Many investment firms have a minimum of about $1million.
A bakery here in Toronto has been giving away a Powerball ticket to anyone who spends $20. People have been lined up there to get in and spend their money. The manager is going to Buffalo again tonight to buy more tickets.
Check your tickets. I bought one Sunday and looked at it about an hour ago when I moved it out of my coat pocket. It is for the drawing on March 12!! Store manager told me mistakes are happening due to high volume of sales.
What kind of a bank could hold that kind of money? I mean seriously, if one person won their net worth would be larger than a small country, I’d think.
Oooooh, there’s my answer. Bank of Me! I’m going to go fire up Illustrator so I can design my own country’s new flag.
My country already has a name-years ago older DD created this entire hypothetical country with rules, government, etc. She named it “Nowhere”.
The puns are endless 
I scrounged up the loose change in the house. Lots of quarters. I have $12, enough for two tickets for me, two tickets for Mr. Fang, two tickets for Fang Jr. When I win the jackpot, half of the money goes to disinterested philanthropy. And we’ll pay off niece’s student loans, pay off family mortgages. And buy a zillion cases of water and send them to Flint-- come to think of it, how expensive can that be, we should probably do it anyway.
It would be fun to hand a grocery store the equivalent of one days sales and let them tell all the customers that their purchases have been paid. Among other things.
Now that I’ve bought six tickets, I needed to make a spreadsheet to figure out my odds. Assuming tickets are randomly chosen (I’ve come around to that point of view) and assuming 600 million tickets sold, I’m probably going to have to be sharing my winnings, which seems very unfair.
There’s a 70% chance someone else will also have my winning numbers, when I win. I have a distressingly large 39% chance of sharing my winnings with two or more other people.
Sharing 1.3 billion with someone else. That would be AWFUL. In that case just buy 1/2 zillion cases of water for Flint.
I bought every combination of numbers. 292,201,338 tickets. I’m tired. Took awhile. I had to hire quite a few people.
I have the tickets filed in numerical order so it will be easy to find the winning ticket. These tickets do take up a lot of space.
The jackpot is going to be a lot more than $1.3 billion because of what I did.
I’m sorry. If anybody wins who reads CC, you are going to have to share the prize. Just giving you a heads up. 
1.5 Billion - maybe I need to buy a ticket. You know beginners luck.
I didn’t realize that when you ask for six tickets, you just get one piece of paper. I wanted to hand two tickets to Mr. Fang and two to Fang Jr (keeping the winner and one other to myself) but no, we just have this one receipt that we all have to share.
^^ you have to request how you want the numbers allocated per ticket if you don’t want them all on the same one. Now you’ll know for next time
I went to CVS today and there were about 10 people ahead of me only buying tickets. I’ve never seen anything like it.
Yes I knew to ask for separate tickets, and they also printed me a summary which gave each ticket serial number.
When H came home yesterday, he asked me about Powerball and if I drove to buy the tickets (which I did).
Let’s hope one of us is the winner, and will bless everyone around them.
When you buy - you can specify if you want each ticket to be seperate or all numbers on one ticket. The default is all on one as it saves time.
I made DD purchase one ticket now that she’s old enough to play - beginners luck! She didn’t want to waste her money - we are not a gambling family but I promised to give her back her $3 if she doesn’t win so it’s not really gambling on her part. She was shocked that they’d just let her buy a ticket without asking for ID;-)
I will buy a whole bunch of tickets and resell them at $10+/ticket to people standing in line at the late minutes tomorrow.
^Now THAT’S the way to make money off the lottery!
… but is it legal??
I bought a ticket today at a package store near where I had to take my dog to the vet. It is a very summer seasonal area, so I was surprised to have to stand in a line.