Money and Finance
I don't think there's anyone, in the U.S. at least, that hasn't heard about the$1.3 $1.4 $1.5 B Powerball lottery that will be drawn tonight. That's right a B not an M. A 1 and a 5 and then 8 0's. I don't normally purchase lottery tickets because it's a tax on people that can't do math, but $1.5 B has me intrigued so I went ahead and threw $10 at it. Just in case.
I know that the odds of my wife and I winning the Powerball are slim to none*. Well, probably closer to none to none, but that $10 won't break us and who doesn't like to dream a bit. Of course the $1.5 B is actually closer to $930 M if you take the cash instead of the annuity and you'll actually only take away about $560 M after the government gets it's cut.** But I think we would be just fine with a $560 M lump sum.
That kind of money is life changing and would quickly throw us into the upper echelon. Although I have a feeling that we'd never rub elbows with them. While my wife and I don't lack much of anything and overall I'd say our lives are around an 8 out of 10 on an arbitrary happiness/contentment scale. Overall we're quite happy but seeing as how I'm at work as I write this and my wife will be getting up in a few hours to head to work as well, we don't own our time.
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Money and Finance
Jackpot!
I don't think there's anyone, in the U.S. at least, that hasn't heard about the
I know that the odds of my wife and I winning the Powerball are slim to none*. Well, probably closer to none to none, but that $10 won't break us and who doesn't like to dream a bit. Of course the $1.5 B is actually closer to $930 M if you take the cash instead of the annuity and you'll actually only take away about $560 M after the government gets it's cut.** But I think we would be just fine with a $560 M lump sum.
That kind of money is life changing and would quickly throw us into the upper echelon. Although I have a feeling that we'd never rub elbows with them. While my wife and I don't lack much of anything and overall I'd say our lives are around an 8 out of 10 on an arbitrary happiness/contentment scale. Overall we're quite happy but seeing as how I'm at work as I write this and my wife will be getting up in a few hours to head to work as well, we don't own our time.
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Change is about the only thing that we're guaranteed in life. As many of you know the last year and a half has been a time of big change for my wife and I. We went from the excitement of her being pregnant, to finding out that our son had a very...
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