If I had a million Dollars... I'd buy you a.....

It's always fun to hope that maybe one day I'd win the lottery. My boyfriend stopped to buy a lottery ticket last night on his way over to meet me and my parents at Golden Temple in Brighton and my dad had a yellow post-it on his dashboard, reminding him to get a ticket on his way home from dinner. After all, how you could pass up a chance (as small as it might be) to win 370 Million dollars. It sounds so simple... you go wherever Lottery tickets are sold, give 'em 5 bucks and you walk out with 5 sets of numbers. And then when the news comes on, people become glued to their TV's, hoping that 6 small numbers will forever change their lives and maybe the lives around them. We went to bed knowing the numbers, but did not check the ticket, assuming that we did not having a winning ticket. Unfortunately, we proved ourselves right. The 2 lucky winners though who if they weren't up when the numbers were called, woke up very, very rich people. They have not come forward just yet, as I'm sure they are still pinching themselves as well as hiring a financial planner if they didn't have one already. One of the tickets was sold in Campark Liquors in Woodbine, NJ. The other was sold at Favorite Market in Dalton, GA. Poor California, their system had mechanical failure's about 20 minutes before the numbers were called. Apparently, the annual value of the ticket is $195 million and the cash option is $116.5 million, but that's before a federal tax of 25%. New Jersey does not tax lottery winnings.

I was given a $5 scratch ticket for X-Mas this past year from a supervisor... won $2! It certainly didn't feel like $370 million, but it felt good to win!