I bought my very first lottery ticket on Friday. My co worker checked my lottery ticket on Saturday and guess what I had won a bit of money. Not the jackpot, but something at least. I was so happy.
Jackpot- what would you do??
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$53,000,000.00
$50,000,000.00 immediately in portfolio set up with the help of a trusted broker.
$1,000,000.00 - create Trust for others.
$1,000,000.00 - pay off certain friends, family, loved ones' mortgages, cars, student loans, other debts.
$1,000,000.00 - pocket money.
$50,000,000.00 immediately in portfolio set up with the help of a trusted broker.
$1,000,000.00 - create Trust for others.
$1,000,000.00 - pay off certain friends, family, loved ones' mortgages, cars, student loans, other debts.
$1,000,000.00 - pocket money.
You gotta play to win!
Weirdly enough, the odds of winning the jackpot are virtually (not literally, virtually) the same whether one plays or not.
Bluntie, you're forgetting half goes to taxes......
Won a small jackpot while on vacation a week ago. Wife handled it for me...she figures I'm much too tender for such things. So much to a savings account...some to a vacation fund...some for taxes when they're due...she gave me a few bucks. If I won a big one...I'd buy a new truck, a brand spanking new one, none of this ten-year-old good-used vehicle. And gum. I'd Stock Up on gum.
Just the fact that there's an infinitesimal chance of winning keeps a spark of hope alive and makes it fun. The jackpot would be great but I'd happily settle for matching five-- that's usually good for a couple hundred thousand!
Just the fact that there's an infinitesimal chance of winning keeps a spark of hope alive and makes it fun. The jackpot would be great but I'd happily settle for matching five-- that's usually good for a couple hundred thousand!
I hope I wasn't implying that it keeps me from playing. While I'm acutely conscious of the definition of "lottery" as being "a tax on those who are bad at math," I still buy my ticket with half-hearted regularity. At least in Colorado, I figure my losings (which is pretty much everything I spend on it) is going to open space acquisition.
Nor does it keep me from fantasizing what-if. Oh, yes. I have my dreams. And they've benevolent. Really.
Buy Easons' (bookshop)
put myself through collge
help my family with mortages
Give to Irish Cancer Society and Alzhimers and Dogstrust
invest a little
hopefully have enough to have a two week holiday a year and live comfortably
put myself through collge
help my family with mortages
Give to Irish Cancer Society and Alzhimers and Dogstrust
invest a little
hopefully have enough to have a two week holiday a year and live comfortably