What would you do if someone gave you $5M today?

[firstadopter]

What would you do if someone gave you $5 million today?

[firstadopter]

Travel around the world for one year visiting dozens of countries.

[firstadopter]

Buying a nice car and a house would be nice too.

[TheAngryIntern]

buy/build nice house on some land, get a few nice cars, then invest some of it and travel on some of the rest!

[firstadopter]

Go to vegas and bet on black!

[firstadopter]

Well the rich get richer. J. Lo's mom just won $2.4M!
http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Movies/04/06/people.lopezs.mom.ap/index.html

[TheAngryIntern]

ain't that some Bulls**t! Like she really needs the money!!! That's like bill gates winning a $300 million lottery jackpot....the best story i ever heard about people winning the lottery that actually deserved it was the group of lunch ladies in Minnesota (i think) who won that huge jackpot a few months back. that's the stories I like to hear.

[firstadopter]

The saddest is thing is going into convenience store and seeing people that you KNOW can't afford it buy $100 worth of lottery tickets.

It's like their own way out of poverty.

[Kamakize]

I think I would pluck 4 mil in the back, use 1 mil to buy the "Average" house.. the 40K car the dog, and the white picket fence and then go back to school and take the classes that you would only get you a job at wal-mart. The Astronmy, they history type classes.. they ones you can enjoy..

[firstadopter]

I love to go back to school and take the classes all over again. And this time I would actually do all the readings!

[firstadopter]

The winner of the World Series of Poker, a patent attorney, just won $5M yesterday.

[firstadopter]

Buy $5M of $340M jackpot Powerball tickets.

[ichiro]

I would build a log cabin home someplace up in the mountains on a half dozen acres. Build a nice clean spacious meditation room complete with Tantric shrine and enjoy the silence!

[firstadopter]

That sounds cool as long as there is access to broadband a nice gaming PC. :)

[stupot42]

Buy $5M of $340M jackpot Powerball tickets.

In the UK, they worked out that if you spent £1million on lottery tickets, you could expect to win an average of £250k over 10 attempts!

[Gamergal]

i would buy a great deal of guitars and a music store.buy a complete collection of my fave bands albums. set up benefit concerts for the poorest and most depresssed countries.and the rest for charities.

[firstadopter]

That's a good one. I think I would give money directly to people. The more I read about charities and government help (Katrina), the worse I feel. So much of it is wasted. Some of the Katrina money was used for strip clubs, tatooes, and guns. Insane.

[firstadopter]

The powerball jackpot for tonight is $365 million. Wish me luck! That's only about $100 million one-time up front payment after taxes. The government sure takes a big cut.

[firstadopter]

I didn't win Powerball. Sigh.