If you won the lottery, what would you do?

Kaminsky

use the rest of my life SPENDING IT ! Would be the last day of work I ever did !


Keep the rest of my life occupied by learning how to draw, play guitar/piano and try and match my granddad who, when I was just a little nipper, used to be able to pick up a chunk of fallen tree branch and, as we walked and played through the family walk in the forest, come out the other side with a wooden figurine of an elephant, monkey, deer ... each about 6 inches tall.... really detailed with all the muscle tone etc...

Looking back ... what an amazing skill he wasted being a plumber just to put food on the table for his kids.... Eventually alzheimer's did for him.

We waste so much of our lives working unfortunately...

Kaminsky

networker050184 wrote: »

You don't need a million dollars to do that.

Nope, one good drunken night at a nighclub will get you that for the promise of two kebabs on the way home..... or was that just where I lived in my boistrous early days.

GT-Rob

blargoe wrote: »

I always wanted to do that, man. And I think if I were a millionaire I could hook that up, too; 'cause chicks dig dudes with money.

Well, not all chicks.

NSSA

Lose it all in a pyramid scheme.

deadpool287

pay of all my debts (as is the norm lol). buy a house. then open up my own LAN center/gaming cafe. then just go out and experience stuff. like bungee jumping, sky diving, and other adrenaline stuff.

tiersten

Buy and equip a nicer/larger house. Give some to family. Go on holiday. Put the rest into a high interest savings account.

brad-

The lottery is gambling, and the bible says gambling is wrong. Alabama has also outlawed gambling.

Oh Jesus Christ. Seriously though, I would travel, come back home, open a no-kill animal shelter, and maybe some self storage facilities in which I would work part time. I would drive to and fro on the most decked out harley available to mankind.

dynamik

GT-Rob wrote: »

Well, not all chicks.

Reminds me of:
Man: Would you sleep with me for a million dollars?
Woman: I suppose so...
Man: Would you sleep with me for a dollar?
Woman: What kind of woman do you think I am!?
Man: We've already determined that; now we're just negotiating a price.

Kaminsky

deadpool287 wrote: »

... then just go out and experience stuff. like bungee jumping, sky diving, and other adrenaline stuff.

They good fun but the harnesses tend to disfigure your nuts badly... well.. at the time, I thought they would never heal.... point about parachuting though... after the first time ... you will NEVER be that scared again! one thousand... two thousand... three thousand ..... 4, 5 ... look up <ack> bag of washing ! scary, scary stuff. You live through that, you just got to be here for a reason !

Kaminsky

brad- wrote: »

Seriously though, I would travel, come back home, open a no-kill animal shelter, ...

Brad, you know what we are like on here... a "no-kill" animal shelter suggests there are "yes-kill" animal shelters out there... If this is true, do you get to take home the meat ?

jnwdmb

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Kaminsky

nobody has said, "donate to the running of Techexams.net"

poor johan.. don't know where his next meal is coming from and we're running a thread like this .... /sigh.. the humanity !

Mmartin_47

GT-Rob wrote: »

Well, not all chicks.

Yeah if a chick digs dudes with money, shes a gold digger.

Mmartin_47

cnfuzzd wrote: »

I'll tell you what I'd do, man

Two chicks at the same time, man.

Already happened.

Kaminsky

can sense a theme here ... time to leave the thread on the grounds of being retired from all that nonesense.

msteinhilber

Kaminsky wrote: »

nobody has said, "donate to the running of Techexams.net"

poor johan.. don't know where his next meal is coming from and we're running a thread like this .... /sigh.. the humanity !

I actually thought about this deeply, and even considered posting it. However it involved fronting a fairly good size of cash in return for admin rights to hypothetically ban somebody so the good part of my mind advised me against posting that.

Oops.

Plantwiz

rfult001 wrote: »

I would opt to take the winnings in a lump sum, which would have a 40% hit in taxes alone. Assuming I take home a decent amount, say $33 million, I would pay off my debts, put away the money I need to finish my certs, then give the rest away. Money is evil.

Money isn't evil. It is without morals. The LOVE (or lust) of money is what is evil



Interesting response, I see a lot of 'pay off my sisters....'. I'm curious and surprised that so many would pay off a sister's debt. No brothers mentioned (that I recall seeing). Very interesting.


For myself, I won't win because I'll never buy a ticket (the lottery is a tax on the poor).

