Mega Millions or Powerball depending on where you live. Say it was 314 Mil jackpot and after taxes and lump sum payment, you wind up with somewhere around ~100 Million. Would you go into work the next day and gloat? Would you continue to work? What kind of purchases would you make?

I would come to work just to shoot a note off to my boss along with everyone in IBM worldwide basically saying 'fax you!'.

I would probably buy a Porsche GT3 and a Jeep Grand Cherokee Laredo with a Hemi for the winter.

I would buy a nice sized house with a lot of space and many rooms for various bullshit. A room with a Pooltable, a home theatre room, guest room etc.

I would stay in school but only take 1 class a semester

I'd pay off the house and start a business or three, basically just invest and invest.

I would buy Ark's school and expel him. :D

Oh crap! I'm doomed!

For every million won equals approximatly $35,000 a year after taxes. For example, if you won two million, youd get $70,000 a year for 20 or so years.

Of course no one asked for my thoughts on this but I like to appear studious with you boys (and one girl).

amazing how many of these lotto winners self destruct, though, isn't it?

money doesn't buy happiness, but it does make your life easier...from a spiritual viewpoint, that isn't necessarily good, and even from a physical standpoint

I have a ZX-10R...I'm happy :)

I actually agree with the statement mostly, but I do concur that most people who say money doesn't buy happiness have never had to eat dog food before just to get some caloric intake. I'm not saying I live in a trash can, but I'm certainly not what you would consider middle class. I've busted my balls to get the little I have.

With that having been said, you are right. Money would make things a hell of a lot easier. I wouldn't have to jump through hoops in order to get a mortgage for example.

I can see your argument on spiritualness also. Money breeds greed. Greed is sin. It isn't always necessarily the case though.

I could never picture myself as a CEO or something like that; quickly selling my mother if it makes me 3 dollars. But, if I won the lotto, I would shit my pants and offer my boss 10 grand to clean it up. :D

Dude, you don't know crap about busting your balls :P

You're posting from work right now!

Yes...I am. I may work a desk job, but I do still do some manual labor Tofu. And that fact aside, I have to put up with a shit load of stress from a dumbass 28 year old manager who doesn't know the first thing about how to be a good leader. Threats of disciplinary action if you forget to do your e-Timecard on Thursday before 10 AM etc. Everything with him threatens disciplinary action. Use more than 2 sheets of 2 ply to whipe your ass? DISCIPLINARY ACTION! I move equipment all over this god forsaken place. Heavy equipment too. It's just a slow week due to weather, and the fact I busted my hump last week to get stuff done so I wouldn't have to do work while hungover on the monday after the superbowl.

You're posting from work too come to think of it!

professional student =D

eh?

I think a lot of those people that won large amounts only to be dead broke or very near to it a few years down the road are basicly morons. They were morons before the money and the money just helps them be bigger, more expensive morons.

In my mind it's really quite simple. You buy a reasonable place to live (who the hell needs 30 friggin' rooms?), you buy a couple of nice cars (in my case several nice cars), pay off all your debts, and then put the rest of the money to work. I don't understand these people that go out and buy a friggin' hundred room mansion and then buy loads of useless bullshit simply to fill it up and look "rich". I might hire a maid to clean the house, but I don't need 40 assistants to do what I need to do. I don't need a 43 million dollar painting simply because it's a 43 million dollar painting....I don't need to carry a quarter of a million in cash in a brief case around with me so my penis feels bigger only to have it stolen from the obnoxious SUV that I left parked in front of a strip club......WTF is wrong with these people?

If I could be debt free, have a nice, but modest home to live in, and be able to play with cars for the rest of my life I would be perfectly content.

^ Exactly. I hate to say it, but mostly poor/lower middle class high school educated people play the lottery. They live paycheck to paycheck, and chances are they can't manage money.

So when you give them millions, they still can't manage it, and are broke in a few years.

You're posting from work too come to think of it!

Yeah, but I'm not claiming I'm entitled to anything, or that I don't have to pay taxes because "I busted my balls to get what little I have"

Your doublethink just kinda irks me, how could you preach about how we need government mandated health care for everyone, but in the same IM whine about having to pay 7% taxes?

COMMONNNNNNN MANNNNN

How does the America lottery payout work? You don't get it all at once, do you?

"The lottery is a tax for those who are bad at math"

Yeah, but I'm not claiming I'm entitled to anything, or that I don't have to pay taxes because "I busted my balls to get what little I have"

Your doublethink just kinda irks me, how could you preach about how we need government mandated health care for everyone, but in the same IM whine about having to pay 7% taxes?

COMMONNNNNNN MANNNNN

If we had universal healthcare, I wouldn't mind paying 7% or whatever. I don't get shit really for my tax money though.

I would slack off at work worse than office space and see how long it take s them to notice I haven't don't anything.

