CA lotto is $355,000,000 what would you buy??

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I would build a big log home on a ton of acreage (think the Ponderosa) with a huge garage, buy several old muscle cars ('69 Camaro, '67 Mustang GT 500, '69 Charger, '70 Cutlass 442, etc.), 15-20 cars to drive daily, a huge order from Autogeek, a dream vacation for all the Autogeek employees and their families, put some away for my children to be raised and live comfortably, donate a bunch to my parents, donate a few million to Operation Comfort, and put a bunch away for retirement. If there was anything left over after that, I'd light it on fire in front of the IRS building. :dblthumb2:
 
Move from cold PA to warm Florida, build a house right next to AG with a vacuum tube from my 10 car garage to the shipping department next door to AG.
 
If you took it for the 26 years you would take home after taxs each year approx $8,100,000 so you could buy what ever you wanted.
 
Boozman said:
If you took it for the 26 years you would take home after taxs each year approx $8,100,000 so you could buy what ever you wanted.
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I would take the lump sum even though I am only 21 because you could just live off interest without touching the initial amount. This way if god forbid anything happens to me, at least my family gets it.
 
Can someone please post the winning numbers im at work? Thanks!
 
Donate half of it, having a lot of fun in the process. I would probably donate new IT technology to local schools, bring them up to cutting edge.
New house, big garage, Lambo, Zonda, tuned STi
Secure financial future for family
Retire from working full time, train (triathlon) full time, and do consulting on the side to keep me happy.
 
Wait, I didn't win?? Oh that's right, I didn't have a ticket...well, pretty much the same odds, anyway.
 
I would pay off car..give it to parents..and get the 2ss version. Buy family a house, by myself a house..pay off all bills and find myself a better college. Buy a helicopter :)..help friends and family through school and stuff. Give half to charity..never going to spend that much anyway. Save the rest up..buy what I needed as it came along.
 
I'd buy a basic statistics 101 book for every loser who purchased a ticket. :cruisin:
 
Joe in PA said:
I'd buy a basic statistics 101 book for every loser who purchased a ticket. :cruisin:
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why would you say that? Financially speaking..over 60 years your not spending much more or around 8,000. besdies..who ever wants to be a statistic..people win it ever week.
 
Rydis said:
why would you say that? Financially speaking..over 60 years your not spending much more or around 8,000. besdies..who ever wants to be a statistic..people win it ever week.
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Shoot, you'd be more likely to get hit by lightning standing outside for only 1 year than you would be to win that jackpot trying for 60 years. But thanks for keeping my taxes down by buying those tickets...I bet they sold $355 million worth just yesterday.
 
Setec Astronomy said:
Shoot, you'd be more likely to get hit by lightning standing outside for only 1 year than you would be to win that jackpot trying for 60 years. But thanks for keeping my taxes down by buying those tickets...I bet they sold $355 million worth just yesterday.
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sure would, but I was just showing how little money playing the lottery every year is. I dont play it all the time, im just saying..if you play only 1 time a week..its around 3100 over 60 years. So even if you never win..its not like you lost much of anything. And if you do win..hey cool. Its not like spending 100s on scratchoffs every week.

Im sure they did lol. But it also benefits school and other things too.
 
Rydis said:
I dont play it all the time, im just saying..if you play only 1 time a week..its around 3100 over 60 years. So even if you never win..its not like you lost much of anything.
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I never really understood the "gambling as entertainment" argument. You say "it's not like you lost much of anything" but it sounds to me like you lost $3100. I'd rather have $3100 dollars worth of detailing supplies or pretty much anything rather than $3100 of paper in the recycling bin.

I'm one of the few people who lives in NJ who's never been to AC (or Lost Wages, for that matter). I'm not hating on you, I have been known to buy a scratch-off once in a while, but now that I think of it I haven't done that for a while either...since that time I bought one and waited so long to scratch it that the game was over and I had to mail my ticket in to get my $5 check from the state...which I then felt I had to claim on my income taxes...:(
 
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