So, you got home and found that you won the state lottery. Now what?

[Onkel Neal]

Hypothetical situation:

You get home from work, dig out your lottery ticket, check it and lo-and-behold: all SIX numbers match. The lottery drawing date is correct. It's the real thing, and the cash option value is a little over $9 million.

What do you do?

Go to work tomorrow?

Go to the state lottery headquarters bright and early in the morning (a 3 hour drive for me).

Do you drive yourself or hire a town car and a pro driver? (Nothing like getting killed on I-10 on the way to collect $9 million :dead:)

Get in touch with a financial advisor?

Who do you tell? Anyone? No one?

So, you collect the $$$, I assume it goes into multiple bank accounts. What's next? Quit your job? What do you tell them?

What about the wife? Stay married or split the dough 50/50 and start planning parties that would put Hugh Hefner to shame?

How would you invest it?

What would you change about your life?

What's the very first thing you would spend it on?

[FIREWALL]

1st and foremost.... DON'T TEEL ANYONE !!!! :yep:

Hide the money in a Bahama account. :yep:

Get a Financial Advisor :yep:

Hire a good Divorce Attorney and give her everything but lottery loot. :yep:


Leave the country. :yep::yep::yep:

Your job is keeping an eye on your money and enjoying the good life without spending it stoopidly. :D

[TorpX]

I'm not sure about all the rest, but........


I'd get a large order of my favorite chinese takeout.
(Of course, I've done this before, but this time I'd do it without guilt)


Spend a few days or so just thinking about all the things I might buy now that I could afford to.


Take the prize in one lump sum. Think about investing in gold or such (because I don't trust the Gov't to be responsible about our currency). In a few years the dollar may be nearly worthless.


Almost forgot, have the roof fixed.

[Anthony W.]

Tell only CLOSE family

Get a financial adviser

Divorce wife and make sure she gets as little as possible. House and car - no more.

Spend 2M in the stock market

Buy a Bugatti Veyron

You have 4M left

Buy a $1,000,000 estate and pay cash

3M to go

Spend 1 million on classic cars

Buy a private twin engine plane

1M left

Insure all of it

Go on a tour of Europe

Live off the invested money, and use some of it to invest even more

Marry your dream girl and have 2 kids

Use the invested money to buy a Gato or Balao class boat - crew it with subsimmers.

Life is good.

[Feuer Frei!]

What do you do?
Have a heart attack

Go to work tomorrow?
Nope, i'd ring in sick and get the med cert to cover the heart attack

Go to the state lottery headquarters bright and early in the morning (a 3 hour drive for me).
I'd still be in hospital, recovering.

Do you drive yourself or hire a town car and a pro driver? (Nothing like getting killed on I-10 on the way to collect $9 million :dead:)
Here in this country it depends if you are a registered or non-registered lottery player.
If registered, they send you a cheque. If not, i would take the ticket to the place where i bought it for verification, fill out the form and get a cheque sent to me.
So nho driving necessary, i'll just sit back in my lounge chair and get drunk!

Get in touch with a financial advisor?
My parents would be my financial advisors.

Who do you tell? Anyone? No one?
My parents, my 2 best friends and my eldest daughter.

So, you collect the $$$, I assume it goes into multiple bank accounts.Yep, multiple, split up the amount, some to my parents, to my 3 daughters, some into a trust fund, managed, and then go from there. What's next? Quit your job? What do you tell them?
You betcha! I've been looking for a good excuse to quit that sorry excuse of a place! :O: Seriously though, i would, jobs in that industry are a dime a dozen, so no probs for future employment. Take a year off, have a nice break. Re-evaluate after that. What do i tell them? None of their business!

What about the wife? Stay married or split the dough 50/50 and start planning parties that would put Hugh Hefner to shame?
No wife, so home and hosed there :haha:
Parties to rival Hugh's ones?
Maybe :hmmm::O::D

How would you invest it?
Real Estate, Real Estate and Real Estate.

What would you change about your life?
Nothing. I would try to stay the same person that i am now.
I paid my bills off, so would be even happier now.

