Why Winning The Lottery Is The Worst Thing That Can Happen To You 

Wooow! You have a lot of great ideas what you would do after winning the lottery. Do you think it should be mandatory to have a moratorium on the money for at least 6 months and a counselling before receiving the prize? Do you think one would handle the money more wisely opposed to collecting it immediatelly?

“Money doesn’t change people, money brings out a persons true self”

Moral of the story: Just don’t tell anyone

That's why every Lottery needs to be anonymous

Winning a lottery isn’t destroying your life, it’s just revealing the monsters and predators in your area that has been hiding to find a target, and lottery is their target mark

Rules of winning the lottery. 1. Get a lawyer. 2. Get an accountant. 3. Get out of town.

I wouldn't want anyone to know I won... I hate how the news paper has to announce the winner...

someone: YAY I WON THE LOTTERY! that kid you knew in school: remember when I gave you a sweet...

Why winning the lottery has some pros Your dad that left for 20 years will return

Winning the lottery is the best. If you know financial management.

So after seeing all of these stories, i still want to win the lottery

1. Create a trust to avoid publishing your name. 2. Don't be one of those less than smart people who publicize their face and real name in the media. 3. Trust no one until all legal stuff is set in place. The trust, your will, and so on.

"Don't tell anyone" TV Announcer: ...and the winner is this guy! This guy: Are you sh*tting me?

Moral of the story : If you win the lottery, don't tell anyone. In other words, don't be social Introverts : I see this as an absolute win

I don't understand why some states won't protect the winner's identity?

I’ve won the lottery 2 years ago. I won 2.4 million dollars. But I kept it a secret and I told no one. Not even my family or my girlfriend. But the funny thing is. Before I won the lottery I saw this video, it’s a blessing cause you never know what happens and you don’t know who can trust. I live a very happy life right now and no one really knows about it but my friends and family are getting very suspicious 😅

If I won, I would have hired a bodyguard from a trusted bodyguard business.

Money might not make you happy but I'd much rather cry in a Mansion

First rule after winning the lottery: Stay anonymous after collecting the price money. The end!

someone: * wins lottery * everyone: * USSR anthem intensifies *

A video like this makes people think this is the norm, considering worldwide there are hundreds of lottery wins every week and you've gone back 25 years for some of these stories 10 bad ones isn't awful. For every tragic lottery win there are hundreds of amazing experiences

So me not having friends to begin with might actually pay off...

Killing someone because they won the lottery is so dumb, you're going to get caught and even if you don't you won't be able to spend the money because it's not yours.

I’d hate to win. Part of life is aspiring to something greater, and winning the lottery gives you “everything”. Obviously not everything, but how much higher can you go? Life becomes empty at that point.

Man if I won the lottery I’d pay for college for my boys, pay my families houses off, and put a bit into retirement. I could survive being a streamer for the rest of my life 😂

why cant they just not announce the winner's name on tv and just contact the winners so they wont get harrassed?

Well using a brain would help on it?

6:23 I think every person in Britain cringed at his pronunciation and definition of chavs

Pro tip: Don’t tell anybody, then move to another side of the country.

protecting the winner’s identity should have been easy but no they chose to reveal it

Family: WE'RE RICH Person: What do you mean *we?*

I hate when family members disown u and hate u and when u get rich they act like they didnt disown u

When someone offers to help you with your too-much-money problem...run.

Just be anonymous, don't flex and don't buy useless crap you don't even like.

