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holy crap! powerball winners
the entire purchasing department of SEPTA (philly transit authority) won the powerball! they're our customers and our rep was supposed to go over there today for a meeting.
i still think someone's BSing but wow! it sounds like $2 million each!
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Re: holy crap! powerball winners
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there are quite a few of them. off the top of my head i know 8. so after lump sum payment and taxes, $2 million each wouldn't be too far off, especially if there were other winners.
that's what i was saying, but a bunch of them are near or at retirement age anyway and were just staying for their pensions. if they've hit pension age i can think of at least 3 that are out. which means we're screwed because new buyers never know what the hell they're doing.
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OMG that is awful.
If I won $2 million now, I wouldn't retire. But if these people are right around retirement age, I think $2 million would be enough to live on including whatever their benefits and pensions and other retirement savings gives them. Well, unless they've got serious debt.
<a href="http://www.thenest.com/?utm_source=ticker&utm_medium=HTML&utm_campaign=tickers" title="Home DMy whole company participates, give or take, and out of about 20 employees, we usually have 10-14 who put in money. I can only think of a few who would leave with a few million, though. Many are breadwinners, have kids, etc. I think most would pay off their house and use it for their kids' college and retirement. But yeah, HCOL. There are a few really young employees (early 20s) who would probably blow it on sports cars and/or quit, thinking it was a HUGE amount of money. But since the average American has 2 million+ come through their hands over a working lifetime, it's really the equivalent of making like $40k/year during your working life.
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It's been the leading news story for the past two days. The group opted for the lump sum, but none of the winners have identified themselves publicly. I don't blame them.
I wouldn't retire, but I sure asshit wouldn't stick around this hellhole.
I'd quit, pay off my SLs, and then figure out what I want to do.
omg, that would be the worst. This is why I always make sure DH has cash on him when the Powerball/Mega Millions gets high. You do not want to end up as the one guy who wasn't in the pool.