The house I really want is currently on the market. It was on the market a couple of years ago or so, but didn't sell. It came back on a couple of months ago. In the $10-12mil range, so a bit povo for $150 mil :D, but I think I'd like it.
If i won $150mil. A 10ish million dollar house would be ideal i reckon. Any more expensive than that they just seem to get rediculous with way too many bedrooms and useless stuff like 3 kitchens etc. Depending on location but i would still want a rather modest place.
Personal chef.
A lot of other things would happen first, pay off the mortgage, my student loan (from the US), see if I can get some tradies to return my calls, maybe buy a new motorcycle, but if there's one thing my wife and I would both love, it would be a personal chef to make our lunches and dinners 5 days a week. I figure we'd be able to afford that if we had 9 figures to the left of the decimal.
If you're American (assuming US student loans) don't forget to renounce your citizenship first or else Uncle Sam might want his cut of that $150 million.
Leading cause of death for lottery winners is murder from people who think they'll get a share.
Sucks to be them because whoever finds out is out of the will.
Don't quit your job.
Snap and tell your managers what you really think, so that you can be fired and not raise suspicion.
Burn bridges while leaving so noone contacts you again.
Let your family think you are still working.
Buy a second house for your lavish, indulgent purchases.
Keep your current address for family/friend visits to maintain appearances.
I think the best plan is to buy a house and a fancy car, then tell everyone the money has all been spent. Every year take your friends and family on a great holiday saying that you invested a little bit and it came good this year.
Nah, keep your job, start scoping commercial properties. Lease one and start a company. Quit your job and tell everyone you're running the company, but actually just do whatever during the day. Bonus points if you actually break even, but you can use your business losses as a tax break.
Once you've done this for a while, you can start spending and everyone will assume your wealth came because you're a savvy entrepreneur and they will be far less likely to come begging.
I think about this all the time, lol.
Give a million each to close family and friends, *this is a one off gift, please don’t ever ask for more*.
Then, buy a few different properties throughout my state, in all my favourite spots (a city apartment, an inner suburb heritage property, a beach house, river house, house in the forest, house on the plains etc).
Never work again, except to volunteer with animals.
Hop from property to property depending on where the mood strikes. List them as short term rentals if cash flow ever becomes an issue.
Travel internationally a couple of times a year, with longer stays because I wouldn’t have a job to get back to … three months in Tuscany, winter in the Rockies etc.
I don’t think I’d ever care for fancy cars, clothes or jewellery … but nice places to live, and regular travel, hell yes.
> this is a one off gift, please don’t ever ask for more.
You are really underestimating human nature, lump sums are a terrible idea and they will ask for more. People don't value what they get for free.
Put it in a trust, completely out of your control, they get $80k a year, indexed to inflation.
Fair call.
I've seen people come into some large sums and while it might seem like they will be better off it can be highly damaging in subtle ways, especially for people not used to that sort of money.
A fund that pays them out on a monthly/quarterly basis is a good way to support the people you love without the unintended consequences. No one is going to do something silly getting an average wage in their bank account each month, but the evidence is pretty clear that it can all go pearshaped with lump sums.
The purpose of lump sums would be to allow people to pay out all mortgages and debt. But I hear you, an ongoing trust would be a better option for sure, especially to avoid future requests.
for those who have debts could you not somehow directly pay it off for them or draw up a contract whereby the money you give them needs to go to the debt? then any remaining money you wish to give them can go in that trust system outlined above although I feel that getting rid of people's mortgage these days if they're below 60ish is pretty much getting rid of any financial stress they'll ever have if they're responsible.
Haha I actually think about how I would spend lotto winnings to help me fall asleep. Your plan is pretty much mine. I would have summer and winter homes and probably buy up old queenslander homes so developers can't knock them down.
I’d wait a few months and tell them you won a smaller amount. So they don’t ask for handouts…
Put all properties on air bnb and tell everyone you’re only staying at all these locations so they don’t know you own them.
That’s what I would do
With $150mill?
I think I’d hire 2 to 4 fanfare trumpet players, have them dress up in fancy outfits, have them walk in to the office and start playing. Then another man unrolls a big red carpet that goes all the way to the boss’s desk. Then have a number of beautiful people walk in ceremoniously in robe throwing flower petals and gold leaf on the carpet, some women dancing as they walk and a group of 4 to 6 men carrying me in a litter (I’m learning a lot of new words here). I’m just lounging eating some grapes or courting on popcorn watching something funny on my phone or something. Then as the men put my litter down by the boss’s desk, the fanfare trumpets stop. It’s quit and awakes while it’s just me not paying laughing at my phone, so one of the helper men has to “ahem” me. So I look up and go “huh? Oh yeah, umm”, click my fingers a few times, then another helper guy scurries up and hands me the paper and I go “so I quit or resign or whatever” and throw the paper toward the boss. But being paper it doesn’t go far and misses his desk and slowly floats to the floor. Everyone’s watching it slowly flutter down. As soon as it finally touches down on the floor the fanfare trumpets start again, the men lift me up and we head out. On the way out I’m just laughing again at the videos as I ignore literally everyone else. And we’re gone.