How to win the lottery and not suffer these fates in 10 easy steps: Step 1 - tell NO ONE, not a soul, no bragging to friends. nothing. Mums the word. You can tell your spouse IF your spouse is a reasonable person. If they are not reasonable keep them out of the loop too. Step 2 - DO NOT SIGN your ticket. Instead quietly take it down to your local bank and get a safety deposit box. Put your ticket there and walk away. Do it properly at the bank. sign all the right papers, do everything in order. Step 3 - FIGHT the impulse to get your money right then and there. you have your whole life to spend. Step 4 - this is the most important step. Go see a LAWYER at a LARGE firm. Tell them you won some money (they don't need to know how much you won) and ask them set up/form a TRUST for the winning ticket. Tell the lawyer you want the winnings to go to the Trust and not to you as an individual. THIS IS THE ONLY WAY TO KEEP YOUR NAME OUT OF THE PAPERS. Step 5 - Once the trust is set up sign your ticket over to the Trust. Have the lawyers for the trust submit the ticket for validation. Step 6 - Once your trust has the winnings. MOVE AWAY from your home town - even if just for a year a two. Maybe rent a fancy house or something and buy a FEW things you've always wanted, go on a trip - whatever. Step 7 - If you want to spread the wealth with family members now you can. Since your name was never in the papers you can say to them "I won at blackjack or whatever in Vegas and I'll share some with you". This lets the family member know they won't be getting millions and a one time win in Vegas is not the sort of well they can keep dipping into. Step 8 - LIVE BELOW YOUR MEANS. Yes, get a nice house (house NOT a MANSION) and drive a nice car (NOT A FERRARI or whatever). Go to school/college and learn about money - you now have the time and money to do so. Step 9 - over the years tell NO ONE (except spouse) you won the lottery. Step 10 : see step 9.

Back in the 1990s (Poland), a factory worker suddenly went in to his boss` office, and started yelling and spittting on him. A few seconds later, three of his co-workers ran in, screaming: 'Andy, we were only joking, you did not win the lottery!'

That's why I never bought a lottery ticket, I don't want to die or be kidnapped. I am still young and happy.

Money doesn't buy happiness, but I'd rather do my crying in a corvette.

The “don’t trust anyone” thing I don’t have to worry because I already don’t trust anyone

Me, who has been a financial advisor for 10 years: I see this as an absolute win!

States that make it mandatory to reveal the names of lottery winners contribute to these problems. People won't hound you to death if they don't know you won.

Me: *Wins lottery* A relative i havent seen in 10 years: *Bonjour*

I'm pretty sure Mr. Beast can handle that money

If i won the lottery i would keep it a secret 👁️👄👁️

I love that guy who spent his winnings on a 10 year long party, that's the way to do it, respect.

I think it's better not to publicly announce to mass media or public if u won lottery

Seriously if anyone wins, claim your winnings anonymously. Don't. Tell. Anyone. Lawyer up.

If I won the lottery I’d keep it a secret even to my family

This is why I want to win the lottery without anyone knowing

Just don’t tell anyone and don’t buy anything insanely expensive.

He just wants everyone else to stop buying lottery tickets

I know a friend that just won the lottery last week, the very next morning his father who went to buy milk 9 years ago came back. Must have been his lucky week.

Lotteries should come with witness protection as a side benefit

If I won the lottery, I'd pay of my student loans and use the remaining 20 bucks to see a movie :')

Meanwhile the other 98% of winners are loving life lol. Pay off debt, invest in many things that have a slow and steady ROI. go on vacation and work a job you enjoy.

so the main rules for winning the lottery is to NEVER tell anyone you won, don't spend your money in lavish items and don't keep your money lying around

Others: Hey I won the lottery! Me: Just keeps it in a savings pod

Those people constantly begging and even camping outside the winner's houses are pathetic asf.

'If you're always buying things you don't need now - you will end up selling things you do need later' - Warren Buffet

Thankfully here in NZ, there's no automatic naming of winners. Besides that, I've never told anyone would I do if I did win big. I was present when Dad and one of his workmates won $NZ340,000 between the two of them almost 25 years ago. Dad wanted to keep quiet about it. Mother was on the phone to all her friends / family within an hour. Other guy blew his half in 3-4 months, ended up worse off than he was before the win. A lesson was learned. Keep it all to myself. No one needs to know. I'd carry on working. Giving me time to get used to having all that money, while gaining a decent amount of interest. Spending on a little more than essentials only, so as not to draw attention to myself. Over time, slowly update/upgrade house, etc. No being flashy with it all.

It's so sad that some of the winners and people close to them end up with drug problems. With all that money, there are so many things you can do, so much freedom, and to throw it away on drugs is so sad.

It´s simple. Being rich doesn´t mean spending money, it´s keeping money.

It's called financial education. If you don't know how to use money, money will use you. If I was them, I would request for my name not to be public and invest every penny into properties. Rent them out and live off the rental income. Your lifestyle would drastically improve and look for ways of improving every aspect of your life. PROGRESS = HAPPINESS!