What's the very first thing you would spend it on?
My kids.

[Anthony W.]

Here in this country it depends if you are a registered or non-registered lottery player.
If registered, they send you a cheque. If not, i would take the ticket to the place where i bought it for verification, fill out the form and get a cheque sent to me.
So no driving necessary, i'll just sit back in my lounge chair and get drunk

Deutschland?

[Feuer Frei!]

Deutschland?
Australia

[Falkirion]

First thing I'd do is buy myself a house and a couple of blocks of land as a buffer and future investment for when the govt or people want to buy em off me.

Then and only then would I tell me family, throw the rest in the bank for a rainy day. Just keep working as normal. No point in changing who I am just because I have 9 million.

[MothBalls]

What do you do?
I'd go to http://subsim.com/radioroom/ and ask for advice.

Go to work tomorrow?Call in sick.

Go to the state lottery headquarters bright and early in the morning (a 3 hour drive for me).No. Not until you talk to at lease three 'financial planners'. You may want to claim the prize in the name of a trust and not as an individual. For a prize that small you don't want to give it all away in taxes. (see below)

Do you drive yourself or hire a town car and a pro driver? (Nothing like getting killed on I-10 on the way to collect $9 million )Would drive with a friend who you know can drive, doesn't drive like an idiot, doesn't have 100 tickets, a family member probably. A "pro" driver has a $10.00 an hour job, what makes him safe?

Get in touch with a financial advisor?At lease two of them, and one person who actually has 9 million or more. If a "financial advisor" or stock broker had all the right information, they wouldn't be working as one.

I would talk to a tax accountant, and someone who knows how to keep money. I wouldn't invest it until a few months of research. Never take the advice of one person, and listen closely to the person who actually has made that much money.

Who do you tell? Anyone? No one?Only people on Subsim, we can be trusted. Nobody else. (It will be 6-8 weeks before you see a dime anyway)

So, you collect the $$$, I assume it goes into multiple bank accounts. What's next? Quit your job? What do you tell them?Depends if you liked the job, have friends there, of if you hated it and they treated you like crap.

9 mil is not enough to live the rest of your life on, unless you invest 95% of it and only live off of the annuities. But you probably couldn't stay in the job, cause you'd have a shive a git attitude anyway.

What about the wife? Stay married or split the dough 50/50 and start planning parties that would put Hugh Hefner to shame?Easy answer, do you love her?

How would you invest it?Carefully, slowly, diversified across multiple sectors in multiple countries. I would focus on making it work for me safely, and not take big risks. Annuities that pay enough to live on.

Might set aside a small amount for a spending spree, the puter/TV/car etc. but remember, you will have to pay taxes and insurance on all the toys. That's how many lotto winners go broke. 9 mil is not as much as you think.

What would you change about your life?Nothing. Might take a few trips, take a few friends, help any family out that really need it, buy something special for the folks, and send $5,000 in cash to the person who gives you the best advice in this thread.

What's the very first thing you would spend it on? The oldest profession.

[FIREWALL]

All I see is posts that are what they feel the other members would want to see.

No real honesty here. :nope: In real life that amount of money changes people especially if you've never had it before.

You'de all be Broke in a year. :haha: The statistics show that the wife already knows your stupid and will fritter it all away.

So they dump you first and get most of it with a sharp Attorney before you know what hit you. :yep:


Love is Blind until, Millions of $$$ Correct the Vision. :DL

[antikristuseke]

First go to work, then after work go get the lottery money. After that go grab a couple of cigars and a bottle of Caol Ila and call up my best friend for a quiet celebration. After that would take some time off without any major spending to get over the shock of it all and then rationally start weighing my needs against my wants.
Would at first buy a house in a decent part of town, furniture and home electronics and all that crap without going overboard on that. A few more bottles of Caol Ila just so I could enjoy a nice glass of whisky when ever I felt like it. After that would invest about 3 mil and get a decent car, probably an M5. Then go through with my plans related to school, but with enough spending money to be comfortably off. After that could get an easy going job I like just to have something to do and then just enjoy life.

I have already been in the position of having more money than I know what to do with and squandered it, not again.

