Powerball Jackpot - $425mil!

[TPD]

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[Wenchy (Premo)]

Originally Posted by TPD

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I hope you win it and will pass a paltry million to me.

[DEEKAYPEE8569]

Originally Posted by TPD

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Can you imagine?!! You could live on the interest alone.

[glhs837]

I figured last night that your takeaway on the 350 was about 190 mil or so,

Toss over 150 mil into a trust should net you a pretty good life style if you dont go rock star

[Hank]

I won $4 on Saturday's drawing!

[Wenchy (Premo)]

Originally Posted by Hank

I won $4 on Saturday's drawing!

[Larry Gude (Premo)]

Originally Posted by glhs837

I figured last night that your takeaway on the 350 was about 190 mil or so,

Toss over 150 mil into a trust should net you a pretty good life style if you dont go rock star

$150 mil in trust for what? If you are saying spend $40 million, assuming you are 40-ish, that's $1 million a year for, effectively, the rest of your life. You probably live off of something like $50-100,000 a year now so, that alone is 10-20 times what you have now so, we can call your living expenses taken care of for the rest of your life, yeah?

Why not do something with the rest of it as well? Think big! What would you do?

[glhs837]

Hadnt got that far Larry, would take planning and caution to not fall into the rock star lifestyle and blow it. Once you start going big fast, it's easy to blow through them millions. Chartering jets for instance. Nice for a treat, but flying first class would be fine for most things. Maybe a Veyron or a Mclaren, but there goes that rock star thinking. Settle just fine for maybe an Atom for a track car, and maybe two nice road cars. Swap the Suzuki for a Beemer. Travel a lot more. Avoid the penthouse, take the suite on the floor below. Heck, with that sort of money, taking the train might be cool:)

Dont need to hobnob with the other millionaires. Lots of small random acts of charity. Find a few mechanics you could trust and give them some dollars to help a few people who need stuff done but cant afford it. "Please just dump some Stop-Leak in there, I need it to get to work and cant afford a radiator right now". That sort of thing.

[bulldog (Premo)]

Buy land. Lots of land and manage it for wildlife. Hunting and fishing would be my way of life and my "giving back" would include opening up my land to introduce young people, especially troubled young people to these very down-to-earth activities that can play a big part in setting your moral compass pointing in the right direction. Entry to the program would be easy, continued participation would not be easy and would be based on said participant meeting a set of life goals that would place them on the road to independant success in life.

[Misfit]

I could afford to get my truck painted.