I used to play when it got really high. But I've stopped going in to convenience stores because they ick me out. Pay at the pump liberated me from the lottery. I've no qualms about the few dollars. It's literally that I don't want to go inside.

I won $7!

I know it's a voluntary tax, but it's only a few bucks so why not? I never have been to a casino in my life, nor the race track, etc., so a little fun money spent on the lotteries doesn't do any harm.

I bought a few lottery tickets years ago. I didn't win so I didn't buy any more.

I only play when the expected value of the prize is close to the price of the ticket. That is a little hard to calculate, as the more people play, the chances of multiple winners increase. Anyway, for me, that is when the jackpot gets over about $400M. Or whenever my wife makes me.

I don't play the lottery.

In my youth, there was a military draft lottery. Didn't even buy a ticket, but I won anyway!

It has kind of put me off the whole lottery thing.....

I matched one number! Guess I'll go to work now

i do it for the children..

I was only four numbers off !

It would be wonderful to leave this world as something other than bill's brother or Tedd's buddy
or "that guy on the gun forum"

I am just about out of the world I came in to and
to something grand for the community or eastern Iowa or the forum would be wonderful.

I'd be in a fat farm in Arizona so fast , your head would swim .

To make a big, better difference in 1000 peoples lives

Mavis Wanczyk, 53 years old, two grown children.

Mavis, you ma'am, are one RICH lady!

Any single men on the board in MA? No mention of a boyfriend or husband during her press conference.

BRAINTREE — A woman who spent 32 years caring for patients at a Western Massachusetts medical center retired in style Thursday when she claimed a $758.7 million Powerball jackpot, capping a whirlwind day that began with state lottery officials flubbing the announcement of the recordbreaking win.

Mavis Wanczyk, 53, said she had called her employers and “told them I will not be coming back,” after winning the largest-ever jackpot from single ticket in North America.

Wanczyk, a Chicopee resident and mother of two adult children, said she was leaving work at Mercy Medical Center late Wednesday night when she learned, to her shock, she had won.

“I couldn’t drive anywhere. I couldn’t do anything,” a smiling Wanczyk told reporters at a news conference at the Massachusetts State Lottery headquarters in Braintree. She said she regularly played the lottery but never expected to win such a massive haul.

Prior to Wednesday night, Wanczyk said, she thought, “It’s never going to be. It’s just a pipe dream I’ve always had.” She was feeling a range of emotions on Thursday, including a little apprehension, but said she would be OK and that she had a low-key celebration planned.

OK, so you just won $759 million. Now what?

“I’m going to go hide in my bed,” she said, drawing laughter from reporters.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/me...bZ3AIOS6I/story.html

I think I would have said each of the two adult children had a 25% interest in whatever the cost of the ticket was.

Why did that woman not set up a trust and have a trust representative pick up the check? Now everyone in America knows who she is. I'm betting that she'll look back and regret that choice.

quote:

Originally posted by sigspecops:
Why did that woman not set up a trust and have a trust representative pick up the check? Now everyone in America knows who she is. I'm betting that she'll look back and regret that choice.

I was just about to start an office pool based on her obvious lack of forethought and judgment. We're betting on the week she files for bankruptcy.

$1/week. The calendar is open for the next 3 years.

-Rob

Several states require that the winners be identified.

quote:

her obvious lack of forethought and judgment. We're betting on the week she files for bankruptcy.

Even if she's not stupid... even if she's not a spendthrift, she could and should have invested in some good planning. She can afford it, and it would have benefited her and her children for sure. But most people don't realize that suddenly having a lot of money creates a new set of problems they had never considered.

quote:

Originally posted by Leemur:
Several states require that the winners be identified.

Of course they do, but she had what... 6 months to claim the prize? And she outs herself within 24 hours?

Lots of dumb.

-Rob

quote:

Originally posted by chellim1:

quote:

her obvious lack of forethought and judgment. We're betting on the week she files for bankruptcy.

Even if she's not stupid... even if she's not a spendthrift, she could and should have invested in some good planning. She can afford it, and it would have benefited her and her children for sure. But most people don't realize that suddenly having a lot of money creates a new set of problems they had never considered.

That's a problem I would like to have.

Yeah, she has no idea what she's in for.

If I had won it, I don't know if I could do the trust thing here, but the ticket would be residing in a safe deposit box is a very sturdy vault. Then there would be lawyers, accountants, changed phone numbers, undisclosed addresses, etc. When everything was in place, it would see the light of day again.

quote:

Originally posted by BurtonRW:

quote:

Originally posted by Leemur:
Several states require that the winners be identified.

Of course they do, but she had what... 6 months to claim the prize? And she outs herself within 24 hours?

Lots of dumb.

-Rob

Cause my old boss's shop was cleared out when the pool hit the powerball.

He didn't participate and watched them walk.

Everyone resigned.

My point, I won't ever be in a position where I am left behind... I play in the pool at work.