When I win the $540 million cash option, it won't change me.
Here's hoping y'all don't buy a ticket
Here's hoping y'all don't buy a ticket
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Mega Millions - $970 million jackpot
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Can I borrow 3 million?Osodecentx said:
When I win the $540 million cash option, it won't change me.
Here's hoping y'all don't buy a ticket
You will suddenly have relatives and friends you never knew you had. Good luck!Osodecentx said:
When I win the $540 million cash option, it won't change me.
Here's hoping y'all don't buy a ticket
"Never underestimate Joe's ability to **** things up!"
-- Barack Obama
-- Barack Obama
I've always wondered whey people jump on the $900M jackpot. Is the $100M jackpot just not enticing enough??
The $100 million jackpot is not enticing if you understand opportunity cost. With the odds of winning getting tougher each year (cause they keep adding numbers to the ticket), the jackpot has to be very large for the opportunity cost to be greater than the price of the ticket.Jack Bauer said:
I've always wondered whey people jump on the $900M jackpot. Is the $100M jackpot just not enticing enough??
Here's a quick and dirty blog I started, but didn't completely finish. It gives you the first steps you should do after you win the lottery. https://lifeafterlotto.wordpress.com/2016/09/12/first-blog-post/
Hey, I've got them anyway.RD2WINAGNBEAR86 said:You will suddenly have relatives and friends you never knew you had. Good luck!Osodecentx said:
When I win the $540 million cash option, it won't change me.
Here's hoping y'all don't buy a ticket
$540 mill will allow me to live far away from them
I liked your blog. Would a family limited partnership work?hodedofome said:The $100 million jackpot is not enticing if you understand opportunity cost. With the odds of winning getting tougher each year (cause they keep adding numbers to the ticket), the jackpot has to be very large for the opportunity cost to be greater than the price of the ticket.Jack Bauer said:
I've always wondered whey people jump on the $900M jackpot. Is the $100M jackpot just not enticing enough??
Here's a quick and dirty blog I started, but didn't completely finish. It gives you the first steps you should do after you win the lottery. https://lifeafterlotto.wordpress.com/2016/09/12/first-blog-post/
It's basic psychology. Not everyone plays every week, and of the people that would even consider paying the dummy tax, the majority of them only play the lotto very rarely. So huge jackpots get people interested that wouldn't otherwise get interested.Jack Bauer said:
I've always wondered whey people jump on the $900M jackpot. Is the $100M jackpot just not enticing enough??
Please hurry and complete your blog - I think that I have the winning number!hodedofome said:The $100 million jackpot is not enticing if you understand opportunity cost. With the odds of winning getting tougher each year (cause they keep adding numbers to the ticket), the jackpot has to be very large for the opportunity cost to be greater than the price of the ticket.Jack Bauer said:
I've always wondered whey people jump on the $900M jackpot. Is the $100M jackpot just not enticing enough??
Here's a quick and dirty blog I started, but didn't completely finish. It gives you the first steps you should do after you win the lottery. https://lifeafterlotto.wordpress.com/2016/09/12/first-blog-post/
I have a Sanity Plan for hitting the lottery. But, as I told my girlfriend today, a billion dollars in the Megamillions might sink my plan, so I'm gonna take the half billion Powerball instead.Osodecentx said:
When I win the $540 million cash option, it won't change me.
Here's hoping y'all don't buy a ticket
“Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.” (The Law, p.6) Frederic Bastiat
If the jackpot is 970 million....just think of all the millions LOST by folks attempting to get rich quick.
Wonder how many folks lost more than they could afford.
You can 'bet' these kinds of stories don't get much publicity.
Wonder how many folks lost more than they could afford.
You can 'bet' these kinds of stories don't get much publicity.
Osodecentx said:
When I win the $540 million cash option, it won't change me.
Here's hoping y'all don't buy a ticket
I won the lottery when I got married
About only gamble I've ever won but my wife is great!
I'll show her this too
About only gamble I've ever won but my wife is great!
I'll show her this too
$1.6 billion
Time for a new basketball arena
Time for a new basketball arena
Did I win?
If you did not buy a ticket, yes.Edmond Bear said:
Did I win?
Osodecentx said:If you did not buy a ticket, yes.Edmond Bear said:
Did I win?
When the lottery first came to Texas a guy named Turk Pipkin wrote an article in the back of Texas Monthly about odds, how much to risk, etc. Thing I remember most was his Sure Thing Bet: the only bet he thought was worth making.
