Do you believe that lottery curse thing?
5 Answers to "Do you believe that lottery curse thing?"
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I have a good friend that won $1 million in a lottery in 1989. At that time, the winners could only get the money paid out over twenty years, at $50K a year. He told me that after taxes were taken out he had about $36K a year income. His wife didn't work, so their standard of living went up by an amount of what they would have seen if his wife had worked at a decent 1989 wage rate job. The money they received the second year went towards a down payment on a new home, where they still live. My friend and his wife weren't idiots with their money.
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No curse.
Money changes people and most people are terrible at managing it.
They should really share it around to avoid the "curse".Like (1)
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No. People just don't know how to handle it so they go crazy and get in trouble. The worst example of the lottery curse is Jack Whittaker who lost his granddaughter because he gave her such an exuberant allowance and was found wrapped in a tarp under a junked van outside her boyfriend's house near Scott Depot. State police said her body had been there for weeks but would not comment on a report that she died of a drug overdose. They buried her on Christmas Eve.
Whittaker has had hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash stolen from his cars, home and office. He has pleaded no contest to assaulting and threatening to kill a bar manager. He has twice been arrested on drunken-driving charges and was accused of groping women at a racetrack. People can be greedy and there wasn't a day that went by when someone asked him for a handout. .Like (1)
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I heard about that story that really sucks.
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I feel very sorry for him a great example of what not to do.
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trying to cut down the odds ....what about the 55million who don't use EP?
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Posted by bongus Aug 10th, 2012 at 10:14AM
i don't think it's a curse. i think it's just irresponsibility.
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