Do you know why people still say trash about gambling, probably after winning they don't have any plan with their money and they just don't want to buy something valuable after winning so from year to year they can't brag with any property they achieved from their winning money that's why they keep saying trash about gambling, this act is very rare mostly in my area. Sometimes people should also see the good side of gambling and afterward let's not joke with the money rather let's use that money to buy something nice just like what the op did but greed will not allow some addict to do same.
I wish I have an extraction Smerits, I would have given you some because you just said exactly what was on my mind, however that's true, many gamblers don't know what to use their money for, so even if they win bigger money or small money they will still use them to gamble instead of using part of it to buy or do something that when ever they sees it, they will remember where they got the money to buy them.
Like the OP, she did well because it is not every gambler that will do as she did, because some of them can might find it very difficult to stop playing and use their money to do important things for them.
Although, a lot of gamblers don't know what to use their money for, that's why they can still gamble and lose back the money that they win from gamble, think about it,,, most gamblers, if they win, they sill not withdraw the money, they will still gamble with it because they might be thinking that the money is not enough to do what they want to use it for and some gamblers don't really know what to use the money for.