One of the things that the Beatles did when they really got rich was to see what people's sell off point was. The would go around and film what people would do for money. They would see how much it took to bribe a parking cop giving them a ticket, put money in vats of pig crap and watch them dive for money...etc.



As for me it would ultimately be to build a cabin in the mountains. Disappear.
Forget the world as much as I could.

Most of what was said is along my line of thinking. Get a nice house, reliable car and make the rest work for me so I can live off interest. I'd probbly still work partime just to keep me busy, but I'd be able to hop a plane and take off when I felt like it.

"The lottery is a tax for those who are bad at math"

-Dave Ramsey

i would buy a couple cars a nice 4 or so bedroom house and all of the most depraved rediculous porn that money could buy, grey goose vodka, ramen, and extremely ugly hookers

Along with the above mentioned:

I would travel. I've been to quite a few countries, but I would still love to see more. South America and Africa would be awesome, the wild life alone is stunning. I've been to the Middle East three times. Such a beautiful place with so much history. I've always dreamed of taking a trip to Russia. Before I died, I would have to visit the equator and both the North and South pole. Just because it would be cool to have done it. Who can honestly say they have ever been to Antartica?

Maybe I'd buy off all the officials of a third world country and try and turn it around. But thats a good way to get murdered.

You're all a bunch of small minded fools! With my millions, I'm going to hang out with freaks like Paris and Britney then smoke crack till I end up on celeb rehab. Woo hoo.

lol. I wonder how much it would cost for Jessica Alba to let me shoot a load in her ass...

::ponders::

You're all a bunch of small minded fools! With my millions, I'm going to hang out with freaks like Paris and Britney then smoke crack till I end up on celeb rehab. Woo hoo.

Win.

Seriously though.....please wear underwear......

lol. I wonder how much it would cost for Jessica Alba to let me shoot a load in her ass...

::ponders::

Forget what I said, this would be my new life mission :bigthumb:

Forget what I said, this would be my new life mission :bigthumb:

FTW!!1!

I used to think about this at work a lot.

I would immediately put 75% in high yield accounts, 10% would be invested in the market. The other 15% would be my toy.

I'd get my education, get rid of all my debt, donate to my old HS for an auditorium. I'd keep my FB and make it run like new. I'd also have every type of RX imaginable, and I'd have track prepped 7s. I'd also help my family out, a lot, buy my own nice home, with a spacious garage and shop complete with everything I can imagine (even a midget).

I'd still work... Guaranteed my work ethic would change from a "I'll help the company because I need a paycheck" to an "I'm here because I want to be, if you don't like something I'm out the door". I'd take a lot moar time off to do things I want to do... pay off all my debts and probably sink some $ into various R&D projects.

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I would buy up land around here, put it in land trusts and preserves that could not be touched to prevent urban sprawl in my area.....

then buy myself some land build a house in the middle of it and become a hermit

I would buy up land around here, put it in land trusts and preserves that could not be touched to prevent urban sprawl in my area.....

then buy myself some land build a house in the middle of it and become a hermit

I too would do a similar thing in the Stevens Point area.

- Pay off my parents CC and other debts, have them retire, and give them money to prosper like a king and queen in the Philippines, they deserve nothing less.
- Invest a large portion of the money, about 30-40%
- Sell all houses and cars that my family own and buy new ones. A BMW 5-series for my Mom, a Mercedes SUV for my Dad, A GT3, RX-7, SUV, and a Ducati for me.
- Make sure all my young relatives have money for good education or a jump start in anything worthy of a job
- Buy a 6000 Sqft peice of land and build a 6 bedroom house with a 4 car garage and a backyard with a pool, basketball court, and tennis court.
- Give a hefty amount of money to my aunt who runs a non-profit hospital in the Philippines
- Donate money to organizations which provide scholarships to children who are academically gifted in the Philippines.
- Build a high school and college in the province that my parents are from.
- Finish my education, and volunteer at any worthy establishments dedicated to helping the less fortunate for 20-30 hours a week.
- Walk on the moon.
- Own a portion of Magic Mountain so I don't have to wait in line nor pay for the expensive-as-hell express-lane passes.
- A house keeper
- A personal cook

i would set up a nice nest egg and hten party with the rest

i would pay off all my debts and buy my parents a new house

Ok then, give it a shot. (http://www.sleazysoft.com/megaslz/holycrap.php)

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I'd love to be able to say I'd do something different.

But I'd be a big 'ol liar.

Hey Guys...I won the lottery!

A whopping 150 bucks for getting 4 of 5 numbers right on the Mega Millions. No Mega Ball otherwise it would have been 250k. :(

I didn't win the lottery, but my job gave me a severance pacakage which was about a years salary. So I packed my bags and moved to Paris. So now I day trade and plan to tour Europe while I am doing it. I figure if I screw this up I can find a real job like the one I had before. The only thing I would do differently if it was more money was work less and buy all my friends vacations to visit me.