If You Had A Billion Bucks, What Would You Do?

[xSilverPhinx]

I would travel the world. 

[jumbojak]

Give it all away.

[Pasta Chick]

Have more dogs, do a lot more with them (doing stuff with dogs is hella expensive), do more in rescue, hire a housekeeper to help with the fur removal, and travel and eat a lot of crazy weird food.

I'd end up giving away a lot of it too.  Not to any specific cause, just to people who need it.  I hear people talking about medical bills or car repairs or whatever all the time and I always wish I had enough money to just make it go away for them. 

Of course I'd have to invest a lot of it somehow too, so I don't burn through it all and end up broke.   

[Sandra Craft]

I'd pay off bills -- my bills, my friends bills, my relatives bills, possibly some strangers bills.  Then I'd buy a huge amount of acreage somewhere nice but accessible, hire people who knew what they were doing, and run a no-kill animal shelter.  Finally, I'd open a bookstore to serve as my own private library, tho I would sell a book to anyone who wandered in.  I would not serve coffee tho.

[Tank]

I'll have to think about this.

[Buddy]

Build myself a small 4 stall luxury barn with a large heated and air conditioned indoor arena, heated wash rack, heated tack room. Buy all the saddle pads in every color and all the Tailored Sportsmans.I have given this a lot of thought.

[Asmodean]

First, do let us define a billion, shall we? How many zeroes?

[Tank]

First, do let us define a billion, shall we? How many zeroes?

$1,000,000,000

[MariaEvri]

I#d buy the car I want, fix a super duper enclosure for my iguana, fix my apartment and the rest in a bank where I will use them with the rest of my cash.


oh yeah and buy a super duuperishious zoom lens for bird photography
and gadgets
who doesn't love gadgets

[xSilverPhinx]

First, do let us define a billion, shall we? How many zeroes?

$1,000,000,000

This. Probably a few zeros short if you're plotting world domination but still a lot of money nonetheless.

[Asmodean]

Well, with a "short" billion, I'd spend most of it buying myself an island and the rest living comfortably on it.

Were it a long billion, now that would have made things interesting!

[Ecurb Noselrub]

I'm assuming there is no tax burden with this one billion.  With that assumption, here is my plan:

1. Pay off any debts (wouldn't take much of it);
2. Give 25% to educational and medical charities/foundations;
3. Invest the rest in relatively safe investments (if I got 4% off of $750,000,000.00, that would be $30,000,000.00 annually);
4. Out of the annual income, pay taxes (estimated about 40%), share with family (grand kids education would be top priority), and travel;
5. Upon my death, the corpus would be divided among charities and my family. 

[OldGit]

I would travel more, while I still can.

[Crow]

Turn it into 2 billion, then that into 4 and so on. Once you have large amounts of expendable cash making more money is pretty straight forward. Once you have a decent system in place and employees working and creating profits without intervention you can invest money into others and not expect a return whilst still making more money. I'd probably focus on energy and food production and change them to suit my whims and manipulate the government to get what I want.

[xSilverPhinx]

I think I would throw a lot of it into education as well.