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By: No Credit Needed » Blog Archive » 100 Comments Series Part 2

No Credit Needed » Blog Archive » 100 Comments Series Part 2 — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 18:46:38 +0000

[...] Everybody Loves Your Money, I don’t play the lottery, but I wonder if one of our fellow pf bloggers won the thing, would [...]

By: jody

jody — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 18:17:49 +0000

I think really winning the lottery would be hard on a some people who have never had much in life.If I ever do win the lottery I would really set back and have to get a grip on reality.Things could go horribly wrong for me and others like me who havent had much in life who go to work and come home.I think the first thing you should do is NOT tell anyone that you know you hit the lottery at first.Realize who your real family and friends are.There probably would be more people knocking at your door and ringing the phone off the hook then you would ever care to know wanting something I would guess.I would definatly help others after everything settled down.If I knew someone that lived nearby who won the lottery,I would ask them for a handout….

By: Marina

Marina — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 09:25:07 +0000

I suppose by this fact those, who have won their money, differ from those, who have earned it. Easily received, easily lost. The money is considered by the lottery winners only as a mean for material valuables and not as a source of the future income.

By: moom

moom — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 23:20:18 +0000

Most people don’t know how to manage money because they never have much to manage. And the people who are worse at managing money are more likely to play the lottery. So plenty of those people win. Of course stories about people who invest it wisely aren’t fun and those guys likely also keep a low profile to get away from all the scammers and charities that go after lottery winners.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 22:26:52 +0000

I used to be a pizza delivery kid when I was in highschool. There was this one guy that would come down to the pizzeria or I would deliver to him. He was a young guy that won the lottery, I believe several million, and he took the 25 or 30 year payout. To make a semi-long story short he was throwing his money away on a big house, rotating cars and motorcycles and gambling. I don’t know if he was a little loopy before he got the money or became that way but he had some major issues. I am amazed that every week someone is winning loads of money for free and they are probably going to end up blowing it. I really hope the schools are putting to good use the millions they are receiving from the state lotteries.

By: LAMoneyGuy

LAMoneyGuy — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 15:06:15 +0000

Haz,
I saw this show and came away with the same feeling. Did you notice that the ponytailed guy who claimed to only be spending his interest couldn’t have been right about the calculations? He won $41mil, and claims to earn $16k per day from the bank. This can’t possibly be right. First of all, after the “cash out” he gets about half, then take out taxes and he’s down to just a little more than $10mil. But ignoring that, and the multi million dollar house, and assume he really has $41mil “in the bank.”

In ordre to earn $16k/day he needs to earn 14% “from the bank.” Wow, I need to know where that bank is.

By: Julia

Julia — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 11:03:16 +0000

Hello! you know, it is the last thing to believe in lotteries. Few days ago I also became a lottery winner on-line. My number of the e-mail fitted with the UK national lottery and I supposed to win $500,000,000! I wrote them if it is a real lottery, they answered me that everything is legal, asked me to write all my identifications and bank account and for 3 days I am waited my money. I don’t know were from they took that my address is Iran. They sent me a confirmation slip, that all money were sent there, in the bank of Iran. ??? I gave them nothing about this country, but I think it is another speculation. They can answer me kind like this: “sorry, we really have mistakenly sent your money,please,sent on this account $500 and we will return your money”
Oh, they will wait it from me until the death.
Please, don’t believe such speculators! They gain money and not we, ordinary people. No one will give you such an amount for free.
Just drive your way and gain money by yourself, and surely you’ll get the pot!

By: NCN

NCN — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 18:32:52 +0000

Everybody Loves Your Money,
I don’t play the lottery, but I wonder if one of our fellow pf bloggers won the thing, would they blog about it? Would they share would the rest of us? Would we ever hear from them again…?

Everybody Loves Your Blog,
NCN

This comment is part of my 100 Comments Series over at No Credit Needed.

By: ~Dawn

~Dawn — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 01:11:13 +0000

“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.”

I agree- I felt like I was watching cribs for the pony-tailed lottery winner, at times. It was interesting to see how luck/fate played a part when people were in the slumps financially.