

Originally posted by SilverLily
I read that the money is paid out over 40 years! So Erin would only see that 1 million a little bit at a time...$25,000 a year. After taxes, she may have just decided that it was worth gambling that money to try and double it!
If it were me, I would have kept the million. Each year I would take what was left of that $25,000 after taxes and use half for a vacation and put the other half into my retirement account.