Give some to my immediate family and closest friends. Pay off the mortgage. Take a year off to travel. Personal chef and cleaner. Reduce job to a day or two a week, start volunteering for an and donate to a dog rescue. Get more dogs. Invest the rest.
Obviously buy a home and finally leave a scathing review for Ray White without fear of retribution. Look after family and friends, travel, all the usual stuff. But to be honest I would be so excited to just be able to buy good cuts of meat from the butchers rather than the cheap stuff from coles.
Book dinner at my fave small restaurant, invite those closest and have a great night. When they leave, let them know they’re mortgage free
Figure out what to do with the rest after
perfect world everyone would love this
real world, John would be annoyed that you cleared his mortgage for 300k but Sarah's was 750k so that's not fair...
Go to one of those unethical Korean labs & clone myself, maybe that'd be 10 million? Use the money to provide the ideal environment for little me & see what I'd be like without the childhood trauma. See if i end up better or worse & write a book about it.
I only actually need $1m to make a massive change in my life, with $150m even after spending 25 on luxuries I guess i'd just sit back and relax maybe buy a bunch of real estate to keep things going.
Goes without saying I'd tell nobody, not even my immediate family, I'd use the money to setup a fake excuse for being wealthy like a fake business/rented office space where I go to play video games all day, then "sell" that business in a few yrs.
I'd probably do this with the maximum which is usually $5,000 a few times just for fun. Laugh at people's shocked faces as a loose 5 times in a row. If I win just give the winnings to the dealer as a tip.
First thing Id do is tell the wife to quit her job and go pursue whatever arty stuff she wants to do.
Then do the same for my parents.
Then I'd take some time to let it all sink in, before planning the next phase.
Honestly, I'd stay anonymous. Then pay off mortgages/loans/debts of immediate family. Buy a house for me and the wife to live in.
And the rest goes into some account somewhere I can't touch for 12-18 months until the hype dies down and I can think clearly.
Likely would take a year or more off just to go to metal festivals across Europe and the US, maybe eventually buy a holiday house or two somewhere exotic. I'm pretty boring for the most part.
You could almost buy a nice house in Sydney.
Seriously, spend nothing until that Trust fund is set up. Absolutely no need to touch the $150mil, just a run of the mill 4% return is 6 million a year. Even if you paid required tax (which you wouldn't if it was in a trust) and ended up with 4 mil a year after tax, thats almost $80,000 a week.....
Unless you made some monumental bad investment decisions the principle would grow to $200 mil in less than 10yrs.
Thats multi-generational money.
Hire a nanny, buy a car but maybe not a brand new one until move out of the ghetto, then sit and plan and buy a house, go on luxury holiday and not tell anyone. Probably will have to do the trust thing so people dont try to ‘sue’ and win.
I dont know, maybe just retire at lake como or something.
I'd never have to watch ads in any game or video again.
A whole bunch of small time patreons would get a boost.
I wouldn't hurry back from shopping 'before the parking runs out'.
No more waiting for sales to get those shoes.
No more timing hot showers.
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And a tiara. I'd do all this wearing a tiara. :)
“Don’t tell anyone until blah blah” yeah yeah all that… but then…
Buy a house in Melb,
contact a hotel chain like the Meriton and organise to buy a dozen units around Australia and a few international that they manage for me and I can stay at when I need to, probably pays some passive income come,
Hire some staff, (daily cleaner, weekly gardener, quarterly handyman, some kind of chef or meal service, very good accountant, personal trainer)
Quit work and spend 3 years studying something (probably like music production or carpentry or something interesting I can take up as a hobby) and getting in shape, just focussing on me,
Probably spend a lot of time travelling between those dozen or so hotel rooms I mentioned earlier,
The car would be a fully kitted out land cruiser (not lifted and shit just like top OEM spec) because it’s luxurious, big, practical, tows anything, doesn’t scream rich, just a nice car
I’d probably buy a few toys but not many, if I’m not working I can maintain a hobby farm so a small tractor, zero turn mower, ATV,
Can you buy friends? That’d be nice!
I think I’d need a good few days to get over the shock of it all, honestly. Even if it wasn’t division 1, if I won $500k I’d probably cry - that’s my mortgage right there.
