OT: I WON!!!

[Scott H.]

Are you married? If so (and this is something I learned from Shawshank Redemption), you might be able to waiver any tax on a contest like this by doing the paper work and giving the $25,000 lot to your wife as a one time gift. I think the figures work up to $30,000. As it goes in the movie, make sure you trust her to spend it equally. Otherwise she could run to Guatemala and get a dozen plastic surgery operations and come back half woman/half horse...... or something like that.

Remember, married people get all the breaks. It's worth it for the paperwork.

[odinn7]

Congrats ASH, spend it wisely...cough...I'm looking for a Sony Mini DV camcorder...cough...


"Remember, married people get all the breaks. It's worth it for the paperwork."

Not completely true... My wife and I are married and we have a 4 year old girl. In order to get insurance for her, I need to pay $174 per month because, being married, we make too much money. My brother in law has kids with someone who he just lives with. They make more than us combined but the state falls all over them and gives them everything they need (including better insurance for the kids) because they are single parents. When tax time rolls around, they also make out there too because they are single parents. There's other things too but this isn't the time or place to get into this. This thread is for ASH to rub it into our faces that he won 25 grand ;- )

[BeyondTheGrave]

Congrats I am glad you won some money not some 80 year old oil tycoons that seem to win just about everything involving winning money.....


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You can’t give it, you can't buy it, and you just don't get it!-Aeon Flux

[peter johnson]

I work in a bank, with finances like this every day.
You can avoid moving to the higher tax bracket by doing something as simple as puttine $2000 of the $5000 into an IRA or a Roth IRA.  The money is still yours, but the govt. defers taxes on it until you start to draw.
Many contests do withholding.  Ask about it.
Get professional consultation from a tax attorney -- not H & R Block.
peter johnson/denny crane

[odinn7]

Sure, sure ASH, you could take the advice from all of these guys here that mean well, or you could take advice from me...someone who is obviously looking out for your best interest. Follow me now, I will help you avoid paying any kind of taxes...Everything that you won...simply sign it over to me. Problem solved. I'll be the stand up guy here and take the hit for you ASH.

Also...WOOHOO...I won today too! A bought a $1 scratch off ticket and won $4 on it! WHO DA MAN!?! Seriously, I did win that and that's pretty much the way my winnings go, nothing huge.

[Ash]

I finally got the e-mail confirmation from the fufillment center.

It said:
"We will be sending you an affidavit to be completed tomorrow by FedEx overnight delivery.  You should receive it on Friday.  The affidavit will need to be completed and notarized. There will be a report post paid FedEx envelope for you to return it to us in.  
After we receive and confirm the affidavits information, you will receive a confirmation email.  The prize will then be mailed to you registered mail within 6-8 weeks."

6-8 weeks!?  Damn, that's a long time to wait.  I wonder if that's for the check for $5,000.

[Ash]

Skaboi wrote:

> Dude, that's awesome!  Congrats!
 Maybe now  you can use that 5,000 to get internet at your apt.
> :)


Oh yeah!  I plan to hook up cable internet A.S.A.P. so you guys will definitely be seeing more of me soon!

I'm also going to tear down my crappy neglected book review site and build something new....not sure what yet.
Either way, I'll be back in the thick of things.

[Ash]

Scott H. wrote:

> Are you married? If so (and this is something I learned from
> Shawshank Redemption), you might be able to waiver any tax on a
> contest like this by doing the paper work and giving the
> $25,000 lot to your wife as a one time gift.

Dude, I thought of the exact same thing from that movie!
But I'm not married.
I wonder if there are any other tax loopholes like the IRA idea?

[Conrad]

Well, it's nice to see one of the Good Guys winning for once.  Congratulations!

About "Things You Absolutely Must Buy Straight Away" - the lady shoppers in my office insist that if you spot one of the above, you must wait 3 days before buying.  That way, if it was a spur-of-the-moment thing, any desire to buy is gone after 72 hours.  If you still burn to purchase it after 3 days, then obviously it was meant to be!

[dean]

"Well, it's nice to see one of the Good Guys winning for once. Congratulations!"


Ash is one of the good guys??  :-P

And here I thought that I was justified in sending off the hitsquad to take him down before he spent his winnings on things of unspeakable horror...

The extent of my major winnings is about $600 at the casino, but then that pretty much evened me out over how much I had previously lost [perhaps, maybe a small profit], so I guess it doesn't count.

I also one a poetry competition once in which I was supposed to get this big prize pack involving lots of cool stuff [can't really remember now], and shoes, don't forget a new pair of shoes! But to this day I have yet to recieve my prize... that was about 4-5 years ago, so unless they are hand delivering it to me from Guatemala, I don't think I'll be seeing that prize anytime soon!

[Scott]

Congratulations ASHTHECAT. The most I've won was in the Florida lottery for $120. Though I wouldn't turn down any amount  make note that only a cool 10 Million would be sufficient for anything else would be to easy to spend unless you invested it.



Post Edited (03-04-05 21:53)

[Rob]

A few weeks ago I was totally p**sed that the fountain drink machine was broken at my local convenience store, so I had to resort to buying a 20-oz bottled drink. I normally never pay attention to the kind of promotions that give anything other than "instant winner" messages, but I thought about it when i got back into my office, and checked the code on the drpepper.com website, and I won $100 to spend at Sony! I didn't believe it until my new dvd player came! Too cool!

[nate]

forget u all I win all I drink is Dr Pepper and I got ideas

[2xSlick]

Nate dug up this topic but this is the first time I've seen it.
In the words of  Tom Tucker from Family Guy: "Congratulations, you son of a b***h!"

[Ash]

I will be posting snapshots of some of the stuff I've already gotten soon.

I wonder how many of you thought I was making this all up.
It's totally real...I really did win.
Hell, I had a hard time convincing some of my friends here in town that I really won.



Post Edited (05-27-05 14:01)