The shock of winning $21.4 million in a lottery was nothing compared to the jolts Craig Henshaw felt later.
They were not pleasant.
The story of Craig Henshaw, multi-millionaire, began one day last September when Craig Henshaw, high school teacher, went digging through his pockets for the $35 he had left to pay for some groceries. He had just enough cash to get him through the rest of the week, before the first paycheck of the new school year would come through.
He handed over the cash, plus a 2-month-old Lotto Max ticket. It had been plastered to the side of his fridge while he had spent the summer backpacking in Europe with his girlfriend.
(See Toronto teacher claims $21.4M lottery jackpot, Lottery Post, Sept. 29, 2011.)
Loud bells and alarms went off. The phone on the lottery machine began to ring.
"Initially, I thought I'd won $21,000," Henshaw, 43, says. "Then the lady on the other end of the phone chuckled. It turned out that the digital readout on the ticket machine didn't have enough space for all the digits."
"No, Mr. Henshaw, you've won $21 million!" the lady told him.
The rest of the day, Henshaw says, was "surreal."
But the thrill of the millions evaporated quickly. Over the next few weeks his world became a whirlwind of broken friendships and financial scams.
Henshaw couldn't even return to his cozy loft apartment after collecting his cheque. He spent the first few weeks living in a hotel, mainly in an attempt to duck the media and stalkers.
"Six hours after I won, some scam artist had already managed to get my credit card number. The charities started hammering me immediately," Henshaw says, smacking his fist into his hand.
"My email inbox was full, and my phone was flooded with text messages. People were asking me to pay off student loans. I got 365 texts in the first day."
Eight months after his windfall, Henshaw is in a reflective mood as we sit in a pub for an interview. Five years ago, I was a student in his classroom at Markville Secondary School in Markham, where he taught woodshop and technology.
Teaching was his passion, and still is. But as odd as it sounds, the money did get in the way.
In the aftermath of his lottery win, what hurt most, he says, was the reaction from his colleagues. Teachers whom Henshaw considered friends were suddenly badgering him to pay off their credit-card bills. His school board email was completely flooded.
The workplace environment became toxic. After a decade of teaching, he made the decision to resign.
"Unfortunately, I've had to say goodbye to about 25 per cent of my friends because they were acting really inappropriately," Henshaw says. "They were asking for money, and being really pushy about it. The friends who I really cherish didn't really care at all."
"It was a really sad day for teaching," says Don Henshaw, Craig's father. "He was a born teacher. It was all he ever wanted to do, and now he had to leave teaching."
"The thing about teachers is that you'll always be a teacher. That's just who you are," Craig says. "I could always volunteer. I always taught for the sheer joy of it, and getting a paycheck was just a bonus."
Consequently, Henshaw now wrestles with his identity. As a teacher, he spent most of his life working hard, more enamored with the passion of being an educator than earning a paycheck. Like many, he worried about his student loans, credit-card debt, and making ends meet until the next payday.
"I used to be the guy who bought no-name cheese, and suddenly I could buy everything in the house just by snapping my fingers. How do you process that? How do you get used to it?" Craig says. "I know a lot of people will say that those are the problems of the 1 per cent. Well, yeah, but I'm still part of the 99 percent. I just have a bunch of money all of a sudden. I didn't get any sleep at all that first month. I have to figure out who Craig Henshaw is. I'm still working on it."
Henshaw's desire to educate is evident in the way he has spent his winnings thus far.
He's set up education funds for his nieces and nephews. His cleaning lady, whom he described as being on the lower end of the economic spectrum, will be returning to school thanks to his financial aid.
Henshaw believes people should be given a chance to learn. Instead of donating chunks of money to charities, he has opted to set up scholarship funds at his alma mater, the University of Western Ontario.
"I want to call it the Craig Henshaw Nice Guy Award. I want to give it to people who are enrolled in an arts program, that do a lot of graphics work," Craig says, chuckling. "You know, the ones that always show up early and stay late at the art openings, and they do stuff to make the community a better place. Then there's going to be the Craig Henshaw Nice Girl Award, which will be the same thing, but for the girls."
Even with a near-limitless amount of cash, Henshaw hasn't embarked on the spending spree many people fantasize about. He now lives in an inconspicuous apartment in downtown Toronto. Nothing about his residence or wardrobe screams the fact that he's a multi-millionaire. He has assigned himself a steady allowance that's enough to enjoy life, but modest enough that it wouldn't turn heads.
