You Just Won The Lottery - Now What?
 

So I'm channel surfing and I see this program "The Lottery Changed My Life".

No shit Sherlock.

I play the lottery every week. Not expecting much but what the hell.

So you wake up Sunday morning, check your numbers and what do you know you actually won the ****ing lottery.

Do you cash it in right away?
Quit your job right away?
Tell ANYONE?
Talk to a lawyer?
Talk to a financial adviser?
Get drunk?
Go to Vegas?
Hire some primo escorts?
Buy a Ferrari or other supercar?
Live like a king or stash it away and stay right where you are?


Me personally, I would talk to a lawyer and financial adviser about setting up something to protect me and my money before I cash it in.

Then pay off my house, all my bills and my immediate family too. You're bound to hear from relatives and friends you didn't know you had.

Then I'm not really sure.

Maybe go on a trip around the world to think about things.

I've seen too many horror stories about people winning it all and they're life is miserable.

What amount are we talking here? $10? $1,000? $1,000,000? $100,000,000? My answers vary accordingly.

I step up from 1/8th scale steam locomotives ,to full size steam locomotives.
Sell the house & set up shop in Chama New Mexico

You're not really rich until you can buy a politician.

I'd start a CP gone forever thread.

Not tell anyone. I live in a state you don't have to announce who one only that someone won. I don't have to move because no one know me or where I live.

Payoff soon to be ex wife. Profit.

Quit grad school

Tell absolutely no one

Buy a 500k house

Buy a Ferrari 360 Modena

Buy condo in Florida

The End

Quit school? I'd finish school. No more loans or dishwashing jobs, it would be heaven.

I'd set it up with a financial advisor before I cashed it in. I'd call out rich immediately though. I wouldn't fess up, I'd just find a reason to leave the job. I would disappear. Take it to the bank. Name changed, new identity, and only my closest of friends and family would have an inkling as to my whereabouts.

My life would consist of charity. I would definitely have nice things, and do a lot of traveling. But I don't see myself ever retiring to the point of doing nothing. I thoroughly enjoy helping others, and my life's work would be about impacting one life at a time.

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Imagine going to school for the joy of learning, rather than trying to find your slice of cheese in the rat race? Yeah, that is heaven.

If you quit school and buying all those luxury, people will notice. You will find some distant relatives coming to you soon.

Donate a large amount to Chiefsplanet.

Spend one more week at work going to meetings and seeing how far I could go before being fired.

Assume $10.

Are you required to allow the Lottery to release your name?


Hell, I would give them 10% to keep their mouths shut. Nobody would know I won a penny.

I'd go to Culver's and get a vanilla concrete with brownies and raspberries.

It varies by state. I'm almost positive that in Kansas, you have no choice. They're plastering your name everywhere.

Son of a bitch.


Well, I don't need to worry about it since I don't play. ;)

I'd hope it's enough that I can dive into a pile of cash like Donald. Duck's uncle.

It depends on the state you live in. Kansas doesn't require the winner's name be released, some states do.

And there you go. I was wrong on Kansas. Time to start buying those tickets, Notorious! :evil:

See my previous post. Kansas doesn't require names to be released. Someone in Ottawa, KS won PowerBall or MegaMillions last year. They chose not to have their name released.

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I figure with my luck, I'd buy what would be the winning ticket, but die just moments before the winning numbers are picked, which, of course, would be the day before the Chiefs finally participate in, and win, the SB.

Pay off my bills,buy a new 3/4 gmc dirty max, a new Polaris rzr 1000,and take a two week trip to Cali up the coast hitting all the hot dune spots with my dad and buddies. Then I'd get back and start investing. Also look at starting my own company. I'm an apprentice electrician, so down the road there's that. I'd also consider starting a small scale ammo manufacturing facility. Start small grow big profit$$$

I only play when it's like a 300,000,000$ payout so

I don't quit my job I buy the store I work at I actually like my job so I keep doing what I do just hire some people to do the parts I don't like.

I set aside 10,000,000 to just blow through on wasteful things nothing that most would notice a nice tv,computer upgrade ETC . I give some to family that I do know. And probably some charities and stuff.

The rest I find a new house nothing to big but better then my current one. Put most of up to have whenever I need it. And just enjoy life :)

Hire an attorney. Go from there.

ROFL

How do I get that video to show up on the post?

I pay AustinChief to permanently rescind your thread starting privileges.

depends on how much the lottery was for

lets just say it was 200 million

don't tell anymore but immediate family members
probably have a family member split the winning ticket with me
consult a lawyer/CPA/Financial adviser
build my own 'extreme' house that is capable of being completely off grid with a lot of specialty stuff thrown in ... a little doomsday prepper features included
maid service/lawn service etc
no work but would find some kind of philanthropic job to do

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Then please, by all means, start playing.

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First time played, first time winner?

That would piss some people off. LMAO

Enough money where you never have to work again.

Unless you want to.

Powerball type money.

You could you learn about things that interest you too instead of what earns a good living.

I would set up some type of foundation to help others and for a good tax write off.

You can't take it with you so you might as well do some good with it.

Blow it all on trying to win the lottery again.

Sign the damn thing first then call about 5 lawyers

lawyer up
financial advisers also

GO PUBLIC WITH MY NAME
ignore all requests
throw one hell of a kick ass party in Arrowwood( clark will have to rename it when I but into thew team)

and then proceed to have one of the worlds most extravagant train wrecks ever

If they insisted on releasing my name the first thing I do is move to another state where no one knows me and then hire an extremely reputable financial advisor.

All depends on how much.

No two girls at the same time clip from office space yet?