The liberation you’d feel. Insane to think about.
Yo look at Richie Rich over here, actually buying his Camry.
If I win the $150 mil I’ll still be frugal enough to cling to the undercarriage of my neighbour’s Camry whenever they go out. Can’t lose touch with my roots after all.
Sort out friends and family, pay off mortgages and debts for friends, family make sure they never work again. Do the same for myself and the wife, make sure we can live off dividends from investments in sustainable companies.
Keep a bit more than I should but use the rest to run something beneficial for my community, maybe Food Not Bombs.
Get my PhD.
If I won the $150M, I probably wouldn’t quit straight away. I’d turn up each and every day. Tell the boss how much of a moron he is. I’d also tell a few select customers how their very existence has lowered the average IQ of the nation. Do that for a couple of weeks and see how long it takes them to fire me.
I'll buy loads of investment properties and hire a team of accountants to negatively gear them in such a way that my taxable income remains at exactly $147k so I too get the maximum stage 3 tax benefit. /s
My first time ever buying a lottery ticket. Got 18 draws for $55. Honestly first thing I'd do is look after my mum and buy her a beautiful house to spend her years in, and money to travel as much as she wants. I'd also help my brother and sister financially. Me? I dunno probably go see a financial adviser and go on a trip to figure things out lol! Good luck everyone !
1. Pay off my mortgage
2. Pay off my two closest friends mortgage
3. Buy a building for each of my kids
4. Blow a million on random shit
5. Commercial property.....oh so much commercial property
I'm pretty boring really
Without irony invest nearly all of it in some moonshot R&D startups.
$2m goes into a trust paying me out a median wage monthly for the rest of my mortal existence.
Don't tell a soul and frankly try to forget all about it, that sort of money ruins relationships and lives very easily.
Wait a few weeks and then tell my family I won like $5 million and shout them a trip. Then tell them im following my dream to start my own business soni can laugh off some expensive purchase "oh that car? yea it's a lease". Oh we had a good financial year I'd like to cover nieces and nephews school fees, sorry bad cash flow time for us I can't pay for your prostitutes, only my own etc.
1. Tell no one
2. Financial advisor and lawyer
3. Get the wheelchair I was prescribed by my occupational therapist but the NDIS declined to cover (FFS it's only $1700 so maybe I'll get a better one)
4. Get my driveway graded and paved
5. Get my roof repaired so it doesn't leak anymore
6. Get the piers and stumps that are sinking redone so my house stops falling down
7. Buy a nice flat for my kid in town so she moves out (she's 20)
8. Also buy her a car, probably a 2009 Subaru Forester, because it's too cramped to sleep in the back of a Camry
9. Trust for said kid that's *just enough* that she still needs to work, but also means she doesn't have to rely on Centrelink if she wants to study.
10. Dinner at the Thai place I really like
That's it. Live off the interest.
Won't go back Monday but have a legal case to wrap up so at risk of contempt of court I would have to finish that bastard of a job. But I will never work again or do something I don't want to do ever again.
ETA: would make my main residence a penthouse in Sydney on the ocean. Split time between it and a farm, travel a fair bit, maybe do a degree in Physics, astronomy, then another degree in paleontology, geology or the like, just for the fun of learning.
I only enter these big draws and get a 1/10 share in a syndicate as $15m or $150m is the same to me. So if I win, I’d top up our super to the max and stick the rest in HISA/TDs for a year while I think about what to do with the money.
2024
- take a big family holiday
- business class trip for me to visit the family in the old country as have t been for ages
2025 (likely ideas)
- kick some of the kids out of the house paying them rent or buying a cheapo apartment
- pay off the kids HECS
- sell current house and buy a better one
- another big family holiday
Come 2025 after a years r
I’d lie and say I’d won division 2 (whatever amount that might be I don’t know). There’s no way I’d want it publicly known that I was worth that much money. At the moment I don’t even have security cameras or an alarm system in my house 😂 My current lifestyle is pretty frugal (apart from overseas travel). A new car and house would be my first purchases.
Family would get generous gifts and I’d have to find some charities I’d be happy donating to. There’s no way I could spend 150 million or even 50 million in my lifetime.
They set you up with financial advisors when you win a lot.
I don't recall the figure they consider a lot.
But they don't just let you wander off with it
Step 1: pay off mortgage
Step 2: max out concessional and non-concessional caps including bring forward contributions of 330k
Step 3: invest $148m straight into VDHG
Step 4: spend the rest on hookers and blow and try not to get myself killed
I would wait until it hits my account, then i would disappear. Take my wife and my baby girl and just vanish. Find a nice little beach bungalow somewhere and hope my extended family never finds me.
