If you won a billion and a half dollars, what would you do with the money?

I’m using the amount a billion and a half because the Powerball jackpot was almost three billion, so just a rough estimate that approximately half would go to taxes, you’d have 1.5 billion as winnings. That would be 1,500 millions.

I ask these questions sometimes (about lottery winnings) because I think it’s fun to speculate. I will very rarely play the lottery (maybe once or twice a year) and I will almost never gamble, so it’s not a chronic problem for me, just doing some fun thinking.

I think about the friends, family and organizations that I might help. I think about whether or not i would help friends even if they might not do the same if they were in the same situation. It would be very easy to throw people a million if I wanted to, to help them out.

My first priority would be some sort of tax shelter, where the money would be out of my hands. It would have to be invested, and I’d probably have to move to a secure location. My house is in a lovely and safe place, but it would not shield me from thieves or kidnappers.

Also, just to add that I realize that the chances of winning such an amount of money are almost nil. I’m not unrealistic. Just doing some fun thinking.

If you had 1.5 billion dollars, what would you do with all the money?