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🗓️ 17 June 2024
⏱️ 23 minutes
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We’ve all heard stories of people winning insane amounts of money on the lottery and, due to their lack of self-discipline and financial know-how, squandering every penny. But not every lottery winner is so foolish. The smart ones can offer a lot of insight on what to do if you ever win. From the man won the lottery 7 times, to the hilarious ways winners have remained anonymous, let’s check out the smartest lottery winners of all time.
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0:33.9 | We've all heard stories of people winning insane amounts of money on the lottery and due to their lack of self-discipline and financial know-how, squandering every penny. |
0:39.5 | But not every lottery winner is so foolish. |
0:42.2 | The smart ones can offer a lot of insight on what to do if you ever win. |
0:47.5 | From the man that won the lottery seven times to the hilarious ways winners have remained anonymous, |
0:52.3 | let's check out the smartest lottery |
0:54.6 | winners of all time. Apart from having a cool surname, Emma Wilden was a stay-at-home bomb from |
1:13.0 | Cinderford, England. But everything changed for Emma and her family that fateful morning when |
1:18.0 | she purchased a lottery scratch card on a whim and won one one million pounds. Unlike the USA, where |
1:25.0 | most lottery winnings are taxed by default in the UK, only the interest gained on the winnings as taxed. |
1:31.0 | So, with the full one million pounds at her disposal, many doors had opened for Emma and her family. |
1:36.5 | While Emma wisely tried to keep her win a secret, a local newspaper caught wind of it, and it soon became public knowledge. |
1:43.5 | But despite this, aside from her elderly |
1:45.5 | parents, Emma made yet another smart decision in not giving handouts to everyone who began |
1:50.2 | expectantly asking for them. As many lottery winners learn all too soon, once you start handing |
1:55.6 | out cash to extended family and friends, it can soon get out of hand. Relationships change for the worse, and the risk of |
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