Set up a trust to take care of close relatives. Buy a big ass RV and drive for two years to see were we'd like to live.

Buy the 24 Hour Campfire


Mike

Get rid of the flash ads, when you do.

Find the biggest Prairie dog town I can and buy it.

Get a lawyer.
Pay off my debts.
Set up accounts for my kids.
Pay off debts for all my immediate family, and set up my mother and my in-laws for life.
Buy as big a chunk of God's country as I can.
Take some classes at a tech school so I can learn all the stuff I never did, or at least how to do it right. like welding, diesel mechanicing, etc.

Hunt and shoot to my hearts content for the rest of my life.

I am gonna keep working at my job, I do it for the comradery and the satisfaction of a job well done. F that, I'm gonna buy a home where the view has no buildings that are not ours, and hunt and fish. If I was younger I would add make babies, but instead, will just poke around for fun.

Probably just pay on my bills as far as it would go...

Buy everything on the first 100 pages of the classifieds.

Fill up the war chests of some of the better pro 2nd amendment groups.

First, I will set up a family partnership. (Ahem, memorialize the >pre-existing< verbally constituted, family partnership that bought the ticket.) This will allow me to share it with family members without Gift Tax and allow my share to pass on without Estate Tax. It will also allow getting the much larger amount available by choosing annual payments without the risk of payments ending when I die before receiving them all.

Then, immediately pay off all debts. Sell our tax practice to someone chosen more for the attitude with which they will serve our clients than on their ability to pay for the practice.

Make >substantial< gifts to NRA, NMLRA, 2AF, CCRKBA, GOA, ISRA (Illinois) (possibly with strings attached or designated purposes in some cases) and my favorite church.

Set up systematic transfers to certain friends who could use a leg up.

Start looking for a piece of property with hardwood ridges and flowing water in a gun-friendly state.

Find a worthy trustee (College library, etc.) to fund a monumental gun-culture library endowment to receive my library when I die.

Get cable!

Buy a castle with a winery, wear a monocle and start talking down to people.

Buy toys. Make sure my friends have toys. Make sure none of us work. Travel the world in my private jet fishing for giant trout in pristine places.

Get a new truck.

Great opening scene for a Good flick you've probably never heard of..

Build a big lodge in Alaska, pay my buddies stupid money to skipper the fleet of boats and take sick and disabled children out fishing or hunting to fulfill their dreams. My own make a wish charity.

"Rots of ruck!"

lot of sex, booze and light recreational drug usage in between sessions of full automatic weapon fire out back. oh, and metallica would play my living room every weekend until i was sick of their pompous bullschit attitudes. lot of weight gain too. lots and lots. eventual heart failure in some really embarrassing situation would cap it off.

Invest it to make more.

Not to ruin all the dreams but you will receive $558,000,000 which IRS will take about 60% leaving 223,200,000 to spend. I realize that is a large sum, but no where near the 900 millon advertised.

dang, hardly worth getting all lathered up over 223m.

Buy a nice piece of land in a gun friendly state.. make some nice donations to SCOPE, (Shooters Committee On Political Education), the NRA and GOA. Then, when I move out, rent at least 6 billboards in the Rochester NY area with Gov. Cuomo's quote from his 2014 speech in which he called those who believe in things like the constitution, "extreme conservatives", "who have no place in the state of new york, because that's not who new yorkers are"..Then, underneath his quote it would say something like: "O.K. Andrew, I have no place here? then goodbye! and good riddance to your corrupt socialist hellhole". You know pictures of those billboards would be all over the internet.

I would ask redneck if he would work on my pre 64 264 and make it safe and usable and restock it to Mcswirly or Manners or whatever he recommended.

Steve: I would buy a new Rifle, a new truck and a new hobby car and then turn over the rest to the VarmintWife like I have done with all my monies in the past.
She does well with our money/investments.
I might even buy a couple boxes of Winchester 22 L.R. hollow-points at an upcoming gunshow should I hit the jackpot?
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy

Cash the check, hire someone to fill out my retirement papers, and then go home, spread it out, and roll in it.

