$640,000,000
That’s a nice amount of zeros.
Taking the cash option, then taxes, then splitting it with my brother, I’d be sitting on 80 million dollars. Of course I bought a few tickets.
Knock off a couple of million for a beach house and some remodeling to this house. Maybe upgrade the car. Throw the rest into a CD ladder and even after taxes on that income, the costs of maintaining two households, I’m figuring about 30K a month in disposable income. I honestly am having a hard time figuring out how I would spend it. (Though really, I should be given a chance to try. Really.)
I just can’t see much different in my day to day life. Maybe more dinners at fancy places in DC, cause I could also afford getting a car & driver to get me to DC. Some traveling. Get a suite instead of a cheap room when I go out of town. No more flying coach, ever. More champagne.
Even with 4 expensive trips a year, there’s still a lot left over - easily 20K. I think there would be a LOT of people I could help with that. Now, THAT would be fun.
ETA: In further fantasy math, the lump sum option is $462M and after all the machinations and if I threw it all into a 7 year CD with my bank at 2.5% instead of a ladder, it’s more like 118K disposable income a month…
Originally posted at CafeChatNoir.net.
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