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If You Won A Million Dollars What Would You Do?


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  1. 1. If you won a million dollars what would you do?

    • Pay off mortgage / buy house / cottage
      30
    • Buy a car or two or three
      9
    • Gamboooooooool (Pad the bankroll)
      8
    • Load up your kids college fund
      13
    • Invest
      26
    • Donate
      12
    • Take vacation / Trips
      19
    • Quit Work
      11
    • Blow it all on booze & hookers
      4
    • None of the above
      2


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There's been a number of votes for donate but no replies about that. I wonder how much would people be willing to donate from their winnings?
At least 20%
Has anyone here personally known someone who had a million dollar score on a lottery? My parents neighbours brother won 2.5 mill and I knew a guy through work who won half a mill.
I know the chick who came in 2nd this year in the Biggest Loser. She won 100k.
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So you just won a piece of the lottery and picked up a million bucks. What do you do now?
i'd spend $990,000 on hookers and booze and the rest i'd just waste
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I would not tell anyone. It's not enough money to rear up anyone's curiosity unless you made a big stink about it. And I don't think winning the lottery is a public record thing either (at least not in Arizona) and even if it was someone would have to always be checking the lottery office to see who is winning...and who does that?So I would slowly just add things here and there over time, help out here and there, and if people got curious just make some crap up about how an investment came in, but also that most is still tied up in taxes/funds etc.bink.

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I would not tell anyone. It's not enough money to rear up anyone's curiosity unless you made a big stink about it. And I don't think winning the lottery is a public record thing either (at least not in Arizona) and even if it was someone would have to always be checking the lottery office to see who is winning...and who does that?So I would slowly just add things here and there over time, help out here and there, and if people got curious just make some crap up about how an investment came in, but also that most is still tied up in taxes/funds etc.bink.
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With 100,000,000, I'd hire a band of the best mercenaries and Eastern Bloc military planners and see if I couldn't overthrow some shitty African country just for the hell of it, then live out my days playing one bad-ass game of Sim City.

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With 100,000,000, I'd hire a band of the best mercenaries and Eastern Bloc military planners and see if I couldn't overthrow some shitty African country just for the hell of it, then live out my days playing one bad-ass game of Sim City.
When my husband and I were passing through decrepit desert towns in West Texas once, we imagined what it would be like to buy up the whole downtown. We'd set up a target in a building on one side of Main Street and shoot at it from a building on the other side. Then we'd run for mayor and institute things like Naked Tuesdays. And outside of town we'd build a 90-foot-tall Kali the Destroyer. Every day at 4:00 we'd have tumbleweed races, and we'd rename the town Exit.
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Pay off mortgage / buy house / cottageBuy a car or two or threeGamboooooooool (Pad the bankroll)Load up your kids college fundInvestDonateTake vacation / TripsQuit Work
thank goodness the lottery wins in Canada are tax free lolexactly my reply, combination obviously , help out family and friendshad loads of fun , weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
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I would not tell anyone. It's not enough money to rear up anyone's curiosity unless you made a big stink about it. And I don't think winning the lottery is a public record thing either (at least not in Arizona) and even if it was someone would have to always be checking the lottery office to see who is winning...and who does that?So I would slowly just add things here and there over time, help out here and there, and if people got curious just make some crap up about how an investment came in, but also that most is still tied up in taxes/funds etc.bink.
No, but the lottery probably has some requirement/disclosure that you have to be willing to let them use you promotionally if you win. Usually just publishing on a website, etc, and if you made a stink about it (or were ugly) than I'm sure that'd be it.Where I live, anyone who wins above a certain amount always has their picture taken and their names and hometowns are scrolled across electronic advertisements wherever tickets are sold. I don't know if people can decline this, but I've seen some ugly people up there, so I'm guessing not.
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I also went with multiple replies.Pay off my mortgage. But, I'd also upgrade the wiring and plumbing in my house since it's all 61 years old.Buy a new car. Something roomy but decently fuel-efficient to replace my 7 year old one that only gets about 28 highway.Donate. Some for the church, but more to the Nebraska Law Enforcement Memorial in the name of my father.Trip. Have to go back to Vegas to complete the trip cut short by an accident last time. Then to several racing events in the sprint car genre.Invest. Whatever's left would hopefully be enough that I could afford to retire when it's my time and not have to worry about living off Medicare and Social Security.I'm a simple guy, with simple needs. I'd be happy with enough to just pay the mortgage and all my other bills. Use the money I was shelling out for that to do some of the other things...especially the retirement thing.

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No, but the lottery probably has some requirement/disclosure that you have to be willing to let them use you promotionally if you win. Usually just publishing on a website, etc, and if you made a stink about it (or were ugly) than I'm sure that'd be it.Where I live, anyone who wins above a certain amount always has their picture taken and their names and hometowns are scrolled across electronic advertisements wherever tickets are sold. I don't know if people can decline this, but I've seen some ugly people up there, so I'm guessing not.
Yeah, that used to be the case here as well, especially when the lottery first started. It was common to see "newest millionaire" mugs in the paper. But not anymore. I can't say for sure (and am too lazy to research) but I want to say I remember a few predatory incidents with winners years ago that led to the rules changing and allowing folks to remain anonymous. I'd definitely try to keep it quiet as much as possible.
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Yeah, that used to be the case here as well, especially when the lottery first started. It was common to see "newest millionaire" mugs in the paper. But not anymore. I can't say for sure (and am too lazy to research) but I want to say I remember a few predatory incidents with winners years ago that led to the rules changing and allowing folks to remain anonymous. I'd definitely try to keep it quiet as much as possible.
Makes sense.Fwiw, I'd have sex with an anteater.
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