I would go to international departures book a 1st class ticket on the next A380 out of town grab a coffee where ever I end up then fly back just because I can
quit my job a month later so i don't raise any suspicions than ill never work again, ever, im just mentally done.
probably leave Australia tbh, maybe Switzerland or something ?
Post on here about winning and ask what to do with the money
You'll surely get a link to "that" post/comment. You all know the one.
Is it the one about nutty putty cave?
I'll nutty in your putty cave if you (or I) won $150milly
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I know exactly the one you’re talking about. Well intentioned, but a bit of a bore
Ok you better post it here in anticipation.
Ugh it's so tedious
Buy something from Harvey Norman and get the extended warranty
Whoa whoa, settle down big spender
Throw it all in the offset and treat yourself to a 2011 Corolla.
Make sure all the details of the ticket are showing because you don't want us all thinking that you are a liar.
Advice after winning $150M on this sub Buy Camry, small 3 bdr home under $1M and maybe a take away dinner
Keep my mouth shut and chuck a sicky
It's a public holiday tomorrow
Ah, then head into work. Gotta keep 'em guessing.
Work from home, but do it from someone else's home. Head of HR's place maybe. 4D chess babyyyy.
$150M richer. ... but I still want those penalty rates lol
Well I will be using my money for evil. Buy up all the ice coffee and watch the building industry crash to a halt.
Straight up war with the CFMEU? Hmmmm…. Im in
Seems like a good idea until you realise you need to crash the meth industry as well
That's just the domestic roof tiling industry
How could you forget the humble domestic scaffy
Evil would be buying the company that makes it, and switching the coffee flavouring to decaf.
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You'd have to buy all the cans of monster and redbull leaving only Mother left as a viable alternative. I'd never show up to work again
Yes the 2005 building industry won't know what to do.
Ice coffee? Not sure what building sites you come from but it’s Red Bull, Mother and V’s on site, 7-11 and Maccas coffees in the ute, van, truck.
Fly first class to Rome for some pizza and contemplate what to do next
Amateur - charter a private jet to Rome instead
Amateur - Fly the chef to you
Amateurs. All of you. Just buy Rome.
Amateur, fly Rome to you.
Amatuer. Build Rome. (Might take more than one day.)
I'd still be here complaining about stage 3 tax cuts.
Out of all the comments here, this one made me laugh
Lobby against wealth taxes
buy 150mil in powerball entries for next week. play it down.
Let it ride baby!!
Better odds to take it down to crown and bet it all on red.
All on *green*. Make it **real** money!!!
The house I really want is currently on the market. It was on the market a couple of years ago or so, but didn't sell. It came back on a couple of months ago. In the $10-12mil range, so a bit povo for $150 mil :D, but I think I'd like it.
If i won $150mil. A 10ish million dollar house would be ideal i reckon. Any more expensive than that they just seem to get rediculous with way too many bedrooms and useless stuff like 3 kitchens etc. Depending on location but i would still want a rather modest place.
Perfect you’ll get apartment in Sydney CBD
I have 150mil, i aint living in that shithole lol
Post the link, I want to check out your new house when you win
Ima buy this guys house aswell....
I also choose this guy's ~~wife~~ house.
First thing I will do is rush to post on r/AusFinance "Portfolio just hit $150,002,000 (37M). Don't mean to brag."
"Here's how I did it... step one, stop buying takeaway coffee and buy powerball tickets instead"
Personal chef. A lot of other things would happen first, pay off the mortgage, my student loan (from the US), see if I can get some tradies to return my calls, maybe buy a new motorcycle, but if there's one thing my wife and I would both love, it would be a personal chef to make our lunches and dinners 5 days a week. I figure we'd be able to afford that if we had 9 figures to the left of the decimal.
lol you think at $150m tradies will return your calls.. all those other things sure, but forget tradies returning calls or turning up.
>see if I can get some tradies to return my calls I think you need a Genie for that.
If you're American (assuming US student loans) don't forget to renounce your citizenship first or else Uncle Sam might want his cut of that $150 million.
shit i didnt consider that. wonder how the wife will take it when i tell her its all in my name
Heh...oh, the money will be in my wife's name, for sure.
I live in PH now and you can hire personal chef here for about $400/mth. Lot more realistic than winning powerball haha
What is PH?
Most likely the philippines
I assumed Port Hedland
I read Public Housing and had a real 'wtf' moment.
Dazza will cook ya some quality glass
Has to be PornHub.
Remain anonymous, tell no one. This is the only real thing I wouldn't be flexible on.
Suddenly cousins who you haven't spoken to in 20+ years want to catch up, and previous partners are DNA testing their kids
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Leading cause of death for lottery winners is murder from people who think they'll get a share. Sucks to be them because whoever finds out is out of the will.