If you decided to play the same numbers every time, then his Sure Thing was to bet that when your numbers hit, you didn't play them that time.
“Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.” (The Law, p.6) Frederic Bastiat
Jack Bauer said:
I've always wondered whey people jump on the $900M jackpot. Is the $100M jackpot just not enticing enough??
Osodecentx said:I liked your blog. Would a family limited partnership work?hodedofome said:The $100 million jackpot is not enticing if you understand opportunity cost. With the odds of winning getting tougher each year (cause they keep adding numbers to the ticket), the jackpot has to be very large for the opportunity cost to be greater than the price of the ticket.Jack Bauer said:
I've always wondered whey people jump on the $900M jackpot. Is the $100M jackpot just not enticing enough??
Here's a quick and dirty blog I started, but didn't completely finish. It gives you the first steps you should do after you win the lottery. https://lifeafterlotto.wordpress.com/2016/09/12/first-blog-post/
Sure, but you should figure that out with your lawyer.
Not a bad move hode. The chances that a potential winner sees your blog is much better than the chances of you actually being the winner.hodedofome said:Osodecentx said:I liked your blog. Would a family limited partnership work?hodedofome said:The $100 million jackpot is not enticing if you understand opportunity cost. With the odds of winning getting tougher each year (cause they keep adding numbers to the ticket), the jackpot has to be very large for the opportunity cost to be greater than the price of the ticket.Jack Bauer said:
I've always wondered whey people jump on the $900M jackpot. Is the $100M jackpot just not enticing enough??
Here's a quick and dirty blog I started, but didn't completely finish. It gives you the first steps you should do after you win the lottery. https://lifeafterlotto.wordpress.com/2016/09/12/first-blog-post/
Sure, but you should figure that out with your lawyer.
Just bought my ticket. Don't bother to buy one. The new American that sold it to me down at the 7-eleven on Camp Bowie told me he guaranteed it to be the big winner. He'll get a bonus.
I'm a Bearbacker
A buddy of mine once told me that the lottery is for people that aren't very good at math. By the same token, you can't win if you don't play! Just spent the last $6 in my wallet on a few Power Ball tickets for tonight's drawing.
"Never underestimate Joe's ability to **** things up!"
-- Barack Obama
-- Barack Obama
The sad thing is.....many folks buy far more tickets than they can afford.
The poor get poorer .
The poor get poorer .
I suppose they are waiting for all the lottery losers to build up the payout up to the point that even wasting a few bucks, for such a crazy amount is worth the fantasy of winning.Jack Bauer said:
I've always wondered whey people jump on the $900M jackpot. Is the $100M jackpot just not enticing enough??
I buy tickets occasionally. I call it my "idiot tax".
When the jackpots get large, we buy 1 ticket each drawing just for fun.
Florda_mike said:
I won the lottery when I got married
About only gamble I've ever won but my wife is great!
I'll show her this too
My wife hit the jackpot when she married me!
and now she's paying a burdensome tax.YoakDaddy said:Florda_mike said:
I won the lottery when I got married
About only gamble I've ever won but my wife is great!
I'll show her this too
My wife hit the jackpot when she married me!
Of course, you could tell here this; To whom much is given, much is expected. If you do, please video tape the event and ask those who survive you to post it here.
LIB,MR BEARS said:and now she's paying a burdensome tax.YoakDaddy said:Florda_mike said:
I won the lottery when I got married
About only gamble I've ever won but my wife is great!
I'll show her this too
My wife hit the jackpot when she married me!
Of course, you could tell here this; To whom much is given, much is expected. If you do, please video tape the event and ask those who survive you to post it here.
Hahaha!!! My wife agrees about the tax!
I did know one of the first Texas lottery winners....very very poor family... kids on free lunch poor. They bought a new house and cars for relatives...3 years later county took the house and kids were back in free lunch. It was very sad to see the mismanagement.
Stranger said:
Just bought my ticket. Don't bother to buy one. The new American that sold it to me down at the 7-eleven on Camp Bowie told me he guaranteed it to be the big winner. He'll get a bonus.
Bonus is going to the cutie in Jefferson r that sold mine.
“Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.” (The Law, p.6) Frederic Bastiat
YoakDaddy said:
I did know one of the first Texas lottery winners....very very poor family... kids on free lunch poor. They bought a new house and cars for relatives...3 years later county took the house and kids were back in free lunch. It was very sad to see the mismanagement.
^^^ Another reason Socialism can't succeed ^^^