American MegaMillions lottery reaches over $1 BILLION!
 

Who here has bought a ticket to win the drawing tonight?

Mine......

I got my tickets.

What's the first thing you would do if you win?

Someone could buy every possibility and still come out ahead? :)

Smart thinking :thumbsup

Did you buy a ticket?

What would be the first thing you do if you win?

Yes.

First, I will donate 10% to my church.
Second, I will donate 1 million to each of my friends.
Last, I will help needy and poor people while living a healthy and modest life.

I wish you luck. You have great intentions for the world. If I win I'll give you a million dollars. You deserve a better life

I got my tix! I had to talk myself out of wasting $100.

Thank you. I will do the same for you. I prayed to God. I wrote everything down and signed it.

https://i.imgur.com/5JRdHEQ.jpg

I'd hire about 10,000 trolls to counter facebook, twitter and just for the hell of it, you.

I would do the opposite and leave FB, twitter, and here and live a happy life without the drama.

Sorry guys but i will win tonight, i brought 302,575,350 tickets :thumbsup:thumbsup

You didn't write down that you'd give one million to Bladewire there. But I trust you and I'll give you a million if I win :thumbsup

How many tickets did you buy?

I bought 2 Powerball and 2 MegaMillions

I would do all of that benevolent, saintly stuff to help people in need. But I would also be in my yacht jacuzzi getting gangbanged by Brazilian strippers.

Let's say you win. Let's say you take home $500 mil after taxes and whatnot. Let's say you cash out $5 mil for a spending spree. You buy a house, car, land, marry the love of your life. Out of that $5 mil, you should still have more than enough cash to live on for a year.

So that leaves you with $495 mil. You could put that into 12 month CDs. At the current interest rates, you'd be earning about $1.2 million per year out of thin air from interest, or roughly $100k per month.

I don't know about you, but I could live quite comfortably on that. Keep doing that year after year, and you'd never need to touch that $495 mil.

Let's say you just can't manage to spend $100k per month. Fine. Add whatever leftover cash to your $495 mil in CDs and watch the total compound and your yearly interest earnings increase.

I don't know how well this would actually work in the real world. But it seems good on paper.

Good luck to y'all.

marry the love of your life. :1orglaugh

You mean the gold digger of your life.

Prenup, of course. You can afford a good lawyer. :thumbsup

And I say invest it because even with that kind of money, you can still spend beyond your means and end up broke. And past lottery winners have done exactly that. I heard about one big lottery winner who went from living in a mansion to living in a shipping container.

I like the way you think :thumbsup

Well fuck! I didn't win.. I won $8 but looks like I have to finish my work tonight. :1orglaugh

He Won $19 Million in the Lottery—And Became a Bank Robber
Jim Hayes won the jackpot of a lifetime and spent big on Lamborghinis and Vegas gambling trips. Then his life went south and he turned to crime.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/he-won...-a-bank-robber

Its surprisingly too easy to squander that kind of money and hit rock bottom. I was just watching videos on YT about it. Jim's story is crazy and not too uncommon. Whoever wins that lottery needs a plan, or they'll be fucked sooner or later.



https://youtu.be/X6WDoZZciHA

I wait to check the numbers until the next day.

What states were the winners in, if their were winners?

Over $1.6 Billion Tuesday if no winners today!!!

Can't find any word on whether there was a winner. The only thing the site says is "pending" so maybe they don't even know themselves. But with the volume of tickets sold, surely there had to a winner. It'll be news for sure.

This is why I don't check until the next day :thumbsup

Ok I just checked Mega Millions ticket sold in California matches five of the six numbers

I haven't checked my numbers

Going to sleep

Apparently one third of all lottery winners go bankrupt within 5 years !!! Thats quite a feat.

As i didn't win the jackpot is now 1.6 billion
 

According to an online artical the winner, if there is one would take home around 940 million $ less state tax.....:thumbsup:thumbsup Not too shabby ?

most winners are bankrupt within a few years I've read

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses


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Good luck :thumbsup

instant 1B!!!

Nobody won the big jackpot so it goes to $1.6 Billion for Tuesday's drawing.

If you take the one-time cash option you will receive nearly $905 million instant cash!