Mike Nadal, a career counsellor at York University's Schulich School of Business, approves of Henshaw's modest spending strategy.
"There are two rules," said Nadal, a former financial advisor who spent four years advising high-net-worth clients. "The first is not to lose the money. The second is not to forget rule number one."
That was easier said than done on that day he picked up his cheque from the Lotto office.
The first thing he did with the money?
"I took everyone out for a celebratory dinner at a steakhouse. I didn't know my credit card number had been stolen yet, so my card was declined," Henshaw says. "I had to turn to my father and ask him for his credit card to pay for the meal."
He's learned much since then.
"The bank people were really good. They listened for about a month straight. They asked me what I was comfortable with, and told me about the risks with my now-portfolio."
"You don't get thrown into the business, you know. It's not like, 'Oh, and I want a thousand dollars on this' or anything. What they do is take your money and invest it. Essentially, I don't even get my money," Henshaw says, with a bemused smile. "I get an allowance. It's not a huge amount, but it's enough to comfortably enjoy life."
It has also bought him the time re-establish some family relationships.
"I spent the last 20 years working my ass off to try and be somebody, and I neglected my family," he says. "Now I get the chance to try and re-establish all of the relationships that I used to wish I had time for.
"I've seen my father and mom more in the last six months than I had in years. I was always working. But now I have the time to spend with my family. My parents are in the sunset years of their life, and I want to make that sunset bright-orange."
Henshaw has heard that it takes about a year for the stress of a lottery win to settle. "I'd like to travel," he says. "Next winter, I just want to take a month and be a beach bum somewhere."
Craig Henshaw and I have been sitting in a dimly lit pub on the Danforth on a rainy Monday afternoon.
At the end of our interview, Craig calls for our bill. I offer to pay, but my former high school teacher will have none of it.
He slices off $70 from a small ball of bills and lays it down on the table.
"Hey, don't worry about it," he says, laughing. "I'm unemployed. I can afford it!"
Yet another story about how people have expectations off someone else winning the lottery. Just because a freind or relative happens to win does not entitle you to one red cent!!!! If they want to help you out that's one thing, but they don't HAVE to help you out.
Henshaw is one the few who genuinely appreciates and respects his windfall. From what he's done so far, he will do well, live long and prosper.
It sucks that his life long passion of teaching had to be compromised because of his leaching "friends"
Glad to know that this winner has his head on straight and is doing well!
It just shows how your money changes other people.People that you think are friends turn into greedy a%&holes and expect YOU to pay off THEIR debts.Another reason to remain anonymous when you collect your winnings.
This made me sad. All those people he thought were friends....
Hmm. You know, maybe some of them were joking and because he was in a pissy mood from other people really wanting money, he couldn't see the difference between the real jerks and the ones joking. Yeah, I'm trying to put a positive spin on it. It's such a shame.
Again, another good reason to go anonymous if you can.
I do admire him for having only an allowance and not overspending.
Also, I think the key here is that he can now volunteer and help others without worrying about needing to get paid. He could help out with adult literacy, the Boys & Girls Club (don't they need homework helpers?), tutor low-income kids, and more. There is so much out there he can do with his teacher's degree. But he needs to make sure his "fame" is not known. Definite repercussions if he's helping drug-users learn to read and they realize he has money. And no, I'm not "profiling" as it happened to a friend of my sibling. His death affected hundreds of people.
He signed his own ticket
He leveraged the expertise of industry experts to invest his money
He made NO his favorite word
He is pacing himself as he digests the reality of being rich!
TAKE NOTES PEOPLE. I'm tired reading sob stories of peope getting screwed royally after a win
I have a very good story also.I got to leave the harrasment and bullying from other team members,job from you know where because I stopped playing the Tennessee Lottery.and now I'm dept free myself......What a joy that you can recieve when you give up the devil and have something wonderful in return...What a good life.
Congrats on your win, I hope you find some peace.
Congrat's on becoming debt free TTL! The devil needs a good kickin' now and again.
Yet another story about the Greed of Envy
"boo hoo hoo, you have yours, what about mine"
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im CONFUSED, how come most jackpot winners are people who are "low on money" like it always the same story "i put my last 1 dollar on it and i won millions"
Congrats to the winner.....
Could it be the economy?Lots of people are spending their last dollar on lottery tickets these days.