[Feuer Frei!]

The oldest profession.
:haha:

All I see is posts that are what they feel the other members would want to see.
No real honesty here. :nope: In real life that amount of money changes people especially if you've never had it before.
I see the point you are attempting to make, however, it's a bit unfair to assume that that is what is occurring with some, if not all posts here.
Certainly from my post, it's about as honest as you are going to get it from me.
But to call it a dishonesty is unwarranted.
I think the best judge for the post that i posted, are people that know me.
I didn't post my response with the thought in the back of my mind of what other members would think of it.
Unfair judgment.
I think it's a thread for individuals to make up their own mind as to how much honesty will go into their post.
The extremes can be pointed out.
So far i haven't seen any blatant dishonesties that i can see.
If you are referring to my post, then i am happy to bisect and disect it for evaluation.

[FIREWALL]

Perhaps I was a bit harsh but, my point was made and and easy gooogle will show statistics.

It's sad but true that most start out with best intentions but, falter along the way.

I will admit $9M isn't that much as oposed to the Mega millions that make normal people go spend crazy and lose it all. Well documented. :yep:

Btw I wonder where Neal came up with that $9M number.

Does HE got a big secret ? :hmmm:

[Rilder]

Probably would invest most of it (with the help of someone good with that sort of stuff) Probably use the rest to get myself a comfortable life, + a good amount spent on games and gifting games to friends or setting up Steamgifts giveaways. :O:

[Castout]

Just 9 million huh.

Okay tell no one. Get a citizenship in a developed world which respects human rights.

Buy a decent but nothing excessive property there. Use small amount to start a business that you could enjoy doing. Nothing excessive. Start small and the idea is to develop and grow it or merely to earn your living. Keep most money in the bank deposit.

I'd also donate a small amount to charity.


I'd also probably break all friendship ties(go vanishing) and start all over :haha:

If the lottery was 9 billion I'd start an armed rebellion somewhere and get myself my own small country LOL
If it was 90 billion I'd buy myself a small country.
if it was 900 billion I'd buy myself the whole planet.

[Feuer Frei!]

Get a citizenship in a developed world which respects human rights.
Good luck with that :O:

If the lottery was 9 billion I'd start an armed rebellion somewhere and get myself my own small country LOL
If it was 90 billion I'd buy myself a small country.

Think of the possibilities Castout, be like Ghaddafi, be a tyrant and you can finally dictate to the UN. :haha::salute:

[Betonov]

Blow a 100 000 on some R&R, the rest I'd invest in realestates. Then the profit from the investement would be used for more investement and so on and so on. And when I'm 40 I'd milk the cashcow and go into politics

[Herr-Berbunch]

Okay tell no one. Get a citizenship in a developed world which respects human rights.


If you had to buy your citizenship would that not go against human rights somehow?

$9m, that's only £5.58m :o

Nice house and some land, decent (but not brand new) bike and car.

Quit my job, travel a bit, then come home and then further my education.

[Castout]

Good luck with that :O:


Hmmppf . . . . . .there's a saying you do not appreciate what you have until you've lost them. In my book Western Europeans and then Americans could count themselves lucky in terms of civil liberties.


Think of the possibilities Castout, be like Ghaddafi, be a tyrant and you can finally dictate to the UN. :haha::salute:

Exactly You need at least 90 billion to be a tyrant of a nation. Come to think of it, because the oppressed are probably oppressed even by other [willingly and happily] oppressed people, the only way for one to be free from oppression is to become the oppressor :haha:

http://militantlibertarian.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/tyrant-4-rotator-2.jpg
But if you need that book you're probably hopeless :O:

[BossMark]

Well for starters I would get pissed walk round to my bosses house and punch him on the nose, then me and my Russian girlfriend would go somewhere nice for a few months. :D

[kraznyi_oktjabr]

Hypothetical situation:

You get home from work, dig out your lottery ticket, check it and lo-and-behold: all SIX numbers match. The lottery drawing date is correct. It's the real thing, and the cash option value is a little over $9 million.