Assuming the $160 million number, then you're taking the cash value which is about half that, or $80 million. Then you pay roughly 40 percent in taxes, leaving you with $48 million.

I'd give one-third of it away, leaving me with $32 million. That would let me spend rough $1 million a year for the rest of my life.

I'd identify a good new owner for my company and give them a good deal, and I'd retire. I'd do a two-month cruise every year, and also spend a month each in a couple of exotic places like Paris or Sydney or Rio or Kodiak, Alaska. The other eight months, I'd have a personal trainer and a masseuse and a nutritionist/cook looking over me to ensure that I live long enough to enjoy my wealth for decades.

I'd get back into war games and board games and probably learn programming and other fun stuff. I'd take college courses in history and psychology. I'd read a lot. Honestly, I would probably revert back to a lot of the activities I had as a teenager when I didn't have a lot of financial pressures.

Oh. And that. I'd see if I could negotiate it with the wife.

Tell nobody.
Quit my job.
Open Swiss banking account.
Book trip to country with no extradition treaty with the USA.
Begin taking my revenge on my enemies.
Take that trip.

Buy a nice small oceanfront home in Dana Point, a semi-luxurious Tahoe cabin and start some world travel with the immediate family.

Wife will still do the laundry though.

Buy a condo on Kaanapali beach in Maui, HI. Live there from February to July. Build a house in one of the KC suburbs and live there the rest of the year.

If the payout was big enough, like say euro countries where the lottery can get close to a billion dollars, I would try to buy an NFL team altho I think most NFL teams cost more than a billion /sigh.

Easy first hire my friend the accountant to handle my cash.
Second move back to kansas
Third find a nice modest house
4th give a little to my folks and brother
5th buy chiefs season tickets
6th treat myself to goodies
Finally find the perfect mate who a orphan don't have family and non american.

Oh, I forgot. Hire someone to do all my laundry and any other chores around the house so R8ers won't think I'm a punkin puss.

Good you he bitch :LOL:

I'd be in Florida the next day. This winter sucks

Hookers and Blow

CPA. Calculate the tax.

Two chicks at the same time

That's awesome!!! Are you referring to the Donald Duck cartoon where his uncle went diving through this huge room full of coins/cash and swam through it while saying, "money, money, money, money, money?" I haven't seen that since I was probably 6 years old and I haven't thought about that in probably over a decade. Nostalgia. That part stuck out to me because I always thought it would be awesome to do that.

Buy a house in KC to live in during the football season. Spend the rest of my time in places like Thailand and Rio. Try not to get AIDS.

I hire Morgan Freeman to follow me around and narrate my life for a day.

LMAO

I'd do 2 chicks at the same time...because, well, you know, the kinds of chicks that would do that dig dudes with money.

Also, I'd take a nap.

I buy cp and ban people I don't want here.

Didn't know CP was for sale...

Kansas you can stay private. There are lottery winners in Ottawa, Kansas that never had their names announced. Friends figured it out when they started building the new house and bought KU season basketball tix.

Die from a cocaine overdose in a seedy Las Vegas hotel.

anything is for sale for the right price

I would buy Chiefsplanet and read everyone's PMs and Rep messages

The people who hit the lottery and then blow it or say it ruined their lives are ****ing stupid dick munchers. They ****ed it up because they're probably just ****ups who **** up everything else in their lives. The first thing you do is invest a chunk of it into a 100% safe investment which will generate enough interest for you to live on. If there's any left, you buy a house. Any left after that, a car(s) and some toys. Any left, and THEN you give some away and do stupid stuff.

Hire an advisor who has experience working with wind falls. Hire a top law firm to watch the advisor.

then hire Chuck Norris to watch the law firm..


I've seen The Firm. Don't trust em.

Damn fine idea...

Tell my family, and my family only.
Take the cash option.
Get some great lawyers and financial advice.
Invest a large portion which will hopefully take care of my family for generations to come.
Donate a large chunk to various charities and to my church.
Pay off all my families bills/debts/etc.
Finish school, taking classes I find interesting. Get a variety of degrees.
Build a large house, with a VERY large garage.
Buy a stable of cars.
Travel, a lot.
Work somewhere I love, helping people less fortunate than me.

Great idea LMAO

I honestly wouldn't change that much. I love what I do for a living, I'd just be able to do it more without as much need of others. But at the end of the day, there are people in my profession who essentially HAVE won the lottery. And I still see those people at the gym and the office and the bar. So, professionally, not a ton would change.

But personally, I'd immediately build a house in LA (Toluca Lake, actually, which is like Beverly Hills without bad traffic.) Then I'd buy a farm outside of Lucca, Italy.

I don't really give a shit about cars. I'd buy the highest rated American-made electric or hybrid. Because I care about the environment AND 'merica.

How would I tell my friends? Individually, I think. I wouldn't give people money. I'd give them something they need. A new SUV for my buddy who loves camping. Pay the rent for a year for a starving actor friend. Health insurance for my diabetic buddy.

Then I'd probably go split time between london and italy for a couple years, until all of the family members give up trying to reach me.

My home base would probably still be California, but in the Central Coast (think Sideways). I might even just keep a condo in LA for when I have to come in for meetings, but otherwise I wouldn't "live" anywhere. Just constantly go throughout the world.

If I won anything over 75 bucks I'd quit my job.

beer

Take the cash option.

Give half of it away to friends and family right away if it was a big jackpot. My life isn't going to be dramatically different if I have 100 million v. 200 million. But that 100 million could do a lot of good for a lot of people that I care about. Then throw an "I'm rich, bitch" party and get all sorts of ****ed up.

Move somewhere warm. Hire a personal trainer and a top notch golf instructor. Play golf (hopefully well). Drink beers. Bang wife. Repeat.