I'm broke.Maybe I'll win the MegaMillions tonight!!
I can arrange to be broke - lol!
I don't know what he was thinking .winning 21milion is not like driving thru a burger king drive thru. I think he forgot to first call life lock and inform them he just won the lottery and that he needs obama level protection with five million liability extra they will understand and get a new cell phone for life lock use only and then rent a motor home and start running with no direction just stay inland and don't go into mexico life lock won't save you there. Lol
I don't think we can assume winning a big jackpot would be equally traumatic for us as it was for him concerning his friends and what jerks some of them turned out to be. We have to remember he was in the teaching profession which is overwhelmingly dominated by liberal-minded people and a good portion of those friends were probably teachers as well.
Liberal-minded people, as we all know, are the people most inclined to be entitlement-oriented, envious, jealous and shameless lovers of "free stuff." Those are the kind of people who will shamelessly hound you to the gates of hell for a share of whatever you have if they think they "deserve" it as much as you. They will get "offended" if you aren't willing to share, or, "redistribute the wealth," so to speak.
I don't have liberal friends so that scenario isn't something I have to worry about in the event that I ever win a jackpot. I have normal friends.
I wish Mr Henshaw the best of luck and especially good luck in hiding from his fellow teachers.
Well if my above evasive manuver does not work then you have to go extreme dress like a woman or the taliban women that should do the trick .lol
well 85 percent of lottery players are broke and 85 percent of the world are broke. And broke people talk too much. Its like If you hungry and you see food you scream food. Like wise if you haven't seen a woman in a long time and you see one am not sure what you scream . Lol
Here's Mr. Craig Henshaw collecting his lottery winnings. The check is dated on my birthday.
It'll be nice for him not to have to buy his shirts at Walmart anymore.
That's a big plus.
"There are two rules," said Nadal, a former financial advisor who spent four years advising high-net-worth clients.
"The first is not to lose the money. The second is not to forget rule number one."
OMG Ridge, you are too funny!
"am not sure what you scream"
A few words come to mind - lol!
Congrats Mr Henshaw! Sorry some of your "friends" turned out to be golddiggers. At least you know now. I still think you should go on a spending spree to really enjoy some of those millions!!
I would like to win the lottery BUT it seem like it would be a pain in the a$$..stalkers..ppl harassing u..family hating u b/c u telling them NO..I think I'd just run away with my millions.
You have the right idea LA. I would run away too...............completely out of the country, and carry my money with me.
Dang Ridge, that one right there looks like something the kids of rich communists going to Harvard would buy at Goodwill.
Dang ridge, that one there looks like something rich communists going to Harvard would buy with daddy's money at Goodwill.
The economy is killing most of us. We are broke. Making it yes, rolling in excess green-age? no. so i will go with cletu$2 and am willing to win MM also!
Congrats to the smart winner. He got the priceless gift of figuring out who is real friends are/were... and the ability to be unemployed and still pay for drinks!
He looks like a nice normal guy and seems to have good sense. I do not blame the economy. There will always be people with a sense of entitlement for any success or luck you have, especially winning the lottery. The lottery win just let him find out who was a true friend and who was not. I worked with a woman many years ago and she used to tell people she would be livid if anyone she knew won the lottery and did not give her 10% at least. I would be insulted if a friend even gave me $1 of their win. I think if I had been in his situation, I would have told off those people and told them to pay off their own debts and given them a lecture each time....of course, then they would have had a contract out on me as result.
PS: I agree with Ridge...he does need to buy a few nice shirts at least.
Well thank you, golfer.
Yeah, and I think what he bought at Goodwill was my Mamaw's old drapes and made a shirt out of 'em.
I swear that's her old drapes.
I think we all at least agree on the shirt, Artist.
I'd like to smell it one time.
If it smells like moth balls - it's my Mamaw's old drapes.
ewwww lol It does look like vintage drapery fabric from the 1940's-50's.
Hmm I was thinkin' that it reminded me of the tapestry that we had on the dining room chairs in my parent's home...
but now that it has been mentioned...
i can totally picture it being on a rack in Walmart (which I happen to love - not the clothing, but the store - and i know i will have a lot of people unhappy with me saying that... but its a guilty lil secret... shhhhh)
What a valiant and lovely post.