I'm finn so I answer from (hypotethical) point of view of winner of our national lottery. Ofcourse I would need SEVEN numbers match.

What do you do?I would sleep to next morning and check if I was still a winner. :yep:

Go to work tomorrow?[/QUOTE]

As I'm unemployed at the moment - no. Would like to though...

Go to the state lottery headquarters bright and early in the morning (a 3 hour drive for me).

Only if that is compulsory.

Do you drive yourself or hire a town car and a pro driver? (Nothing like getting killed on I-10 on the way to collect $9 million :dead:)

I don't have driver's licence so I would have to take a town car. I would prefer flying in business class as it's a bit over 300 km to lottery company's headquarters. Ofcourse I would need a taxi for short journey but hey I have a money!

Get in touch with a financial advisor?

Absolutely although if I march to bank with $9 mil dollars I would propably have meeting with bank manager...

Who do you tell? Anyone? No one?

Only to my best friend as he is only one who I know to be able to keep his mouth shut up.

So, you collect the $$$, I assume it goes into multiple bank accounts. What's next? Quit your job? What do you tell them?

I would continue business as usual. I like my life as its now, except that I would like to have job, so I would prefer low profile.

What about the wife? Stay married or split the dough 50/50 and start planning parties that would put Hugh Hefner to shame?

Unfortunately I don't have wife so I can't really answer to this one yet. :cry:

How would you invest it?

I would propably put atleast 50% into secure bank account as use rest to launch small scale investment business. Only problem is how to maintain low profile? :hmmm:

What would you change about your life?

Don't know really.

What's the very first thing you would spend it on?

Propably upgrade my microwave oven. Current is older than me. It was bought by my parents in 1982. :haha:

[Herr-Berbunch]

Unfortunately I don't have wife so I can't really answer to this one yet. :cry:

I'm sure for a small percentage of your win, we could come to some arrangement! :D

[August]

What do you do?

Walk around with a big cheese eating grin.

Go to work tomorrow?

No, i'd take a personal day. How could anyone concentrate on work in those circumstances?

Go to the state lottery headquarters bright and early in the morning (a 3 hour drive for me).

I'd be there when they opened. (1/2 hour drive for me)

Do you drive yourself or hire a town car and a pro driver? (Nothing like getting killed on I-10 on the way to collect $9 million :dead:)

If that happened I wouldn't be around to regret it so yeah i'd just drive myself.

Get in touch with a financial advisor?

No, I wouldn't be investing my winnings in stocks and bonds.

Who do you tell? Anyone? No one?

The wife at first but nobody else until the prize check is safely deposited.

So, you collect the $$$, I assume it goes into multiple bank accounts. What's next? Quit your job? What do you tell them?

I'd quit my job and i'd tell them the truth.

What about the wife? Stay married or split the dough 50/50 and start planning parties that would put Hugh Hefner to shame?

I'm happily married.

How would you invest it?

Land

What would you change about your life?

I'd get rid of this spare tire around my waist. Maybe buy a new car.

What's the very first thing you would spend it on?

Pay off the mortgage.

[kraznyi_oktjabr]

I'm sure for a small percentage of your win, we could come to some arrangement! :D
:har:

[Penguin]

If the lottery was 9 billion I'd start an armed rebellion somewhere and get myself my own small country LOL
If it was 90 billion I'd buy myself a small country.



Well for starters I would get pissed walk round to my bosses house and punch him on the nose, then me and my Russian girlfriend would go somewhere nice for a few months. :D

^this

Except that I would only punch the director on the nose, I would tell my chiefboss about the money and about his advice how to invest it. He'd probably say something like "my condolences", lol

I would certainly spend half of the money in making a cool movie, or maybe two, one including lightly clad redheads on u-boats ;)

Then I realize that we are talking about US$, so I would probably spend it on a can of beer and pay the rest of the amount with my own money :O:

What's remarkable, is that none of the members here is so patriotic and would pay off a little of his country's debts :haha:

[Feuer Frei!]

I'm sure for a small percentage of your win, we could come to some arrangement! :D
Yea, i can imagine. :doh:
Take him to Thailand eh? *wink wink nudge nudge * :haha:

[Feuer Frei!]

