5 South Jersey Ways to Spend $800M Powerball Jackpot
With Saturday night's Powerball jackpot now up to a mind-blowing $800 million (and expected to go even higher,) it's hard to comprehend just how much money that actually is.
To help, we've come up with some ridiculous and awesome ways you could spend the cash here in South Jersey.
This assumes that you take the cash option of $496M, winding up with a conservative (and very approximate) $297.6 million AFTER taxes.
- 1
9,020,915 3-lb. boxes of Fralinger's Salt Water Taffy
That's a lot of candy. Maybe save some cash for a good dentist.
- 2
5 rides per week on the Ocean City boardwalk Ferris Wheel for the whole summer...for 4 YEARS...for everyone in Atlantic, Cape May, and Cumberland Counties
(This is valid while tickets are half price, of course.) Talk about making your head spin!
- 3
2-24 oz. Wawa coffees PLUS a 10 inch hoagie everyday for the next 50 years...for you and 1833 of your closest friends
Sign me up!
- 4
Seasonal beach badges for all of South Jersey for the next 18 years
Depending on your beach, of course, but you could afford to give the entire population of Atlantic, Cape May, and Cumberland Counties a season pass to the sand.
- 5
The 6 most expensive houses in Atlantic County, 6 most expensive houses in Cape May County, PLUS the 8 overall most expensive houses in NJ
That's right, you'd be able to buy 20 of the ritziest homes in the state...and still have $16 million leftover to pay for the property taxes.