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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 1,796 |
| | Posted: | | | | 540 Million Dollar Lortery
How long woulkd it take you to spend if you won it, of coarse after taxes?
It would take the US government only 80 minutes, | | | We don't need stinkin' IMDB's errors, we make our own.
Ineptocracy, You got to love it.
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." - Abraham Lincoln |
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| Registered: March 20, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 2,850 |
| | Posted: | | | | If I won (and that won't happen since I don't buy tickets), my goal would be to never spend it. I'd put it to work creating my allowance.
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 | Blair | | Resistance is Futile! |
| Registered: October 30, 2008 | | Posts: 1,249 |
| | Posted: | | | | It would take me "forever." Financial advisers who deal with people who have suddenly come into crazy amounts of money usually set up a plan. They will "give" the new millionaire a relative amount (say, $1,000,000 in this case) as fun money on whatever they think of. The point is to get the newness of "OMG! I'm rich!" out of the person's system and then working around being able to maintain and do good with the money left. They then set up a fair allowance for them to live comfortably while having plenty to fall back on in case of certain disasters.
One thing shown over and over again by people who are in that sort of situation (athletes and lottery winners,) is that they go overboard thinking, I have enough money for everything! Here, best friend, take $500,000 and do whatever you want. Here, Dad, take this $3,000,000 and have fun..." and in two decades end up penniless again.
I would blow about 2 million and then go back to the life I currently have, letting the rest sit as needed. | | | If at first you don't succeed, skydiving isn't for you.
He who MUST get the last word in on a pointless, endless argument doesn't win. It makes him the bigger jerk. | | | | Last edited: by Blair |
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| Registered: September 18, 2008 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 2,650 |
| | Posted: | | | | I'd go like Sheen. Coke and porn stars. | | | | Last edited: by samuelrichardscott |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 736 |
| | Posted: | | | | I'd buy a new house just for my DVD & Blu-ray collection.  |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 6,741 |
| | Posted: | | | | I'd live off the interest. A $10,000,000 win even in these times generates at least $100,000 in interests a year on a simple savings account.
Even if I'd win only $1M, I'd rather only take the $10K and add it to my normal income rather than to spend the million. | | | Karsten
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 20,111 |
| | Posted: | | | | I'd buy a large ranch in the Rockies, with my own personal ski resort next door.  | | | | Corey |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 5,734 |
| | Posted: | | | | I'd spend the whole money to buy vast deserted lands with a deep cave.
Then I'd give up all my worldly possessions, enter the cave to live there inside my mind. You know, like Jean-Baptiste Grenouille in Das Parfum - Die Geschichte eines Mörders. | | | | Don't confuse while the film is playing with when the film is played. [Ken Cole, DVD Profiler Architect] |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 1,136 |
| | Posted: | | | | And it looks like there is a winner!
At least one winning ticket exists in Maryland... | | | Signature? We don't need no stinking... hang on, this has been done... blast [oooh now in Widescreen]
Ah... well you see.... I thought I'd say something more interesting... but cannot think of anything..... oh well
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 1,380 |
| | Posted: | | | | Buy the rights for Firefly  |
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| Registered: May 29, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 3,475 |
| | Posted: | | | | Well someone in Maryland won the $640,000,000 lottery...I hope it's you Pete! |
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| Registered: June 21, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,621 |
| | Posted: | | | | There should be a prize for just picking horrid. I haven't bothered with the lottery since 2001 and was reminded why last night. I bought 5 tickets, 2 my numbers, 3 easy picks. Out of 5 tickets, I didn't match one freaking number! That's over half of all the numbers in play and i couldn't get one. So I think this board should do a pool next time there's a huge jackpot. I'll go buy my 5 and let everyone know what not to pick (cuz I've never matched even 1 number, ever!) and get them out the way so someone can get the right ones, hopefully all together. I admit I can't win myself, now I'm asking for help. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 5,491 |
| | Posted: | | | | If I won the $640 M lottery I'd put out three sequels for Avatar , and put my name in place of James Cameron... well If I really wanted to ...I could .. | | | In the 60's, People took Acid to make the world Weird. Now the World is weird and People take Prozac to make it Normal.
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| Registered: December 27, 2009 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,131 |
| | Posted: | | | | 3 people get to split the 640 Million, 1 in Maryland, 1 in Kansas, and 1 in Illinois |
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,917 |
| | Posted: | | | | I'd build a laser molecular laser and move to The Grid. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 3,195 |
| | Posted: | | | | I'd start a studio and produce the films I want to see. | | | | First registered: February 15, 2002 |
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