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Me and a friend were heading to a bar some years ago. On the way he stopped at 3 stores and bought 3 separate scratch offs. Each one was a winner, total came to about $400 I recall. On the home he bought more but lost. Still had cash left over from the night out after so guess it worked out ok.
Back in the 80s I get a $1K check in the mail from my mom. There is a note saying general things along with Dad and I won the lottery. No other details.
I call, breathless. Turns out they hit all five numbers in the Florida Fantasy 5. $28K gross, 20K after taxes. They bought a portable sauna for their (large) bedroom. I don't know what they did with the rest of the money. Never asked, nor would I.
I saw a documentary about the guy that won the first $1M in the MD lottery in about 1969. About $30K a year for thirty years and this was the last year. He was a night shift cab driver in Vegas living a nondescript life. Moved 7 times due to the publicity. Made bad investments. Never hit it big.
Not long ago a middle aged couple here in Yucaipa won over 100 million dollars. They bought a 7 mil dollar home in oak glen (above Yucaipa in the mountains) & gave money to their church & church members (each member received 25.00). I saw the couple at the grocery store last year bragging about their win fall & what they plans to do with the money. The couple is not shy.
We hit 5 out of 6 in the CA lottery...unfortunately back then that was only worth $1500. But it does give me hope that it can happen!
Same here. I hit 5 out of 6 numbers (got them all except the Powerball number and I was three digits off on that one) back in the mid 1990s. In those days my win was only $2,500. Today it would be $1 million.
I dont play the lottery often anymore, although I've won several hundred dollars on a few scratch-offs.
The lottery drawing for the Powerball jackpot will be $1.5 Billion tomorrow evening, which brings up an interesting topic to mind. I always wondered what happened to people who actually won a lottery jackpot grand prize. I read stories in the past, but the stories that are reported are always about the worst case scenarios which always make national headlines. I think there was someone on here named MordinSolis, who won and told us his experiences here on City-Data Forum. Have any of you won a jackpot, and if so, what were your experiences? If you know someone who won, what were his/her stories? Good luck to everyone on tomorrow's record setting Powerball drawing.
I have not If I did win something like that, I have a whole bunch of people I want to share it with. I want to do something like start an org that helps pregnant women or create a block of flats that are all designed for minimum wage workers, like a whole block of studio apartments that are clean and safe but don't have a lot of bells and whistles. I'd be pretty strict on rules (no animals for one) because I would need to mitigate problems from the get go and anticipate stuff. But I always wanted to help the poor somehow, too. Sometimes you don't need a massive place, you just need a place that's clean and safe to call your own. I guess that's just a dream.
Not long ago a middle aged couple here in Yucaipa won over 100 million dollars. They bought a 7 mil dollar home in oak glen (above Yucaipa in the mountains) & gave money to their church & church members (each member received 25.00). I saw the couple at the grocery store last year bragging about their win fall & what they plans to do with the money. The couple is not shy.
Wow, talk about storing up your treasures in Heaven!
My brother won several smallish lotteries and also one for $65,000 which isn't huge but it also isn't all that small.
It never seemed to make any appreciable difference in his life. And I hate to think of all the money he spent on lottery tickets over the years.
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If I did win something like that, I have a whole bunch of people I want to share it with. I want to do something like start an org that helps pregnant women or create a block of flats that are all designed for minimum wage workers, like a whole block of studio apartments that are clean and safe but don't have a lot of bells and whistles. I'd be pretty strict on rules (no animals for one) because I would need to mitigate problems from the get go and anticipate stuff. But I always wanted to help the poor somehow, too. Sometimes you don't need a massive place, you just need a place that's clean and safe to call your own. I guess that's just a dream.
