# What stupid thing would you buy after winning the PowerbBall Lotttery? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 21, 2017, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stupid-thing-would-you-buy-after-winning-the-powerbball-lotttery/787122 "2017-05-21T03:08:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2017, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stupid-thing-would-you-buy-after-winning-the-powerbball-lotttery/787122/101 "2017-05-25T15:58:54Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > This is the second thread I’ve seen you post about a place having an open bar. Do you have some sort of newsletter I could subscribe to? Everything is better with an open bar. ---
**Author:** ![bizerta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@bizerta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bizerta)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2017, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stupid-thing-would-you-buy-after-winning-the-powerbball-lotttery/787122/102 "2017-05-25T16:01:51Z")
I would buy a bible and start going to church because it would be a God-given miracle. I’m not mathematically challenged enough to waste money for a lottery ticket. Hey, you wanted my opinion. ---
**Author:** ![DummyGladHands](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/49beb7/32.png) [@DummyGladHands](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DummyGladHands)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2017, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stupid-thing-would-you-buy-after-winning-the-powerbball-lotttery/787122/103 "2017-05-25T16:08:08Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > A beach house. Me too. A really good location and rentable. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2017, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stupid-thing-would-you-buy-after-winning-the-powerbball-lotttery/787122/104 "2017-05-25T16:24:25Z")
Buy the Washington Redskins. Change the name to the Washington Honkies. ---
**Author:** ![Theodore\_Striker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@Theodore\_Striker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Theodore_Striker)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2017, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stupid-thing-would-you-buy-after-winning-the-powerbball-lotttery/787122/105 "2017-05-25T17:13:02Z")
A Lucra LC470… either in the beautiful light blue finish that reminds me of my beloved Manchester City, or the British Racing Green with yellow… beautiful cars. A Maserati for my mom, because she has always wanted one. A microbrewery. A house on the southern beaches of the Dominican Republic. I could go on and on… ---
**Author:** ![Tranquilis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tranquilis/32/3639_2.png) [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2017, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stupid-thing-would-you-buy-after-winning-the-powerbball-lotttery/787122/106 "2017-05-25T19:03:58Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > Buy the Washington Redskins. > Change the name to the Washington Honkies. I’d buy a jersey. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2017, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stupid-thing-would-you-buy-after-winning-the-powerbball-lotttery/787122/107 "2017-05-25T20:25:36Z")
> [@Tranquilis](#): > > I’d buy a jersey. I would keep the same color scheme. The logo on the helmet would have a guy with a white face, yellow hair, and a red background. Should he be wearing a hillbilly-style straw hat? Or a Confederate Army kepi? Or a Jughead-style “whoopee cap”? ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2017, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stupid-thing-would-you-buy-after-winning-the-powerbball-lotttery/787122/108 "2017-05-25T21:25:37Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Emmylou Harris performing a private show for my family and I. I would fund some sort of app people would have to have so that when they said “I” when they should have said “me”, it pipes up “ME!”. It would annoy everyone else but it would make me feel much better. ---
**Author:** ![Tranquilis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tranquilis/32/3639_2.png) [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2017, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stupid-thing-would-you-buy-after-winning-the-powerbball-lotttery/787122/109 "2017-05-25T23:11:15Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > I would keep the same color scheme. The logo on the helmet would have a guy with a white face, yellow hair, and a red background. > > Should he be wearing a hillbilly-style straw hat? > Or a Confederate Army kepi? > Or a Jughead-style “whoopee cap”? Jughead. Definately. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2017, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stupid-thing-would-you-buy-after-winning-the-powerbball-lotttery/787122/110 "2017-05-25T23:53:46Z")
With an insane stupid amount of money - vacation homes in places that make no economic or touristic sense. “Why yes, I have a custom built yurt in Mongolia; no not in Ulaanbaatar. Too commercial. Everyone goes there. I was at my villa in Comoros and wanted something ‘different.’” With just a stupid amount of money, I’d do something boring like put it in savings and live of the interest. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2017, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stupid-thing-would-you-buy-after-winning-the-powerbball-lotttery/787122/111 "2017-05-26T16:27:14Z")
> [@Tranquilis](#): > > I’d buy a jersey. I’d buy New Jersey. ---
