Lottery Fever. What are your range of thoughts in response to Lucky Winners?

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- A woman who quit her job after scratching off a $90,000 lottery windfall.

Isn't stupid for the woman to quit her job? I know that $90,000 is really big for most people including myself, but she live in United States where the average annual salary is $50K, such amount is only 2 years annual salaries. $90K will really make she happy, but it's not something that can change her life..

We can say it was stupid or not as the nature of job and the salary she earns a month isn't known to be attractive or not leading to her choice of quiting. $90k well invested could triple before a year end, and more importantly, not every individual have the ambition of working for people, they want to be self established, self employed having their own company in their name no matter how small it might be in size. It's just their dream.

[bitterguy28]

We know our chances to win in lottery is slim so these lottery winners are indeed fortunate to win a life changing amount. I rarely buy tickets (usually if I only have numbers in mind) because I always have this thought instead of buying ticket, I'd rather spend the money on something else so it won't be wasted (though the price of ticket is cheap).

but imagine how slim the chances are yet there are still millions of bettors around the world is trying their luck to win and change their life in single win.
but indeed that this is not the best way to let our life believing in short time becoming millionaire.

I have a relative who's a fan of lottery and a regular bettor. He had the chance to win a small prize but not able to win a decent amount wherein he can recover all the money he spent on tickets.

its common that we have relatives and friends of course who is continues betting in lotto but not even won a big wins instead a cheap winning that they are gaining .

[Poker Player]

My thoughts have to do with the lottery winners who end up worse off than before they won the lottery, totally broke and with more debt. They had better learn how to manage their wealth and not get carried away by the drunkenness of joy when it comes to spending their winnings. Have a little brains, please.

[Crypt0Gore]

They got lucky, it doesn't mean I will too, and lottery is even more harder than normal gambling, I am protecting my mental health because my life depends on it, I don't want my life to be about chasing something that I may never get because trying to make money this way is not even fair to begin with.

I believe those people are just lucky, and I am not confused about going down the same path as them, nah, I will stick with my slots games when I have the money to lose, many lives must have been ruined before these few people became the lottery winners, some people pushed away important things in life just because they believe that lottery is the solution.

Be careful what you wish for and never compare yourself with another, it is not a must to make it in life in the same way that others took, you are different and so must your ways.

[angrybirdy]

My thoughts have to do with the lottery winners who end up worse off than before they won the lottery, totally broke and with more debt. They had better learn how to manage their wealth and not get carried away by the drunkenness of joy when it comes to spending their winnings. Have a little brains, please.

sometimes when a person holds a large amount of money, they don't think about what can happen because they are focused on enjoying themselves and how they will spend the money they received. So a gambler should know better what needs to be done once he experiences winning at gambling so that the money does not run out in an instant. Yes, there is a saying that it is easy to run out of money without working hard, but if you are strategic and think practically, you know that the money you won in gambling will not just be used up on meaningless things.

[stomachgrowls]

My thoughts have to do with the lottery winners who end up worse off than before they won the lottery, totally broke and with more debt. They had better learn how to manage their wealth and not get carried away by the drunkenness of joy when it comes to spending their winnings. Have a little brains, please.

sometimes when a person holds a large amount of money, they don't think about what can happen because they are focused on enjoying themselves and how they will spend the money they received. So a gambler should know better what needs to be done once he experiences winning at gambling so that the money does not run out in an instant. Yes, there is a saying that it is easy to run out of money without working hard, but if you are strategic and think practically, you know that the money you won in gambling will not just be used up on meaningless things.

People would really be able to realize things when its already too late or something that do talks about that experiencing those unfortunate conditions on which they should have been able to avoid it if they were really just that sensible into their own actions and really having that awareness about those condition on which we know that money could really be that easily be spent it all without you noticing or you arent that being wary just because you are really just that too confident that you could really be able to make out such money again in gambling or lottery or whatever source it would be which it is really that a very wrong approach.

Whenever you do win up something big then it would really be best that you should really be making use of it on the most beneficial or something that would really be worth and not really just that
buying up something which is useless because on the time that you wont really be having more money then you would really be coming back on where you are before
and this would really be bringing out that lifetime kind of regret just because you hadnt think up well and made out some right decisions.

