For starters, I bet you won't be paying 10% to TSCC in tithes.

The Mega jackpot has climbed to a new all time high.

I don't normally play, but will purchase a ticket or two and feed the beast while taking my chances!

For those living in Utah, do you drive across the border to places like Malad, Idaho to buy a chance at winning? I'm undecided as to whether not having lotto in Utah is a plus or minus to living there.

I'd give a $1 bill to every citizen of mainland China. It would be a dream come true!

We've all been giving money to China already.

For me the first thing would be to disappear, get away from the hustlers and scammers.

You'd need to set up a trust before cashing the lotto ticket to go incognito (at least in my state.)

Wonder how easy it would be to just go off the radar? With that much moolah, probably not hard.

:D

I would split up the money with family members. Then I would retire, travel, and do charity work. It's more disposable money than I can really comprehend.

It does boggle the mind, even after taxes.

Last time it got close to this high there were three winners ... so it was split three ways.

If I had 1.5 billion dollars it would be one less thing to worry about.

That much moolah would bring a whole new slew of worries.

But it would be fun taking them on.



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I'd fund MormonThink.com to do the longest and biggest AD campaign in the USA to put the Q15 in ultra absorbent Depends®and force them onto the warpath of fear to preach anti-Mormon sermons in general conference talks and stake conferences. I'd just love it!

I could see apostles like Elder Hollaring Holland crying out in talk after talk, "I'm not going to let you leave this church!"

That campaign would be all about "saving souls."

And that would be "Mission Impossible."

:o)

Give 10% to exmo organizations like Mormonthink, RfM, Mormon Stories, etc.

Promote and develop awesome new medical technologies.

Create an accreditation system for free and low cost college level education.

assist the following groups:


family

Habitat & Red Cross, ACLU

assist liberal candidates & causes

ABOLISH THE ELECTORAL SYSTEM!!!!

add my .02 to the above MormonThink campaign...

MAYBE give a Bonus to family members if they Resigned & stopped attending / supporting tscc (thanks, summer!)



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Personally, I'd settle for .5 billion dollars.

Pay off my Starbucks tab.

Make some very special people's lives a whole lot easier.

Frequent strip clubs with suitcases full of Benjamins.

I'm waaaay past being interested in those joints. I have a few other bucket list items I'd purchase though.

Hmmmm

what types of ads does the SLTrib accept, which are rejected???


I would make a Great Offer on the house my 'former' got in her divorce! Lots of room & sun to be nude!!!

generously give to the GOP (kidding!)
I'd buy some real estate buildings,
Put lots in the stockmarket, and play the ponies even more, lol!
pay off my debts too.

I'm sure a lot of it would go to Z-packs initially.

Call my friends!

Ask them what to do?

Make more [friends and money]!

M@t

Establish a foundation to distribute the money to animal charities, making sure the fund was invested so as to remain self-sustaining. I would not run the foundation.

That said, as I probably will forget to buy a ticket I’m obviously either not concerned enough about the animals or I don’t think I could possibly win. But as we’re fantasizing. ..

Take a cruise on the SS Minnow.

In the name of Gawd, don't take the three-hour tour.

ANYTHING but the three-hour tour. . .

But then there's Ginger:)

Maryanne is the better bet, no?

red-head movie star is going on the same cruise. Don't do it. Turns out she's really high maintenance.

1) I'd put it in a safe deposit box and move to a state with no income or death taxes (Bye-bye, Taxachusetts!).
2) I'd find the five or ten best financial and tax managers I can, and show them a photocopy of the ticket, to prove I'm not a fraud. Then,
3) I'd give them three or four months to come up with the best possible plan to minimize taxes, maximize philanthropy, and set up a good trust for my near and dear.
3A) It would probably be something like 1/4 immediate gratification, 1/4 short-term trust and income production, 1/4 long-term trust and income production, and 1/4 philanthropy, which in turn, would divided between immediate gifts and sustained income

Then my wife and I would have extensive plastic surgery, change our images, our identities, and commence new social media so nobody could find us to beg for money.

Pay off my credit card and student loans, get a passport, travel to Britain, Germany, Japan, Canada, maybe France if I can learn enough of the language not to butcher it.

But, I know I'll probably get struck by lightning before I win the lottery. That's just how my luck goes.

ookami Wrote:
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> Pay off my credit card and student loans, get a
> passport, travel to Britain, Germany, Japan,
> Canada, maybe France if I can learn enough of the
> language not to butcher it.