After that, any damn thing I want to.

Write out a huge check to St. Jude's. Annually.

Travel. Set up my future and the future of my loved ones. Buy a big chunk of land and park my ass in the middle of it. Hire a trainer to whip my disgusting fat-body into kind of shape.

Oops, wrong check....

When they asked the farmer what he was going to do with his recent multi million dollar lottery win, "probably just keep farming until it's gone"

And that's the truth.

A little bitty house with a LOT of land and give away the majority of the rest.

Get my house new siding. Set of new tires for the Cherokee. Week at the Moonlight Bunny Ranch. Not in that order.

Just don't end up like the Kardashian basketball player!

I'd get new siding for the bunny ranch...

Buy more tickets !!!

Man, it's fun to think about this. Knowing myself, my first concern would be managing this windfall so I don't go broke. I'd pay off all my bills, get this house ready to sell, and buy a nice place out in the country a little farther, with some land up north to deer hunt on. I've never been able to manage my own parcel, and this would be my chance. I'd set up my kids, even the wicked in laws. There'd be a good chunk going to charities too. My church, and many others. Man it would be great to be able to help so many people out.

Take a few guys on this forum to the King Ranch in Texas.

Kill different and exotic critters all over world.

did I win yet??

If you win, are you taking the lump or the annuity?

The annuity would prevent me from blowing it all and becoming another lottery statistic, and would insure that I had income until my death or until I reach my 70's. 31 Mil a year for 29 years would be mighty tempting, instead of the cash payout.

If I win I advise you all to buy stock in cocaine. And guns.

Hint.

GFY.



Clark

I would give half of it to my wife and probably some more to her attorney (even though she doesn't buy the dang things) and then spend the rest of it hiding from her and relatives on both sides who would be trying to kill me to get the remaining cash.

Needless to say, I'd take the lump sum as I probably wouldn't live long enough to spend it all...

Sounds like a happy relationship you got going there.



Dave

1.3B if no one wins.

A good first step would to find a GREAT tax attorney who would help shield as much of it as possible from being taxed.

The $900M is reduced by 38%, to $558M, if you take the lump payment, and further reduced by whatever you pay in taxes.

I would set up a charitable trust with 40% of the $558M, $223.2M. That $$ would fund scholarships, churches, and local charities in our home towns, at the colleges where we earned out degrees, and where we own property. With the post-tax balance, I would buy some property that I've had my eyes on and would set up trust accounts for 20 cousins, 11 good friends, and my Wife's brother and mother. No matter how you slice it, if there is 1 winner, he or she will need to find a good leech repellent, 'cause there will be a lot of people hoping to share their good luck.

Quit my Job. Hire professionals to advise me for taxes, gifts, charities, and safe investment. Then wait a year before any major purchases. During that year I would hunt and fish in some places I've always dreamed of going.

I'd start with 10 million each to Kosair Children's Hospital and St. Jude's.

It would be tough to work through the other 203 million, but I'd do my best.

I'd have enough left to ensure I could buy the next big winning ticket.

Hmmm...Well for starters I'd buy a place in the Yukon and another one somewhere on the ocean where I can go fishing for a few months in the winter.Go travelling for a while,see some of the places we've always wanted to see. Would need a new gun room, for sure. Oh yeah,a boat too. And a plane. And quads. Also a jet boat. Maybe an island, with guard towers complete with machine guns too.

Booze, women, and gambling. Will probably blow the rest.

I was just in a U Save market in Montpelior, Id. buying my 2016 hunting license w/wolf and mt. lion tags and there was a ranch couple there buying lottery tickets. I asked them what they were going to do when they won? They stated " buy some cows, a whole bunch of cows".

I love Idaho.


mike r

I changed my strategy a little...got 7 quick pics....a few questions though.

#1. Can I use income averaging for the taxes???

#2. If I was to buy 14-15 sections of property & it would be
my primary residence, What percent of the price would be deductible???

