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    From rags to riches and back again

    http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/lot...207141173.html


    Now, if I had won $2.3M in lottery I'd not go back to flipping burgers for McDonald's that's for sure. I'd give up work, sure, but then become a charitable philanthropist ... at least that's what I think I'd do with zillions of money.

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    Id pay off my loans...invest some, and give the rest to animal charities

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    I would give 10% to my church and buy myself a new home big enough
    for me to have my own pipe organ so that I won't have to go hunting
    down one get my driver's licence back and buy a nice car to go places
    in so I can travel instead of walking from block to block looking for a
    good place to visit.
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    I would bank it in a high interest account and be able to live exceedingly comfortable just from the interest earned. Being semi-retired already, I certainly would not go back to work full time again, that's for sure.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Contratrombone64 View Post
    http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/lot...207141173.html


    Now, if I had won $2.3M in lottery I'd not go back to flipping burgers for McDonald's that's for sure. I'd give up work, sure, but then become a charitable philanthropist ... at least that's what I think I'd do with zillions of money.
    CT64

    You known how it is, it´s most often the wrong people, who actually win the lottery. I mean this jerk returning to McDonald´s, serving unheathy food should have been stripped naked and had his butt wipped. Come to think of it, he might even invest the lot in his own McDonald´s restaurent....Geez!!
    Best regards,
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    There was also a story of a cleaner who won the lottery, she said she would continue cleaning.

    Me, I would hire my own cleaner. But seriously if I won the lottery I would not work, I am only looking for work because I have not won the lottery.

    Why work when you don't need too? and also someone else could have your job.

    I think perhaps a nice cottage in the country, no more worry about paying the bills, and giving to charity. Hopefully enough left to invest, for my old age (that thing that creeps up on me)


    Margaret

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    Quote Originally Posted by marval View Post
    There was also a story of a cleaner who won the lottery, she said she would continue cleaning.

    Me, I would hire my own cleaner. But seriously if I won the lottery I would not work, I am only looking for work because I have not won the lottery.

    Why work when you don't need too? and also someone else could have your job.

    I think perhaps a nice cottage in the country, no more worry about paying the bills, and giving to charity. Hopefully enough left to invest, for my old age (that thing that creeps up on me)


    Margaret
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    That´s the spirit, thinking of the ones without a job - the samaritan way!! .

    I totally agree with you on a nice hacienda in the country and a small 747 in the backyard, whenever I have to consult my buisness interests and investments in one of the stock exchanges in any of the metropoles of the world. That would do it for the first year.
    Best regards,
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    Judy - I wouldn't buy a pipe organ ... they're a pain in the keuster (as you so quaintly put it) to maintain. Also take up a heck of a lot of room, rather, I'd buy a top of the line sampled digital organ ... because I'd want an hundred or more stops and that sized pipe organ is too big for a suburban home!!

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    I wasnt wanting the pipe organ located at Macy's in New York. I just
    wanted one like my church. It's not really that big with 24 ranks.
    The concole isn't any bigger than a hammond with only about 30 stops.
    Look at my avatar. You can see that this would be the right size for
    a small mansion.
    judy tooley

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    Well, guess what, yesterday I bought a lottery ticket and won.

    Will it be a nice house in the country? A fancy car? Or a luxury holiday?

    Well I don't think so. After all I won the princely sum of... wait for it, ten pounds.

    Still can't complain, it at least paid for the ticket.


    Margaret

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    Ten pounds - you GO girl!!

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    Oh yeah, when are we getting together and partying like crazy for the entire ten pounds????

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    Quote Originally Posted by methodistgirl View Post
    I wasnt wanting the pipe organ located at Macy's in New York . . .
    Uhh, Macy's pipe organ is in Philadelphia (PA) ...


    I agree with CT64 ... pipes ARE expensive to maintain ... our 9 rank at church requires at least two tunings per year at $485 each visit. I have a line item budget amount of $1,500 for instrument care and use most of it up each year.
    A nice digital spec would suffice for me in a residence situation.
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    Quote Originally Posted by marval View Post
    Well, guess what, yesterday I bought a lottery ticket and won.

    Will it be a nice house in the country? A fancy car? Or a luxury holiday?

    Well I don't think so. After all I won the princely sum of... wait for it, ten pounds.

    Still can't complain, it at least paid for the ticket.


    Margaret
    AWESOME Ms. Margaret!!

    Congratulations and celebrations on your pure luck.

    Between you and me, I have never won anything at all on the lottery, money machines, playing the horses, soccer games, dogs or chickens or anything else.

    In fact at one time years ago back in the day around 1971, I played Banko with a beautiful lady friend of mine and her parents at the elderly home, where her father had been institutionalised because of demens. I only missed one number "8" to have the full plate, soaked in nervous sweat, ready for some carming valiums, ready for the Bellevue closed mental hospital, while the speaker yelled 6 more numbers, not mine, not the missing number "8".

    It never came up and finally someone else made it to the full plate.

    The prize for this game was half a pound of Danish butter and for this I almost had a nervous-break-down.

    The last time in my life, I would ever invest in gambling.
    Best regards,
    intet_at_tabe

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    Hi Intet

    Sorry to hear you missed out on the Danish butter. I am not usually the one to win things. I would certainly never gamble.

    When I was young my family would play a card game (forgotten the name), but we only used matchsticks not money.


    Margaret

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