I agree with you, except on the part of feeling insulted. You shouldn't be insulted if your friend cares about you enough to offer you a slice of the winning, perhaps touched would be better. Will you insist that they keep it and suggest them to invest it, use it on their other family and friends, and blow some of the cash they would give you for something much more fun? Of course! They're your dear friend, regardless if they won the lottery or not, and you only want to see the best of them. Believe me, I would do the same thing if that ever happened to me. (Not that it will, but just saying!)
But take it from me, I used to refuse people who wanted to give me something for a birthday, or even just change, because I didn't want to put the burden on them. But, their faces still dropped and one person said they would have started crying if I hadn't accepted their offer, even though I told them I was thinking of their own finances. The moral of the story is, there are people out there who do actually want to give to the people they love, and when those people refuse them, they are completely heartbroken or they feel like that friend doesn't appreciate their efforts, like their offers didn't matter to that friend even though that is far from the truth.
I say, if that ever happens to you, Artist77 (or if you won the lottery, even! I wish you good luck), if you do everything in your power to ensure that friend of yours is doing the right thing with his money, but still insists to give you a piece, take it and be thankful for having such a great friend. I'm sure that you being insistent against it will just show them what a valuable friend YOU are to them in return.
That being said, I'm so happy for this fellow! He's got a good, sensible head on his shoulders! It's unfortunate he's had to go through what he did, especially being so generous as to even taking his friends out to eat afterward and just trying to celebrate. I'm glad he was able to sort that out and see who his true friends are. I hope his winnings give him nothing but happiness from this point onward.
I went to a Walmart once and was not impressed. There was an article about a year ago saying the prices between Target and Walmart were about the same. But I love Target!!!!!!!!!! It is really good design. It is interesting though that Walmart is so big $ wise...they have 10X the revenue of Amazon (which I recently learned). And if you have something being sold at Walmart, they blow everyone else away volume wise (often more than all the other retailers combined, B&N, overstock, Target, etc).
Thanks displaced lurker. But since I have a good job (more than one actually but one is my art career), I would ask my friend to donate any money they wanted to give me to a charity. I would not object to that! A birthday gift is one thing (a reasonable price) but just handing someone money is another. There are people who could use that "gifted" money far more that me.
Man, this a very classic and expected story. It runs standard with most all people that come into sudden wealth. When you have nothing, nobody wants you or asks you for anything...and this is why it's best to keep it that way even when you've hit it big. May not be a cake walk but, it wouldn't be hard to ward off any suspicions if you have a creative mind. It's terrible that the second people find out that you have "long paper", you now owe them something...you're obligated to do something for them. Well, this is dead wrong from an ethical standpoint. A person should give/help out of sincereity and desire as opposed to pressure and indirect guilt.
Sure, any person in their right mind wants to help the less fortunate but, there should be no pressure or hard feelings involved. First of all, if it were me, I would've checked my numbers on my own in privacy...I don't need any alerts going back to the lottery, or, the clerk knowing what's happened. That was the first and only no-no because had he not done it, he would've had time to "set up camp" and things would've been much different with preparation. It's really not his fault, though, because he probably lost sooooooo many times prior (like all of us) that he figured it was nothing. Poor guy...lost all his life long friends over money and harrassement.
Remember what the O'Jay's said about money? It's still playing out to this very moment. If you don't have a plan for a possible windfall of sorts, you might want to develop one. It's much better to have one and not need it, yet, than to get caught with your pants down...because you just never know. Got mine ready, and, has been so for years. Best of luck to every body.
L.L.
One thing about winning the lottery, you'll find out very quickly who your real friends are, and those who are false. Too bad the guy had to go through all this, but at least he now knows who he can depend on & who he can't.
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How to survive winning the lottery:
1) Tell no one (friends, relatives, neighbors, business associates, etc) you've won; do no press interviews.
2) Fight any publicity the lottery attempts to do on you.
3) Change your address, your phone number & your e-mail address.
4) Before you claim your money, develop a lottery winning claiming/investment plan with your attorney, financial planner & accountant.
5) Invest a very large portion of your lottery winnings, and live off a generous allowance created by the lottery investments interest.
6) If you ever waiver about what to do, see numbers 1 through 5 again.
Okay, #1 is cool...this is just basic damage control because anyone that get's even a sniff of the money will run out and tell at least (1) person. Then, it's over. #2 is even better as you can actually request to be placed in the very back of their lottery publication in very small print where noone else will see...with no picture. As long as "they", the lottery commission has your vitals on file for the payout, no need for a picture or anything else. #3, I wouldn't change a thing as it would spark a high interest, and support, that you're hiding something.
