Missourian wins Powerball

[carlfense]

Being suddenly rich doesn't make someone suddenly wise. That's the gist of what carlfense is saying, and he's right. Many of us would win $500,000 and be well off the rest of our lives. Some people would win $5,000,000 and be broke in a few years.

Look at Mike Tyson. Perfect example.

correct, but you don't have to become suddenly rich to squander away your money either, like the majority of Americans that have $10k+ in credit card debt, and live well beyond their means. All i am saying is whether he pisses it away or not, at least his kids get a chance to see how the other shoe fits for once.

Which is all well and good until the creditors come asking for the shoe back . . . and also ask for everything else you have . . . His family will likely end up with generations of debt. Yikes.

 

[holvy83]

Good for him though, I kind of like to see people like that win it, it is good that he gets to provide a good life for his 3 kids.

I don't like to see anyone win the lottery. Something like 90% of big winners end up way worse off.

I give him 3 years before he loses everything.

So if you bought a ticket and won, you wouldn't take it? :bs: :lol: I hardly ever buy a ticket, but for me I see nothing wrong with a buck to do a little dreaming, hell pop cost $1.75 at most gas stations! It is a curse to win of course, I came from a small town and have many relatives, could not imagine the burden of having that much dough around...

 

[Hingle McCringleberry]

Good for him though, I kind of like to see people like that win it, it is good that he gets to provide a good life for his 3 kids.

I don't like to see anyone win the lottery. Something like 90% of big winners end up way worse off.

I give him 3 years before he loses everything.

So if you bought a ticket and won, you wouldn't take it? :bs: :lol: I hardly ever buy a ticket, but for me I see nothing wrong with a buck to do a little dreaming, hell pop cost $1.75 at most gas stations! It is a curse to win of course, I came from a small town and have many relatives, could not imagine the burden of having that much dough around...

I would take it heck yeah, but you hit it on the head, you hardly ever buy one. Most of the people who would do the best with something like this aren't even in the game. Oh-well, I will keep my eye out for a cheap Bugatti coming on the market in a few years, to bad it will have a mossy oak paint job

 

[holvy83]

Good for him though, I kind of like to see people like that win it, it is good that he gets to provide a good life for his 3 kids.

I don't like to see anyone win the lottery. Something like 90% of big winners end up way worse off.

I give him 3 years before he loses everything.

So if you bought a ticket and won, you wouldn't take it? :bs: :lol: I hardly ever buy a ticket, but for me I see nothing wrong with a buck to do a little dreaming, hell pop cost $1.75 at most gas stations! It is a curse to win of course, I came from a small town and have many relatives, could not imagine the burden of having that much dough around...

I would take it heck yeah, but you hit it on the head, you hardly ever buy one. Most of the people who would do the best with something like this aren't even in the game. Oh-well, I will keep my eye out for a cheap Bugatti coming on the market in a few years, to bad it will have a mossy oak paint job

:lol: believe me, I have seen people bring in sacks of cans and then turn around and buy lottery tickets. :facepalm:

 

[Hingle McCringleberry]

This always reminds me of when I was in college working at a Quicky Mart in Pleasant Dale, just west of Lincoln. We had a family come in pretty much every time I worked and they would bring there kids. She would buy a $10 phone card (couldn't "afford" a home phone) and about $30 in scratchers for the husband. She would talk on the phone for an hour or so, and the husband would scratch away. They would plop there 3 kids in the booth and they always looked unwashed, and hungry. They would ask for a piece of pizza or whatever and always "No we cant afford it". Nice, way to be so f*&ked up that playing the lottery is more important than taking care of your kids. :ahhhhhhhh

 

[carlfense]

So if you bought a ticket and won, you wouldn't take it? :bs: :lol: I hardly ever buy a ticket, but for me I see nothing wrong with a buck to do a little dreaming, hell pop cost $1.75 at most gas stations! It is a curse to win of course, I came from a small town and have many relatives, could not imagine the burden of having that much dough around...

I'm not saying that at all. I'm saying it will end horribly and tragically for a person who had $28 to his name and spent $5 of that on a lottery ticket. As the saying goes: a fool and his money are soon parted.

I'd like to think that if I purchased a ticket and won I would take the lump sum payment and put it into a trust where I could in no way touch the principle. I'm fairly certain that I could live comfortably on the interest from $130 million dollars without ever dipping into the corpus. If I set up the trust correctly I wouldn't have to worry about squandering the principle or having the principle seized by creditors.

That said, it takes some self control to willingly turn down the ability to live like a billionaire . . . even if only for a short time.

 

[knapplc]

So if you bought a ticket and won, you wouldn't take it? :bs: :lol: I hardly ever buy a ticket, but for me I see nothing wrong with a buck to do a little dreaming, hell pop cost $1.75 at most gas stations! It is a curse to win of course, I came from a small town and have many relatives, could not imagine the burden of having that much dough around...

I'm not saying that at all. I'm saying it will end horribly and tragically for a person who had $28 to his name and spent $5 of that on a lottery ticket. As the saying goes: a fool and his money are soon parted.

