Know any lotto winners? (buying, casino, taxes)

2goldens · 07-28-2007, 06:56 AM

I don't know any winners but I do play every Wed & Sat faithfully. I hope I'm the next winner! I would RUN!!

daniellefort · 07-28-2007, 06:59 AM

I often say, "I don't need to win it all, just a million will do, heck ill even take just $100,000 just to pay off my bills"

2goldens · 07-28-2007, 06:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Prettygyrl777

I wish I could win but I'm one of those people that'll say "oh, its only 3 million dollars this week? I'll buy when the jackpot goes over 30 mil". If I won, I wouldn't go on tv or anything either. I'd tell everyone I got a really big raise at work!

You don't have much choice. You will get your picture taken with the big cardboard check for TV and Lotto website.

macguy · 07-28-2007, 07:53 AM

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Originally Posted by Prettygyrl777

There was a show on A&E, I think, about the 'lottery curse'. It was really interesting. I think half of the people featured ended up broke or on drugs or both. What I also never understood was how people sometimes buy things that are SO expensive to maintain- its like, how did you expect to pay the taxes on the mega million dollar home you just bought? Or do you really think you can afford to keep that yacht in good working order? LOL I mean really.

There is an old saying if you took all the wealth and distributed it equally it would eventually end up back where it was. The rich would again be rich and poor again poor. A lot of these people are losers anyway and the money doesn't change that. Many will just **** it away and not even know how they did it. It is expensive to be stupid.

macguy · 07-28-2007, 08:03 AM

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Originally Posted by 2goldens

You don't have much choice. You will get your picture taken with the big cardboard check for TV and Lotto website.

You just deal through your attorney. No one has to know who you are other then the lotto people. Forget being on TV, I would not tell anybody.

2goldens · 07-28-2007, 08:08 AM

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Originally Posted by macguy

You just deal through your attorney. No one has to know who you are other then the lotto people. Forget being on TV, I would not tell anybody.

Youre right Macguy, I wouldn't tell anyone. If I feel the need to explain about sudden extreme monies, then I probably would say that I just sold my house which is exactly what I would do. Nobody would ask you for your house money, right? LOL!

Prettygyrl777 · 07-28-2007, 12:15 PM

LOL thats true! So if I suddenly quit my job and start taking trips around the world I think people would get suspicious. Its fun to dream about it though! And to think, there really is a millionaire 'born' every week somewhere. Every week in almost every state, someone's winning something.

Songbird42 · 07-28-2007, 12:23 PM

I have a friend in NJ she just joined the pool at work and that week they hit
can't remember the amount, but she got $20,000 a year for twenty years
and kept right on working, helped her family, went on trips but she kept on working, her twenty years were up in 2006 and guess what? She's still working. In NJ she said $20,000 didn't go too far, with taxes and such.

Terryorisms · 07-28-2007, 12:36 PM

We had a warehouse guy at work win $800k. He had enough sense to keep on working. Sure he bought a house (not extravagant) got his teeth fixed (they really needed it) and his wife quit her cashier's job at K-Mart. The guys at work really respected him for it.

Prettygyrl777 · 07-28-2007, 12:38 PM

Yes that taxes... when I hear the jackpot, I just do the rough calculation and assume that I'll probably see 50% of it. I would definitely invest it. I'd only quit my day job if I won a really huge amount! Even then, I probably wouldn't stop working. I wouldnt be employed anywhere but I wouldn't stop working either.