I was going to say a house by the sea… but it probably wouldn’t be my first purchase. Instead it would likely be:
- Pizzas
- A salad
- Booze
- A video game
- Clear my own debts, while also setting aside money for friends and family’s debt.
Yours is the one reply that actually answers the question. A house, debt, etc would not be the first thing you bought. I’d probably buy a ton of stuff from my (local equivalent to) Amazon wishlist as a first thing.
Yeah, I was trying to think about my immediate reaction. After the shock, denial, and a bucket load of swearing, I’d want to celebrate.
First I’d buy my own house from the bank. Next I’d buy each of my neighbor’s houses going out three or four blocks and gift them to them, with the option to stay or move at any time in the future and sell them back to me at market rate. If they sell it back to me, take the cash and move, I put the property up for sale to the lowest bidder - ie, I would offer them to local families who needed it most, selling them for literally pennies.
I would then start gifting large amounts to local schools, with the rider that it has to go towards increasing salaries for all existing staff first, followed by creating a floating fund for supplies and meals so that no teacher or family in need ever had to buy them out of their own pocket.
After all that I’d start commissioning giant bronze statues of my favorite fictional characters and plopping them down on undeveloped land in the area, then building parks around them.
Near one of these parks I’d build a great big classically-styled movie theater that plays classic films for three bucks a ticket. Operating costs would be paid for from a fund set up to keep the place open and running indefinitely, with all ticket sales to go to local charities.
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Half a billion? Put down a deposit on a house for my kid. He’s turning 17, he might be able to pay it off in his lifetime.
:cries in Australian:
First five? I’d blow all I’d spend in one. A small farm. The rest would be saved.
I know I’ll never realize that dream, but it’s the only one I have left.
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A new house for my aging parents with no stairs.
I’d pay off all of my debts leaving about $200k left, and then I’d buy some small toys probably totally less than 10k, I’d renovate and repair my house a bit which would probably be another $30k. The rest would go into investments and some into checking for snowboarding trips next winter.
Jesus Christ you have $499.8 million in debt?
They probably went out-of-state for college :/
New car for the wife. Something flashy and fun that she would never buy for herself since the Toyota probably won’t die for at least another 10 years.
Buy Reddit and Remove the Powers of Mod.
Probably pay off the condo. Maybe do some upgrades.
Travel with my wife somewhere for a 2 week long vacation.
Throw the rest in savings.
I would most likely fix my bad bite. The older I get I feel like it’s causing more and more problems.
Probably wouldn’t change anything until I graduate.
I’d do a bomb-ass charity donation this winter for my local charity Christmas gift drive through. Probably dress up like Santa Claus to go turn them in too.
Edit: oh also I’d obviously pay off all my parents debts, (house, cars, etc) and set them up with 10-20M for retirement so they can just start now. And I’d pay for my siblings’ college funds and set up trusts for them and any of their potential future kids so they have financial security for the rest of their lives. There’s also some cool teachers and other folks I’d set up for life too.
I would buy a helicopter, and hire a back country pilot to fly me to every mountain peak and glacier in my area
$500,000,000? I would probably donate like 475m at least cause I’m not a fucking monster that would hoard the level of wealth. Then live more than comfortably off the money you get for having money until I die and pass that fountain of youth on to another family member.