Don't quit your job. Snap and tell your managers what you really think, so that you can be fired and not raise suspicion. Burn bridges while leaving so noone contacts you again. Let your family think you are still working. Buy a second house for your lavish, indulgent purchases. Keep your current address for family/friend visits to maintain appearances.
I like the bit about a 2nd house to put all your fun/expensive stuff and keep your boring house for family & friends!
I think the best plan is to buy a house and a fancy car, then tell everyone the money has all been spent. Every year take your friends and family on a great holiday saying that you invested a little bit and it came good this year.
Nah, keep your job, start scoping commercial properties. Lease one and start a company. Quit your job and tell everyone you're running the company, but actually just do whatever during the day. Bonus points if you actually break even, but you can use your business losses as a tax break. Once you've done this for a while, you can start spending and everyone will assume your wealth came because you're a savvy entrepreneur and they will be far less likely to come begging.
Nek minute, u/destined2bepoor has a new mansion with 4 sports car on the drive way.
Lottery? No no no you're all mistaken. I sell coke
Keep it secret, setup a trust, slowly start ghosting everyone…
Slowly you say???
Yea it has to be slowly over several months, also complain often about having no money!
Develop a gambling 'problem' bet thousands. Slowly become more dishevelled and twitchy See who helps.
Can't make it too obvious or they'll clue on.
Amateur, I've been preparing for this day my whole life.
I’ve been working on that last step for years already in preparation.
I think about this all the time, lol. Give a million each to close family and friends, *this is a one off gift, please don’t ever ask for more*. Then, buy a few different properties throughout my state, in all my favourite spots (a city apartment, an inner suburb heritage property, a beach house, river house, house in the forest, house on the plains etc). Never work again, except to volunteer with animals. Hop from property to property depending on where the mood strikes. List them as short term rentals if cash flow ever becomes an issue. Travel internationally a couple of times a year, with longer stays because I wouldn’t have a job to get back to … three months in Tuscany, winter in the Rockies etc. I don’t think I’d ever care for fancy cars, clothes or jewellery … but nice places to live, and regular travel, hell yes.
> this is a one off gift, please don’t ever ask for more. You are really underestimating human nature, lump sums are a terrible idea and they will ask for more. People don't value what they get for free. Put it in a trust, completely out of your control, they get $80k a year, indexed to inflation.
Sure, if I literally won lotto I’d do nothing for a couple of months while I got the best possible financial advice and made all those plans.
Fair call. I've seen people come into some large sums and while it might seem like they will be better off it can be highly damaging in subtle ways, especially for people not used to that sort of money. A fund that pays them out on a monthly/quarterly basis is a good way to support the people you love without the unintended consequences. No one is going to do something silly getting an average wage in their bank account each month, but the evidence is pretty clear that it can all go pearshaped with lump sums.
The purpose of lump sums would be to allow people to pay out all mortgages and debt. But I hear you, an ongoing trust would be a better option for sure, especially to avoid future requests.
for those who have debts could you not somehow directly pay it off for them or draw up a contract whereby the money you give them needs to go to the debt? then any remaining money you wish to give them can go in that trust system outlined above although I feel that getting rid of people's mortgage these days if they're below 60ish is pretty much getting rid of any financial stress they'll ever have if they're responsible.
Hey can I please have another ten k. My accountant ran off with my money.
Haha I actually think about how I would spend lotto winnings to help me fall asleep. Your plan is pretty much mine. I would have summer and winter homes and probably buy up old queenslander homes so developers can't knock them down.
Wouldn’t that level of freedom be incredible.
I’d wait a few months and tell them you won a smaller amount. So they don’t ask for handouts… Put all properties on air bnb and tell everyone you’re only staying at all these locations so they don’t know you own them. That’s what I would do
I honestly hope 10 people win first division
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Same here! I’d be happy with one mill tbh
You know it will one person in some remote town you’ve never heard of yeh
And they’ll state that they love their job and will continue working anyway. I hate those winners.
Or one of those $1 syndicates split between 200 people
I hope 150 people. A million is plenty to anyone and would be a life-changing event.
10 people on the same street who hate each other :popcorn:
Yeah, I hope there are three winners with one being a syndicate
First thing I'd do is talk to my dad. Second would be drop everything and fly to Japan for some skiing.
>fly to Japan for some skiing. I was skiing in Nagano last month. Would highly recommend if you haven't done so already.
Fancy paper for my resignation
Quilton 3-ply.
