LOTTERY WINNER: WHAT IF IT WAS YOU, OR ME?

I don’t know about you, but if I were to come into $650,000,000.00 I’d have to be as a lottery winner.

But that’s just me, a regular guy.

I’m a regular guy doing regular things, you know, normal stuff.

A self-proclaimed Alpha Male Apex Man? That’s someone else.

Now you know I’m not the guy who started a business in his garage, or his bedroom, that made him the #2 Richest Man In The World.

That would be Jeff Bezos and Amazon, not me. But if it was you or me, what would we do?

 

I dated a woman in college who kept a list of things she’d do and places she’d do them in, a list of what she’d buy if the Big Ship came in.

Back in the seventies a big ship rounded up to $10 million, which seems small in out billionaire times.

Ten million dollars then is more now:

$10,000,000 in 1976 = $53,476,936.93 in 2023

Fifty-three million seems like someone is doing pretty well for themselves?

My college girl had a car picked out, a red Mercedes 350 convertible.

She was also a thrift store wizard in a beaver coat; she knew quality.

And she had a plan.

 

For the sake of math, you get ten million dollars free and clear.

What’s next?

 

Ten Million? Hmmm

If I had ten million I’d feel like the #1 Richest Man In The World.

Why not take advice from the big boys?

 

The internet cannot get enough of this particular framing, as a viral tweet of one of the Vogue photoshoots where Sánchez and Bezos wear simple jeans and a cowboy hat puts it:“America is amazing. A man who was once the richest person alive still feels the urge to cosplay as a working class stiff.”

 

First, pay attention to the image you portray.

Don’t rush out and buy a skin-tight flight suit with a cape, along with a backpack jet, and fly over town skywriting your name.

Too tacky?

Instead, turn in your husband badge when you dump your wife and take up with your new squeeze.

Not too tacky?

 

Younger generations are more likely to report feelings of resentment towards the wealthy, according to Cato 2019 Welfare, Work, and Wealth National Survey.

It makes sense given that these generations have faced a more uphill battle to wealth building, fearing for their financial future as they grow up to find the ending of the American Dream that boomers once spoke of.

While it likely never existed, life is certainly harder for millennials and Gen Zers who can often only afford a house when older generations chip in, and even then are finding themselves outbid.

 

Hopes For Lottery Winner

“You can’t win if you don’t play.”

If that’s new to you, then you probably don’t play.

 

1. Gloria Mackenzie was 84 years old when she won the drawing, becoming the oldest Powerball winner in history. It was also the biggest jackpot in Powerball history at the time and Mackenzie opted for the $278 million payment after taxes.Oct 12, 2023

 

I like seeing older people win, but still worry about how they might take it.

How would you take it? I’d need to be careful since I’m such an emotional guy.

My feelings might get the best of me.

With that in mine, I’d stay married.

Jeff Bezos might be a good guy with lots on his mind and needed a change of view in his everyday life, but dumping his wife was not a good look.

Do we need another rich guy rolling around with ‘that look?’

“That Look’ explained in a joke:

 

An everyday guy took a cruise ship vacation for the first time.

The ship sunk and he floated for days before washing up on a deserted island.

A few days later an exhausted Penelope Cruz washed up.

The guy helped her, shared food and shelter, and she said, “Thank you for helping me until we’re rescued, but that’s as far as this goes.”

But time passed with no rescue and they started having feelings for each other when it seemed like they might be stranded forever.

One night they made love like there was no tomorrow.

The next day the man wore a palm frond skirt he made instead or his regular shirt and pants.

“Penelope, would you put on my clothes and answer in a deep voice when I ask a question?”

She put on his clothes and they stood at the surf line together.

“Isn’t this a pretty view?” he said.

“Yes, it is,” she said in a deep voice.

“It’s my favorite place in the world,” he said.

“Mine too,” Penelope said in her deeper voice.

He paused a moment with ‘That Look’ on his face and said, “Guess who’s banging Penelope Cruz?”

 

Lottery Winner Review

 

1. Don’t make any sudden changes, like disappearing into the Oregon backwoods, or Beaverton.

2. Keep your wife. It’s for better or worse and things just took an upswing.

3. Find an accountant and money manager to get things settled in.

4. Plan a party.

5. Plan Thanksgiving, Christmas, Birthdays, and everything else that needs planning.

6. Practice your planning skills.