But if a large chuck of money fell into my hands, I'd likely give much of it away or invest it to create scholarships or such for charitable causes. But no free hand-outs, it would need to be for legitimate organizations who do not use 85% of it for administration.

GT-Rob

GT-Rob wrote: »

Well, not all chicks.

The kind of chick that would double up on a guy like me do.

blargoe

The kind of chick that would double up on a guy like me do.

Good point.

Slowhand

Aside from sitting around all day, quoting Office Space on TechExams.net?

Hmm. . . I'm pretty sure I'd just pay off all my debts, do some "basic maintenance" stuff like buying a more reliable car and finding a nicer place to live. But what would I do with all that money afterwards? That's easy, I'd go to school like I've been dreaming about for the last eight years, without any restrictions based on finances or my living situation. I'd keep going to school until they either threw me out or gave me job teaching.

LarryDaMan

dynamik wrote: »

Does anyone ever "play" the lottery?

The only time I do is when I get pressured into it via an office pool. I don't want to be the guy who shows up to a closed office while everyone else is sipping margaritas on a beach.

Funny, that is exactly how I feel too. I faithfully enter the office pool every week, because I don't think I would be able to live with myself if I refused and they won.

dtlokee

lottery = a tax on people who can't do math

1 in 58,000,000,000 chance of winning, sounds like good odds to me.

LarryDaMan

dtlokee wrote: »

lottery = a tax on people who can't do math

1 in 58,000,000,000 chance of winning, sounds like good odds to me.

Nah, just 1 in 175,711,536 for Mega Millions and 1 in 195,249,054 for Powerball.

Seriously though, I waste plenty of money on other things. So I don't see any harm in playing the lottery. A few bucks here and there is a cheap price to pay for the nice thoughts you get when you imagine yourself winning.

I am realistic about my chances, but you can't win if you don't play.

CaptainCharisma

dynamik wrote: »

Reminds me of:
Man: Would you sleep with me for a million dollars?
Woman: I suppose so...
Man: Would you sleep with me for a dollar?
Woman: What kind of woman do you think I am!?
Man: We've already determined that; now we're just negotiating a price.

Hahahaha. I've heard the first 4 lines of the conversation before but the last one is new and so hilarious.

As for the original topic question. Like everybody else, I would pay off my debt, and the debt for my mom, dad, and aunt. I would also buy my dad a house and give plenty of extra money to each of them. With the rest I would buy myself a house probably close to 10,000 square feet with a bit of land, an auto shop on the land, some classic cars to work on (mainly Chrysler muscle cars), a Tesla Roadster, a very nice home theater setup, and plenty of Cisco gear to practice on. I'd also invest some money, save a lot to live off interest if I so choose, and also to have money for the kids I hope I'll eventually have. I would continue to work because I might get bored not working, also may start my own business.

captobvious

Party like it's 2029 and Apophis is going to hit that gravitational keyhole making a return that is closer in 2036!

CaptainCharisma

captobvious wrote: »

Party like it's 2029 and Apophis is going to hit that gravitational keyhole making a return that is closer in 2036!

I do think you mean impact in 2036. Concensus is that if it passes through that gravitational keyhole, it will impact in 2036. While Apophis won't destroy the human race, it would cause more than enough destruction and death that if our civilization lets that happen knowing we have the ability and warning to do something about it, then we deserve the outcome.

mgeorge

In Kentucky we have the Powerball, which covers like 12 states i believe on the east coast.

And the big catch is that you actually have 5 times more of a chance getting killed in a car accident going to get a Powerball lottery ticket then you do actually winning the jackpot.

ally_uk

I would ensure mine that I can live a secure life without the worry of money. Secondly I would build up interest and then use the rest to help others live a better life.

GT-Rob

I love that the lottery exists. Like DT pointed out, its volunteer tax. We recently just put up a new hospital, paid for by the lottery and gaming commission.

I don't think I have personally spent $1 on a ticket, or scratch tickets or any of that. If I am near a casino I'll play my age on roulette on my birthday for kicks, but thats about it. I took statistics courses in school and we constantly used the odds of lottery winning in examples, and you just can't seriously expect anything but being $10 poorer.

georgemc

EdTheLad wrote: »

What would you do with the begging letters if you won??
If i won i'd probably keep sending them.

HaHaHa....yeah, me too...