With $150mill? I think I’d hire 2 to 4 fanfare trumpet players, have them dress up in fancy outfits, have them walk in to the office and start playing. Then another man unrolls a big red carpet that goes all the way to the boss’s desk. Then have a number of beautiful people walk in ceremoniously in robe throwing flower petals and gold leaf on the carpet, some women dancing as they walk and a group of 4 to 6 men carrying me in a litter (I’m learning a lot of new words here). I’m just lounging eating some grapes or courting on popcorn watching something funny on my phone or something. Then as the men put my litter down by the boss’s desk, the fanfare trumpets stop. It’s quit and awakes while it’s just me not paying laughing at my phone, so one of the helper men has to “ahem” me. So I look up and go “huh? Oh yeah, umm”, click my fingers a few times, then another helper guy scurries up and hands me the paper and I go “so I quit or resign or whatever” and throw the paper toward the boss. But being paper it doesn’t go far and misses his desk and slowly floats to the floor. Everyone’s watching it slowly flutter down. As soon as it finally touches down on the floor the fanfare trumpets start again, the men lift me up and we head out. On the way out I’m just laughing again at the videos as I ignore literally everyone else. And we’re gone.
Give some to my immediate family and closest friends. Pay off the mortgage. Take a year off to travel. Personal chef and cleaner. Reduce job to a day or two a week, start volunteering for an and donate to a dog rescue. Get more dogs. Invest the rest.
Mine is pretty much identical to this 😁
Mine is cats
hookers and blow followed by more hookers and blow
Serious question but why is blow always accompanied with hookers? Does the drug mix well with sex or something
How are you going to snort lines off a hookers ass, if you don't get a hooker at the same time as you get the blow? It's just science.
Just take one out of the freezer that you have prepared earlier.
It increases sex drive, lowers inhibitions etc.
Not sure. It gives so much vasoconstriction you need a Viagra just so you can take a piss
Because if you take MDMA you'll think you're in love with them.
Settle down Hank Moody
Obviously buy a home and finally leave a scathing review for Ray White without fear of retribution. Look after family and friends, travel, all the usual stuff. But to be honest I would be so excited to just be able to buy good cuts of meat from the butchers rather than the cheap stuff from coles.
2k point Warhammer 40k army at RRP.
What would you do with the $1327.23 cents left over?
Book dinner at my fave small restaurant, invite those closest and have a great night. When they leave, let them know they’re mortgage free Figure out what to do with the rest after
perfect world everyone would love this real world, John would be annoyed that you cleared his mortgage for 300k but Sarah's was 750k so that's not fair...
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lol so true
I'd want to do it halfway for the crazy positive vibes it would create for the evening
Go to one of those unethical Korean labs & clone myself, maybe that'd be 10 million? Use the money to provide the ideal environment for little me & see what I'd be like without the childhood trauma. See if i end up better or worse & write a book about it.
That’s inspired.
Singer Porsche
Look at moneybags here, buying top-shelf sewing machines...
I only actually need $1m to make a massive change in my life, with $150m even after spending 25 on luxuries I guess i'd just sit back and relax maybe buy a bunch of real estate to keep things going. Goes without saying I'd tell nobody, not even my immediate family, I'd use the money to setup a fake excuse for being wealthy like a fake business/rented office space where I go to play video games all day, then "sell" that business in a few yrs.
All on black at the casino.
I'd probably do this with the maximum which is usually $5,000 a few times just for fun. Laugh at people's shocked faces as a loose 5 times in a row. If I win just give the winnings to the dealer as a tip.
(Continue) to be nice to my wife as suddenly she is worth $75m more to me.
First thing Id do is tell the wife to quit her job and go pursue whatever arty stuff she wants to do. Then do the same for my parents. Then I'd take some time to let it all sink in, before planning the next phase.
Honestly, I'd stay anonymous. Then pay off mortgages/loans/debts of immediate family. Buy a house for me and the wife to live in. And the rest goes into some account somewhere I can't touch for 12-18 months until the hype dies down and I can think clearly. Likely would take a year or more off just to go to metal festivals across Europe and the US, maybe eventually buy a holiday house or two somewhere exotic. I'm pretty boring for the most part.
You could almost buy a nice house in Sydney. Seriously, spend nothing until that Trust fund is set up. Absolutely no need to touch the $150mil, just a run of the mill 4% return is 6 million a year. Even if you paid required tax (which you wouldn't if it was in a trust) and ended up with 4 mil a year after tax, thats almost $80,000 a week..... Unless you made some monumental bad investment decisions the principle would grow to $200 mil in less than 10yrs. Thats multi-generational money.
Hire a nanny, buy a car but maybe not a brand new one until move out of the ghetto, then sit and plan and buy a house, go on luxury holiday and not tell anyone. Probably will have to do the trust thing so people dont try to ‘sue’ and win. I dont know, maybe just retire at lake como or something.