I'd like to think that if I purchased a ticket and won I would take the lump sum payment and put it into a trust where I could in no way touch the principle. I'm fairly certain that I could live comfortably on the interest from $130 million dollars without ever dipping into the corpus. If I set up the trust correctly I wouldn't have to worry about squandering the principle or having the principle seized by creditors.

That said, it takes some self control to willingly turn down the ability to live like a billionaire . . . even if only for a short time.

Hey, hey, hey! This is a family forum.

 

[Enhance]

Good for him though, I kind of like to see people like that win it, it is good that he gets to provide a good life for his 3 kids.

The question is if he will be smart with it. A lot of people who win these lotteries end up ruining the potential of that money.

 

[carlfense]

So if you bought a ticket and won, you wouldn't take it? :bs: :lol: I hardly ever buy a ticket, but for me I see nothing wrong with a buck to do a little dreaming, hell pop cost $1.75 at most gas stations! It is a curse to win of course, I came from a small town and have many relatives, could not imagine the burden of having that much dough around...

I'm not saying that at all. I'm saying it will end horribly and tragically for a person who had $28 to his name and spent $5 of that on a lottery ticket. As the saying goes: a fool and his money are soon parted.

I'd like to think that if I purchased a ticket and won I would take the lump sum payment and put it into a trust where I could in no way touch the principle. I'm fairly certain that I could live comfortably on the interest from $130 million dollars without ever dipping into the corpus. If I set up the trust correctly I wouldn't have to worry about squandering the principle or having the principle seized by creditors.

That said, it takes some self control to willingly turn down the ability to live like a billionaire . . . even if only for a short time.

Hey, hey, hey! This is a family forum.

Boom.

 

[kansas husker]

so im at work and I dont have access to any photo editing software but I really wanted to take that guys picture and make it say $256,000,000 meth party and make it look like Tyrone Biggums $48,000 crack party I know expalining it isnt as funny as posting the pic but that is what I have to work with right now.

 

[HUSKER 37]

Tuff?

I kid...I kid!

Thank you for that! :worship :worship :worship

I wasn't sure how long I'd be able to resist posting the same thing.

I remember when I first moved out here to AZ, and they showed the new winner of (at that time) the biggest winner ever...(looks like they had the same Dental plan).

Anyway, I think I did my first :facepalm: after She mentioned that the first thing she was going to get was a brand new mobile home.

I actually played my first Powerball a couple of weeks ago..Had no Idea how to fill it out.

I kept having the same number repeat itself at work while doing routine Chemical analysis, so I used that as the PB# and a few of my fav numbers (37, 17, 29, 5, ???...)

It was fun trying to figure out how I was going to temporarily change my identity or try to hire AR to get the lump sum for me to invest like Carlfense mentioned above only without disturbing any corpses...Maybe set up some anonymous gifts for relatives, friends and all the HB members of course.

I don't think any of my numbers hit

 

[redout22]

Whatever man I am happy this guy won.

 

[fro daddy]

maybe its just me, but it seems this is the type of person who typically plays the lotto. I have maybe bought $10 worth of scratch/powerball tickets in the 10 years i have been legal to do so. But it seems like the winners are always some redneck/reject who eats ramen noodles just so he can get his weekly tickets. :facepalm:

And I am with Killer, I would be rocking my money for A LONG TIME. If I paid off ever debt i have plus bought new stuff that would leave me almost all of the big winnings still. I would still work. I would just never have to worry about money. And Neither would my grandkids, grandkids.

 

[Husker_x]

So if you bought a ticket and won, you wouldn't take it? :bs: :lol: I hardly ever buy a ticket, but for me I see nothing wrong with a buck to do a little dreaming, hell pop cost $1.75 at most gas stations! It is a curse to win of course, I came from a small town and have many relatives, could not imagine the burden of having that much dough around...

I'm not saying that at all. I'm saying it will end horribly and tragically for a person who had $28 to his name and spent $5 of that on a lottery ticket. As the saying goes: a fool and his money are soon parted.

I'd like to think that if I purchased a ticket and won I would take the lump sum payment and put it into a trust where I could in no way touch the principle. I'm fairly certain that I could live comfortably on the interest from $130 million dollars without ever dipping into the corpus. If I set up the trust correctly I wouldn't have to worry about squandering the principle or having the principle seized by creditors.

That said, it takes some self control to willingly turn down the ability to live like a billionaire . . . even if only for a short time.

Totally agree. I'm happy that a guy went from rags to riches, but what so many people don't know is that riches to rags is easier.

It's like these NFL guys who sign multi-million dollar contracts only to wash out of the league in five years and find themselves broke, maybe without an education, and their bodies destroyed from playing pro football. How can it happen? How could you let yourself blow all that money?

It might not seem fair that a doctor or lawyer would win the lottery (not that fair matters in the first place), but in the long run the money might actually go to some good use if placed in the hands of someone who wasn't going to blow it on poor investments and lavish junk.