OzLotto at $50 million tonight

I would:
1. set up trust funds with $2mil for each of my siblings and my children
2. Pay off my Mum and Dad’s debts
3. Pay off my debts
4. Go to Paris
5. Get married
6. Donate to Charity and Cancer cure research
7. Build a shelter for the homeless kids in Canberra
8. Set up my business
9. Invest in real estate her and overseas
10. Buy an island

oh, so there’s another $20 mil next week? Well, same list as before, but add the following:

Re-open the Jackpot Bar / Maram / whatever you want to call it – and do it right, ffs. Bands, live music, pool. Maybe even a couple of snooker tables. Microbrewery. No dj’s, no tweens drinking alcopops. Dress policy that excludes those with popped collars or Ed Hardy clothing.

p1 said :

HenryBG said :

Go halves with Sea Shepherd in an old Iranian submarine and then use it to sink the Jap whaling fleet.

Of all the countries with submarine technology, you pick Iran? You must really hate whales. Although I support the plan. There is a second hand RAN Oberon in victoria which was on eBay a while back…

Yeah, but I think there’s a better chance of obtaining affordable working weapons systems from Iran than off eBay.

Solidarity said :

Buy a Japanese whaling fleet and nuke HenryBG.

I think you mis-spelled “harpoon”, and anyway I have no trouble buttoning up the collar of my business shirt, so you’d be out of luck.

If I win Lotto as one of my relatives has done (a year ago) I have written down all of the charities that I intend strictly to give at least $50,000 each which are the following; The Blind Society (for all children and adults to receive a Guide dog and Carer for the parents of children whom are blind), The cancer childrens funds, Epilepsy, Neurological and muscle chronic disorder cases whereby a child needs treatment or studies conducted here or overseas and to purchase a property setting it up to have children from care/orphanages visit to ride horses, feed poultry, ride mini bikes on a circuit track, learn about crops, farming etc (may be 600 or a thousand acres) and short term respite fostering.

Half way there already just need to meet someone else who wishes to do the same!

Wanted to do all this 15 years ago but had kids to raise and working hard with obstacles, now is the year to progress and make this dream a reality.

1. get a submarine to sink tepees on lakes;
2. buy every white Commodore in sight and burn it;
3. fund the development and breeding of freshwater penguins for the lakes, because they’re cute;
4. make an offer to take over the ALP;
5. buy Greece and bring the good old stuff here.

Bought Geoff Peterson a place in Canberra.

Solve the ANU’s financial problems.

Assist renters.

Assist home buyers.

Bought the Lyneham servo.

Cover dental services.

Merge CIT & UC.

Bribe Dickson College students to shut up.

p1 said :

HenryBG said :

Go halves with Sea Shepherd in an old Iranian submarine and then use it to sink the Jap whaling fleet.

Of all the countries with submarine technology, you pick Iran? You must really hate whales. Although I support the plan. There is a second hand RAN Oberon in victoria which was on eBay a while back…

I would buy Guantanamo Bay and through a series of less than extraordinary renditions, have all the white commodore drivers in the ACT taken there for a good old fashioned phone bookingpalooza as water boading is wasteful.

Buy a Japanese whaling fleet and nuke HenryBG.

HenryBG said :

Go halves with Sea Shepherd in an old Iranian submarine and then use it to sink the Jap whaling fleet.

Of all the countries with submarine technology, you pick Iran? You must really hate whales. Although I support the plan. There is a second hand RAN Oberon in victoria which was on eBay a while back…

This thread is now moot. Since division one didn’t go off last night, it will jackpot to $70million next week. You won’t have to come up with ways to ration out the peasant $50million prize.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/more-news/lotto-prize-pool-jumps-to-70m/story-fn7x8me2-1226344330878

poetix said :

Thumper said :

Thumper said :

Move to Wiltshire or Gloucestershire, buy a Tudor mansion with grounds, and become a much more serious drinker.

Oh, and err, donate to charity, of course….

Buy the local cricket team. That seams like charity…

I like your thinking 🙂

Ben_Dover said :

Thumper said :

Move to Wiltshire or Gloucestershire, buy a Tudor mansion with grounds, and become a much more serious drinker.

Devon, old son, has to be Devon.

A slice of Devon?

Nah, WIltshire, Gloucestershire or Somerset. Even Cornwall 🙂

Thumper said :

Move to Wiltshire or Gloucestershire, buy a Tudor mansion with grounds, and become a much more serious drinker.

Devon, old son, has to be Devon.

Thumper said :

Thumper said :

Move to Wiltshire or Gloucestershire, buy a Tudor mansion with grounds, and become a much more serious drinker.

Oh, and err, donate to charity, of course….

Buy the local cricket team. That seams like charity…

Thumper said :

Move to Wiltshire or Gloucestershire, buy a Tudor mansion with grounds, and become a much more serious drinker.

Oh, and err, donate to charity, of course….

Is that enough money to bring Mully back from the dead?

DeskMonkey said :

aidan said :

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Lillypilly said :

Run for the liberals in a local seat.

.. duh!

Yes, just imagine…

‘One doesn’t moderate that which pays one’s way, boy…Now write that article about the Countless Wonders of Christianity* and Why Sleazy Jokes are Bad. Proof read it for errors. And don’t forget the vegetarian options.’

A sad, unimaginative fantasy, but if the Slipper fits…

Actually, I’d buy a yacht, and people to keep it nice.

