the ripple right. david has been very generous to his friends this small gathering cost him almost $12000.00. after a 12 person congar ride down the water slide the fireworks begin. the 10 minute spectacle cost $8000.00. 5 years after winning david and erica have stuck to their promise. they've stayed true to their roots however there are plenty of temptations for a lottery winner and the money can disappear all too quickly. on an almost daily basis jack does

a full 18 holes on his favorite course good shot. you can't handle the pressure you can't handle the pressure they know that jack has now turned 50 and can live the kind of charmed life that used to be the stuff of dreams. my name is jack straw saying from buffalo new york and we won the lottery 4 years ago $1000.00 a day for life and it never ends until i die so i have nothing to worry about anymore and this is what i do on my days off. for jack did win less than the herrick's but he now has a constant supply of cash keep his parents and his brother one cash for life $365000.00 a year until they die which they divide between them so every year jack jeff and jack sr are wired $120000.00 regardless jack quit his job as a nurse immediately. right down the middle.

and now he's making the most of his early retirement. since winning the lottery jack's life is like one big vacation after golf he heads out shopping. 0 0 buffalo is in the western new york state it has a fair share of skyscrapers and office buildings but by american standards this is a city of average size with close 230-0000 residents. it's one of the oldest ports in the eastern u.s. and proud of its industrial past jack has lived here all his life as have some of his oldest friends this afternoon he's going to flex his bank card with joey somebody oh it's through a new car it's going to do a thing jack sets off to buy himself a new car. joey

has been through a lot with jack especially during his somewhat turbulent professional career 1st he was a nurse then moved on to stock trading before losing everything i know you used to work for a living. he wasn't as much fun but you said he was far. more time to do things is less stressed right there. kind of rich before the trade stocks that's when they like me and then when i had that when i became 4 they said they don't want to hang out with me anymore i had to move home for a year to make fun of me and jack is now earning $10000.00 a month by doing absolutely nothing. today he's picking up his new toy a $50000.00 state of the art s.u.v. . for this watery winner temptation is never far

away. it is pretty sweet is that the new one. it's always $60000.00 that's not lost. maybe that's my next one. bloodstone. this former nurse has absolutely no regrets and would never have been able to afford this kind of car before. quite as fast. it's 3 in the afternoon midweek and this young retiree seems to have a lot of friends for everyone's here jack's winnings unable to him to move to a quiet suburban neighborhood quiet everywhere except jack's place. says some crazy person drawl this car park far. from. office park or hereford. he bought this spacious house and as you'll see it became party central in the neighborhood but his friends haven't come to enjoy his

bachelor stylish interiors and golf trophies but brings jack's friends around and more importantly his female friends is found right behind this door. is going up and back here. every afternoon even when he isn't home his yard becomes a kind of spring break destination these young people don't even wait for him to get home before starting the party. sorry. but stop. being a. jack is a veteran partier and knows all the bars in buffalo thanks to his lottery winnings his house. this is now the place to be. it's open bar for all the women even if none of them are his girlfriend. whose call snow. i

supply the pool the music in the waterfall in the sunshine. and my company that's the most important part. did he know all of them before winning the lottery all of them all of those are friends for 10 years or so those are my barge thunder c. are they out of work later on at night so they got on board by myself during the day so i need friends to come over the total cost to produce oh i don't know. not a lot. not a lot not only when you win the lottery it's not ok i'll jump off the waterfall for you guys. jack has built his own personal paradise on this 300000 dollar estate there's just one tiny thing missing from his otherwise perfect life. more socks.

more for that i'm going to swallow. real. real real true real. jack is constantly surrounded by distinctly younger women but is still single a life without financial worry and largely comprising rest and recreation. but his parents who have a share in the winnings 2 aren't happy with his lifestyle they have just 5 minutes away. from the door. you. do in your story. though. both 73 year old jack sr and his wife sharon want their son to find a wife and are concerned about his lax lifestyle or and they don't hesitate to remind him every time he visits. i mean i wouldn't mind if you got now.

a lot there and be a little cleaner out of this else. it's a lazy fun while that's the amount lazy i just don't feel like work and i got a golfing was hard today it was hard to. call thing pool parties it's darts never invite us over for a bit to use your pool and go over now to morrow became a tomorrow's bikini sundays. plus it was tough it was 32 or topless tuesday this tuesday tuesday where every year you better not get rid of all your. tracks sr and sharon are a lot wiser with their winnings and their only luxury this 370 square meter house with a sizeable yard for their sheets to put pita to roam around and. dad was a steelworker while mom stayed home to take care of the family the couple always had

to work hard to get by and they still haven't gotten used to living in such luxury this is like kids. have the beautiful microwave and the beautiful fridge raider. they do all my cooking here i even have a dishwasher which i've never had in my whole life. and to use it no i use a day at thanksgiving and christmas. sharon and jack sr would have never been able to afford all this with their pension which is less than $1000.00 a month. jack finally got to buy himself something he'd always dreamed of having welcome to my basement. the best about the house is my man cave basement where men can be man. this is his pride and joy with a movie lounge and a blown up poster of the ticket that changed his life. they all came out it was our

