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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJust a quick note to all my DU friends that bought a POWERBALL ticket
I have always loved you and wanted nothing but the very best for you at all times!
Cheers!
Your devoted friend,
Vinnie From Indy
panader0
(25,816 posts)Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)winter is coming
(11,785 posts)Sad, really; instead of thinking thoughts like, "ooh, I'll have a private yacht and vacation in <insert exotic locale here>", I'm thinking, "We wouldn't have to worry about whether the A/C will last another summer".
susanr516
(1,425 posts)I'm getting MYSELF new teeth.
So I can smile like this:
monmouth3
(3,871 posts)Ruby the Liberal
(26,219 posts)I admit, I went and paid my $10 statistically-challenged-but-always-hopeful tax today. I play once every few years.
Bibliovore
(185 posts)An old friend of mine pointed out that diversification of investments is generally recommended: for most people, it's good to have some money in low-risk, low-yield investments and some in higher-risk, higher-yield ones. She decided that the playing the lottery was making an extremely-high-risk, extremely-high-yield investment, and therefore occasionally justified. *grin*
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)...that I didn't buy a ticket.
ProdigalJunkMail
(12,017 posts)when I win... and I WILL... I am going to open a small pub... make food and pour drinks...
sP
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)it's the least painful tax I pay.
defacto7
(13,485 posts)David H. Koch
and
Charles G. Koch
Congratulations! How does it feel to be a millionaire?
Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)go get my groceries and bring them here (I would put them up), cook, clean, wash the dishes (I have no dishwasher) and take the trash off. That person would be paid nicely too, because I hate doing those things with a burning seething passion. I'll do the laundry and occasional cooking (my chili, steak, and vegetable beef soup recipes are hard to duplicate, the rest is repetitive and annoys me).
For the lower amounts, I'd keep doing it myself and hate every minute of it, but 600 million, I cannot even imagine being over-half-a-billionaire.
Just how *much* do you love me? *wink wink*
mokawanis
(4,453 posts)When I win I'm going to give you $100,000. You're welcome.
Curmudgeoness
(18,219 posts)I commend you for thinking of it first.
Historic NY
(37,454 posts)mostly mine.
Iggo
(47,574 posts)egold2604
(369 posts)Powerball, you can't lose if you don't play
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)Perp!!!!
(Just kidding)
Now on to odds...I got a better chance of getting hit by lightning and mauled by a couple bears in the same day.
Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)The last time I did this I won $150 on the lottery!
I guess I'd better arrange my bank account in the Cayman Islands.