I'd love to visit Europe too. Maybe get a railpass to see Canada (Europe has those as well. Is the Orient Express still in commission?) Switzerland is still the #1 place I'd love to see when I go there. I've been to Japan already. But would go back in a heartbeat. It is a beautiful country.

>
> But, I know I'll probably get struck by lightning
> before I win the lottery. That's just how my luck
> goes.

The odds are actually better of getting hit by lightning. It isn't luck not getting hit IMO, that has more to do with staying out of its path. :)

The lottery is state sponsored racketeering. How much corruption follows the lottery is anyone's guess. But where large sums of money are generated the corruption is sure to follow. It's supposed to go toward education. How much of it actually does, I wonder? It rakes in billions of dollars as a negative tax upon working Americans. That much is a given.

I'm as guilty of getting sucked into it as the next person. Somebody wins it, even if the odds are slim to nothing. If I have a vice, that would be one.



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What would I do without it?
Not the same.

Well I dunno. Either way you wake up in the morning.

True, but what you wake up to is different.
How you wake up, with whom, or when.
Or what you do, or how you act.

Money can’t buy my friends.

Yea but it could buy a great unique post.
I hope your friends are better than that.

M@t



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Yeah, but with enough of it you can rent them.

I could go back to church and have assigned friends.

Perhaps. . .

But rent-a-friends are probably more sincere.

From "Cover of the Rolling Stone," Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show

"Money cannot buy happiness, But then, neither does poverty." (Leo Rosten)

True, but it can buy creature comforts. And a better security system.

[insert all of the reasons I hate the lottery HERE]

Alright. I might play, because I haven't been struck by lightning, so my odds may be better. (I know. I know.)

After the obligatory things like paying off student loans, the mortgage, giving a shitton of $ to my kid and some other family members...

1. I'd change my identity, like right away. New name, SSN, get some awesome plastic surgery and hire a stylist.

2. Move to France

3. Buy a clone (improved, natch) to live in when this body fails.

4. Buy a collection of Stratocasters, Chanel suits, Birkenstocks (and socks), Louboutins, a collection of eyeglasses, a smaller collection of Lowas and Salomon boots (so they stay broken in), and a gigantic bathtub with never-ending hot water.

5. I'd endow full-ride scholarships at my undergrad.

6. Fully-fund arts programs for allllll the kids in the world.

7. Get a bunch of dogs

8. Buy a Board seat at Tesla, send Elon to rehab or summer camp or wherever his ass needs to go.

9. Go on a Pablo Neruda pilgrimage maybe minus crossing the Andes.

10. Throw $5 to RfM

Throw? [And that's 5 m., right? That what I read. Maybe I should reread.]

You could bring it in a limo... and we could take it there in person, in our philanthropy uniforms, our birthday suits! lol

I would quit my job and disappear.

payments will probably be spread out as installments over a period of many years, and then factoring in inflation....

I guess it will work out to about an extra $9.95 a month. I should finally be able to adopt a cat and cover half of its living expenses with the net amount of the lottery winnings.

$1.5 billion just doesn't go as far as it used to.

Same as I'd do without it. Nothing!

I'd make sure none of my Mormon relatives knew my new address or phone number....cause there are a few who'd expect some largess from me....and they'd get fuckall.

Like you, I'd share it with some of my Mormon relatives, and the rest could wonder where I disappeared to ...

Ron actually said he wouldn't share with the mormon relatives...

I know what Ron said.

I also added what I'd do if I won. I have some Mormon relatives I would share some with. The others I'm writing out of the book of my personal fortune.

Ron is still a kind person.

Damn! Tonight’s the night and I forgot to get a ticket.

Screw it. There ain’t no way I’m going back out there now.

You have until tomorrow night to buy a Mega Ball ticket.

Just picked up my pro rata share of tonight's mega drawing. After listening to a public service announcement about when jackpots get this big, it's a trigger for those with gambling addictions *in recovery* to fall off the wagon.

You can say that again ! I don't normally play either until the jackpot hits the ozone layer.

I'm off to find a lawyer, an accountant, a financial planner, a plastic surgeon, and a stylist!

I'll plan the Las Vegas exmo meet up once I've settle in Nice. I've heard it's nice.

Nice, indeed.

Je ne mange pas les oeufs et les les anchois.

For fun I would buy up some prominent property in Provo close to BYU that has a high traffic pattern (both pedestrian and vehicles) and put up an electronic or regular billboard which tells the truth about Mormon history. It would really be fun to watch the Church and City leaders try to shut it down through zoning changes. (I'm actually quite surprised that this idea hasn't taken root by someone even without winning the lottery.)