The more you can retain your natural way of doing things, the better. Simply deny the big win, and, tell them you'll file suite if they continue to harrass you. They'll leave you alone because they'll already think you've got the dough to do it. Most of all, get it all on a recorder somehow. If you do this the right way, you'll have minimal adjustments to make while still retaining your lifestyle...AND FRIENDS.
Preventive maintenance is your best friend. When you have this kind of money, you act as though you don't have it for while, okay. Taking the time to collect one's self is the absolute most important part in a windfall because it's how important decisions are made. At this time, you have both time AND MONEY so what's the rush????
Chill out and keep it low key. At some point after you've gotten things lined out, you can introduce a "small windfall", or, that you've been working on a business of sorts...anything. You took out a loan or something. Basically, you want to paint the picture that your money will come to an end very quickly if not spent very wisely. In the end, the business takes off, and, you need to invest more i.e. your money is already spent.
This doesn't mean you can't help people close to you, it just means you now have control of what they actually think and what you do for them. Make sense? Knowledge is power.
L.L.
Yeah John, I like this plan alot, especially living off the interest. Sounds good.
Honestly...Can you believe the nerve of his coworkers ? Give me, I want, I need, I deserve...Those people parasites are like a disease looking for a host. Glad I keep friends to a limited handful. How many regular L.P. contributors would do that to a coworker or friend ??? ...I am leaning towards " maybe just a few". Be smart and relocate to another residence before collecting... Keep the old address for a year or two. Place a hold on your mail. Keep decisions simple. Learn to say "no thank you".
Six hours after his win someone got a hold of his credit card number
SIX HOURS!!!
How in the world? Was it someone at the grocery store where he turned in his ticket or what?
How did a scam artist work so darn fast? dang!!!!!
Oh please!!! Don't think for a second that your "normal friends" wouldn't come at you this way, you
100% sure they wouldn't? Money can make even the most "normal friends" go bonkers!
Goes to show you just how fake most people around you are, and how quickly they can be exposed as lowlife leeches. But how did do many people find out his personal email and credit card info? I think he brought it all on himself because he is in the public eye. Theer is probably a lot he did that he is not telling anyone. Just the fact that he did the interview tells me he is an attention craver, and does not help his situation. So he brought it all on himself by being irresponsible and unprepared. You can tell that by the fact that he did not even know that he had a winning ticket.
isnt canada no anonymous claims? anyhow, as someone said. he may have been reading basically innocent jokes about " now you vcan pay off my credit card " as serious requests. when all you see is greed, its easy to interpret peoples comments wrongly. after all who ended the friendships? him or them? did they say " pay of my credit card or we are no longer friends? " I dont think so.
It makes a better story, and provides more justification. But if you are that low on money maybe you should not be buying lottery tickets. Also if a teacher barely has money he is living above his means and only has himself to blame.
When it come to any garden variety of leeches, sponges or parasites,
their political affiliations and beliefs, are dropped more quickly
than a $50 dollar "misprinted" losing scratch ticket.
I am the only person that saw the part about him going backpacking in Europe? This obviously was not a poor man.....Somebody call the waaaaambulance, he spent all his money on vacation and won the lottery. Now his friends won't talk to him. What a life!
Yep, 100% sure! I don't have any liberal friends at all. In fact there's no libs that even live in my part of the state. It's all normal people here. I'd trust every one of my friends here with my life - something libs can't do, cuz libs always feel "entitled" to what other people have.
Thankfully, the only place I see libs around here is if I get on the interstate.
They're always there in the passing lane - going slow and blocking traffic.
Ridge - sounds like you have a fabulous group of friends.
That is the way that it should be.
My friends are wonderful (I have culled the herd over the years to the crème de la crème). It's family and strangers that I cannot control! Hence the need/desire for anonymous collecting of lottery wins (darn and drat peskie Rhode Island for not allowing anonymous winning!!!)
And around here... the passing lane... what is that? we have 2 lanes of traffic (and i mean TRAFFIC) here going each way, but there is no passing lane...
is THAT what one of those lanes was suppose to have been used for???
LOL, it doesn't matter if there are a million cars or just one lib getting off on annoying people by blocking traffic in the passing lane.
Either way you're stuck.
Unless like me, you're willing to pass them on the shoulder or the median.
