Winning Dreams
Hi ho, MMMLogerinos!
If you're in states that participate in the MegaMillions lottery, no doubt you had winning dreams of huge money. It was the biggest jackpot in history, apparently. Two people will split the over 370 million dollars before taxes. Those I talked to about the lottery said they'd be happy to share such a nice large sum, except several wondered what the heck they'd actually do with all that money. As if it was TOO much. Is that even possible?
What would you do with a vast windfall?
Some wouldn't claim it right away. They'd line up their money management team first--the accountants, the financial planners, the legal team and plan how to protect and manage the money wisely. Others said they would wait for the hubbub to die down a bit so not so much attention was focused upon them, which would bring the press and crush of thousands with their hands out to their door. Then they'd move out of the country, try to be anonymous--with over a hundred million dollars??? Not many can exercise such restraint, me thinks. At some point the rock star that lurks in many people would want to get that gold plated bidet and build an imported European castle around it in a wildlife preserve their team would endeavor to legally steal from the little people of whatever state or country.
Sounds like a movie or TV drama, huh? Once or twice a year just before a big jackpot, the media folks trot out all those poor lottery winners who've won big and lost it all even bigger. An accountant told of a client who'd won a couple of million in a state lottery. And the true story was a page out of the ultimate loser's book. The guy was a blue collar worker who decided to take the annuity of an annual hundred thousand over twenty years. His wife couldn't handle the pressure. Her health deteriorated and she died. His next wife had a gambling problem that the accountant said the winner "nipped in the bud." Guess that meant they divorced, but there wasn't a prenup. The winner eventually retired on a small pension augmented by the lottery annuity which he and his people lived up and would soon run out. Then his people probably would run out on him, too. Or so those stories go . . .
In any case, I'd like to give the winning thing a go and I'd certainly do it Mmmmm's way, which some might think was just another nutty winning loser story. Because we all believe that we'd do it differently, do it better, safer, smarter than that loser. Until we get a stroll in those gold plated winning moccasins . . .
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmelinda
If you're in states that participate in the MegaMillions lottery, no doubt you had winning dreams of huge money. It was the biggest jackpot in history, apparently. Two people will split the over 370 million dollars before taxes. Those I talked to about the lottery said they'd be happy to share such a nice large sum, except several wondered what the heck they'd actually do with all that money. As if it was TOO much. Is that even possible?
What would you do with a vast windfall?
Some wouldn't claim it right away. They'd line up their money management team first--the accountants, the financial planners, the legal team and plan how to protect and manage the money wisely. Others said they would wait for the hubbub to die down a bit so not so much attention was focused upon them, which would bring the press and crush of thousands with their hands out to their door. Then they'd move out of the country, try to be anonymous--with over a hundred million dollars??? Not many can exercise such restraint, me thinks. At some point the rock star that lurks in many people would want to get that gold plated bidet and build an imported European castle around it in a wildlife preserve their team would endeavor to legally steal from the little people of whatever state or country.
Sounds like a movie or TV drama, huh? Once or twice a year just before a big jackpot, the media folks trot out all those poor lottery winners who've won big and lost it all even bigger. An accountant told of a client who'd won a couple of million in a state lottery. And the true story was a page out of the ultimate loser's book. The guy was a blue collar worker who decided to take the annuity of an annual hundred thousand over twenty years. His wife couldn't handle the pressure. Her health deteriorated and she died. His next wife had a gambling problem that the accountant said the winner "nipped in the bud." Guess that meant they divorced, but there wasn't a prenup. The winner eventually retired on a small pension augmented by the lottery annuity which he and his people lived up and would soon run out. Then his people probably would run out on him, too. Or so those stories go . . .
In any case, I'd like to give the winning thing a go and I'd certainly do it Mmmmm's way, which some might think was just another nutty winning loser story. Because we all believe that we'd do it differently, do it better, safer, smarter than that loser. Until we get a stroll in those gold plated winning moccasins . . .
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmelinda
posted by MMMelinda at 8:29 AM
