I watched a show this weekend that highlighted 7 lottery winners. These lottery winners were a bit unusual because they actually still had a little of their money left. Their jackpots ranged from 2.4 million all the way up to 91 million. The show highlighted how many of these people had been extremely down on their luck before they won. One was living in a hotel, while another was living in a run down house that he couldn’t afford to fix up. I believe he was living on 300 a month. I found a lot of the show rather disappointing. The majority of the show was dedicated to each person walking around their house highlighting all the material things they had bought. One man spent hundreds of thousands on statues, while another gave a lot of it away. The only thing that I heard on the hour long show that stuck with me was one man saying that he only spent the interest that his money was making. I’m sure that’s a bit of an exaggeration, but it was nice to hear him say that he recognized that by keeping most of his money, he could use it as a tool to generate income to keep him comfortable for the rest of his life. One other thing that I found interesting was how good each of them said they felt when they helped others. You could see their eyes light up as they recalled different times that they were able to use a little of their money to help someone out. It obviously meant a lot to them.
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