OT: Powerball rolled, up to 1.3 Billion

Submitted by MikeCohodes on
So none of us are filthy rich, yet, but no one else is either. Wednesday's drawing is estimated at $1.3 billion, though I'm sure that will climb even higher. I wonder how much you have to donate to get a building named after you on campus?

The Wolverine …

January 10th, 2016 at 11:47 AM ^

I would only tell a really close friends and family...I would help only certain people who my wife and I knew would need it and do well with it. We would move somewhere warm and I would never let anyone on social media know we had won it



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UofM626

January 10th, 2016 at 12:04 PM ^

For all of OSU AND MSU games forever. Make them play in front of no one or just me and some buddies so they could hear me yelling at them personally for the rest of my life.

bronxblue

January 10th, 2016 at 3:10 PM ^

I know that even a couple million dollars is life-changing money, but $1.3B would legitimately make you one of the richest people in America overnight (and yes, I know about taxes and deferred payouts and all that).

DrAwkward

January 10th, 2016 at 4:30 PM ^

My financial goal in life is to have that amount of money that will allow me to spend as little time as possible thinking about money.

If you don't have enough money, you worry about making ends meet.

If you have too much money, you have to spend time managing your money (or supervising your financial advisors).

I'm thinking $1.3 billion might ruin the delicate pecuniary balance that I have achieved. I won't be buying a ticket.

jabberwock

January 10th, 2016 at 8:03 PM ^

(he split it with a couple dozen co-workers)

but he still works his blue collar job, lives in the same same tiny town, etc.

He just doesn't have to do roofing to make ends meet now, and he can travel a bit for the first time in his life, oh, yeah, he bought a new pick-up truck.

He'll live longer, mainly due to the lack of stress worrying about his family, doing dangerous work, etc.  It doesn't actually take that much to double a person's relative quality of life.

uminks

January 11th, 2016 at 1:15 AM ^

will probably not be around in 5 years!  Seems like people want to kill big Lotto winners. Be it the 2nd cousin you really don't know or a long lost friend who is jealous as all hell. May be your wife once she finds another guy and needs to get rid of you to get all your inheritance!