If I were Filthy Rich
By jetery+80 For those of you in a state that let's you stay anonymous, what's the story you would come up with to hide your winnings from your friends and family?
People aren't stupid. If you all of the sudden move, buy a vacation home or start traveling all over the world, the people close to you might figure it out. What's the story that you'd try and tell them as to where the money came from, while still keeping your winnings hidden?
Recent responses
+76 @Snipshow777 Hit it big with stocks & crypto. But tbh I wouldn’t tell anyone anyway.
+31 @5Series_BMW I’m relatively low-profile, so I’m not worried about anyone finding out. I have a good career (remote) so I’d just pay all debts and buy a modest $600K - $800K house. No expensive clothes, cars, jewelry, jets or anything that draws attention. I I’d help 1-2 of my friends with their mortgages and then spend most of my time traveling and fine dining!
+31 @sammyb514 I legally can’t talk about it because of a NDA I signed after agreeing to a large settlement from a past employer.
+23 @Kittytigris So I did a bad thing, I robbed the bank and I’m going to share my cash with you cause I’m not going to prison by myself.
+18 @rbarr228 Buy used vehicles with low mileage and buy a modest house. If anyone asks “how much do you pay a month”, just view a typical example online and estimate the amount. No one else needs to know.
+18 @life_hog I went all in on a very risky, time bounded options play that happened to work out a thousandfold. I would not try it again, or risk anyone else’s money trying to do it again. As John Goodman said in The Gambler, “You get up two and a half million, any asshole in the world knows what to do: you get a house with a twenty-five year roof, an indestructible jap-economy shitbox, and you put the rest in the system at three to five percent to pay your taxes and that’s your base, get me?” And I’d actually follow that advice. Get a nice 4 bed house in the best school district in town, maybe upgrade my rav4 hybrid le to a Sequoia hybrid, but that’d be the extent of my major material purchases. I’d prefer to travel, and make more of my leisure time.
+18 @odagari My coworker one day came in with a brand new Porche, so I asked him if he won a lotto because I know for sure he can't afford that with the salaries we get. He told me most of his income goes to the car payment and he is now car-poor. I believed him and bought him lunch a few times but turns out he had won about half mil off the scratcher lol (he told me when he got drunk). So if I win, my story will be that all my purchases are all debt and ask people to help me out instead. Then I will set up a paper company and tell people that my business blew up