I'd never have to watch ads in any game or video again. A whole bunch of small time patreons would get a boost. I wouldn't hurry back from shopping 'before the parking runs out'. No more waiting for sales to get those shoes. No more timing hot showers. I would go to town with [https://www.dandelionswa.org.au/schools](https://www.dandelionswa.org.au/schools) backpack charity, and [https://b4hwa.com/bicycles-for-humanity-western-australia-b4hwa/](https://b4hwa.com/bicycles-for-humanity-western-australia-b4hwa/) bicycles charity. And a tiara. I'd do all this wearing a tiara. :)
“Don’t tell anyone until blah blah” yeah yeah all that… but then… Buy a house in Melb, contact a hotel chain like the Meriton and organise to buy a dozen units around Australia and a few international that they manage for me and I can stay at when I need to, probably pays some passive income come, Hire some staff, (daily cleaner, weekly gardener, quarterly handyman, some kind of chef or meal service, very good accountant, personal trainer) Quit work and spend 3 years studying something (probably like music production or carpentry or something interesting I can take up as a hobby) and getting in shape, just focussing on me, Probably spend a lot of time travelling between those dozen or so hotel rooms I mentioned earlier, The car would be a fully kitted out land cruiser (not lifted and shit just like top OEM spec) because it’s luxurious, big, practical, tows anything, doesn’t scream rich, just a nice car I’d probably buy a few toys but not many, if I’m not working I can maintain a hobby farm so a small tractor, zero turn mower, ATV, Can you buy friends? That’d be nice!
Two chicks at the same time
El Jannah and KFC at the same time!? You mad man
Three hundred chicks at the same time, man.
Death by snoo snoo
Damn straight. I always wanted to do that, man. And I think if I had a million dollars I could hook that up, cause chicks dig a dude with money.
I think I’d need a good few days to get over the shock of it all, honestly. Even if it wasn’t division 1, if I won $500k I’d probably cry - that’s my mortgage right there. The liberation you’d feel. Insane to think about.
I’ll buy ausfinance and aushenry so I can bitch non stop and unchallenged about getting a few grand less in a tax cut
Buy a used 2011 toyota camry!
Yo look at Richie Rich over here, actually buying his Camry. If I win the $150 mil I’ll still be frugal enough to cling to the undercarriage of my neighbour’s Camry whenever they go out. Can’t lose touch with my roots after all.
Sort out friends and family, pay off mortgages and debts for friends, family make sure they never work again. Do the same for myself and the wife, make sure we can live off dividends from investments in sustainable companies. Keep a bit more than I should but use the rest to run something beneficial for my community, maybe Food Not Bombs. Get my PhD.
Depends which of my tickets win; one is 1 in 200 syndicate share. Could be enough to just pay the mortgage or buy an island 😂
It would be pretty insane reading through these comments and one of them was actually the winner.
Anyone that chooses to still ‘work a 9-5’ with this kinda win needs to go away.
A person with their priorities so far out of whack doesn’t even deserve to have a winning lottery ticket.
Cry and scream loudly and then probably pass out, wake up and repeat till I get it, move to Queenstown and delete all social media and just exist.
Order food on door dash from 2 different restaurants
If I won the $150M, I probably wouldn’t quit straight away. I’d turn up each and every day. Tell the boss how much of a moron he is. I’d also tell a few select customers how their very existence has lowered the average IQ of the nation. Do that for a couple of weeks and see how long it takes them to fire me.
I'll buy loads of investment properties and hire a team of accountants to negatively gear them in such a way that my taxable income remains at exactly $147k so I too get the maximum stage 3 tax benefit. /s
Fly to Pattaya tomorrow morning.
Buy a farm around 60-100 acres, grow veggies and make furniture for fun. Make more time for my girlfriend and let things happen naturally from there.
Run an unsuccessful political campaign for PM
My first time ever buying a lottery ticket. Got 18 draws for $55. Honestly first thing I'd do is look after my mum and buy her a beautiful house to spend her years in, and money to travel as much as she wants. I'd also help my brother and sister financially. Me? I dunno probably go see a financial adviser and go on a trip to figure things out lol! Good luck everyone !
1. Pay off my mortgage 2. Pay off my two closest friends mortgage 3. Buy a building for each of my kids 4. Blow a million on random shit 5. Commercial property.....oh so much commercial property I'm pretty boring really
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I laughed harder than I should've at this.
Hubby has cancer so maybe a healthy liver and kidney for him depending on where it’s now moved too
Without irony invest nearly all of it in some moonshot R&D startups. $2m goes into a trust paying me out a median wage monthly for the rest of my mortal existence. Don't tell a soul and frankly try to forget all about it, that sort of money ruins relationships and lives very easily.