[DaNNy001]

One of the mistake made by gamblers is to harbor the though of winning always. Gamble is a game of luck and you don't always get lucky, and that's why you need to spend your money wisely. I've come across some gambler who spend their money first on drinks after wining a bet, though we cannot all have the same mindset but a good spending habits is essential to all. Gamble can be fun at times, but that fun can only last when you spend wisely else you'll become addicted and even irresponsible in your gambling. The most important lesson to be learnt as gamblers is financial management.

[dezoel]

Not sure if I can still try my luck in gambling specially in lottery because I am not as lucky as others. because as far as I remember ? i tried betting in lotto for couple of years and indeed just a few small wins that I gather and my losses are truly huge so maybe this fever is not for me to enjoy lol.

Anyone who sees and observes that they are constantly losing money either in gambling or in lotteries should get away from them because there is no wisdom in the continuation of a thing that is constantly making you fail in it. So to save yourself from more losses, you should stop doing it and you did the right thing. Gambling and lotteries are all about luck, and when your luck isn't supporting you, you can barely be able to win anything significant from them.

A lot of people involved either in gambling or lotteries don't take the necessary steps that can save them from extreme losses. They keep gambling or buying lottery tickets even when they see it evidently that they aren't winning, but they still keep hoping to win despite all this.

[Mahanton]

Not sure if I can still try my luck in gambling specially in lottery because I am not as lucky as others. because as far as I remember ? i tried betting in lotto for couple of years and indeed just a few small wins that I gather and my losses are truly huge so maybe this fever is not for me to enjoy lol.

Anyone who sees and observes that they are constantly losing money either in gambling or in lotteries should get away from them because there is no wisdom in the continuation of a thing that is constantly making you fail in it. So to save yourself from more losses, you should stop doing it and you did the right thing. Gambling and lotteries are all about luck, and when your luck isn't supporting you, you can barely be able to win anything significant from them.

A lot of people involved either in gambling or lotteries don't take the necessary steps that can save them from extreme losses. They keep gambling or buying lottery tickets even when they see it evidently that they aren't winning, but they still keep hoping to win despite all this.

If you are in for the money or profit then this is the wrong approach that you do have because the ideal thing that you should be having in mind on the time that you do gamble is to have fun
but just been said that on the time that if those things changes up then this is where issues would really be starting to come out and this what makes you push even more out of your limitation
and the worst you would be spending up too much and losing because of gambling addiction whether betting on lotteries or dealing up with those casual casino games or everything which is related to gambling. When it comes to those winnings then we do have the full rights on what we should gonna do with our money but its not bad to consider on why some people do make out some advises
on which its not really that bad at all that making use of your winnings into more worthy way rather than on totally wasting it out.

[Betwrong]

My thoughts have to do with the lottery winners who end up worse off than before they won the lottery, totally broke and with more debt. They had better learn how to manage their wealth and not get carried away by the drunkenness of joy when it comes to spending their winnings. Have a little brains, please.

Those are interesting stories, actually, thanks for sharing! Yes, "lucky winners" can become very unlucky ones if they if they use all the won money the wrong way. We should never forget about that and we should know that money alone can't bring us happiness. We have to be wise enough to really enjoy our winnings and for that we have to be educated. For those who are uneducated but won big money by chance, I would suggest to spend the money on education. That would be the best way to spend it.

[Casdinyard]

Definitely paints the idea that you could be the next guy that would hold that big check, but at the same time, if you're a sensible human being with common sense, you'd realize that the odds of you being that guy is just slim to none, and that guy who won the lottery? There's a really good chance he's not gonna win it again, so he better make the money count or it's donezo.

Not saying you guys shouldn't shoot your shot, especially since tickets are just cheap, but if you go out there hoping you're the next big millionaire on TV, you're just a tad bit delusional. So same as with regular gambling, people who play the lottery should also just play for the lols and not really hope that they are the next guy. The moment they do they'd end up spending more than they are supposed to, which would end up with them spending more time and effort, and especially money on an ordeal as trivial as the lottery.

