What would you do if you won 3 million dollars in the lottery

For the sanity of everyone on LR, I'd buy Jamin a trip to Ukraine and cover whatever the fee is to purchase/import a bride.

I would hire Flagpole to give me advice on what to do.

You're welcome wrote:

For the sanity of everyone on LR, I'd buy Jamin a trip to Ukraine and cover whatever the fee is to purchase/import a bride.

Make it one way ticket.

Call my friend Brewster.

I'd tip the hotel maids

I'd poop in all the compression socks.

suttersutterand wrote:

other than buying as many pairs of the 4%

1) Take the lump sum payout of a bit less than 2 million

2) Quit my job

3) Increase my spending

4) Realize I forgot to pay half to the government(s)

5) Pay half to the government(s)

6) Realize that I spent a few hundred thousand and paid nearly 1 million in taxes

7) Further realize that I now have half a million dollar to last me the rest of my life

8) Have a hell of a time and spend another 250 thousand dollars

9) Seeing my account down to 250K, try to adjust my spending habits, and realize I just don't have it in me

10) Look for a job right as I am declaring bankruptcy

as others have pointed out, after taxes you have like 1.5M. i'd add that to the other 2M in my brokerage acct and get up in the AM, run, and go to the office.

nothing wrote:

OfficeLawrence wrote:

Two chicks at the same time. I think if I had that kind of money, I could hook that up.

Good call.

The type of chicks that would double up on a dude like me do tho

sit and kick wrote:

nothing wrote:

Good call.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lmW2tZP2kU

The type of chicks that would double up on a dude like me do tho

Great reference! great movie.....

Ron Jeremy wrote:

OfficeLawrence wrote:

Two chicks at the same time. I think if I had that kind of money, I could hook that up.

You can do that without 3M, believe me.

good call

I would quit my job and vacation at a different location around the globe for 10 days each month for 2 years straight.

You're welcome wrote:

For the sanity of everyone on LR, I'd buy Jamin a trip to Ukraine and cover whatever the fee is to purchase/import a bride.

This is the post of the day. eot

Buy a super car, a house , online businesses, and save the rest

Well, at least that’s not a denial wrote:

theJeff wrote:

What does winning 3mil have to do with that?

Thanks for the non-denial. It’s good to see you slowly accepting yourself as a gay man.

Meh. People see what they want to see and hear what they want to hear.

Ann Landers says a dollar a night is enough for a hotel maid...at least it was in 1992.

Pay Galen Rupp to run a BQ time with my bib and then spend the remaining $110 on a BM jacket at the expo.

suttersutterand wrote:

other than buying as many pairs of the 4%

Lets just say it's 3 million after taxes and on a lump sum payment (meaning your actual winnings was something like 8-10 million).

You could spend spend 90-120k per year and probably make it last the rest of your life (but there's always a possibility it won't as well). That seems like a lot to most people, but if you are really young (like many here), then it's not. 90-120k is middle class in most urban areas on the east and west coast. It's upper middle class to upper class in middle and rural America.

Still you'll be spending 2-3 times (or more) that amount by the time you are in your 60's or 70's. (assuming you are in your 20's or early 30's today). You need to get the money to grow at faster than the rate of inflation. Then you can live a middle class, non-working life the rest of your life.

Thoughts of Telsa's or exotic trips all over the world will be no different than any other middle class person. Sure you can do a few things now and then, but you'll have to sacrifice something.

In short, 3 million ain't what it used to be.

Buy a bunch of land and make a big awesome camp for adults