Lottery winners who don't spend all of their winnings

[Jõnathan]

The greatest people who win the lottery are the ones who just ignore winning the money, like the £19,000,000 winner of Saturday's lottery:
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/pressass/20...6323e80_1.html
Is an aortic aneurism curable? :S
Anyway, this is what the small majority of lottery winners do - they ignore the fact they won the money, and carry on with their lives. I just hate those who go "OH MY GOD I WON THE LOTTERY *SPEND SPEND SPEND*"
This is what more lottery winners should be like.

[UnitedRoad]

I disagree. What's the point in ignoring the money. Atleast spend some of it.

[jesus]

why should they? they should do what they want as long as they are enjoying themselves and not harming anyone else.

[Jõnathan]

why should they? they should do what they want as long as they are enjoying themselves and not harming anyone else.

No, what I meant was that people who just ignore the fact they've won the lottery and just carry on with normal life.
There was an elderly couple who won I think £2,000,000 on the lottery and have never spent one penny of it.
Sorry if I didn't make it clear in the first post.

[Mr.Sam]

you would just get bored without a job or a hobby to do daily.

[UnitedRoad]

you would just get bored without a job or a hobby to do daily.

No you wouldn't!

[jesus]

No, what I meant was that people who just ignore the fact they've won the lottery and just carry on with normal life.
There was an elderly couple who won I think £2,000,000 on the lottery and have never spent one penny of it.
Sorry if I didn't make it clear in the first post.

yeah but thats silly. you were saying 'more people should do it', so i was saying that they can do what they want with it. its not 'better' to not spend a penny rather than buy loads of stuff.

[Mr.Sam]

if you read the article it does say they can cure it but it needs to be a certain size.

The greatest people who win the lottery are the ones who just ignore winning the money, like the £19,000,000 winner of Saturday's lottery:
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/pressass/20...6323e80_1.html
Is an aortic aneurism curable? :S
Anyway, this is what the small majority of lottery winners do - they ignore the fact they won the money, and carry on with their lives. I just hate those who go "OH MY GOD I WON THE LOTTERY *SPEND SPEND SPEND*"
This is what more lottery winners should be like.

[dannyisnotamazing]

Whats point in having 19million if your not gunna spend it, shed rather give it back and get health? Well she can't, so she might aswell spend it.

Whats point in keeping it, spend it on things you want, it's there to be used. lol.

[Jõnathan]

you would just get bored without a job or a hobby to do daily.

I think there was a survey carried out a while ago that said something like 5% of all major lottery winners carry on in employment.
Or something along the lines of that.
I do know that there was a postman and a milkman who won the lottery and they continued doing their jobs.
It's really a matter of persepctive on whether you see the lottery as positive or negative.