you ain't traveling anywhere on $18.
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Real answer:
- Get out of debt
- Hold a few months worth of expenses in cash/easy access savings
- Maximize any yearly contribution to a tax free savings, investment, or pension account
- If there's still more left, open an investment account and buy into a world index fund like IWRD if you're in the UK
I'll add:
- Before anything else, go out to eat or something to celebrate
- After 3, buy something permanent for the house both you and the GF (if she exists) have been wanting (TV, sofa, etc); this will serve as a tangible reminder that you were responsible with the winnings
- Blow it all on drugs
4: Go in to debt for more drugs
- blow for drugs
- get blown for your drugs
yeah this is the answer but people with suddenly $18,000 from a lottery aren't going to do it
fake: anon gets a lottery call, probably it's a scam
gay: anon is a girl (ignoring this is 4chan)
Apparently 2 people won the 1.8 billion$ powerball last night. One Texas the other in Missouri.
To put it mildly my life is over. Now i cant buy a million acres of land and create my own compound. How will I pay for my dogs english lessons so that we can finally talk???
Jokes aside i hope whoever won blows it on coke and hookers
That's a lot of coke...
It is. Statistically most lottery winners have managed to burn through their winnings after something like 2-3 years. It may take slightly longer if the payout is a half billion or so (because you just can't possibly list any price or prize in the US after taxes, that would be preposterous for reasons).
It turns out there's a high correlation between people who are bad with money and people who buy lottery tickets.
It would be awesome if the lottery winnings came with complementary financial advisement by a fiduciary for the first year. That way there's at least a hope that money can improve their lives long term instead of just making for a crazy spending spree for a few years.
people who are bad with money
It's just repackaged gambling. It's designed to take money away from people who are already struggling. The organizers will never benefit from giving away finance advising and the average participant would never ask for advising.
The organizers are the government, so surely they have a vested interest in helping their residents succeed in life...
😂
Fake: there is no way anon can have a gambling addiction and a girlfriend at the same time.
I actually do know a guy like that. But it took him until like almost 30's to manage to get one and I'm pretty sure she has kind of a lot of addictions as well.
Time to go get dinner and let her pay for her own food.
Shouldn’t have told her…
What country that uses the dollar sign uses that formatting? In Canada and us I think it's $18,000. The way anon writes it is tripping me out.
Croatia. Anon also has that long croat hair, and being a croat and a channer, he worships a man named hitler, which makes him gay!
Based on the English my best guess is the 4chan op is German.
Why they used a dollar sign instead of euro sign idk, probably just 4chan stuff.
Most european countries, I think? At least that's how I'd write it. And I'd use $ cause it's just easier for people to understand the value and cause for most keyboards the euro sign is slightly less comfy to use.
Oh yeah, I know the format is Like that in Europe, but the guy won $, right? Seems weird to me that he wrote it like that of they're from the US or Canada.
Edit: oh oops I didn't read the comment properly. Thanks for your explanation!
Km100? Mb/s100? But $100 is suddenly ok? Americans clearly do it wrong.
And you say "100 Dollars" and not "Dollars 100", right?
Not like we're better though; germans say numbers wrong.
I know as a matric enthusiast you HAVE TO get offended the second something imperial is mentioned. Whatever it doesn't matter if you like it or not, if the story would not be fake and gay, he would have written $Value and not Value$
This is to be a language thing. In the US, Australia, Canada, and the UK, we write £20, $20, and €20 (and 50c, 50¢, 50p if using coinage). In Quebec, Canada, the currency symbol goes at the end, because French is the provincial language.
In English, 20$ is wrong. In French, $20 is wrong. Use the right system for your language.
I didn't say it was ok; just the way we do it in Canada as well as the States. It absolutely makes no sense lol. I'm pretty sure a lot of growing up make the "mistake" of writing 100$.
In Europe they write 100,59€ and to me, that looks odd.
Fake country named Gayistan
Wait what Gayistan is fake?? Fuck.
You just dropped your Gayistan ID
If this is legit (lol) then the real answer is split up, and stay single until you find someone who you'd never refer to as 'bitch'
Yep yep yep.
I would suggest anon takes that 18k, sets aside ~75% of it in some kind of savings or investment scheme, start that nest egg early.
(No, not fucking crypto, probably just find a high yield savings account)
Or, wipe out any existing debts first.
.......
Then, take whats left, and consider:
Fix up your car,
Get some good quality clothes and shoes or boots that you will be able repair and maintain, get the tools that enable you do to that,
Get a good and comfortable mattress and quality pillows,
Get some good quality cooking appliances that are relatively portable and will enable you to make decent meals from scratch, or at least closer to scratch,
Unironically, consider getting a bidet... toilet paper is expensive, a reasonably priced bidet addon to a normal toilet can pay for itself in a few months,
Basic repair toolkit for electronics, and also basic repair toolset for around the house/automobile type stuff,
Some basic, not stupid expensive, home work out / strength training equipment.
......
Ya'll see where I going with this.
Use that other 25% to buy actually useful things that lay a more solid foundation for the rest of your life.
Solid foundation?
You're much more likely to be able to buy that motorcycle or gaming pc or what not in another year or two, all without having to touch that nest egg for anything other than true emergencies... if you can keep working at whatever you're working at, from that stable foundation.
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Take that Bali trip in 5 years or a decade when you can actually afford it, not instantly with someone who's first instinct upon coming into money unexpectedly is to spend it on something ephemeral and temporary.
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