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

[Oberon]

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


No, it's not me...

[Task Force]

Originally Posted by Oberon

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


No, it's not me...

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

[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]

Originally Posted by 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).

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.

[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

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).

[Stealhead]

Originally Posted by Armistead

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.

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.