What's remarkable, is that none of the members here is so patriotic and would pay off a little of his country's debts :haha:
Yes, Angela would appreciate some help from you :O:

[kiwi_2005]

9 million.

I would keep 6 million for myself and give the rest away to charity organizations this is my promise to myself if I ever won big in lotto depending on how much I would win.

1 million to starship hospital (kids with cancer)

1 million to Prostate charity - prostate cancer, woman get funded here for breast cancer where couple hundred die each year, men's prostate doesn't get funded and over 600 die from it each year. Crazy so 1 mill to them.

1 Million to food banks = Organization that feed the homeless.

6 million left for me & my sons. No relations would get a cent not even my sisters cause they're fine they don't need any. Plus they will never know I won.:arrgh!:

Buy a new home, couple of vehicles one for the road one for off road. Leave my job? Yup but still work buy a business and have people working under me. Invest some in real estate & sit back and enjoy the rest of my life.

[mookiemookie]

I would indeed go to work the next day. I'd probably even keep my job. Relatively low stress, short commute, good people around me.

Another reason I'd go to work is to talk to my buddies on our municipal bond desk. I'd tell them to set up a muni bond ladder that earns about 4 to 5% annually. That means $360,000 to $450,000 annually, tax free, without ever touching the principal. And that's at a 4-5% yield which is low on average. When rates rise, it'll be even more.

I'd buy a nice house around here - maybe around $500k to $800k. Nothing obnoxious, but very comfortable. I'd hire the maid and gardener as well. I'm a man of means, dammit. No more of this plebeian housework for me! I'd probably get a car around $100k. I don't need a fancy sports car. I hate driving stick shift.

My fiancee and I would probably travel, see the world.

Probably a pretty conservative vision, but hey, I wanna keep as much of it as I can.

[Herr-Berbunch]

Ooh, I'd finally be able to afford to take up skydiving again :D

[Zuk]

Finally i would be able to buy a BMW K1200LT instead of my old R45, which is currently in the garage. I would open a pub in a submarine style, and some amount of money I would definitely give to charity. I will take care of my family and few of my friends then i would get on my brand new BMW K1200LT and cruise around the world. I tried maybe to buy a submarine or built one for us fanatics from the subsim. It would be really nice. Unfortunately I am not so lucky:wah::wah::wah:. I almost forgot, i would buy some boat.

[frau kaleun]

Hypothetical situation:

You get home from work, dig out your lottery ticket, check it and lo-and-behold: all SIX numbers match. The lottery drawing date is correct. It's the real thing, and the cash option value is a little over $9 million.

What do you do?

I dunno exactly but at some point shortly thereafter you are gonna get one hell of an Amazon kickback. :haha:

[Onkel Neal]

I dunno exactly but at some point shortly thereafter you are gonna get one hell of an Amazon kickback. :haha:

:har::har::har:

[AVGWarhawk]

I dunno exactly but at some point shortly thereafter you are gonna get one hell of an Amazon kickback. :haha:

:har::up:

That is worthy of a "SS Best Response Award"

[frau kaleun]

Tell only CLOSE family

Get a financial adviser

Divorce wife and make sure she gets as little as possible. House and car - no more.

...

Marry your dream girl and have 2 kids


Really? Your "dream girl" is someone who wouldn't have you until after you acquired all that money? I have to assume that's the case, otherwise you would've married her first. :hmmm:

[Task Force]

Only 9 million!... oh well... guess i shouldn't start making my missile silos... hmm, and maybe scratch off the private army...:-?

[Oberon]

Really TF? I'd have thought you'd have gone for making your own King Tiger? That'll take care of a few million, and then the repair bills will take up the rest.


We've got it all planned out, new house and that, I'd probably keep it stum but I think folks on here would twig when I started talking about my new supercomputer... :hmmm:

[Armistead]

My wife had distant relatives that brought home 42 million after taxes. They were elderly and well off so to speak and gave most away to their kids and family, we were just too far down the line to be considered.

