Every one has fantasized with friends and family members about what it would actually feel like to win the lottery. I for one have done it a few times. Okay, maybe more than a few times. We joke with friends, we daydream and wonder what life could look like if we had a few million to spare. Maybe you would choose to end the daily grind and just enjoy life. Why wait until your 65 to retire when you can quit your job and start playing golf instead right now. You could even buy that designer suit or dress that you always wished you could afford. You can finally shed those pounds by hiring a a live-in chef and a personal trainer just like celebrities do. Some think more extravagantly while others just want to simply live carefree and stop counting their pocket change. We are positive that you can imagine exactly how you would spend your millions. From your dream car to that house on the cul-de-sac you always dreamt about, the lottery is perceived to be the answer to everyones prayers.
This is exactly why Americans spend close to $70 billion dollars each year on lottery tickets. Why not take a chance on luck when you seem to be always reading about some guy who won the lottery in the news. Truth be told, the odds of winning the lottery are about 1 in 175 million. Do you still want to buy a lottery ticket now? Those odds don’t seem as favorable anymore.
The problem with actually winning the lottery is that it’s not only about fulfilling your own dreams anymore, every family member and fiend wants a piece of the action. Especially that friend from middle school that you haven’t talked to since. He really wants a slice of the millionaire pie. Out of 3,000 lottery winners in England, 3,700 mortgages for friends and family members were paid off. That is a lot of good karma right there.
Lottery winners however tend to be very frivolous with their money. The Floridian lottery winners were estimated to have gone broke within 5 years of receiving their money. People just don’t know how to hold onto that kind of cash especially when they are not used to dealing with so much money. Still, I’m sure we would all like to be given that test. Stacey was only 20 years old when she won the lottery. From working at a gas station cashier to a multi millionaire with multiple properties, you’re going to want to hear how she used her money an interesting way.
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Meet Stacey Lowry. She won five million U.S dollars in the lottery. When she found out that she had won the lottery back in 2000 she said that “I started crying, my legs were shaking and I couldn’t even stand up.” She was a gas station cashier in Primeville at the time and only 20 years old. She was the one who actually sold herself a winning ticket at the gas station. The first thing she did was call up mom and dad screaming, “I won! I Won!”
