What Your $550M Powerball Win Could Buy You
Tonight's Powerball drawing will pay out an estimated $550 million bucks to the lucky jerk whose children's ages, day of birth, high school graduation year, and weight in British stones are chosen as the lucky winning numbers. That's HALF A BILLION DOLLARS.
What can that buy? We have trouble wrapping our heads around what a million dollars means, but $550 million?!? We've put together a list of things all that money could buy to put tonight's possible lottery windfall into perspective.
1,150,627 will.i.am iPhone Cases
When the members of the Black Eyed Peas aren't busy making the official music of weddings and bar mitzvahs, the create very expensive phone accessories, apparently. This blinged out model will set you back $478. Not that you care. You're a millionaire. Scoop them up while supplies last!
27,500,000 Clappers
With Christmas just around the corner and with the cavalcade of new friends that are sure to inundate the Powerball winner, what better gift is there than perennial Christmas gift for people you don't know that well: The Clapper. Also, for your more favored yes men, there's the Clapper Plus with Remote Control. $550M would get you 25,000,000 of those.
3,235,294 2ct. Rubies
Nothing makes a person feel rich like having tons of useless loose gems to covet. And if you win tonight's lottery, you better empty out your above ground pool because you're gonna be swimming in rubies, baby! Or, alternatively, the winnings could buy 11 million 3.3 oz bottles of Liz Taylor's signature fragrance Diamonds and Rubies.
55,000,000 iTunes Downloads of Rupaul's Album Glamazon
Rupaul is our absolute favorite queen here at NewNowNext and if we won tonight's Powerball, we'd spend as much of the money as possible trying to be like the Supermodel of the World. Obviously, a great way to start is by purchasing iTunes downloads of the same songs tens of millions of times.
904,108,920 Feet of Barbed Wire
Once people hear you're a huge lottery winner, they'll decide to steal from you. Deal with it, it's inevitable. Your friends, loved ones, neighbors. Everyone. The best solution it this is to spend all the money on barbed wire security, simultaneously relieving yourself of the burden of extreme wealth and protecting your decades old La-Z-Boy recliners and high school soccer trophies.
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19 Solid Gold Toilets
In some circles, solid gold toilets are synonymous with astronomical wealth. You could by 19 of them! No one else would have that many and that would make number 1 among rich people. And with the gold market the way it is today, this investment would be one solid, smooth move.
275,000,000 Powerball Tickets
Anyone who's ever bought a scratch-off can tell you that when you when that $1 investment back, the first thing you do is buy another ticket. It is almost stupid not to. And with $550 million on your side, and your chances of winning the next drawing are astronomical! This is just THE smartest bet.