1.5 Billion
shailynn
They never tell you what you need to know.
If I hit that I’ll probably buy a new house and a new car. (Sarcasm)
Also gonna have to move out the country and disconnect my phone because in my state they identify the winner.
The hardest part of all of this is trying to figure out what new first and last name I’m going to go by for the rest of my life.
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One of the very few good things about my state, New Jersey, is that you may choose to remain anonymous, however I think it would be pretty hard to keep something like that a secret. But who cares because $410 million (at least in my book) qualifies as "fuck you money" and if I had it there are plenty of people to whom I would just say "fuck you". Some of them I fucking HOPE they come crawling out of the woodwork, just so I can tell them "fuck you". In fact, I would send them a Christmas card with pictures of my mansion and my yacht, and inside it would say "Fuck You, You Fuckin' Fuck, and Fuck Your Whole Fuckin' Family"!
But it would kale this hobby or ours here radically different.. Would it still be worth going to clubs? Find a sugar baby instead? Who knows.
Maybe it would be like Sheen said about why he hire escorts. “I dont pay them to sleep with me.. I pay them to go home in the morning” Or something like that
A couple hundred million is going to effect ones life in a lot of ways.
Thirty years ago I was married to my first wife and the lottery got to be some large amount unheard of in those days, and my sweetheart said honey if we win we could help your family and my family send all of our cousins to college and buy our parents nice houses, I said sweetheart that’s a great idea, but I thought to myself, fuck that, I’m not telling you if I win.
Needless to say we didn’t win.
1.5 billion in grand prize. The lottery pays out around 50% for all winning tickets combined, so waaay over 3 billion collected from dreamers. Odds of winning: around 1 in 292.2 million. By comparison, the odds of being struck by lightning in a given year are less than 1 in 1 million and the odds of being attacked and killed by a shark are around 1 in 4.3 million.
But, yeah, I grabbed a quick pick while in line at the liquor store. Hope I don't get struck by lightning while being attacked by a shark this weekend.
"Aye, I just went through my last hundred....could you maybe cover my next dance?"
1) change your state of residence and set up in a state which allows privacy - you're going to have to move anyway when all your friends and family come around looking for a handout
2) stay in the state and change your name, if your residence is more important to you
3) set up a blind trust to collect the winnings - you're going to need an estate lawyer, anyway
Texas and Florida winners are so blessed that they live in a state with no personal income taxes. NYC winners who have complete taxes greater than 50% - well, you asked for it.
Gotta go out and buy that ticket toute suite!😆
But it's not just for people who are bad at math. Most people loose at Casino games too. And at betting sports. People play/bet because there is entertainment value. I knew a stripper who literally bought scratch offs every fucking day. She had regulars who would buy them for her and she'd have a fucking blast scratching em off at the club. A guy would give her a dozen tickets and she'd be fucking giddy for 30 minutes. It didn't matter if she won $2 or $2000, she still enjoyed the shit out of the time she spent scratching them. It's not how I choose to spend my entertainment dollars, but who am I to judge. I'm sure plenty of people question the wisdom in the dollars I've spent on strippers, bourbon, travel, cars, various electronic gadgets, etc.
and splurge with a car wash for my bad ass prius.
Why would anyone want to take the cash only option if it’s only 750 million and you have to pay taxes on top of it?
If you don't take lump-sum, it gets paid as an annuity over 29 years. That means you would get like 30 million as a first payment and then like 180 million as a final payment 29 years from now. It is not 30 equal payments. Bird in hand and all that.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lotto-winne…