#3. If I don't post pics of the winning ticket, are ya'll gonna think I'm just a "POSEUR"???

By me some new pants,shirts and boots.

Set up a fund for the 4 grandkids for when they hit 18.

Pay off my kids house's so it will give them some leeway.

Have the house fixed up so we wouldn't have any worries.

Then think long and hard what type of benefit program to set up,you know to the schools and such that do good things.

Then set back and see how many relatives i really do have.

I don't care who ya are that's funny right there...

Get all of my relatives in Spain a nice house and set them and their children up with a perpetual income (trust) they cannot use up.

Do the same for my children and my grand children here in the states.

Set up a trust in our local church to take care of the widows and orphans in perpetuity. I would also purchase a church building and property in Rota Spain for the local church I helped established back in 1973.

Set up a scholarship fund at my college Alma Mater for the children of military veteran alumni.

did I win yet? Can't wait to tell blue to GFY Monday.

A little more than an hour to go till they pick numbers.

In the meantime, peruse [b][color:#3333FF]this website[/color][/b] and dream...a small piece of ground, 10,000-20,000 acres might work.

can I win something without having ALL the numbers?

Enough to buy that ticket sales lady a house??

Rebuild the motor in my Festiva!!!

$418,500,000 cash after taxes in Idaho is more than my mind can wrap itself around.

That much money dumped in my lap would be a major PITA. Close and extended family would wonder why you weren't giving them a few dozen million each. Many of them would hate you for not giving them the money, then if you did and they spent it all they'd hate you for not giving them more.

I dream about the lottery like anyone but honestly, just a few million would set me up beyond anything I'd ever hoped for. A few thousand acres next to a National Forest for me and a couple dogs to wander on, a warm, sturdy cabin, a good truck and that's it. A couple more million on tap for maintenance and occasional travel and that's all I'd need or even want. Don't want a lot of possessions, they start to own you.

Seriously, if that much money were dumped on me I'd spend the rest of my life trying to find decent people who could use a small financial lever to get them on their feet - pay off their mortgage, pay their student loan off, things like that. That would be about the best and most rewarding thing I could think of.





All that, of course, after I had drunk my way through Las Vegas, smoked my way through CO, WA and OR and banged every nubile young woman that was willing to drop her drawers at the prospect of landing an old multi-millionaire.

Buy Kaywoodie a complete set of 1895s

THAT is NOT the woman who sold me the tickets.

If it was she would be living in my house right this second.

Anonymously put smiles on a lot of faces in the form of dental and medical assistance. Might put up some new fence at the farm if I had enought left over. GW

Amazing that one small pimple on her butt distracted me for two seconds. GW

Buy TMitch a cherry deluxe Model 64 Win Carbine. Or two!!!

I'm gonna by the Dallas Cowboys, and fire Jerry Jone's stupid ass!

Use it to pay down my wife's cc.

Amazing that one small pimple on her butt distracted me for two seconds. GW





If you handle it correctly, it will be so far out in your peripheral vision as to not be noticed!

Well,..back to the Salt mine for me.

I won a hundred bucks! Guess I could have Hombre's mom, I think I'll pass.

There were 25 winners last night who got the first 5 balls right. Can you imagine the letdown of getting the first 5 and missing the Powerball, worse than being a Bengals fan. Although, a nice 1 Mil would help with the letdown..

The first thing I would do is run to Walmart and buy some prepaid Tracfones. The second thing would be go to the gun range and blast my wife’s and my current cell phones into pieces-parts. Then set up an entity to buy a small comfortable hideout in a secure location (remote or gated) and move some sentimental possessions there. Then get a legal/tax/opsec team together. Then turn in the ticket. Then take a year to figure out what to do. Friends, relatives and charities would receive benefit, but on our terms. People I don’t usually see or speak with on a regular basis would be dealt with through intermediaries.

Of course, it can’t happen because we haven’t bought a lottery ticket since I can remember.

