| strat61caster |
01-11-2016 06:46 PM |
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Originally Posted by G-awesome
(Post 2505677)
Funny enough, everyone always says they probably won't spend more than 'X' million if they won the lottery but with a bigger income, people inherently will spend more and start living according to their new lifestyle (or greater). Whether it spirals into reckless spending/investing depends on the person's self control/ego and the people that surrounds them.
I love reading those stories on people who won millions and then lost it all. Waiting eagerly to see what happens to this powerball winner in 5-10 yrs. You have to be pretty crazy to blow through a billion dollar lottery winning but anything is possible nowadays. :iono:
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Originally Posted by G-awesome
(Post 2505686)
If history shows previous powerball winners can going broke after winning 100 million, celebrity bankrupties, politician spending habits on tax dollars, lives of the rich and famous....anything is possible in this day and age!
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That's why I put 'non-frivolous' shit. Buy yo' momma a house, buy gramma a house, buy uncle joe a house and on and on and $10 mil is gone in a snap, toss another $10m to charity, $30k for a buddy to buy a new car here, clearing your cousins $5k credit card debt there. Most don't go broke on private jets and fancy cars, even a moron can take a wakeup call when they realize they blew half their money in a few years, it's the nickle and diming once everybody knows, it's the shady accountant and leeches coming out of the woodwork.
Basic division, set a humble budget/salary to pay yourself, a non-shady accountant and lawyer, learn to say no and keep living life like normal. I was just thinking about it, I'd probably take a month off work and come back for at least a little while, maybe finangle reduced hours...
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Originally Posted by Crashdummy
(Post 2505752)
Common Core Strikes again
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Ugh.
Edit: Office Space it, be the guy who disburses all the money, round down, take the 0.1 of a cent for yourself, snag a cool $300k.
I'd figure out a way to stuff 319 million envelopes with a check for that much money, not sure if I would write the checks myself, hmm lets see now...
Edit 2: If it takes 2 minutes to write a check and you write 200 checks a day (so a bit less than 7 hours of work each day) it would take you 4,480 years to write a check to every person in the United States of America. And no vacation time or weekends off.
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