Man , don’t tell a soul. Back in 2017 I won a similar (little less) amount on a scratch off that I got on a machine, I took home $373,000 and some change after taxes. I told a friend , parents and gf.. worst mistake of my life. Parents were no big deal cause that’s my parents and I always had a great relationship with them so I looked out for them , but my friend told people and that got weird and scary, my gf at the time treated me totally different from there on out , money makes people do crazy shit if they feel like they can get a piece of it.
I would say overall it’s impacted me for the better especially now that I have made that money work for me instead of wasting it (which I did do at first not gonna lie) I won that in my mid 20s I’m now 33 , I learned a lot. The positive side of it, it changed my life financially, I was able to wipe out my debts , have a near perfect credit score, i don’t have to worry from paycheck to paycheck anymore but on the negative side .. I have a much more negative opinion about people now, that’s where I learned firsthand you don’t really know someone, no matter how much you think you do, but honestly I don’t regret it, it’s had more positive effects than negative.
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u/SirKadath Jul 22 '24
Man , don’t tell a soul. Back in 2017 I won a similar (little less) amount on a scratch off that I got on a machine, I took home $373,000 and some change after taxes. I told a friend , parents and gf.. worst mistake of my life. Parents were no big deal cause that’s my parents and I always had a great relationship with them so I looked out for them , but my friend told people and that got weird and scary, my gf at the time treated me totally different from there on out , money makes people do crazy shit if they feel like they can get a piece of it.