Donate half of it to Ted Cruz

Here's What To Do If You Actually Win The Powerball. Boom.

Use half of my winnings to ensure that our next President isn't a Democrat and that we retain control of the House and Senate,

I would buy the 48K acre ranch outside Walsenburg Colorado that the Ozzie shampoo creator has for sale. I drive by it each time I hunt elk in Leadville and it is a marvel. One year a pretty blonde was riding horse and I pulled up opposite side of the fence and had a nice chat with her. An incredible piece of property.

$1.4 Bil...

LOL i'd buy all the cows that are run on our place and then shoot every last one of the worthless PITA creatures....

Ranch in Saskatchewan, ranch in northern Missouri, and a ranch in brush country Texas after I took care of my family.

waking Ned Devine its a heck of a good movie!

spend it while its still worth something...

I'd buy Northern Dave and have him build me cool vehicles for the rest of my life.

That might sound cruel but I'd maybe flip him 6 or 7 figures a year and do a lot of hunting and fishing with him.

Well I am not that lucky, but I would first call the investment bank that has been managing a small trust fund for me the last 48 years- I would then follow their advise! I would then delete my presents in the internet, toss my cell phone, wipe my computer clean, then cook the HD! Since I have no debts- there is nothing to settle-then just leave! Start over some place else, in a quite remote place- and in two or three years once it settles down, then think about what I really would want to do or not do! I can do a lot of thinking On Slough Creek- second meadow with an RL Wilson Cane Rod say an 8'6" 5 wt! But like I said I am not that lucky!

1. Make a substantial donation to Wounded Warrior Project...

2. Find the meanest Junkyard Dog Attorney in Minneapolis and make my ex wife's life a living hell until the day she died...

3. Restore my 1988 4 Runner...by Northern Dave if he'd take the job...

4. Take care of a few special people's lives for the rest of their days... ( they are old like me, so it may not add up to that much)....

5. Take care of our Scout Troop...

6. Set up the funds for a young man I know in Boston, to be able to complete his college degree and pay for his tuition ( etc) for Harvard Law School....

7. Buy me a few more Super Sniper Scopes.. tell SWFA that Schtick Sent me...

8. Make a road trip to meet a few campfire members here, that I'd like to meet face to face... Travis, GopherGunner, Crimson Tide, Dave in WV, 4ager....already had the opportunity to meet a bunch of great forum members, here in Oregon, up in Washington, down in Arizona and New Mexico and at Ed Too Many Letters down in Texas last may...

9. Visit England where I lived from 63 to 66, go back to Scotland and Ireland...go to Scandinavia, Australia and New Zealand...and a cruise to Antarctica in the southern HemiSphere summer...

Yes, I can imagine it.

While not "Powerball", it happened to my wife back in the late 90's in what California called "Pick 6". She got five right, then the last number the digits were switched, something on the order of her having "01" on her ticket and the 6th pick being "10" or vice versa. $32 Million jackpot should have been ours. I'd have never heard of the "Campfire". I'd be on a hill in Hawai'i overlooking the Pacific and dreaming of catching tuna tomorrow, or hunting pigs or goats.

As it was, we didn't complain much. It was good for $2200 and we had both recently graduated from "starving students" to starving underlings. My wife took us here for the night:

http://www.benbowinn.com/about-us/hotel-history.htm

And paid some CC debt.

Geno

PS, now what to do with that 1.3 Billion? Let me think, Hawai'i? No, perhaps buy my own island and declare myself the Grand Wazzzoo!

OMG...she has a zit on her left cheek........

Update to my earlier posts. A friend of mine told me that the first thing one should do if he hits the Powerball is to call up everyone he knows and ask to borrow $500 before the win becomes public knowledge. It will be the last time you ever have to have any contact with most of them.

Now up to $1.5 Billion. Over $500 Million after taxes, including state taxes in most cases.

It's worth $900M if it comes with pretty blonds.

Are you insane? What is the point is borrowing money and pissing of all your friends?