Triniman wrote:A couple from Sagkeeng, near Pine Falls, were the winners of $50M in Friday's Loto Max draw.

The Fontaines are to be congratulated for their win and will soon discover how many more relatives they have!

Pavolo wrote:Party on the reserve tonight , or tommorow . Probaly right gone in ten years .

St Norberter wrote:I'm always astounded hearing the stories about people who win large amoutns of $$ and then blowing it all in a couple of years.
If I won $50 Million, I'd probably keep $20 Million to live off of and set the other $30 Million up as a charitiable endowment, which I would manage.
good on them though.

HurtinAlbertan wrote:

St Norberter wrote:I'm always astounded hearing the stories about people who win large amoutns of $$ and then blowing it all in a couple of years.
If I won $50 Million, I'd probably keep $20 Million to live off of and set the other $30 Million up as a charitiable endowment, which I would manage.
good on them though.

I read somewhere that if you win the lottery, you are 10x more likely to become a drug addict, criminal, or commit suicide. I've also heard that almost 50% of lottery winners go broke in 5 years or sooner.

Goth_chic wrote:If I won a big sum of money I would help out family and friends, invest, open up a no kill animal shelter and travel the world with my family.

Triniman wrote:

Goth_chic wrote:If I won a big sum of money I would help out family and friends, invest, open up a no kill animal shelter and travel the world with my family.

Would you take the kids out of school?

Deank wrote:"I hope that I would have the sense to have at least half of it locked up so that I could only access the income and maintain the principal. "

the part that scares me about that is where would you lock it up that it can be "safe"?

banks, credit unions, invesment companies, major stock traded companies. All have tanked in some way over the last few years. Even people who held multiple investments across a wide variety have been farked up the arse.