10 Charlotteans win the lottery! What could they do with $69,250?
The owner of Carpet Discount Warehouse in Charlotte and nine of his employees played ball and won.
The 10 co-workers won $1 million in N.C. Education Lottery Powerball winnings. Each will get $100,000, or $69,250 after taxes.
Three of the winners said they’ll most likely use their winnings to go on a vacation; other winners plan to “tithe their church, pay bills, save for the future, and share with family.”
But what else could they do right here in Charlotte with $69,250 to spare?
(1) Splurge at a Charlotte Knights game.
– $69,250 can get you 13,850 hot dogs. Or about 9,200 Olde Mecklenburg Brewery Coppers. Or 11,541 bags of Carolina boiled peanuts.
– Or share the experience with 4,072 of your closest friends by buying 4,073 individual game tickets at $17 a piece.
@BEERWlTHAVIEW @ballparksnbrews #2k15BBB #yuenglingbrewery #CharlotteKnights pic.twitter.com/Bc4HriVrNX
— Amanda Whitaker (@beach_n_teach) June 8, 2015
(2) Rent for (almost) three years at the Catalyst.
A one-year lease for a two-bedroom/two-bathroom apartment at Catalyst uptown costs $24,912.
For two years, that’s $48,438 and three years would be $74,736, so you’ll have to come up with that extra $5K some other way.
You won’t have to worry about having one-too-many beers at the Knights game with an apartment right across Romare Bearden Park.
Hopefully going to live her next year! #catalyst #Uptown #charlotte pic.twitter.com/s4X14hbB2S — Ian Smith (@ianmsmith8904) October 23, 2014
(3) Eat ALL the brownies.
$69,250 will get you 30,240 salted caramel brownies from Amelie’s French Bakery. Sweet deal!
It’s finally open! (@ Amelie’s French Bakery in Charlotte, NC) https://t.co/ovKyx6aN0Z pic.twitter.com/mxqutTLXGy
— Lyndsi (@LyndsiJames) May 30, 2015
(4) Three years of tuition at a fancy private school for your (future?) kid.
– Three years of high school at Charlotte Latin will run you $63,840, which leaves plenty of money for a Louis Vuitton purse or some Vineyard Vines polos.
(5) Roller coasters all day every day.
– Buy 641 Carowinds Gold Season Passes so you and your whole high school graduating class can go say goodbye to Thunder Road together.
There is an actual hornet on #Fury325‘s webcam. Does it get any better than that? #FuryFever http://t.co/bELsXbw2c3 pic.twitter.com/au2HYMW8L3
— Carowinds (@Carowinds) June 8, 2015
Or, you know, you could just blow it all on more than 30,000 fancy milkshakes from Cookout. At $2.19 a pop, that sounds like a pretty sweet deal to us.
Photo: N.C. Education Lottery
This story was originally published June 9, 2015 at 10:43 PM.