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Just out of curiosity

What would you do with the money if you won lotto tonight? $33 million megadraw.

cheers
Mouse
 
Already spent...33 million times over...lol

The main problem with these massive draws is that so many people enter (more than normal) so we will most probably see between 30-40 division 1 winners, meaning the prize pool will be less than a million each.
 

Yeah should try Powerball instead when it reaches 9+ million etc.

thx

MS
 

Hi there,

I'll volunteer that anyone who wins and thinks they didn't win enough can hand their winnings over to me. It's a sacrifice, but I'd do it.

cheers
Mouse
 
Mouse said:
What would you do with the money if you won lotto tonight? $33 million megadraw.
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Launch a private equity takeover on a small cap. . .

[Edit : Oh, I forgot. Then I could use the equity in my first purchase to take over something even bigger. . . ]
 
Some bet on horses, I buy a lotto ticket half a dozen times a year whenever 1 of these jackpots comes around. As far as I'm concerned, $10 is a small price to pay for a night or two of indulgent dreams.

I'd be buying myself a DB9 and this particular winery/vineyard that I visited down in Margaret River this week. Lovely place with a spring fed lake big enough to waterski on filled with silver perch and trout. I could see myself living quite happily there.
 
YChromozome said:
Launch a private equity takeover on a small cap. . .

[Edit : Oh, I forgot. Then I could use the equity in my first purchase to take over something even bigger. . . ]
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I like that. I'll be in it with you (naturally im one of the 30-40 winners).
 
$33 million.
I like the EURO MILLIONS draw. Got up to 160 million POUNDS when I was there last year.
Some grand ma won 70million pounds too. Auto pick. Some guy was in the line buying ticket and felt bad, let her go first. I would be kicking myself for the rest of my life for sure.
 
Really can't think of anything I want that I don't have. I have enough to provide a sense of security. Never have lusted after lots of material stuff.

I'd probably donate it two thirds to the RSPCA and one third to the Salvos.

As I never buy tickets, the likelihood of winning isn't one I've ever contemplated.

Julia
 
Julia said:
Really can't think of anything I want that I don't have. I have enough to provide a sense of security. Never have lusted after lots of material stuff.
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You'd be one of the very few but I think you're on to a good thing. Wealth is the achievement of whatever it is we desire. If you don't desire anything more, you're already wealthy. May we all be so lucky to embody that realisation.
 
doctorj said:
Wealth is the achievement of whatever it is we desire. If you don't desire anything more, you're already wealthy. May we all be so lucky to embody that realisation.
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Uh huh,

But i'll still take the money thanks

cheers
Mouse
 
I'd get a turf cricket pitch laid in my back yard and pay one of the cricket curators to maintain it for me.
 
Buy a place next to wherever Scarlett Johansson lives, invite her over for barbie, get to know each other, fall in love, get married etc..
 

Julia,

Your comments remind me of that quote that goes something like: If you're not happy poor, you'll never be happy rich.

Our society suffers from the "need" to be rich. Seneca observed malcontent amongst the wealthy way back in Nero's day. We haven't really learned that money (though nice to have) should rank lower in our priorities than happiness, family, community etc.

Increasingly these are ranking as distant also ran's in favour of wealth, power, status etc.

I would dearly love to see that change, but fear something "big" needs to happen to remind people of what is truly important.

Nice post, good on you.

Cheers
 
Julia said:
I'd probably donate it two thirds to the RSPCA and one third to the Salvos.

Julia
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Julia,

You are one of a a small and virtuous minority.

http://www.news.com.au/business/story/0,23636,20996760-462,00.html


 
Through poverty is how monetary wealth is defined.There is some point where that line is crossed in which food,clothing and shelter are covered by the money one has.

Life is so comparative,contradictory and hypocritical.

But nothing 33 million dollars wouldn`t fix. (Oooooh don`t I love money)

:sheep:
 

Sounds a bit like what my old man used to say, God bless him.

"Money only makes poverty bearable"

I love money too, but I love - love, happiness, community, environment even more.
 
wayneL said:
Julia,

You are one of a a small and virtuous minority.

http://www.news.com.au/business/story/0,23636,20996760-462,00.html
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Thanks for that, Wayne. I don't particularly feel virtuous about it, though, and would absolutely not like to repeat the few years I spent being poor after a divorce.

I've seen a few people for whom money has become an obsession, long after they have more than enough to be comfortable. It has supplanted relationships and even interest in most other things, and ultimately led to a miserable and lonely old age.

Julia
 
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