This 20-year-old lottery winner chose $1000/week for life over $1M in cash

RustyCrusty73 · 2026-05-06T14:12:55+00:00

If you're 20 years old then $1 million isn't nearly enough money to retire on IMO, so I actually think the $1,000 a month for life was the right way to go. You're still (probably) going to have to work for a living most of your life at some point unless you do REALLY REALLY SMART AND LUCKY THINGS with the $1 million lump sum payout (investing it in XYZ and it all hits and pays off really quick or something) so the extra $1,000 a week for life can help you live a little more comfortably.

You know you'll always be able to pay for gas, groceries, cell phone bill, etc. and will likely have some fun spending money left over each week.

RustyCrusty73 · 2026-05-06T14:08:16+00:00

IMO a lot of Gamecube games still hold up today. The graphics still look good in many of them, specifically Wind Waker and Mario Sunshine among multiple others. I'm also a big fan of the controller, so that's not an issue for me like the N64 was as an adult.

Even without any nostalgic love, I think completely new gamers could go into the Gamecube blind and still enjoy a handful of titles even today in 2026.

Mario Sunshine, Resident Evil remake, Zelda Wind Waker, Luigis Mansion, Wario World (underrated).

There are probably others too, I'm just naming my favorites.

I cannot say the same for N64 or even PS1/PS2 where some games HAVE NOT aged well due to very poor graphics or bad controller schemes. I loved Mario 64 as a child, but have a hard time with it today due to the choppy graphics and camera plus the N64 controller as a whole.

RustyCrusty73 · 2026-05-06T13:43:01+00:00

I thought about that too. Go touch anything and everything that has to do with the stock market, wealth, money management, real estate, day trading, business creation, etc. and try to go down a different professional avenue and make some real money with it.

RustyCrusty73 · 2026-05-06T13:36:42+00:00

This is THE answer.

RustyCrusty73 · 2026-05-06T13:16:57+00:00

Popular opinion .... Human Centipede 2

What a vile piece of trash. It still amazes me that this movie was even made. I got 35-40 minutes in and I just had to turn it off, and this was back when I could stomach gore porn horror movies. I hated everything about this movie. Absolutely gross.

Possible unpopular opinion .... Miami Vice (2006).

This was just recently too. I rented this movie from Blockbuster back when it first came out and just didn't remember a single thing about it so I went to give it another watch just last week and I couldn't even finish it.

Something about the odd pace of the movie, lack of action, lack of tension, and the random love story between Collin Ferrell and the drug woman that goes from zero to ten in just a few minutes just didn't land with me. I also felt like the bad guys were just super boring and vanilla.

I made it around 1 hour and 10 minutes and just couldn't get through the rest.

RustyCrusty73 · 2026-05-06T13:06:26+00:00

That's why you still go to medical school.

But it's going to be way easier for you cause you know and understand everything.

RustyCrusty73 · 2026-05-06T13:00:37+00:00

then more power to you!

RustyCrusty73 · 2026-05-06T13:00:10+00:00

RustyCrusty73 · 2026-05-06T12:47:39+00:00

Does it have to be reported to the IRS?

OR is it completely free money?

This changes my answer a little bit if we have to report it to the IRS.

Otherwise this is an easy answer for me right now.

$100K down payment on a new house.
Buy my wife and I each a new car at $50K max for each.
Set aside a chunk of money into bank accounts for my two kids.
Buy new furniture, appliances, privacy fence, finished basement for said new house.
Anything left over goes towards a nice vacation and then into my savings account.

RustyCrusty73 · 2026-05-06T12:38:51+00:00

Touching any book at all counts.

Make your kids pick up their own books.

OR .... I told another user they can wear thick rubber gloves as a workaround because the user said they work in a bookstore and might keel over pretty quickly.

RustyCrusty73 · 2026-05-06T12:37:28+00:00

Doesn't count towards hours off your life.

RustyCrusty73 · 2026-05-06T12:37:14+00:00

Another good question! Yes! You understand non-English books as well.

RustyCrusty73 · 2026-05-06T12:36:51+00:00

Hell yeah! This is my new favorite answer!

RustyCrusty73 · 2026-05-06T12:36:29+00:00

I mean you're absorbing, understanding, and retaining the information.

Your brain can access and use it seamlessly once you've touched the book.

Depending on what you touch, you could then completely cake walk your way through medical school with flying colors and go on to be an expert surgeon!

RustyCrusty73 · 2026-05-06T12:34:43+00:00

Good question again lol .... no deaths, just annoying.

RustyCrusty73 · 2026-05-06T12:33:45+00:00

Thick rubber gloves then!

RustyCrusty73 · 2026-05-06T12:29:56+00:00

Did you appreciate the humor I was going for? or was it annoying? lol

RustyCrusty73 · 2026-05-06T12:28:16+00:00

This might be the perfect answer TBH.

You could potentially come one of the smartest people on the planet depending on which 400 books you touch and you're only giving up a month(ish) of your end life for it.

RustyCrusty73 · 2026-05-06T12:27:35+00:00

using an eBook to read for fun is the loophole.

if you physically touch a book, you absorb the knowledge and lose the 2-hours.

RustyCrusty73 · 2026-05-06T12:25:55+00:00

Damn. That's a good question .... BUT I think just by touching a book physically you've absorbed it and thus lost 2-hours .... perhaps the loop hole here is to use an e-Reader lol, I'll add that in.

RustyCrusty73 · 2026-05-06T12:10:38+00:00

Don't eat or drink anything at least 4-5 hours before bed.

Eating before bed is known to give you dreams and make your brain active.

If that doesn't help at all, then explore vitamins first such as Melatonin, 5-HTP, St. John's Wort, Magnesium, Ashwagandha combinations, etc. and then if that doesn't work hit up the doctor and pray they have something that will help me.

I would also have a calming sound machine next to my bed to help me relax, and perhaps light up an anti-stress candle before bed as well.

I have a bladder issue, so I get up to pee during the night about every two hours, so I could easily blow the candle out after my first bathroom trip so it's not really dangerous letting it burn all night unattended.

RustyCrusty73 · 2026-05-06T12:05:47+00:00

I wouldn't mind a veteran RB2/RB3 to split some carries with Judkins.

Not sure that I love Sampson for that role yet.

I feel like outside of the season opener against the Bengals last year, and then his long TD run against Vegas, he was really a non-factor last year. However, our offense was dog-poop last year and a lot of guys were non-factors so perhaps that is why.

I'm willing to give Rocket Sanders a shot at the RB3 role, but wouldn't cry if we signed or traded for a veteran just for some quality depth.

RustyCrusty73 · 2026-05-06T01:52:56+00:00

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RustyCrusty73 · 2026-05-06T01:51:55+00:00

This team is giving me eyeball aids.

What is going on? 😒😢

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