You have a better chance of getting stuck by lightening, plus about impossible to hide the fact you won as laws state you must come forward publicly 99% of the time.

[Sailor Steve]

What's remarkable, is that none of the members here is so patriotic and would pay off a little of his country's debts :haha:
They'll take a healthy chunk of it anyway, so that's no problem. But will they use it to pay off the debt? No, they'll say "Look! More to spend!" and once that's gone they'll borrow more and the debt will go up more.

With what I have left I'll just buy a modest house and then spend some on helping out some friends. After that, well, I'll have to think about it.

[Task Force]

Really TF? I'd have thought you'd have gone for making your own King Tiger? That'll take care of a few million, and then the repair bills will take up the rest.


We've got it all planned out, new house and that, I'd probably keep it stum but I think folks on here would twig when I started talking about my new supercomputer... :hmmm:


OAH YES! That, i would get me a king tiger! And use it as my personal vehicle! FEAR ME! I CAN HIT 22KPH!!! MUWAHAHAHA! lol.

Oah, and a new PC...

[frau kaleun]

:har::har::har:

Shooooot, man, I ain't kiddin. With that much money? I am buyin' ALL FOUR of the Karajan/Beethoven symphony box sets. :yep:







Edit: AND the dvd. :O:


Seriously, though, I've already had to start thinking about this on a MUCH smaller scale, with mom's estate in the process of being settled. We don't know how much the house/property will bring, especially in this market, but whatever my share of it is it will certainly be more money than I would otherwise see at one time.

With any sudden influx of a substantial amount of $$, my priorities are:

1. Pay off all debts.

2. Acquire decent transportation (which in my case is covered since I'm inheriting a very nice car).

3. Put as much as I can, for the time period in question, into my HSA and retirement accounts.

4. Put 6 months wages into savings.

5. Buy a condo or townhouse, with as big a downpayment as I can manage with what's left over.


Given more money than those things would require, I'd probably travel.

[Armistead]

My wife and I would get a set of real life love dolls...:D

[Gerald]

Neal,get a gift :DL

[Growler]

Pay off the house so the kids have a place where they can pay rent and utilities, and not get thrown out of while they learn how to exist and survive in today's world. Pay off my sister's house so she can divorce the idiot she married (total, maybe 300K). Make a healthy donation to the places and people whose work I value, via endowments: 100K to each submarine museum in the country, with 500K in a separate endowment as "emergency funds" in the event a boat needs a critical quick fix (There goes about 4M). A Subsim Meet, Greet, and Work week on whichever boat we determine needs the most assistance, hosted by whichever museum it represents, and paid for by me (~100K).

College funds for the kids (~.5M) That Porsche 911 Turbo I've wanted (~150K). Lifetime membership in HNSA (OK, that one's feasible w/o a lottery strike).

A small place for me and the lady in the mountains somewhere above 6K' with a view (~200-500K).

And that's about it. Rest (~2M, +/-) goes into banks, metals. Live on interest. Wife's a writer, and I'm always willing to travel to different places to work, so there's flexibility in our lives to do that.

When I did leave my current job, my resignation notice would be in the memo field of a donation check.

[MH]

Buy my doughter a nice house.
Make a deposit for her high education-not too much so she would have to work a bit.
Buy myself a Hammer or Land Rover and drive around the world.
With money left just seat on my ass drink beer,screw around and play with toys.

[Oberon]

Some lucky bastarge(s) in the UK has just claimed £161m...


No, it's not me... :damn:

[Task Force]

Some lucky bastarge(s) in the UK has just claimed £161m...


No, it's not me... :damn:

Hmm... That reminds me! i have some long lost relatives in the UK!!!!:D

[Stealhead]

I wouldn't do anything anything because I do not gamble(this would include lotteries) or take part in sweepstakes.Personally I do not think that winning or earning or gaining in any sort of way a large sum of money is going to magically make my life picture perfect.I think that many people feel this way though.

