$4 Billion, what do you do with it?

[Shoggoth2588]

3 of the 4 Billion would go to NASA to ensure my place in the Martian Colony [though I would likely either be dead or a doddering old man by the time that gets off the ground]

The other billion would be spent on a life of low/moderate. Probably a condo in a semi-developed town on the outskirts of a city somewhere [kinda like where I live now I guess] Would probably work to keep boredom at bay. Probably go to school but for what? I dunno ...

 

[ThaBenMan]

I would buy the Moon. Then, I would rename it "The Great Celestial Night Light". I would hire crack teams of mercenaries to patrol everywhere to enforce use of the new name. Anyone who is heard still referring to it as the Moon will be swiftly executed.

 

[clairedelune]

2 chicks at once

That'll be £50 on alcohol wasted, what next?

It's a quote from Office Space, it's what his neighbor says he would do if he had that kind of money.

 

[whycantibelinus]

I never work a day in my life again, that's what I do.

Oh and buy a house and a sweet entertainment setup.

Oh and then I put like half of it into a high interest savings acount, and live off of the interest, which brings us around to "I never work a day in my life again."

 

[Valiance]

Buy half of new zealand.

 

[Cortheya]

I would build a domed city!!! It would be all sci-fi-ish
Then the neighboring town would be mideval and fantasyish with dragons and stuff....
Then they would fight.

 

[jad4400]

I'd build the awsome Dragon Tank (See below) and probably chip in some money to charity (See below also).

http://www.theonion.com/content/video/obama_axes_pentagon_plan_to_build

http://www.theonion.com/content/video/child_bankrupts_make_a_wish_0

 

[andrat]

Spend 3.9 billion on whatever I wish. Prolly helping with the French invasion.

Nice cars, computers, house, etc.

That 0.1 billion I have left.
Will be burned. In front of people.

 

[AvsJoe]

Buy and operate my own NHL team. No ifs, ands, or buts, that's precisely what I'd do. Just pick an American team that no one likes (Florida, Phoenix, Atlanta), move it to Winnipeg or Quebec or Hamilton or something, and then see if I have the skills to build a contender for the Cup.

 

[G1eet]

First off, I'd buy one of those Russian SUV's decked out with whale penis leather. That'd still give me quite a pocket left, though, so... probably genetically engineer a pokemon.

Don't tell me you wouldn't want to have
<spoiler=this>http://download.lavadomefive.com/members/BigClawz/Updates/Blastoise.jpg
as a friggin bodyguard. I'd need a good one, too, because of the money I just might have left over from the research.

 

[Kororci]

As for Me id buy state of the art laptop and computer buy a big house and probobly save the last 1 billion for a rainy day... oh and I'd start playing Wow Again and get Xbox live (Cant afford those things now o_o)

 

[ShadeOfRed]

Donate some of it to science, the ones that try to revive extinct animals and create new ones. Then burn some of it. Then eat some of it just so I can say "I ate money for dinner last night, roughly 20,000 dollars." and see the look on their face. Throw some at homeless people. Bury a bunch in different spots marked with tiny X's and I don't even know. Too much money for me to even spend, probably just put most of it in the bank.

 

[thejadefalcon]

I'd buy a personal jet and use it to visit America to meet my girlfriend.

 

[Emilie Diabolica]

Donate $3bn to a variety of charities and life off the interest of the last $1bn, or whatever $1bn minus a house and a car is. Travel a bit doubtless.

I know you said "no 'leave it in the bank'", but I did say I'd donate a lot of it. I could never take that much money and not do something with it - hell, winning 13mil I'd donate at least half of it.

+EDIT+

And I'm amazed I haven't been Ninja'd by a "donate it" post. Man, people can be selfish. Do people not realise how much a $bn is? That's 1000 million-dollar cars, like the Veyron. If it's British Billions then it's 1million Veyrons.

I would carry on working too - most Lottery winners go skint because they blow all their money on crap like entertaining, gambling and so on because they have no structure to their day, apparently.

At least I wouldn't have to worry about student finance. Sodding debt...

Same here. I'd donate $3bn, then invest $950m to live off, then give my (extended) family all a million or so, buy my parents a house, buy myself an inner-city uber-stylish apartment and stuff, then travel the world!
woooh...

 

[Pilot Bush]

4000000 $1000 hookers

 

[ma55ter_fett]

give three quarters of it to charity, and spend the rest on myself and my family.