View Full Version : For Richer, for Poorer: Massachusetts Newlyweds Win $15 Million in Lottery
onedef92
06-24-2015, 8:04am
Massachusetts Newlyweds Win $15 Million in Lottery
EASTHAM, Mass. — Jun 23, 2015, 11:02 AM ET
Newlyweds from Cape Cod are planning to buy a house, pay off student loans and buy a truck after winning $15 million on an instant scratch-off ticket.
WCVB-TV reports that Stacy and David Foster, of Orleans, who were married May 1, went to a store on Route 6 in Eastham on Saturday and asked for a $30 Supreme Millions ticket from a machine behind a different register.
The clerk told the Fosters the register was closed and said they'd have to choose a ticket behind an active one since ticket sales are tracked separately.
The Fosters claimed their $15 million grand prize Monday and went home with a one-time payment of $9.75 million after taxes.
The store will also receive $50,000.
boracayjohnny
06-24-2015, 8:09am
Wow, a very lucky couple. Maybe they should buy a lottery ticket.
Admiral Blue
06-24-2015, 8:36am
Good for them! :cert:
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DukeAllen
06-24-2015, 9:17am
Have they started fighting over it yet?
$9.75 million after taxes
I'd be cool with that :seasix: :cert:
I'd be cool with that :seasix: :cert:
i'm good with 1/3 of that.... :DAB:
i'm good with 1/3 of that.... :DAB:
after giving and spending...one third is all I'd have left. :Jeff '79:
Sea Six
06-24-2015, 9:34am
They'll have nothing left and nothing to show for it in less than ten years.
They'll have nothing left and nothing to show for it in less than ten years.
Possible, maybe even statistically probable, but you don't know that. All we know is that they had student loan debt, and no house. Note they didn't mention credit card debt, car loans, or any other kind of debt. Also note that they didn't say they were buying an uber-expensive car or cars, only that they were buying a truck. One truck, not two or more.
If I was young and similarly situated, that sounds like what I would do, too. Buying a house is a good idea. Buying a new truck seem like a realistic splurge, and paying off the student loan debt also seems prudent.
Possible, maybe even statistically probable, but you don't know that. All we know is that they had student loan debt, and no house. Note they didn't mention credit card debt, car loans, or any other kind of debt. Also note that they didn't say they were buying an uber-expensive car or cars, only that they were buying a truck. One truck, not two or more.
If I was young and similarly situated, that sounds like what I would do, too. Buying a house is a good idea. Buying a new truck seem like a realistic splurge, and paying off the student loan debt also seems prudent.
my equation would be a simple one. spend a third...give away a third...save a third...
onedef92
06-24-2015, 10:30am
They'll have nothing left and nothing to show for it in less than ten years.
Statistically, it's more like 48 months for the majority of super-loot, nouveau rich lotto winners.
DukeAllen
06-24-2015, 11:36am
Statistically, it's more like 48 months for the majority of super-loot, nouveau rich lotto winners.
They'll be divorced before that.:yesnod:
mrvette
06-24-2015, 11:48am
Be ME, buy a house with an apartment attached, and separate parking easy to install......let the apt. pay the overhead,
house not over 2500' and built well, as in something masonry.....older home so you know the foundation is good.....
keep it in a gated community, for security......keep the cars down to something fairly plain, wildest one being a new vette......common enough to not attract unwanted attention.....
Dress normally, even down dress so not attract too much attention.....
then organize into some sort of business they both can run.....without spending a million bux in start up crap.....
:seasix:
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