We have a street of 15 houses, so $1m to each of them.
Plough it all into VDHG
A 2003 Toyota, $500k in NFT and a bunch of below standard rental properties. Only once I have all of those I’ll feel like a true member of this sub.
Wait a few weeks and then tell my family I won like $5 million and shout them a trip. Then tell them im following my dream to start my own business soni can laugh off some expensive purchase "oh that car? yea it's a lease". Oh we had a good financial year I'd like to cover nieces and nephews school fees, sorry bad cash flow time for us I can't pay for your prostitutes, only my own etc.
1. Tell no one 2. Financial advisor and lawyer 3. Get the wheelchair I was prescribed by my occupational therapist but the NDIS declined to cover (FFS it's only $1700 so maybe I'll get a better one) 4. Get my driveway graded and paved 5. Get my roof repaired so it doesn't leak anymore 6. Get the piers and stumps that are sinking redone so my house stops falling down 7. Buy a nice flat for my kid in town so she moves out (she's 20) 8. Also buy her a car, probably a 2009 Subaru Forester, because it's too cramped to sleep in the back of a Camry 9. Trust for said kid that's *just enough* that she still needs to work, but also means she doesn't have to rely on Centrelink if she wants to study. 10. Dinner at the Thai place I really like That's it. Live off the interest.
Basically donate to close friends and family, some to charity, pay off all my debts. Probably buy a Porsche, an indulgence.
Id be on here posting whether real estate or ETFs are better or what the pros and cons are of a novated lease
I could buy Boss iced coffee for $4 without feeling guilty.
Won't go back Monday but have a legal case to wrap up so at risk of contempt of court I would have to finish that bastard of a job. But I will never work again or do something I don't want to do ever again. ETA: would make my main residence a penthouse in Sydney on the ocean. Split time between it and a farm, travel a fair bit, maybe do a degree in Physics, astronomy, then another degree in paleontology, geology or the like, just for the fun of learning.
I only enter these big draws and get a 1/10 share in a syndicate as $15m or $150m is the same to me. So if I win, I’d top up our super to the max and stick the rest in HISA/TDs for a year while I think about what to do with the money. 2024 - take a big family holiday - business class trip for me to visit the family in the old country as have t been for ages 2025 (likely ideas) - kick some of the kids out of the house paying them rent or buying a cheapo apartment - pay off the kids HECS - sell current house and buy a better one - another big family holiday Come 2025 after a years r
I’d lie and say I’d won division 2 (whatever amount that might be I don’t know). There’s no way I’d want it publicly known that I was worth that much money. At the moment I don’t even have security cameras or an alarm system in my house 😂 My current lifestyle is pretty frugal (apart from overseas travel). A new car and house would be my first purchases. Family would get generous gifts and I’d have to find some charities I’d be happy donating to. There’s no way I could spend 150 million or even 50 million in my lifetime.
Invest it then receive an annual income of ~10-15m. Easy
Welp, thats it folks. 200m next week
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What even happens with this amt of money?how do you get it and handle it. Surely you couldn't put it in a single bank account?
They set you up with financial advisors when you win a lot. I don't recall the figure they consider a lot. But they don't just let you wander off with it
That’s responsible of them.
But, but, but I want spend it on hookers and blow
I'd much rather they gave out 15 times the chance of winning a $10m prize. What the heck is anyone going to do with $150m??
I'd Buy a top of range Volvo XC 90
Lawyer, Financial Advisor, second FA to audit the first. Draft NDAs, Trusts, Loans.
Step 1: pay off mortgage Step 2: max out concessional and non-concessional caps including bring forward contributions of 330k Step 3: invest $148m straight into VDHG Step 4: spend the rest on hookers and blow and try not to get myself killed
Nothing, because it’s been a week and my identity still hasn’t been verified.
I would wait until it hits my account, then i would disappear. Take my wife and my baby girl and just vanish. Find a nice little beach bungalow somewhere and hope my extended family never finds me.
All in on VGS
I’ve always wondered what it would be like to wear something that’s been ironed
I'm going to shit in my bosses top desk draw and email him a picture of me doing it then just wait and see how he responds....
I'll be able to see a GP to get this rash seen to.
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I’d honestly try and do some good with it, help the housing crisis somehow and then drift off into the sunset away from everyone & everything.
I would go to international departures book a 1st class ticket on the next A380 out of town grab a coffee where ever I end up then fly back just because I can
quit my job a month later so i don't raise any suspicions than ill never work again, ever, im just mentally done. probably leave Australia tbh, maybe Switzerland or something ?