Be smarter as usual, don't let your feelings get the better of you. Gambling is good but if you get in there hoping you'd win and all that shit, you'll be the next guy that it'll chew up and spit out.

[AbuBhakar]

My thoughts have to do with the lottery winners who end up worse off than before they won the lottery, totally broke and with more debt. They had better learn how to manage their wealth and not get carried away by the drunkenness of joy when it comes to spending their winnings. Have a little brains, please.

Those are interesting stories, actually, thanks for sharing! Yes, "lucky winners" can become very unlucky ones if they if they use all the won money the wrong way. We should never forget about that and we should know that money alone can't bring us happiness. We have to be wise enough to really enjoy our winnings and for that we have to be educated. For those who are uneducated but won big money by chance, I would suggest to spend the money on education. That would be the best way to spend it.

There’s a lot of lottery winners in my country that suffer same outcome. They all purchase luxury cars, huge houses and other things which is too expensive for their normal lifestyle.

They ended up spending most of their money on this asset that later on turn into liabilities because they can’t pay repairs, taxes and other sort of maintenance since they don’t have job to sustain this kind of lifestyle. In the end, They all sold the properties and use the money to pay loans until they become broke again after the excessive lifestyle change.

It’s very hard to maintain the rich lifestyle if you just rely on the winning money without any source of income to add on your winning money.

[Betwrong]

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There’s a lot of lottery winners in my country that suffer same outcome. They all purchase luxury cars, huge houses and other things which is too expensive for their normal lifestyle.

They ended up spending most of their money on this asset that later on turn into liabilities because they can’t pay repairs, taxes and other sort of maintenance since they don’t have job to sustain this kind of lifestyle. In the end, They all sold the properties and use the money to pay loans until they become broke again after the excessive lifestyle change.

It’s very hard to maintain the rich lifestyle if you just rely on the winning money without any source of income to add on your winning money.

And all of that happens because of their lack of education. How can you buy a house, a car and some other things that you will not be able to sustain in the near future? That's why I say, spend the money you won on your education. Then you will be able to calculate how much you will need to spend each year on keeping those luxury things, and that you maybe don't need most of them to live a happy life, in the first place.

[Hispo]

Those news and stories of people winning the lottery in the United States and Europe do not have much on an impact on my perception on what gambling is supposed to be or over the chances I actually have to pull off some big win with change my life forever. Though, it is important to understand for any gambler out there, than those lotery businesses/organizations benefit greatly from the advertisment of the winners and the amount of money they have got, it obviously incite other to try their luck and buy their own tickets. It also happens with casinos when someone has the good luck to hit a jackpot.

By the way, it may be a little bit off topic, but I personally think there is some strategy being carry out by lotteries and Google News or certain news agencies, because I see sometimes in my feed several news about people who managed to become millionaire because of their local lottery, this cases you listed are an example. I would seem lotteries have paid some money for news to further advertise their services. It must be very effective, I assume.

My strategy as always been buying tickets with my family (when we used to) and keep a realistic/pessimistic approach.

[Strongkored]

In my country there is no official lottery because gambling is illegal so I only participate in online casinos but so far it hasn't worked because winning is not easy.
I read how happy people are who can win the lottery but there are also quite a few whose lives are ruined because the money they get turns out to change their life for the worse. It could be said that if you can win the lottery with fantastic value but our mentality is not good enough to bear it then everything will be bad for the one who wins it.
I'm sure that everyone who buys the lottery hopes to get the prize, and should also prepare themselves so that when it does happen it won't be a surprise and the money won will be unprofitable for the winner's life.

[Slow death]

My thoughts have to do with the lottery winners who end up worse off than before they won the lottery, totally broke and with more debt. They had better learn how to manage their wealth and not get carried away by the drunkenness of joy when it comes to spending their winnings. Have a little brains, please.