Sure it would be nice I suppose to be able to buy many things I suppose.I just base my opinion on what I have seen and heard from family members that live in Ft.Lauderdale and are in the lower ring of "wealthy". They have told me stories about neighbors one whose daughter never brought the grand children down to visit him when he asked why she never visited she said it was because there was no place for the kids to play(on a multi million house on the inter coastal?right) so this man buys the entire 2 million lot next to his has the house torn down and a small play ground placed on it.

The only thing money gives you truly is more problems rather than less.If you have millions of dollars there is so much to be done to protect that money and then if you win the lottery everyone is going to know because it is public knowledge so people will be coming out of the wood work asking for handouts.

I am not saying people that have wealth are bad or unhappy by any means they are humans just like everyone else and even with all the money they still have to deal with the same things any other person has to face in life.

I will stick with my life the way it is thank you I am happy enough I have everything I need and things that I have just for enjoyment I have a good wife and family and I got all those things without a large amount of money(sometimes I had very little).

[Armistead]

I wouldn't do anything anything because I do not gamble(this would include lotteries) or take part in sweepstakes.Personally I do not think that winning or earning or gaining in any sort of way a large sum of money is going to magically make my life picture perfect.I think that many people feel this way though.

Sure it would be nice I suppose to be able to buy many things I suppose.I just base my opinion on what I have seen and heard from family members that live in Ft.Lauderdale and are in the lower ring of "wealthy". They have told me stories about neighbors one whose daughter never brought the grand children down to visit him when he asked why she never visited she said it was because there was no place for the kids to play(on a multi million house on the inter coastal?right) so this man buys the entire 2 million lot next to his has the house torn down and a small play ground placed on it.

The only thing money gives you truly is more problems rather than less.If you have millions of dollars there is so much to be done to protect that money and then if you win the lottery everyone is going to know because it is public knowledge so people will be coming out of the wood work asking for handouts.

I am not saying people that have wealth are bad or unhappy by any means they are humans just like everyone else and even with all the money they still have to deal with the same things any other person has to face in life.

I will stick with my life the way it is thank you I am happy enough I have everything I need and things that I have just for enjoyment I have a good wife and family and I got all those things without a large amount of money(sometimes I had very little).

I have a good wife and family and a decent home, but I could deal with the problem or stress of having a few extra million bucks. :yeah:

[mapuc]

I don't know what you call it, but I would make it so that I earned MORE money.

Furthermore-you will suddenly have lots of new friends

Markus

[Webster]

the way they run things in my state i would get a promisary note saying sometime in the future they would send me the money (without intrest of course) but right now they just dont have it to give to me

most lottery take 60-70% right off the top (if they tell you its 100 million all you will ever get is 30 ish million) because they lied about how much the payout was in the first place then hit you with 50% taxes before you ever get it then tax any intrest you make investing it

[em2nought]

I'd move to Thailand and eat lots of curry and drink those little yogurt drinks(they should really be in US supermarkets). :03:

[Stealhead]

I have a good wife and family and a decent home, but I could deal with the problem or stress of having a few extra million bucks. :yeah:


That is my whole point people have the illusion that money will make them happier but does it really?If you suddenly have a million extra dollars you cant honestly say for sure the effect this will have.Sure you will have less stress about bills but you will still have to deal with other stress in life like with your family and friends(more so perhaps because you do not know how your new wealth will effect friendships) you will simply drop one stress but gain others.

Honestly if I some how came across a lot of money I'd put most of it away and save it so that I could have the money when I wanted to use it for something and I'd give a good sum to things like the Wounded Warrior Project. I like the reward of earning something through hard work more so than just getting something that is just my opinion you don't have to agree with me.I am just saying that money being the root of happiness is an illusion.Many folks who win the lotto end up running out of money because they made poor choices with what they got sometimes they have taken advantage of.


Sure some wealthy men have hot looking women but that woman does not truly love the man she loves his money and I dont give a damn what they say any man can find an attractive and good hearted(which is far more important than looks they will not last anyway) woman if she is worth her salt wealth is not that important to her.Even if a person wins a few million that is nothing you can spend well over 4 or 5 million for some properties out there that kind of money in chump change to a truly wealthy person.

The people who gain the most from lotteries are the groups that run them they laugh all the way to the bank.