5 Reasons You Don’t Really Want to Win all that Lottery Money

Posted on March 30, 2012 by Dave!

For the last couple days, I had been planning retirement and trying to figure out just how I was going to spend my share of the winnings from the MegaMillions lottery (I do it with my company pool and my share would be a paltry 11 mil).  Then I see this article on why I don’t want to win it.  So naturally I read it. Here are the 5 reasons why they say I don’t want to win it (go to the article for more details about each):

1) Your friends will take advantage
2) Your relationship could fail
3) You’ll have an increased risk of bankruptcy
4) You’ll have to fight off a host of long-lost family members
5) You’ll be a target for a litany of lawsuits and scams

My thoughts on this are:

1) People I know will take advantage – my friends won’t. If ‘friends’ do, then really, how good a friend are they?
2) According to the example they gave (emotionally unprepared for the enormous responsibility and pressure of winning the lottery, took to gambling and womanizing to deal with the troubles adjusting to his new lifestyle), I have a hard time thinking that either my wife or I would not be able to handle it. It could happen I guess but given the chronic savers we are and the money sense we have, I’m willing to risk this one.
3) The theory is that winners have more credit available to them, use it, and overextend themselves. We are not credit people. Other than mortgage, we have lived debt free, paying off credit cards each month, not spending money we don’t have. I don’t think this is really in our DNA.
4) And? If they were long lost, it’s not like I am going to miss them when they come, are denied and leave.
5) Target of scams? Having been fortunate enough to have my Barrister and Libyian email friends already contact me to send over the fortunes that they have gotten for safe keeping, I feel safe in saying that while I am sure people will try and try more often, I think I am ok with the scam part. The lawsuit part I could see as problematic. Will need to up my liability insurance and probably install security cameras around my house. I should be able to afford those measures however.

To sum it up, I am still ready to win my 11 million this evening and begin retirement.  One may have problems when you are rich but they are a better set of problems than if one is poor.  I will be sure to let you all know if, er, when I win.  The first (and only) round is on me.  Cheers!

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Amazing video

Posted on March 21, 2012 by ashot

Total drive by post. I am swamped at work, but this video was too cool not to share.  For whatever reason it would not let me put the video in the post, but if someone else can, please do so.

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Apropos of Just About Nothing. . .

Posted on October 4, 2011 by Michigoose

But I can’t tell you how much I love this story. This is close to the area of Michigan that I grew up in and it takes me back to my high school days; we were a small, small, tiny school and I ran cross country and played basketball on the boys’ teams (more successful in cross country than round ball) and it wasn’t that big a deal once the guys got used to it. Homecoming queen was out of my league, though!!

On Friday, with Pinckney leading powerful Michigan rival Grand Blanc, 6-0, at the half, Amat, the first girl to play football for the school’s varsity, was asked to return to the field. When she arrived, she was told that her fellow students had voted her queen. When the tiara was placed on her head, she was wearing not a dress, like the other girls in the homecoming court, but her No. 12 uniform, pads and all.

A short while later, with five minutes to play in the third quarter, Amat was called to the same field to attempt a 31-yard field goal. She split the uprights.

The kick proved decisive as Pinckney held on for a 9-7 victory against a Grand Blanc team that had come into the game ranked seventh in the state in its division. It also earned Amat the nickname the Kicking Queen.
Emphasis added. This girl is my hero for the week!!

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