Betting on Lotto is very popular here in our country. While scrolling on YouTube, I stumbled across a video about people who won the lotto but eventually lost all their fortune quickly through mismanagement or ignorance.
I cannot post the video as it is in our native language, but one of the examples is one guy who loses his millions because of overspending. He realizes all that he wants: luxury cars, houses, and jewelry and spends it on casinos, thinking he can make more money.
Another one is setting up a business that he does not know how to manage, he spends millions on this business venture but eventually folds up, and he loses all his fortune because of mismanagement.
Another winner is he entrusted his winnings to his relatives to claim because he did not know how to read and write and had no valid ID; he only got 20% of his total winnings because his relatives told him because of a deduction in the form of taxes.
With all these examples, do you think it is important for gamblers to have a do list in case they win a huge amount, and what are the first steps they should take?
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Lol, gamblers like myself honestly do not need a to do list, since my brain itself already contains more than enough to do lists, things I may never even finish if started 😁.
On a more serious note though, it's simple, may be those guys never really had any plan on what they could do with such money if they win, and eventually, they won it, its expected that they may squander it.
But for gamblers like myself, even if I win up to $1 billion dollars today, not a penny of it will be wasted (well, maybe a few thousand dollars though, but this depend on what our individual definition for "waste" is) as I have already made concrete plans of all the projects I will go into/excute as soon as I can afford to start it.
So for me, I do not think gamblers having a to do is necessarily, this can drive a gambler into betting or gambling much more than should be normal, which also can lead the gambler into losing much more than he or she can afford to lose - better to let winnings come naturally when a gambler isn't expecting it.