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View Poll Results: If I won a major Lottery with big bucks I'll ....
hoard it all to myself 2 8.00%
share it and even donate it to worthy causes 12 48.00%
pay the bills and everyone I owe 8 32.00%
take a vacation I've always wanted 9 36.00%
get a new Doctor! 1 4.00%
buy myself a new home and then some 7 28.00%
move out my area / location 8 32.00%
I wouldn't tell anyone 6 24.00%
I would tell everyone 2 8.00%
Who me? Win lotto? You've gotta be kidding! 9 36.00%
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I have just about every type of seizure that someone would have looked at me before I was diagnosed and said "Even if you have epilepsy, you won't have to worry about those seizures."

So I was thinking, "Hey with those odds, I must be very lucky." I bought $10 worth of lottery tickets, and only won $5.

First I couldn't figure out why the odds were working against me all of the sudden but then I realized - People consider it a good thing to win the money, and bad thing to get all the ubersensitive rare seizures.

So for the next month, concentrate on how money is a really bad thing to have and how horrible it is to win the lottery.

Then I'll go out and buy a ticket with a million dollar prize. I'll be guaranteed to win just so long as everyone thinks the lottery as a bad thing. Get started on those bad thoughts right away
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Only if you share the winnings with people who respond to this thread

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I may invest in drug companies. They make the high profit! Seriously, you reminded me to get that lottery ticket.
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Hey we've been great friends - *ahem*,
and about the money you had borrowed
from me ... if I can remember ...



KIDDING!

I rarely ever play those things, and when I
do, I only profit maybe 2 bucks to 3.50.



Well, having spent $1 for one ticket, not bad,
but not enough to buy a gallon of milk!



I wonder what it would be like if you won
12 Million Dollars? What would you do with it?
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Oh what the heck, I'll make a poll just for fun!
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Talking If you won a major Lottery ... (POLL)


Here's the poll ....

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I could afford medication for the rest of my life. And, eat, too.
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No more job - that would be my first goal.
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I would hire a chauffer to drive me anywhere I wanted to go at any time.

I would be dropped off at the door, or accompanied into the store by the chauffer, depending on my wishes at the time.

And I would hire in-home help so that I could adopt a child labled "unadoptable." (i.e. a little girl with a disability).
I have the love and time, but I don't have the resources right now.

Ahhh, to dream.... it's what makes life tolerable some days.

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I keep telling my hubby that we'll win the lotto and we'll take home 9.6mill. Don't know why that is the amount but it is.

I'll tell ya the first thing I'd do though----my younger sister had a frontal lobe menigioma removed this summer. She has no insurance. I'd pay off the hospital bills for sure for her. The poor kid.
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HA! IN YOUR COLLECTIVE FACE ! I WON THE LOTTERY TODAY !!!! Oh wait , there's an asterisk here ....... it says "total amount of 30 rupees (1$) .......will be paid in 300 installments ...... CONDITIONS APPLY !!!! #$&^#%$&^% DAMN IT !
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Question :e: What would i do :e:


HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!

I would pre-pay a life-time of my phone/tv/pc

I would go one time to Red Lobster instead of McDonald's dollar menu

I would get my new scooter chair

I would go visit my family that some I haven't seen since 1961!!!

I would go be with my daughter and her family as her father-in-law is dying.

I would get my cat's total shots and not just her rabies shot

I would buy a case of toilet-paper

I would visit my Mom and Dad - last seen 11 yrs ago

I would clear my credit and lock it down from identity theft

I would get a carton of cigarettes

I would pay for my Laparoscopic Gastric-Bypass surgery

I would buy a lifetime of a Store Card, so I get the special foods I'll need

I would get my kids out of debt

I would get my Mom and Dad out of debt

I would give my Mom and Dad 10 yrs worth of a money Card

I would give to many charities

I would get more clothes

I would get Carey more clothes

I would get lots of iced tea and a big refrig w/ ice-maker

I would give to a lot of causes

I would buy Carey's grandfather a car

I would buy a car w/ lifetime insurance

I would relax and be glad that my needs would be met

I would buy a new cross/heart/dove necklace

I would buy all the residents plenty of decent clothes

I would buy all the residents good food

I would buy a box of hot buttery biscuits

I would make toll-house cookies and hot cocoa

I would solve the USA deficiet and make sure the elderly were provided for
and the disabled and poor all a comfortable living

I would pay off all bankruptsies and house foreclosures

I would give God great thanks!!

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I would invest in cars that would drive themselves with environmentally friendly engines, or start a major push in public transportation to provide a real friendly method of transportation.
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I dunno if I cheated, but I ticked two boxes :

I'd share it with family and friends, and charities of choice....

...plus, I'd move ! (what out Brain - Florida seems a good choice to me)
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