birthdays the numbers 417-2021 they come out exactly sister way i put of the ticket. before hitting the jackpot the lives of both sons and his family seem to be already mapped out with small and poorly paid jobs and long years of hard work. and we never goes to give the kids spending money they always they were a boy or boys why sure is this station at 14 years old yeah. earn their own money you know or you know one of the we're only going where they go not anymore anymore i don't have to work that's why real organs as leverage wow you can't get rid of so he's no longer stuck in the eat work sleep routine now jack is a poster boy for the lottery and in the us the lottery is

a huge business to encourage americans to keep playing in betting jackpots keep growing and those who do win make the front pages and become famous overnight. welcome californias latest millionaire. it seems people can't get enough of these lucky winners monikers some have even been featured in reality t.v. shows or maybe maybe i'll read you. like this one where the host helps them find their new dream home happy winners who are more than willing to show the world their new lifestyle after striking gold. we're now in denver colorado at the foot of the rocky mountains. this smug looking building his home to the state lottery commission contrary to

popular belief a lottery industry is run not by big business but by public authorities. how are you today. i think i just won something hey is a real estate agent she has 5 out of 6 numbers in the latest powerball. yeah yeah ok if they won 30000 i think this tidy sum will allow her to enter the winner's club. those the lottery chooses to feature in its populous city. 3030000. yeah happiest place on earth the best. case photo will be a mediately posted on the moderation website where she will join the winners in america having money is certainly not frowned upon and when people when they're eager to make it public. it's really important that people seeing real coloradans

where you know when they see someone like a they know ok so it really wasn't. a colorado lottery makes the most of the winners relation and the winner seem happy to tell the whole world. filming the reaction of people when they find out how much they won makes for great advertising . and we're about to surprise diego b. with a huge check for a quarter of a $1000000.00 c.d.n. go through. this and it is for you i think your christmas just got a whole lot better you just want to. know. you know. you just run to. the lottery arranged everything beforehand with diego's family. man that's a quarter of a $1000000.00 a year it changes all over that one or else you will have her. whether

surprising people at work or at home the message is the same this could happen to anyone anytime anywhere all you have to do is play. but there is also a dark side to the. what winners do not get along with their check is advice about financial issues awaiting them for some winning the jackpot can be the start of a nightmare. in canada just across the border from the majestic niagara falls daniel became a victim of his own success. he's a member of niagara united

a counseling group that helped him get back on track. to your partner who blew your head. he was just 23 years old when he wanted jackpot worth $5000000.00. i felt like i was on top of the world and that you know that this money would just never run out is almost like i was living the life of the rock stars just go party and within 2 years both choose to marry me to nath $1000000.00 was gone and businesses. and the rest also went down the drain over the next 2 years due to substance abuse a habit initially funded by the lottery when i was are is heavily addicted and. and. i had to resort to sawing drugs was right back up you know $45600.00 a day he eventually ended up in prison where he spent 2 and

a half years for dealing drugs ironically this is what saved him he had to get clean. that's where i've been and that's some of the stuff that has helped me get to where i am today. and. daniel is far from an isolated case one 3rd of winners ultimately end up losing everything it's a phenomenon known as the curse of the modern. 'd daniel's father jed and his sister naomi watched helplessly as he fell from riches to rags. i almost cried like don't look at makes it right i haven't said let's not . do that. and daniel is now back on the straight and narrow but at the age of 40 this former millionaire is penniless and had to return to live with his parents in this

relatively modest house. there are these. guys of it if. a man who believed he was on top of the world while spending up to a $1000.00 a day on drugs now works as a car mechanic daniel is still recovering the lottery almost broke him and his entire family. was just after the watery when. you kind of see my eyes you can tell us quickly they're all dark around the edges from not sleeping much. and been the worst thing that ever happened. it took him down arrow. all of those we basically lost him we tried so many different times to you know get him to stop doing what he was doing her trying to minute by no knocks leave me alone sleep me alone. as soon as the check was cashed jed and naomi saw fake friends crooked

investors and other scammers descending on daniel like vultures to get the claws into a deep and. it was kind of irreversible well when he hit rock bottom that was the call it cut and he came to us and asked if we could come home we gave him this the rules no more of this no more of that. and we always looked at him conditionally and. daniel's $5000000.00 when a century ruined 15 years of his life he's never bought a lottery ticket since for all winners managing millions of dollars without any preparation can be a struggle. one of them decided to

launch a campaign against these easy money traps. timothy scholtz is one of the youngest powerball winners ever in the u.s. . prior to hitting the jackpot he worked at a gas station like this one. tim was $21.00 and broke when he won a check for $14000000.00. so my father woke me up. i was sleeping banged on the door and he basically said to him somebody won the powerball she knew that i played once was there and i looked at the numbers in the newspaper because the surreal is like is this if felt like a dream and then we literally started hugging each other like to you know grown people in it it's your kids in a candy store that's what it felt like. the young gas station attendant from rural iowa sold himself his own winning ticket he became rich and famous overnight

