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Lottery
Trauma-san:
Alright, I thought i'd start a discussion about the lottery; last night, a man won a 320 million dollar jackpot, the largest ever; he bought the ticket in Hurricane West Virginia. When I was a kid, I lived in Charleston, and guess what? Every sunday, I was in Hurricane, at a flea market my dad set up at. I'd play in the woods, and stuff, and we'd stop by that convenience store all the friekin' time... and that was the place the biggest lottery ticket of all time was bought out of.
So, what do yall think about this? If you were gonna gamble in something big like that, would you
a. Not even do it, gambling is bad and it's almost impossible to win.
b. Buy just 1 ticket, because odds are so far fetched, extra tickets don't increase the odds very much (that is true, you know)
c. Buy hundreds of tickets
d. travel out of state hundreds of miles to buy tickets
Because basically, All of this happened this weekend as people tried to cash in on the jackpot.
Second, if you won, what would you do with the money?
a. keep it all
b. give it all to charity
c. a combination of both
or whatever?
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Personally, I usually have the opinion that it's almost impossible to win things like this; but If that thing had been local, and I had known about it, I probably would have bought 1 ticket... My thinking is if it's meant to be, one ticket would be enough.
If I would have won, I would have paid my church 10 percent tithing like I do on everything else I earn, then, I probably would either give the church even more, or I would give a ton of money to a ton of small charities. I mean a TON, at least half... I saw a guy in california won over a hundred million in the lottery one time, and he saved so much money, just by giving it away from taxes that he almost had as much left as he would have anyways. I'd end up saving probably 50 million out of 320 million, after taxes. I'd give to small charities because that way I think I could help more people; like there's little programs here in town, if you gave them 100 thousand dollars, they'd be set for years. there might be a church that needs a new building, or something, that 100 grand would help them for years, or whatever. I'd look for opportunities like that; I'd probably maybe start a foundation, with all the money in it, and then donate it as people came forward or I learned about places where people needed money. I think I'd resist giving a bunch of money to big huge charities, because I've always felt kinda strange about them. I've heard tons of stories about how the american heart foundation has 90% overhead and crap like that, and I'd rather work with smaller volunteer groups.
I think I'd also quit my job, and probably spend my time volunteering with those charity groups I donated to. I'd maybe be a spokesman for a couple, and travel around the world with my friends and family (if they wanted) helping out with small things like that.
I'd buy a house, probably about a 3 million dollar estate near here, where I live, like just something with lots of property, and a mid size house, I'd custom build something, and maybe I'd buy so much land that my mom and 2 brothers could have a house there too. I'd give my mom, and both brothers a couple million a piece, maybe more, I'd have to think about it. Maybe 5 million a piece; but I'd put my mom's in some sort of account, she'd run through that much money in less than a year. I'd give my friends money if they'd take it, but I'll bet most of them wouldn't let me. My buddy eddie would, though, hahahaha.
I'd help both my brothers open a business, some sort of car shop, that's what they've always wanted to do. My mom would probably just do nothing, LOL and I'd do nothing, LOL. I might get the list of peeps signed up at dubcnn and send em all 100 bucks or something too, hahaha.
IF I GET RICH, WE ALL GETTIN RICH!!!!!
What would yall do, specifically, if you won a big ol jackpot in the lottery?
Twentytwofifty:
b. Buy just 1 ticket, because odds are so far fetched, extra tickets don't increase the odds very much (that is true, you know)
I play Lotto Advance where I pay $104 and my numbers are put in for every draw (Wednesdays and Saturdays) for the whole year. I don't even have to check for the numbers, they do it for me and send a cheque in the mail. I think it's the best way to play.
a. keep it all
I would try to invest it properly while I increase my standard of living and have a whole lot of fun partying while I'm yound. Once I was like 40-50 and my investments paid off I would start giving to charity and shit like that.
Trauma-san:
Dammit. The guy that won, is
A. Already 55, so he's gonna die and won't get to use it all I'll bet.
B. ALREADY a millionaire. He owns a business that makes 17 million a year. WTF? Why? WHY!!!!
C. He took the lump sum payout of 110 million, or something. Why? I would have taken the money over 29 years so I could get it all and not have to pay as much on taxes. If he died, his wife could have got it, or his kids.
He is gonna pay his tithing to his church though, I think that's good. Peace~
bLaDe:
b. Buy just 1 ticket, because odds are so far fetched, extra tickets don't increase the odds very much (that is true, you know)
Second, if you won, what would you do with the money?
c. a combination of both
Man, if i won that much, id contribute a lot to charaties, start my own business so i can get a steady income too, fly to usa n other places to meet my net homies lol...possibilities are endl ess, peace
-{bLaDe}
HBKid_Jr:
i would buy 4 tickets, 2 where i pick the numbers myself an 2 quick pick. as for what i would do wit the money, 320 million bucks equals a lot of lap dances but 1st i would give every1 from the wcc 5 bucks cuz im a nice guy like that. than i would buy blade that pet pony he always wanted. pay for the mental help sub-z always need. I would pay for infinites sex change that he so secretly wants. i would pay 2 have javi deported to mexico an i would than sleep on the rest of my money with many beautilful woman
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