**Author:** ![Fluffy\_PickleSniffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/77aa72/32.png) [@Fluffy\_PickleSniffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fluffy_PickleSniffer)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2017, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stupid-thing-would-you-buy-after-winning-the-powerbball-lotttery/787122/112 "2017-05-26T21:39:39Z")
OH! OH! OH! I’d buy a ball pit - like kids play in, except adult sized. Then, instead of having it filled with balls, I would have it filled with M&M’s. Oh yes. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2017, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stupid-thing-would-you-buy-after-winning-the-powerbball-lotttery/787122/113 "2017-05-26T21:51:42Z")
> [@Fluffy\_PickleSniffer](#): > > OH! OH! OH! I’d buy a ball pit - like kids play in, except adult sized. Then, instead of having it filled with balls, I would have it filled with M&M’s. Oh yes. I don’t know why, but that makes me think I would buy every style of these: > **[Products](https://www.bigbellybanks.net/collections/all)** > > toys, banks, bank, wood, dinosaur, coin, big, belly, eat, money, child, personalized, kid, kids, baby, room decoration, nursery, gift, children, piggy, animal, flower, fish, flower ---
**Author:** ![campp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2017, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stupid-thing-would-you-buy-after-winning-the-powerbball-lotttery/787122/114 "2017-05-26T22:00:24Z")
[A 1948 Tucker.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tucker_48) ---
**Author:** ![CelticKnot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/celticknot/32/3392_2.png) [@CelticKnot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CelticKnot)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2017, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stupid-thing-would-you-buy-after-winning-the-powerbball-lotttery/787122/115 "2017-05-26T22:00:34Z")
After all debts were paid, a new customized autoharp and a luxury RV so we (my husband and I are Celtic Knot, musical duo) could go around the country playing at Renaissance fairs and Celtic festivals. The last few classes I need for a reading specialist endorsement, a M. Div. for my husband. ---
**Author:** ![JHBoom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/13edae/32.png) [@JHBoom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JHBoom)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2017, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stupid-thing-would-you-buy-after-winning-the-powerbball-lotttery/787122/116 "2017-05-27T00:06:20Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Let’s say you win a Powerball lottery of over $200 million(or the equivalent from another lottery if you can’t play Powerball where you live)-Name something impractical/stupid/selfish that you would purchase with some of this money. The old saying goes "_If you want to make a small fortune in aviation, start with a big one!"_ So… a custom-built [hangar home](https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/9a/4e/01/9a4e012a3e52e15821792ee56857e6ea.jpg) on my own private airfield (grass), with enough hangar space for the [F-1 Rocket](http://www.airport-data.com/images/aircraft/large/001/077/001077471.jpg), [RV-10](http://www.goodplaneliving.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/IMG_8510-1024x768.jpg), and [MD500](https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/a2/38/fc/a238fcec87bd4b6ba87621977dbdee91.jpg), and garage space for the cars, trucks, [RV](http://d34ra0wvwxc5ex.cloudfront.net/xjyNEd/cmYMiW/2017_Haulmark_Motorcoach_V45SB_Class_C_RV_nBXas4.jpg), and the [other](http://www.webreserv.com/catalog/jetskimiamifl/images/slide3.jpg) [toys](https://sep.yimg.com/ay/yhst-136786855154677/super-atv-front-bumper-polaris-rzr-xp-1000-xp-turbo-11.gif). A [box hangar](http://www.ftg-airport.com/hangars/hangar_outside_28.jpg) at a nearby regional airport big enough for the [T-6](http://vintageflights.com/wp-content/gallery/north-american-at-6-texan/T6-ramp.jpg) and [PC-12](https://www.jetcharters.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/pilatus-pc-12-review-1-e1456324311742.jpg), plus a couple maintenance bays. Make a small Part 145 Repair Station out of it, hire a couple/few of my aircraft mechanic friends as the full-time maintenance staff, and take in a handful of MD500 and PC-12 inspections to keep my friends busy when not working on my stuff. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2017, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stupid-thing-would-you-buy-after-winning-the-powerbball-lotttery/787122/117 "2017-05-27T00:32:30Z")
An entire catalogue of a camera brand. Even the items I would never have a use for. ---
**Author:** ![motu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/motu/32/259_2.png) [@motu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/motu)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2017, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stupid-thing-would-you-buy-after-winning-the-powerbball-lotttery/787122/118 "2017-05-27T19:06:38Z")
Enough property for bulldozer demolition derbies, a hedge maze, lots of greenhouses and geodesic domes, an airstrip, a small outdoor performance space, Calder moblies/stabiles and a meadery ---
**Author:** ![erysichthon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d07c76/32.png) [@erysichthon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erysichthon)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2017, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stupid-thing-would-you-buy-after-winning-the-powerbball-lotttery/787122/119 "2017-05-27T19:19:05Z")
I’d buy the [Yerkes Observatory](http://astro.uchicago.edu/yerkes/) in Wisconsin, home of the largest refracting telescope ever built. The University of Chicago has been wanting to unload it for a while, so I think I could get a pretty good deal on it. I don’t know what I’d do with it, but I think it would be a cool thing to own. (Actually, I’m pretty sensible with money, so I probably wouldn’t buy anything stupid after winning Powerball. I’m just playing along with the OP here.) ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2017, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-stupid-thing-would-you-buy-after-winning-the-powerbball-lotttery/787122/120 "2017-05-28T06:41:26Z")
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