. and so i couldn't go anywhere i couldn't go to the grocery store without people reckon. people ask me for my autograph 2 decades later he's back to being anonymous as a girl on a good one powerball ticket was. he still plays the lottery every week hoping to win again. just holding that stick it is like i mean i know the power that comes with this if you happen to wear out the emotional thrill is still there but his fortune has plummeted from 14 down to just 5 $1000000.00 a big fan of cinema tim put some of his winnings toward organizing festivals and producing his own animated films all of which. he decided to go online to prevent other moderate winners from making the same mistakes he did his you tube channel provides winners with

a product form to share their stories whether positive or negative. says the 1st lottery winner i'm actually going to be interviewing in person so this is going to be funny. today he's meeting denise who lives in an upscale suburban neighborhood in mantega california. i didn't hear you say how are you good have a good. this is a beautiful home thank you i spotted a nice in a real estate lottery winner show in which she won 785000 dollars. ready for this wow. she now lives in this beautiful villa with 2 of her 8 children before the big win she was working 3 jobs and had just lost her home to live their lives there my grandson lives here his mother that serna sister would see that i said it's hotel motel

a holiday if. only for all my daughters because. in case there. men are assholes they could always count home that's why the loving mother didn't spend her cash on luxury cruises or a big car she invested everything in this house to give her family a home and set herself up for retirement she wants to send out a message on tim's channel sit down where all this focus. if you do win the lottery you need to learn how to resist temptation people want to live their life why they travel why you acts like a man and you know that's all get it into it to really. get an interview. tim received hundreds of letters from strangers asking for money. working winners also need to learn how to say no even to friends and family it's one of the most important lessons i had to learn because it's really tough especially when it

struck people that i love if i gave everyone what they wanted i would have been broke a long time ago. to how igs in nebraska have so far managed to avoid these traps that more naive winners fall victim to they were quick to learn how to manage their $62000000.00 driving their beefy pickup truck with golf cart in tow the couple are headed out to their latest major investment. and our away from their mansion they've bought 400 hectares of land forests and ponds right in the middle of nebraska farming country. the herrick's are effectively the new lords of oto county.

although it is as such more david's estate. and when asked if she likes the farm. america says no to gird it's too dirty. david has gotten into farming. ready. to rent some of the land out to local farmers and cash in on a percentage of their profits. the rest is for him a $300.00 hectare private estate for hunting and fishing a dream come true for david even if not so much for erica. that freddie you. hear. this all the land all together was 2 and a half $1000000.00 so you know you can't go wrong owning land take care of it so that's the biggest thing but the last erica doesn't really see the point of this

huge investment despite being multi-millionaires they still try to remember the value of money you've got to always be aware of what you're spending because it goes quick while big or small your budget is you got a budget and their monthly budget is about $25.00 grand a month so who's the big spender. he buys big things cars trucks so my little $20.00 purchases versus his. $30000.00 car america is more cautious but the couple could easily move like royalty the interest alone generated from their fortune turns them $500000.00 a year oh boy it is toys david could chill out at home all day but this isn't that kind of family. for us at our age for being young and retired. and you still have to do something you can't just i'm tired cetera will. thank you with everything.

david enjoys his newly found leisure time before the lottery he barely had time to see his family between his 2 jobs but since winning he's been able to realize a childhood dream and become a volunteer firefighter it's a commitment that also enables him to keep his feet on the ground. it's nice to have people record being recognized like that for more than just the lottery. but because of the lottery was one quick moment. but i'm still the same person i got to be i got to be true to myself still and i try to you that you're my service to the community will save can now take the wheel of the kind of truck some boys dream up. to. we'll be taking it out around gretna for the national holiday every 4th of july locals pay tribute to their firefighters who watch over

the city voluntarily. you always go to other calls your purpose always have some get you out of bed for. 3040 or 40 years figure out a way and like it changed well. since winning he's donated almost $150000.00 to michael charities he's become grutness big benefactor. and it's part of his lottery winners recipe for success being appreciated for who you are not what you hand. over in buffalo jack is less selfless with what he spends he prefers to make the most of his money in the moment. then charity and. the life of a young and rich rich. shireen. ladies on most nights you'll find him partying with

friends and their girlfriends. live in a flat a 3 chairs service law. thanks to his laundry winnings jack can revel in all day parties like this while other americans continue to dream of hitting the jackpot. meanspirited does seem. pretty cool music on. the. classical plus the horn player sara willis joins in with gusto. march 24th and

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