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Your Greatest Ambition

Your Greatest Ambition

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Redress said:
Yeah, I have heard the horror stories. My dad actually knew a lotto winner who was afraid to claim the prize because of the stories. Dad sent him to a professional money manager who set it up so that he could only access so much easily to help prevent something like that.
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If I were win 7 figures in the lottery, my first stop, even before going to get the money, would be a lawyer.

Kandahar said:
I think that the so-called "lottery curse" stems more from the people themselves than from actually winning the money. The types of people who are inclined to play the lottery on a regular basis are probably not the savviest money managers. If they were, they probably wouldn't be playing the lottery in the first place.
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Look, quick, we all three agreed on something at the same time!!!!

If regular lotto players were the savviest money managers, they wouldn't blow untold thousands on the lottery, to begin with.
 
Kandahar said:
I think that the so-called "lottery curse" stems more from the people themselves than from actually winning the money. The types of people who are inclined to play the lottery on a regular basis are probably not the savviest money managers. If they were, they probably wouldn't be playing the lottery in the first place.
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A lottery is nothing but a tax on people that can't do math. Statistics, specifically.
 
apdst said:
And be careful not to piss the money away too fast.

I guy I work with won $1.2 million--that's what he got after taxes. That was January of '08. Yeah, it's gone. All he has to show for it is a real nice house that he can't afford the property taxes on.
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Incredible. If you gave me half that amount I'd never have to work another day as long as a I lived. I'd just invest it.
 
Ethereal said:
Incredible. If you gave me half that amount I'd never have to work another day as long as a I lived. I'd just invest it.
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If I won that kinda jack, I would keep working, just like nothing ever happened. That's why I would stop off to see a lawyer, first. I would find out how to keep my identity as concealed as possible. The last thing I would want is for people to find out I had that kind of money in the bank. I would wind up with waaaaaaaay too many new friends.
 
apdst said:
And be careful not to piss the money away too fast.

I guy I work with won $1.2 million--that's what he got after taxes. That was January of '08. Yeah, it's gone. All he has to show for it is a real nice house that he can't afford the property taxes on.
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That sounds like something i'd do, well good thing i do not play the lottery.
 
jallman said:
A lottery is nothing but a tax on people that can't do math. Statistics, specifically.
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One time a guy in front of me in line at the 7-11 was spending $300 on Lotto tickets in front of me and I said, "How bout you just give me half of that, I'll kick you in the nuts, and then we call it a day?"

He didn't get it.
 
Tucker Case said:
One time a guy in front of me in line at the 7-11 was spending $300 on Lotto tickets in front of me and I said, "How bout you just give me half of that, I'll kick you in the nuts, and then we call it a day?"

He didn't get it.
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I love that line!!!
 
Tucker Case said:
One time a guy in front of me in line at the 7-11 was spending $300 on Lotto tickets in front of me and I said, "How bout you just give me half of that, I'll kick you in the nuts, and then we call it a day?"

He didn't get it.
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There was an asian lady buying lottery tickets in front of me one day and I said, "Well you're the only one that didn't throw off the curve in a math class, aren't you?"

She didn't get it either.
 
Of the options listed, I picked raise a family, but that's really too specific a goal. As others have said, to achieve happiness or contentment is more accurate and raising a family is certainly a part of that goal but it may not be the entire thing.
 
Wow my plan involved nothing more than being happy every day, thats it. So far I am on the money!
 
To see as much as I can see, to travel as much as I can, to do as much as I can do, to experience as much as I can experience.

Which is the reason that I cannot say "no" to opportunities when they present themselves. Even if I'm unsure about said opportunities, if it's an opportunity to do or see or experience something different and new, then I am compelled to accept said opportunity.

My goal is to be able to say, "I have no regrets," on my deathbed. Thus far, I can still say that. And I am slowly scratching things off my "bucket list".
 
I keep seeing these things on the internet about "how many five year olds could you take in a fight?". I'd really like to know that....
 
WI Crippler said:
I keep seeing these things on the internet about "how many five year olds could you take in a fight?". I'd really like to know that....
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I'm secretly really curious about whether my older brother or I would win in a fight. I almost hope someday we get really pissed at each other and start throwing punches just so I could find out.
 
1. Raise my daughters to be the most well-balanced, talented, intelligent and emotionally together peopel that I can.

2. Help less-advantaged people, which I do... I write letters for/with Amnesty International

3. Protect the Environment, which I do... Volunteer with local Greenpeace group, organize beach clean days, etc.

4. Help the community, which I do as a volunteer fire fighter and helping disadvanted teens and troubled gang kids.

5. Be physically fit and extremely active, surfing, bodysurfing, basketball, mountain biking, etc.

6. To travel and get in adventures, like Cain from Kung Fu... you know, basically walk the earth.

7. To experience life, from an taking in amazing sunsets and watching a butterfly flutter amonst some flowers to climbing mountain peaks in Yosemite or meeting people from all over the world and learning about them and their cultures.

I want to be well balanced and helpful to others, in general. :2razz:
 
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apdst said:
I did the house hubby thing for a while. It ain't all it's cracked up to be.
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You're harshing my buzz broseph. Next, you're going to tell me that it doesn't involve being drunk by noon every day sitting in your grotto with the real housewives of antigua and barbuda.
 
I have never really cared about being rich. Nothing I like I like doing costs that much money. Basically, my interests consist of fishing, backpacking, running, gardening, spending time with my wife and kids, and cheap beer. All being rich would get me would be just doing those things in other places around the world when I wanted to.
 
I picked "Raising A Family" because for me it entails many other things that I place very high on my ambition list. I believe successfully raising a family shows that I have had the appropriate amount of success to do so. This success includes financial prosperity, a healthy lifestyle, and other things.

At first I wanted to pick "Get Rich" but I asked myself "why do I want to get rich?" My first answer was that I would want to share my success with family or use my success to help raise my family. Therefore raising a family is an ambition that succeeds getting rich in both time and in value.
 
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