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There has been lots of talk recently in the news about lottery winners getting checks for $50, $100, $150 Million, changing their lives. Shortly afterwards, they have lots of old friends and relatives they had not talked to for a long time, calling them up for a friendly visit!
Be honest now: If someone in your extended family that you have a good relationship with, wins the Lottery and now has $150 Million (After Taxes) would you call or come by to see them and ask about the money, with the hope that you will be given something? Be honest now! Please discuss.
I wouldn't contact them at all. If I haven't been close to them and kept in contact with them, then why should I have the right to think that they owe me something because they won the lottery. It's ballsy of people to all of a sudden call a cousin or any family member they haven't seen or talked to in years.
If one of my sisters' won the lottery, I wouldn't ask for any, but I guarantee they'd give me something because that's just how they are and I'd appreciate whatever they gave me. My sisters and I are best friends.
They say that people come out of the woodwork when someone hits the lottery begging for money or feeling "entitled" because of blood.
I have cousins that I haven't seen or talked to in at least 10 years. I'm not calling them. Good for them! :-)
Not a chance in hell. If we're close enough, then perhaps they will feel the need to be generous. But that would need to be a decision totally on their part. I have no business trying to get any part of anyone else's money, regardless of whether they have $500 or $500M.
I'm not even sure I would call just to offer my congratulations. No matter how genuine my intentions, it would be viewed as me making a play for some cash.
I'd give them extra space at first but the revert to whatever level of communication we had before. Nothing more nothing less, at least not at my instigation.
No way. I've even old my mom that if they (my parents) were to win a big prize, I won't show up with my hand out or expect an inheritance. I hate hearing about people showing up out of the blue, like you owe them something because you know /knew them.
There has been lots of talk recently in the news about lottery winners getting checks for $50, $100, $150 Million, changing their lives. Shortly afterwards, they have lots of old friends and relatives they had not talked to for a long time, calling them up for a friendly visit!
Be honest now: If someone in your extended family that you have a good relationship with, wins the Lottery and now has $150 Million (After Taxes) would you call or come by to see them and ask about the money, with the hope that you will be given something? Be honest now! Please discuss.
No.
I see no need, if they want to remember me and "donate to my cause", they will do so.
I also DO NOT want to be one of those "distant relatives" {or even a 'close' relative} who "comes out of the wood work with a hand held out".
IF I won, I also would seek out my cousins, aunts and uncles and "donate to their cause" ONCE and tell them to only bother me if they want a friendly chat. And seeing as how I haven't heard from them for years except at funerals.{I used to be the one always calling them until I stopped and got no calls from them}, I'd find it really interesting if they suddenly became interested in my life after that. I'd equate it only to the money...then.
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