*And lotsa charity, of course.

Move to Wiltshire or Gloucestershire, buy a Tudor mansion with grounds, and become a much more serious drinker.

HenryBG said :

Go halves with Sea Shepherd in an old Iranian submarine and then use it to sink the Jap whaling fleet.

The other $25 mil. could be spent building a compound in the country, easily defended, self-sufficient in power, and well-stocked with firearms and food.

Anything to get out of jury service…

fabforty said :

I would buy Rivers and sack its marketing team. I would then go after whoever is responsible for those horrendous “smooth cha-cha” ads.

Hahaha awesome! I will also do this when I win!

Run for the liberals in a local seat.

.. duh!

Mr Evil said :

Grab Craig Thomson, 25 postitutes, several suitcases full of Coke, the penthouse suite in some lush hotel somewhere, and go on a bender for three weeks!

with craig in tow, it’d only last two… 🙂

Grab Craig Thomson, 25 postitutes, several suitcases full of Coke, the penthouse suite in some lush hotel somewhere, and go on a bender for three weeks!

I would buy Rivers and sack its marketing team. I would then go after whoever is responsible for those horrendous “smooth cha-cha” ads.

This is second worst workplace conversation topic there is, just behind listening to a dream someone had.

In all seriousness though, 50 mil is too much. Would be impossible to keep the secret and literally every person you ever met (and countless strangers) would be asking for their share. I was holidaying in Yamba NSW when a local won 30 million in Powerball. Channel 9 were going door to door in the town to track down the winner. There were stories of the post office coping with 1000s of begging letters….

SnapperJack said :

Holden Caulfield said :

I’m gonna start a foundation to help homeless children.

You’re kidding, right?

SnapperJack said :

Holden Caulfield said :

I’m gonna start a foundation to help homeless children.

You’re kidding, right?

Of course not.

Also…

New York. Maybe Paris.

A lot of champagne.

Parties.

Be a big shot for a while.

Yeah.

How ’bout you Ned?

Go halves with Sea Shepherd in an old Iranian submarine and then use it to sink the Jap whaling fleet.

The other $25 mil. could be spent building a compound in the country, easily defended, self-sufficient in power, and well-stocked with firearms and food.

buy an ice cream. then pop mebbe thirty or fourty grand in my day to day account and, like solidarity, wait for a while to work out what i want/need/should do – lots of charitable things, mebbe establish a scholarship at my alma mater, and make sure my family was financially secure.

and maybe a case or two of krug to sip while i decide…

Emigrate to the UK. Seriously. I was on holiday there recently, and when you take into account the exchange rate and the relatively very low costs of everything over there (bar petrol) compared to Canberra/Aus, why you could live rather well over there on $50,000,000.

Anyone planning to buy a ticket should listen to this episode of More or Less to make sure you buy your ticket at the right time, ie when it’s more likely you’ll win than you’ll die before the draw is held (starts at about 23 mins 41 secs)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0132pk7/More_or_Less_12_08_2011/

I’d go back to work for at least long enought to make sure that everyone knew that I’d won it.

Holden Caulfield said :

I’m gonna start a foundation to help homeless children.

You’re kidding, right?

I’d give family and close friends about a million each. I’d buy a nice place for me to live (less than a million dollars, nice) and one to rent. I’d put about $15-20m in a high interest savings account (which are currently paying about 5-5.5%). I’d have that interest paid into a separate account and live off it (750,000 – 1m a year). I’d use about half that interest to travel around (taking friends and family with me on my dime), and just for everyday living. The other half would be used to build orphanages overseas, and given to charities in Australia. Whatever is left would be used for helping others, and maybe buying myself one or two cool things.

Primal said :

Buy Queanbeyan, put a wall up around it and declare it a sovereign nation.

You got the first two parts right but the third should have been to fill the walled area with water.

I would buy gambling cessation therapy. Its hard to believe how many people fall for the idiot tax.

Buy Queanbeyan, put a wall up around it and declare it a sovereign nation.

Buy a choppa!

Nothing. I’d let it sit in my account for a bit, sit down and not let it go to my head.

Most of all, tell nobody about it except for my father, as he is an Accountant and good with money.

I won’t touch that money for 2 years. Nothing. Nothing till all the stuff and thoughts in my head settle down, once i’ve worked it all out.

Then i’ll go with the best plan I can nut out in two years. I don’t want an extravagent lifestyle, but I don’t feel the need to help anybody less fortunante than me. Hmm.

I would invest the entire amount in a fairly conservative portfolio containing cash, bonds, shares and property, with a yield target of about $2.5M per year (5% of $50M).

I would use about $250k of this to tour the world, and the remaining $2.25M I would give away to charitable projects I felt deserving of support in each country I visited.

Because I wouldn’t be eroding the underlying portfolio (it should actually grow over time), I would be able to do this for the rest of my life.

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I’m gonna start a foundation to help homeless children.

Gosh, that’s a lot of money. Assuming I survived the week-long bender, I think I’d engage the services of an accountant and set myself up as a slumlord… er… property manager/investor.

$10mil in a conservative growth investment portfolio, $20mil on investment properties and houses for family and a clubhouse for my chosen local sporting group, $10mil on some really REALLY nice toys, and the last $10mil to charity?? I dunno.

Bit of a shame I’m not gonna buy a ticket, really.

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