So say you win the Powerball on Wednesday. What will you do with the cool $1.3 bill? First, though, splurge on the best in the mags for the ultra-rich to find out what folks in your new class are buying these days.

Robb Report

The Robb Report gives a take on how to be rich, and that could be helpful for those of us who have never enjoyed the lifestyle. Want to know what to pack for vacation? Well, how about traveling light and paying $1,400 for a recommended leather duffel bag and buying $400 black stylish sneakers that go with both casual wear and a suit? Where is the best place to go? How about Bali? “I could easily walk 100 yards before the water reaches the hem of my purple sarong,” writer-photographer Jackie Caradonio waxes on about the faraway island of vibrant exotic culture and mystic charms. Oh, and the resorts themselves must set you back a big chunk of Powerball dough for a month’s stay. A Robb Report list of the top 2016 destinations includes South Africa’s Cape Winelands, as well as Marrakesh and Zanzibar. Closer to home, don’t miss the EXR Racing Series in Las Vegas for prices that range between $5,000 to $140,000 for a team.

Hemmings Sports & Exotic Car

Hemmings Sports & Exotic Car magazine seems directed at car enthusiasts, whether they are rich or may have more modest wealth and can’t afford the Robb Report Vegas experience. Less Powerball than power pops, the mag is nonetheless worth checking out for pieces like the dad in Lincoln, Neb., who helps his 16-year-old son fix a 1985 Porsche they bought for $1,000 with spare parts. Another first-person account, “My Car and Me,” is about the owner and his 1980 Fiat Spider 2000. You might be keen to buy yourself a vintage car when the Powerball money comes in and participate in events like one featured in which old British cars were in a 600-mile race from Quakertown, Pa., that tested the durability of their cars and raised money for a local hospital. Wanna know about your vintage car swap meets and events across the country, then Hemmings is for you.

Power & Motor Yacht

Power & Motor Yacht magazine is all about profiling the latest models — just right for the Powerball man or woman in you. A feature titled “Prime Mover” describes the MJM 50z, yours for $2.1 million. A test drive at 34 knots (40 mph) shows the comfort, and the galley and saloon area is “pleasant.” (Our kind of pleasant, that is.) Interested in the new Bertram 35? Yes, it is styled after the Moppie (for those in the nautical know). Electronics that can improve the angler’s day is one of the short features, and fishing can be so much easier when you’re driving a boat that costs more than most houses.

Town & Country

Town & Country is old money, so if that’s your style, pick up a copy. The current issue includes jewelry suggestions for Florida snowbirds, including a Wendy Yue ring for $11,900. Former top British diplomat David Miliband speaks about how he spends his time resettling European refugees. As expected, the Ivanka Trump cover story is much more style than substance, with page-length pictures of The Donald’s very pregnant 34-year-old daughter, including her standing elegantly in a dress, and seated fashionably on a couch while doing work. She says she is not part of her father’s presidential campaign, and when asked if she might eventually enter politics, she coyly replies, “Who knows?” While Ivanka is very busy being married and running her dad’s business empire, single ladies of similar wealth are sure to enjoy the mag’s list of 50 top bachelors, with Google’s Sergey Brin ranking No. 1.

New Yorker

Here’s something the New Yorker has as we await Showtime’s much-hyped “Billions,” which stars Damian Lewis and Paul Giamatti: Studious actor Lewis learned that when hedge fund managers sit, their legs are almost crossed at the knee and they look tense. On the more substantial front, we learn with some horror what is happening to the citizens of the northern Iraq city of Mosul, which used to be a diverse city of 1.5 million people before ISIS came to town.

New York

New York, meanwhile, offers a light lunch, with its most meaty article about how HBO is changing “Sesame Street” after buying the franchise last year, with head writer Joey Mazzarino saying he “lost the war.” Its cover story is a pictorial on stars and their beginnings. For example, comedian Don Rickles explains how he started heckling his audience after doing bad impressions, and how over time it became a bigger and bigger part of his act. Of course we know that, “You hockey puck.”

Time

Time tries to be serious in its cover story “How Trump Won,” but it’s a shopworn piece that tells us yet again that politicians do not need middlemen and can better resonate by connecting directly with their audiences. A more compelling story is a feature on peer-to peer services including Airbnb, showing who likes these kinds of products. Sellers offering goods directly to consumers, including Instacart, which delivers groceries from shops like Whole Foods, are typically young, male, urban-dwelling and members of a racial minority.

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