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.