Our kids get lottery tickets in their Christmas stockings every year. I always remind them BEFORE they start scratching that any winnings over $100 get split with me and I’m not kidding! Luckily, no one has won over $10 
I’m really not trying to start anything, but… well… are you serious? I think if my mom gave me a lottery ticket for Christmas and said I’d have to split my winnings with her, I’d say “thanks but no thanks” and hand it back.
That just seems like a really selfish gift… it’s either worthless (in which case you don’t want it), or it was actually a really good gift (in which case, gimme back half of it).
I say let your kids keep their winnings, and if you’re interested in playing the lotto, buy an extra ticket for yourself.
No kidding.
Like was pointed out upthread, the cost of a lottery ticket would buy a really shitty “real” gift. I compared it to a dozen socks. You can’t get a dozen socks for what even a scratch off costs. I think I’ll buy some gift certificates for a dinner for 2 at a nice restaurant and demand I be one of the 2 :rolleyes:
Lighten the hell up … these kids are TEENAGERS and aren’t even old enough to claim the prize if they win! It’s not like these are their major gifts - they are stocking stuffers.
Geez Louise people … get a life!
I would give them something,certainly not half,far from it.Maybe pay off their mortgage or something.
They’d never know I’d won. If I ever won something large I’d keep it as much of a secret as possible. I’d probably do nice things for them, if the prize is large enough, for the rest of their life. But I’d have a very conservative approach with found money. Most saved, relatively little spent, on practical items.
10%
It’s what the agent always gets.
If I do get a life, do you get half of it? 
What a great question - like with all gifts, once given, it is completely the receiver’s to do with as he wishes, but without the ticket, you wouldn’t have the $10 mil, and what kind of person wouldn’t share at all with someone who gave them the means by which they won $10 mil?
I like the 10% idea; or maybe you could ask the person who gave it to you, and see if they have any idea about how much they think they should get. Maybe you could buy them some very nice stocks that would give them a significant amount of money in dividends. I don’t think I’m in the 50% camp; I have a bit of a stingy streak.
Hey, did you guys know that lottery winnings aren’t taxed in Canada? That means we get to keep it all, and you guys only get to keep half! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
After thinking about it some more, I’ve decided to change my mind.
I wouldn’t give them 50%.
I would give them 49% because after all, It was a gift given to me, so I’d have to keep “slightly” more than them, LOL
I have a friend who always puts $50 bucks worth of 6/49 tickets in my birthday card. The prick however always writes his name on the back of the ticket and writes in “10%” beside his name, and he writes my name and puts “90%”
haha
I had a good laugh, I always tell him he’d be getting half anyway.
Unless it’s like a hundred bucks then I aint splitting jack shit.
Some of you guys are really cheap stingy fucks aint ya? No law against that I suppose.
Here’s a scenario…
My friend and I both work at the local plant. For my birthday he takes me out to dinner (like he does every year) and gives me $50 worth of lotto tickets.
I win the jackpot of $17 Million.
All of a sudden I say to him “Thanks a lot Frank, that was a hellofa gift”
I move across town to my newly built mansion on the lake, and I let Frank continue his shitty life working at the plant in debt up to his nuts.
As a thank you to him, I offer to take him out to dinner to any restaurant of his choice.
Hello?
The sad part is there are those among us who have no problem whatsoever with the above scenario.
Myself, I would have to answer to my conscience, and that includes having Frank live in the “slightly” smaller mansion right beside mine.
I’ve heard that sudden wealth brings all kinds of problems, and I certainly wouldn’t want to cause problems for my friend. I stand ready to assume the burden of wealth on my own. If I kill myself with hookers and blow, so be it.
For me it would be hookers and a family sized jar of viagra.
Here’s a scenario:
I hand out $1,000,000 of lottery tickets at the soup kitchen, and have every number recorded. If anybody wins, I demand 70% of the net (not gross).
Fair?