Unfortunately, this sad scenario has happened not only to lottery winners, but it has also happened to the winners of TV show competitions. In my country, for example, there was a guy who participated in a TV contest and he was the winner of that contest. Before entering the competition, they lived in their parents' house in a very poor neighborhood. but after he won the contest and consequently won a lot of money, he started living in a very expensive hotel in my country, the guy didn't even think about buying a house for himself, he got a girlfriend who lived in another country

but she moved to my country and went to live with him in the hotel, he bought her very expensive jewelry, he bought her very expensive cell phones, he bought her expensive cars, he traveled with her constantly to her country, In a few years all the money ran out and when he was poor again, she immediately abandoned him, and as he no longer had money to pay for a hotel, he returned to live at his parents' house. To this day he is still poor, he is poorer than before he won the competition

[Aanuoluwatofunmi]

I don't think if people are that much interested in participating for lottery because they are now open to several opportunities whereby they can apply to participate in, when it comes to being lucky, we already know that as one of the attributes associated to lottery, secondly, those that were being lucky in playing lottery don't see it as gambling at all, instead its something they just took their time in taking risk with to see how they could have opportunity in it.

[Lida93]

If you are reading this and you actively participate in lotteries as an regular player, these kind of lottery success stories can evoke a lot of emotions and responses. Which of these range of thoughts and feelings do you experience;

• my time is near
• it can't happen to me
• I wish I could win, even if it meant lower jackpots
• Indifferent

Honestly, I don't think have had any feeling that makes me think my time for a near win might be close after reading about another gamblers huge win story online, but I don't contend the fact that a huge win can happen to me.

Why I fight not to hold on to these sort of emotions is that they have a way of instigating an unimaginable loss to gamblers as they get carried away with those feelings.  In my few years of gambling, I have observed that the casino get packed by many unfamiliar faces after the news of huge win about one of the gamblers hits the neighborhood. And it happens that the casino get to make a bulk of profit during those periods when this kind of news spread out.

[Silberman]

Honestly, I don't think have had any feeling that makes me think my time for a near win might be close after reading about another gamblers huge win story online, but I don't contend the fact that a huge win can happen to me.

Why I fight not to hold on to these sort of emotions is that they have a way of instigating an unimaginable loss to gamblers as they get carried away with those feelings.  In my few years of gambling, I have observed that the casino get packed by many unfamiliar faces after the news of huge win about one of the gamblers hits the neighborhood. And it happens that the casino get to make a bulk of profit during those periods when this kind of news spread out.

This is why casinos that cheat their customers have no idea what they are really doing, the best promoters casinos could ever hope to have are their winners, as they are living proof that someone can make a bet, win and get paid a handsome amount of money, so when people hear that, they cannot avoid to think if the same could happen to them, and casinos can recover all the money they lost very quickly, so I do not find it surprisingly that this happened on your neighborhood.

[AmoreJaz]

Honestly, I don't think have had any feeling that makes me think my time for a near win might be close after reading about another gamblers huge win story online, but I don't contend the fact that a huge win can happen to me.

Why I fight not to hold on to these sort of emotions is that they have a way of instigating an unimaginable loss to gamblers as they get carried away with those feelings.  In my few years of gambling, I have observed that the casino get packed by many unfamiliar faces after the news of huge win about one of the gamblers hits the neighborhood. And it happens that the casino get to make a bulk of profit during those periods when this kind of news spread out.

This is why casinos that cheat their customers have no idea what they are really doing, the best promoters casinos could ever hope to have are their winners, as they are living proof that someone can make a bet, win and get paid a handsome amount of money, so when people hear that, they cannot avoid to think if the same could happen to them, and casinos can recover all the money they lost very quickly, so I do not find it surprisingly that this happened on your neighborhood.

As winning big in gambling is quite difficult, it is seen as a very good example that a gambler can still be lucky from time to time. So players are renewing their interest when they learn someone got his winnings and they feel that they can also be lucky with their games, hence, continued interest in betting.

Most gamblers feel that their luck will also come if they will continue to play. However, we all know that being lucky is quite difficult in this game. But guess what, even if they know their chances, they still play and try their luck.

I don't think if people are that much interested in participating for lottery because they are now open to several opportunities whereby they can apply to participate in, when it comes to being lucky, we already know that as one of the attributes associated to lottery, secondly, those that were being lucky in playing lottery don't see it as gambling at all, instead its something they just took their time in taking risk with to see how they could have opportunity in it.

But looking at the number of people who are buying lottery tickets, you will believe that this game is not yet dead. Because if it is, I don't think we will still see these lottery games in the market.