I think the problem with winning the lottery is that once you win big, the money you get there is all you will ever have, effectively. What you earn from normal work (if you continue to work) will be insignificant in comparison to the millions you just won, especially considering it is usually not rich people who play. So basically, we can ignore all further income and just assume that the winner will never earn money again. But that means that you have to budget differently. If you're used to being able to spend the money you have because that money comes from a regular, reliable source of income, you must change that mindset immediately, or your habit of spending what you have will lead to you spending all your money immediately for a lifestyle you can not sustain, leaving you back where you started after a few years. If you want to be provocative, you could say that winning the lottery doesn't make you rich, it removes your regular income for the rest of your life (or, less provocatively and more precisely, raises your expectation of lifestyle over what your income can support).

Me: wins lottery Half siblings that i never met: "i exist"

You instantly become a target for a ton of people

I bet there are 10 or 100 great lottery winner stories for every bad one..

It happened here, a poor fellow won and threw a party daily. The neighbor got envious and stabbed him to death.

If you win the lottery (somehow), try to keep your name anonymous and spend little amounts at a time. Only tell your closest family and friends that you *absolutely* trust about it. Then, you won’t get into trouble like these people.

1. I wouldn't tell anyone. 2- I'd get outta debt. 3- Donate some. 4- Invest the rest.

I see the strategy here. Scare everyone from playing to increase your chances of winning. Well played

There was one man i spain who won the lottery twice. His advice: put it in the bank, don't tell anyone and don't touch it for 3 months. And that's what i would do.

at first i would wear a disguise so that nobody could recognise me as the lottery winner, then i would buy a one way ticket to a small country, an example: liechtenstein or even the cayman isles.

The lottery is bad, if you don’t know how to use it and invest it.

It’s fine I’ll have Skillshare to teach me how to use it wisely 😂

80 year old man wins the lottery His classmate from Grade 1: heyyyyyyyyyy remember that time i let you borrow my pencil???

Me- Wins lottery Government- Ayo income tax we want that *Money gets depleted

The lessons are 1. Use your money wisely 2. Don’t brag

After watching this, winning the lottery is perfect for me

me:*wins the lottery* that one relative that is in the edge end of the family tree:Bonjour

Had a neighbor who's brother won the first lottery in Missouri. I talked to him once. He said its a challenge. No i did not ask him for money.

heres the common mistake: they all told everyone

Most lottery winners go broke because they don't know what to do with all that money besides spend it all

So get a lawyer, have 24/7 body guards, and move to an undisclosed location.

I remember the very first week we had the UK lottery, and my grandfather was one of the lucky winners. He won £10.

*"Money is numbers and numbers never ends, if it takes money to be happy, your search for happiness will never end"* -Bob Marley

If I won the lottery I think the best thing to do is not tell anybody.

How to survive geting the lottery: Get an ar 15 with 3 drum mags when you go out

Friends suddenly emerging from the past made me Laugh

I hate how they have to put the winner all over the news

Its not the lottery, its human greed.

Infographics show : Winning the lottery is a curse The quite kids : fine to me

Money isn't inherently evil. Mankind's abuse of it is. I know for a fact I wouldn't change much, except maybe for the better depending on how well I'd use it. It is a tool, and like any other serious entity must be respected

(In school) [opens a pack of gum] Everyone else: *mine mine mine mine mine* (In the real world) [wins the lottery] Everyone else: *mine mine mine mine mine* People never change

You guys should also do a video with people who got successful after winning

The worst thing I think about this is how that poor dude got his dogs throats slit and then had to pay the people who did it.

The only problem for some of these people were that they told someone or some people knew about their winnings if this didn't happen I think they would live a nice life

Winning the lottery isn't the main cause of these peoples troubles, its actually their ability of handling so much power. Money is everything in today's world, with money comes power, the reality is that most people aren't capable of handling so much power and tend to use the money in destructive ways. "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power" - Abraham Lincoln.

1 out of 4 drivers die texting while driving People: Not gonna be me 1 out of 350,000,00 chance of winning lottery People: you never know

Claim the money anonymously through a lawyer. Invest most of it. Move to another state. Live a modest life with expensive vacations.