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Posted: 2/22/2006 3:27:42 PM EDT
I'm sure this has been hit before, but I don't care. I'm bored and drinking and I want to see what you fuckers are thinking.
The Nebraska winners of the Powerball are expected to take home about $15 million apiece, after taxes. What would you do with that kinda cash? Me? I have no real desire for full-auto weapons and the attendant hassle, but suffice to say I would have guns......many guns. I'd also buy myself a chunk of land right here in my own town and build a damn nice SHTF house and all the attendant SHTF accessories. I don't think my life would change much; I'd still ride bikes, play with trucks and shoot my guns, but I'd sure as hell quit my job and do those things full-time! |
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Invest it, retire at 40
only after buying several transferable NFA weapons. |
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What I think most anyone in the world would do,
-sell my house, quit my job and move to free America. |
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do my best to spend it before I die, of course I'd probably die the moment I cashed the check.
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I would set up a foundation whose sole purpose would be to buy up huge chunks of the finest land in the USA and post it all "Hunting Only". The land would be patroled by goons whose job it would be to make sure any antis that trespassed were beaten soundly about the face and neck and then arrested after they displayed threatening behavior.
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Buy a small 50 acre or less island in the Pacific Ocean and build my own nation. That would include an army, and a casino for generating future revenue.
Combloc Mi-24s can be had for 750k in good condition. |
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I would buy every gun I've ever wanted. I would start up or buy my own mixed martial arts company to promote fights. This fighters would fight in a cage just like the UFC. I would give money to charities too.
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I'd own a nice house, a nice car, a nice airplane, and have some nice investments.
I'd also have a very nice, fully equipped workshop and a moderately well paid employee or two so I could build guitars at my l leisure, purely for fun, and let THEM handle the drudgework that I don't like to do, like cleanup, rough cutting of stock and gluing up neck and body blanks, etc. With those parts of the work handled by others, I could really focus on the parts of guitar building that I enjoy a great deal. I'd get a lot done. CJ |
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Well first I would have to set up a corp to pick up the winnings. That way I can escape all those pesky "relatives" that come out of the woodwork and I can keep my name out of the papers. Not to mention favorable tax ramification and can you say Class 3.
5Mil = Money manager. I've always liked Blackrock. 5Mil = manage my own in a diversified portfolio of stocks, REIT LP, Mutual Funds and derivitives. 1Mil = Commercial R.E. investments 1Mil = Variable Annuity 1Mil = split between Mom, Bro/sis inlaw, niece, nephew. 1Mil = to fund a lavish lifestyle. House, cars, weapons, clothes, liposuction, etc. 1Mil = to a immediate annuity which will be annuitized. proceeds will be used as my salary for being president of my corp. |
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After I paid off my bills, built a nicer home for myself I would make Sarah Brady's life a living hell.
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invest so that I got a million or more per year in interest
only spend the interest, and likely most of that would get reinvested |
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If i had 15mil, i would quit working, pay off the car, buy a house with my own land out away from everyone else, buy lots and lots of guns, and soak it up with a 12 pack.
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How much you would have to spend per day to go through $15 mil in 20 years?
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well I have alot of great ideas, going to help this person and that person, but most likely I would end up in rehab or most likely die because of all the strippers, not from any diseases but from a heartattack
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Buy a lobbyist and a local politician. Or maybe have them, uh, beaten severely.
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Invest, invest, invest.
We'd probably live somewhat modestly (multiple homes in different parts of the country, though) and not be too spend-happy. I'm sure we'd put our kids in the finest schools available and I'm equally sure that we'd travel some. I'd like to think that as our investments grew we'd set up educational trust funds and try to do some good with the money. I'm sure my firearms collection would grow, but the one thing I'm absolutely sure of is that I'd play a shitload of golf (4-5 days a week). Excuse me whilst I return to my fantasies... |
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Or a house in the middle of nowhere with a moat, mines and tower. |
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get a lawyer on retainer
get a financial advisor get a personal accoutant |
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1. Most would be investments.
2. Buy a house with own 600yd rifle range. 3. Continue to work. 4. Go to the Bunny Ranch. 5. Ammo: lots of ammo. 6. Buy a SPR and maybe another handgun, but that's it (not a collector, just a user) |
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First I would buy a Mini-Gun then i would put the rest of the money into one really long belt of linked 308 and hold the trigger down
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Invest the vast majority of it. Probably set up some sort of perpetuity for myself with modest annual payments that would be inherited by next of kin. I’m an undergrad now, so I have my whole life ahead of me to fund.
ETA- I would invest most in investment grade bonds, some stocks, gold next time it drops precipitously, and government bonds. |
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Take my mother on the vacation to Australia she's always wanted.
Invest $5mil of it just in case I get too hog wild with the 500+ acres in the Northwest I would buy to build my own personal mansion and shooting range (for all the Class III weapons I'd be getting). |
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Can't believe no one has said this yet:
I'll tell you what I'd do, man, two chicks at the same time, man. |
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I would buy and island for myself and use the rest to turn the american economy around.
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I think I would like to get lost somewhere in the South Pacific...
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I would build a house with a 600 yard benchrest range and gun locker in the bathroom.
I mean, you're already relaxed, and you can only read so many magazines. |
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$2,054.7945205479452054794520547945/day I'd probably share a good bit of it w/ family in some clandestine fashion (read so the SOBs would not be able to ask me for any more). I was thinking that if I were to arrange to have all of their debts paid in full, then give them a lump sum (a modest sum) to do whatever the hell they pleased with and topped off w/ a family educational trust fund for the progeny to use in perpituity (in-state tuition + a stipend tied to their working a part-time job/volunteering & maintaining a solid 3.0 GPA or better) that would be pretty cool. I should have enough left over to never have to worry about working again and to buy a pretty nice lifestyle to boot. |
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Start off making receivers for guns like HK's, SG550's, FNC's, Galil's, AR's, AK's, AUG's, and other EBR's. Eventually I'd have my own line of handguns, pistol caliber carbine, and rifles when I got profitable enough.
I'd own my own bar and grill so I had a place to hang out at. I'd have a giant automotive shop doing such things as restorations, performance parts sales, and engine builds. (Already have this, but I'm thinking on a larger scale.) I'd also invest in stocks in some way shape or form. A nice house, some nice cars, and enough guns to make Reed Knight cry. (Yeah right.) |
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Buy a big RV (diesel pushed probably) and travel the country solving mysteries.
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Invest it until I was uber-rich and then buy my own island. Make my own country and then get rid of all the dumb-ass laws that we have here. Child support, alimony, etc do not exist. Gun laws do not exist. No illegal immigrants.
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Buy alot of land somewhere Quiet,build the multi-level A-frame,invite those I love to Party with to the underground vaulted firing range,,,,you know the real thing,,,,,,,,Wish in one hand and Sh*t in the other,,,it's o.k. I ain't Dead yet,,,maybe someday someway
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$2054.79 |
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