This week we heard that someone in Western Australia has won 50 million dollars. The Lotto winners have yet to claim their prize and so the search is on to discover who has become an instant multi-millionaire. It’s the largest amount ever to be won in Western Australia and Lotterywest tells us it wasn’t a syndicate but a single ticket, meaning that one person is the winner. I reckon people all over WA should be a little nicer to those around them in case they’re talking to a new millionaire without knowing it.
I can assure you that it wasn’t me who won. The fact that I’ve never bought a ticket in my life kind of guarantees that.
Obviously there are winners in all kinds of lotteries but the odds of winning a big prize aren’t all that good. I’ve done a little research and you’ve got a much better chance of being killed by lightning, being blackmailed or seriously injuring yourself while shaving. While I’d prefer to have 50 million dollars in my pocket than the other three options, I know that the chances aren’t all that great so I don’t bother buying tickets.
Mind you, that doesn’t stop me from thinking of what I would do with the 50 million if someone gave it to me. I’d be able to secure my financial future, help out some friends, and give some substantial funding to a number of causes I’m passionate about.
What would you do if you were suddenly 50 million dollars richer?
I know that most people would spend their money in the same way, whether they had a lot or very little. If you are generous when you don’t have much you’re likely to be generous if a large sum ever comes your way. If you’re the kind of person who only spends on themselves, you’re unlikely to become generous to others if you suddenly become rich. All the talk of giving to good causes if people ever get the money to do so generally comes to nothing unless we’ve set the pattern with the little or much that we already have.
I don’t have a lot of money but I do try to support causes that I believe in as much as possible. I’m very unlikely to ever find myself swimming in cash but if that ever happened, I hope that I would be generous with my money.
So, dream a little. How would you use $50 000 000?
UPDATE:The winners, a family in Perth’s southern suburbs, have now claimed their prize.
One of the winners, whose names have not been revealed, said she started “seriously shaking” seeing all the numbers line up.
“I thought I must have been seeing things,” she said in a statement.
“We’re just a hard battling family and we don’t want this win to change us.
“This never happens to people like us!”
The family will use the money to undertake home renovations and pay down their debt.
“Now we can pay off debt, take care of our family and do some much needed home renovations,” they said.
“We also want to donate to charity and we can with this amount.” – ABC News
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Yesterday morning I heard that someone in Western Australia had won 20 million dollars. The Lotto winners, a suburban couple, claimed their prize yesterday. It’s the largest amount to be won in Western Australia so far this year and is the fourth biggest in WA history.
It’s always nice to win something and money’s always a pretty good prize.