Who is our newest MGoBillionaire? $1,000,000,000 winning Mega Millions ticket sold at Novi Kroger

Yep you have better odds being struck by lighting twice then you do winning but that didn’t stop me from buying a couple of tickets for a shot at a billion. 
Not just friends but complete strangers will be hitting you up for money. I would move and change my phone number before I even claimed the prize 

That’s why I would never make it public if I’d won. Not that I think it would matter. It would get out eventually. 

It actually reminds me a bit of the 30 for 30 documentary they did like 8-10 years ago called Broke, about all the high profile athletes who made a crap ton of money and pissed it all away because they couldn’t manage finances or learn how to say no to people. 

I think at one point they were talking about Vince Young and how after he made his big rookie contract, all these long lost relatives and friends from the old neighborhood came crawling out of the woodworks and told him “Remember that one time way back when I did that thing for you? Well, time to return the favor. I need 50 grand. Remember where you came from and how I helped you get here.”

Then when he finally went broke, those friends disappeared from his life completely.

Not in my case.  I'd got to a large national law firm, have them set up a series of LLC's one of which I would have buy the ticket, lump sum the winnings and get it offshore,  Make it as difficult as possible to trace the money back to me or my family.

I lived in an area about a decade ago where we had two lottery winners who won big. Neither marriage lasted very long and both sets of people went through lots of their money in a hurry, similar to what happens with many athletes who don't get good financial advice.

I actually worked with a woman who won a big lottery (about 40M).  She kept coming into work after she won and no one knew until it was in the newspaper a week later. 

The crazy thing is she worked for a pretty hard to work for partner at my law firm at the time and she did not quit her job.  Her and I were usually two of the last two people to leave the office.  I actually quit before she did (if she ever quit).   

I dunno...  There has to be an upper limit to that, where once you have more than some number you just don't have to ever worry about financials ever again.  Want a mansion on the Hawaiian coast?  Go buy it, and lease a private jet whenever you want to spend some time there.

You will always worry about health and family, so I don't think they count.  You can decide to worry more about the poor, the infirm, the homeless, whatever...  But sorry, I don't think those count, either, because you can also decide to be an asshole like Bezos and not give anything to anyone for any reason (relatively speaking compared to his unimaginable wealth).

Sorry, I just can't feel bad for people like Bezos, Musk, Buffett, etc when (if?) they complain about how stressful their life is.  If you can't be happy when you have enough money to do whatever you want, whenever you want to do it, for the rest of your life - I just can't feel bad for you...

I remember that study. I think it's $90,000. Jeff Bezos, why are you overcompensating????

I remember that study. I think it's $90,000. Jeff Bezos, why are you overcompensating????

Well, MI is in a tight spot geographically compared to say NY and OH.

Aside from CDN and MI traffic, there's no reason for shipping to go thru the state of MI. NY, OH and many other states that have toll roads have waaaaay more interstate traffic. My students were complaining about the tolls in NYS (HS Srs) and I had to explain that to go anywhere in the NE part of the US (and Canada) from almost anywhere east of the Mississippi, you ahve to go thru NYS. So probably 50% (<---WAG) of tolls funds are paid from non-NYers. Which in turn, help pay for other, non-toll roads that NYers drive.

 Not sure the feasibility of the state of MI setting up tolls for out of state vehicles only, an you know a toll for everyone model won't fly.

You get a team of a few lawyers. Create a trust for the money to go into. Your lawyers will complete the paperwork with the lottery on your behalf.  You or your family draw money from trust as they need it. Nobody ever knows your name or how much money you won. There are books written on the very subject. Problem is, people are stupid and sign their ticket right away and show up at the lottery doors the following day to collect their money. 

Pay off credit cards regardless. Money pit.

I guess I am of the mindset that if you bank $500M and friends/family hit you up for a few thousand a few times a month, it wouldn't bother me at all.  I mean, I have $500 million.  If I only earned a measly and extremely conservative 0.1% per year interest on that money I would still be raking in $500K per year on interest alone!  So, lending out $100 to $200k per year would be like the proverbial deck chair blowing off the Queen Mary and would cause me zero stress.

Sure, the mindset of being able to buy pretty much anything you want can be very destructive for many.  And I can't guarantee it wouldn't ruin my life but I am pretty darn sure it would not.  The joy I would get from being able to financially help family, extended family and friends would be by far the most overwhelming thing for me.