28 People Who Know A Lottery Winner Share What Actually Happened To Them
28 People Who Know A Lottery Winner Share What Actually Happened To Them
Story by Edvinas Jovaišas
#1©Trevumm
My friends mom won like $100k or so when we were in grade 6. She was a single mom of 2 and they we’re pretty poor. She used it to give her kids a better, more comfortable life. It was little changes like the next winter they had new winter jackets and boots and stuff, not the worn old hand me downs they always had. My friends next birthday she got to have a big party for the whole class, nothing crazy just pizzas and stuff, but she’s never gotten to have that before and she was so happy.
#2©Earguy
I had a patient, a hairdresser who owned her own shop, who won about 6 million. Her winnings were announced in the local newspaper.
She consulted the right professionals, worked a plan to sell her salon, and mapped a way to retire on her winnings without a change in her lifestyle.
But she told me that she had old boyfriends, and even guys that barely knew her in high school, who called her with some variation of, "you know I always loved you..." She just laughed and blew them off.
#3©Dvaone
I won $250k on a $5 scratch off 8 years ago.it was right before Christmas and i had been fired 2 weeks befor. After taxes we got a check for $167k and some change. Paid off all credit cards, bought the wife a brand new honda accord, bought a small business. Lived off it for the next several years while I grew my business and my wife got her masters. It was life changing!
#4©anon
Mom won a bit and was able to get my siblings and I new clothes and move out so she didn't have to stay in an abusive relationship.
#5©hornblower_83
Friend won 1 million. They paid off their house. Saved for their kids education and basically don’t live paycheque to paycheque anymore. Both of them still work full time.
#6©Kriskao
I won 1500 US dollars. Received like 950 because taxes. Donated it all to an orphanage in my home country because I was doing ok with money. Since then there have been times I needed the money but I don’t regret it.
#7©Mandalasan_612
My sister's ex won around $150 million. Nicest guy, his brother manages the money so he doesn't blow it. Living his best life, money never changed him, because he was already so chill. Dude deserves it after putting up with my sister. Helped out my niece (not his daughter) with
#8©Punkrockid19
My dad
He hit 5 outta 6 numbers in 1989 won like 16 grand. Payed off the family debts spent the rest on a computer and started his own business out of our dining room. Bout to sell it for a couple million this year. One ticket literally changed our lives.
#9©Burnsie312
I won 2000 on a scratch off once! Fixed my missing tooth lol.
#10©CaseyBoogies
My MIL won 33k on a scratch-off, she paid off some debt and got new windows installed on her house. The new windows in an 1890s farmhouse are amazing, don't think I've seen a happier woman!
#11©Kahazzarran
My neighbor won the lottery in his sixties, it was something like 1.2 million in the late 90s. We lived in a trailer park in a rural part of the US, a pretty low cost of living area so the money stretched pretty far.He bought his trailer and land outright with the money and pretty much just spent everyday drinking on his porch and yelling at his goats. IIRC he used a good chunk of what he won to put his son and grandkids through college. Died of liver failure at like 85 or something. Not a terrible way to do it, all said and done.
#12©Blondefarmgirl
Friends of ours won 30 mill. They took a group of us on vacation. Bought a cottage and built a house not much really changed. They are doing great.
#13©pascontent
Neighbor won a few millions, built an old folks home, named it after his mother and she refused to live there.
#14©PigStickerOnStone
I knew a welder who won a 30 million jackpot.
He retired, bought two Ford GTs and spends his time doing yardwork, playing low stakes poker tournaments, and raising his two young kids.
His wife bought a crib from me used for their second child.