
give them a trip around the Vietnam and the world
set them up for retirement
pay off my siblings’ college loans (maybe I’ll do this right away too before vacation)
set up my business
TRAVEL THE WORLD!!!!!!!!!!
To pay for college.
I was totally going to use this as my next post. I would buy myself a home, travel, give my family anything they wanted, and donate a major amount of money to a cancer foundation in the name of my best friend (who passed away). The rest I would save.
Oh and pay for my college education, along with all seven of my brothers and sisters!
@maniacsicko - ahahahahahaha, that’s a good one. Why not just buy Xanga?
Too many different ways.
invest. with the proceeds from the investment i can buy all i want and donate all i want.
well, first and foremost, I would save Xanga!!!
and then I would donate the rest of it to some worthy cause. …and keep enough to ensure that my kids will see their way into college.
Well, the first half would go to taxes of course. After that, I would buy each Xangan a full month of premium! YOU GET SOME PREMIUM! AND YOU GET SOME PREMIUM!
I’d also like to buy off a polotician or two and pass completely obsurd laws.
I would pay it forward
maybe buy a house for myself and my family members
save the rest for my kids
Get Mum the house that she needs. Reserve enough money to finish my schooling, as well as enough so that my brothers and sisters can go anywhere they want to and be anything they want to be.
And then give the rest of it all away.
I’d put most of it in a Charitable Trust, and donate to worthy causes each year. But I’d keep some to pay off my parent’s house, get the best medical care for my family, and be able to afford to go to a UC school or private college rather than lowly CA State! After graduate school, a nice townhouse for me in San Francisco, New York, or D.C.! Just a dream!
Beats me.
A house, a car, college, a wedding, traveling, investing.
Pay off college. Buy a nice new clarinet. Probably throw in a nice sax and trumpet, since I’ve always wanted to learn how to play those.
House. Aston Martin. Invest in the stock market.
Pick 10 really close friends and pay off their college, or do some sort of scholarship contest at my school or something…
Take about 100 grand and try my luck at Vegas.
That’s about all I’d need.
- John
Damn, why did you have to tell everybody about that? I wanted the money for myself!!! Sometime after I buy the ticket.
Give my immediate family half in hopes that they will leave me alone until I can get out of the area. Go to college somewhere else, start that dot com I wanted, live somewhere else… that kind of thing. Just to get out.
haha. No. Seriously, why did you have to further publicize this?
paying off my college debt-getting my dream house, car and helping my family live the best life possible for the rest of their lives…
invest and buy an island
College and getting my own place.
Not even a choice: college. Because the norm requires that you use an insane amount of money to educate yourself when quite a good bunch of the people that go could never pay out of their own pocket what you need in order to go in the first place.
I’d give $10 million to my parents for dealing with me for so long, and I’d probably buy a house for myself. Then I’d finish up with college and get my Masters at my own pace, and find a career that I can truly love and enjoy instead of just doing something for the money. I probably wouldn’t live an enormously luxurious lifestyle, but a lengthy vacation each year does sound nice.
bail out a u.s. bank?
That is a stupid amount of money. It’s too much. Even with the biggest house, and all the education and all the traveling, that’s still too much money.
At any rate, I would travel, travel, and travel some more. I would move to Mexico and travel from there. I would put it away so that my child is born a millionaire and can do anything they dream of, but for the most part I would donate it, and I would donate it as I travel and discover charities all over the world that serve more practical purposes such as clean water, food, homes, and basic medical care.
bail out the state of California out of its budget crisis.
@Kiwigummy - You’d need a lot more than 333 million for that. =/
I have a spending problem, so I would spend the money on an amount of items too numerous to mention…
that really is an amount that many people, including myself, just can’t fathom. it would be a tremendous amount of work to manage all that. i would have to hire a bodyguard at once, cause i tend to have a big mouth now, and i’m sure with all that money, i would be very obnoxious. i will say this, i would be very generous and try to help everyone i could.
I would spend it with the SQUARE … that’s what my click calls themselves and we always said we would buy houses next to each other and matching cars and if I won that dream would come true that day lmao
I’d start off by ‘donating’ 2/3′s of it to Obama’s petty cash jar. Then I’d give some to charity. Then I’d help out my parents.
Stuff I’d buy: small house someplace rural, gps, more bookshelves, spotting scope, more education.
spend them superficially, travel, saving, invest in property …
Give some to charities, some to family, round the world trip.
Give some money to Xanga to keep it going so there dont get rid of any more staff.
Tithe first. Taxes next. Then plan how my family and I (extended family, including mom, aunts, uncles, cousins, etc.) would never have to work again. Fun to think of, but it will never happen. You have to play to win and I don’t.
I don’t play the lottery . . .
I would give a few million to missionaries, then buy a new house and a spiffy car. And put a few million in the bank to gain interest.
There are so many people in extremely tough situations. I would make sure my family was taken care of, then see what I could do to help the others around me.
Pay off my college loans and tuitions
Bring my British best friend and her child here to live, give her the money to go to college, pay off her loans and stuff until she and her baby can become American citizens
Go on a cruise and a holiday
Buy the best chocolates…especially dark
Buy a car
Buy my mom a car and a house…whichever she wants
Half of it goes to taxes, I would anticipate that. What I would do first is hide it away for a while and let NO ONE near it. Not my mom, my dad, my brother, not anyone. I would leave it alone for a while to get a clear head and once I relax, THAT’S when I’ll decide what I want. I take those precautions because I don’t want to end up like MC Hammer XD. The only thing I’m sure I’ll do is pay off any debts I may have and go get a higher education so I can increase my fortune and keep it.
1) set up the rents for their retirement.
2) set up my 2 closest friends so they didnt have to work.
3) fulfill a long standing dream that would benefit the people who needed it most and probably not be very popular among the greedy and self centered.
I’d begin by paying off my student loans, my sisters loans (and I have a lot of sisters), pay off my parent’s house and their car loans. Buy decent health insurance. Tuck away enough money for my sisters and I to finish school (all the way to a doctorate, just in case). And then get that cute little Honda Civic I’ve been eyeing and donate a portion of the winnings to leukemia research.
Oh and I’d set up a trust fund for my two younger sisters, but they aren’t allowed to touch a cent until they earn their bachelors.
My wedding would go from meager, to a step below semi-extravagant lol. And I would do EVERY excursion Carnival Cruises offers during my honeymoon cruise. I’d have to think about the rest of the money lol. ….. OH, and I’d buy some people Xanga premium
It would not happen in real life, however, if I was given the money, I would use it for the good of others. I am comfortable with my life right now (despite being unemployed).
The money would buy the time so I would travel around the world at a leasurely pace, for sure.
give to parents, a bit to various charities, save some for post secondary (5 – 7 yrs of uni) , and what’s left over – savings so i can peel very very very slowly
I’d buy a house, a new vehicle for me, a mud truck for my husband, I’d give some to my parents, I’d start wedding and college funds for the kids I don’t have yet, and, ummmm….buy xanga premium.
I would pay off all of my bills, spend some and then save most of it.