They hate that, heh, heh, heh, heh, heh...
And yet there are those who think their lives won't change if they won a jackpot and had their picture plastered over the news
"They're always there in the passing lane-going slow and blocking traffic"
Well that explains why left lane campers are a major problem in jersey.
recently the state was talking about raiseing the fine from $100 to $300.
its' not nessasary and won't work, what we need is enforcement.
This story is crazy, however i'm glad a lottery winner is coming forward and talking about his lottery winning experience because it let's me know that when i win the lottery again it will be private
The first win to me was a disaster and it wasn't millions but having and aunt that is a lottery winner has really changed her as a person and my cousins their is no connection between them anymore it is sad
The more i hear stories like this makes me no for sure i will keep it private and no one will no anything because i know most of my friends will change and act up.
Sorry Win, I was a bit confused as to who won...You or your aunt ?
Hey winwi5 - if you know that most of your friends will change and act up, why do you keep them as friends?
Maybe after your aunt won it was your cousin who changed.They say that lottery money changes other people more than it changes the winners.
I guess some people just tolerate each other or put little things aside until they become bigger things, ie winning money makes the winner have something the 'friend'
doesn't...so, that makes them unequal and threatening. It's a common human condition. Some people are okay until you rise above them in one way or another.
Usually it's the one winning that still thinks everything is okay and it's not.
Well, JoeBigLotto, one could scream, "Please, madam, take me and save me from my loneliness now!"
hmm... yes i do have several people who would fall into that catagory. thanks for clearing up my confusion!
Wow! I just finished sifting through all the interesting posts about the topic! Seems everyone is in disbelief of how all his friends, family, and co-workers changed the second they found out he was now LOADED. Prior to receiving this information, none of them wanted or needed anything whatsoever from this guy. Think about that for just a moment...a person comes into some money, and, immediately everyone around them feels that person either "OWES", or, is "Obligated" to now "FIX ALL THEIR FINANCIAL PROBLEMS".
Now, check this out: Most of them probably don't play the lottery and/or despise gambling altogether. Yet and still, they want some of that GAMBLING MONEY to get them out of debt.
. Oh, yeah...Lucky has seen this happen in his circle of friends!! Now, how hipocritical is that??? Money does, in fact, CHANGE THE WAY PEOPLE THINK. As dr65 mentioned, the winner usually feels everything is just fine as they're simply able to now fix their financial issues and enjoy life better. It's the "have not's" which then label the friend as an "ATM" at this point...which is totally wrong.
Unless you plan on assumming all their morgages, car notes, and medical you better nip it in the bud immediately with a plan of "limited funds". Otherwise, you're gonna lose them as friends anyway because, "You've got ALL THAT MONEY and won't even help me out????"
No cameras, no publicity, no pictures, NO NOTHING...and get it in writing. Hell, if people get curious about your wealth, you can tell 'em you scratched off maybe $10-$20K and this will also cover how you got into such a nice new home. You simply put down a nice chunk on it. There are sooooooo many ways to keep suspicions down if you're creative. I'll stop here...
L.L.
It not my friends that I would worry about since I don't consider everyone I know a friend. It those scam artists who regularly call and ask for me by my first name or nick name and then ask can they depend on me again this year as in the past to support their charity(usually them since they are professional fund raisers).
I hate to be rude to them if I really knew them at one time but I usually tell them to get lost.
That's true, Cletu$.
Cyndi Lauper knew it too.
I said: I'm sorry baby, I'm leaving you tonight
I found someone new, he's waitin' in the car outside
Ah honey how could you do it
We swore each other everlasting love
I said yeah I know but when we did
There was one thing we weren't thinking of
And that's money, money changes everything
I said money, money changes everything
We think we know what we're doin,' we don't know a thing
It's all in the past now - money changes everything
They shake your hand and they smile and they buy you a drink
They say: We'll be your friends we'll stick with you till the end
Ah but everybody's only looking out for themselves.
And you say well who can you trust?
I'll tell you it's just nobody else as the money, money changes everything
I said money, money changes everything
We think we know what we're doin' we don't pull the strings.
It's all in the past now - money changes everything.
Money, money changes everything.
ok you right a little am lonely because all have won is lots of little lotto like cash3 and cash4 have made over $15,000 this year alone but my biglotto is coming like an asteriod and guess what i will be moving to las vegas penthouse on vegas strip and i will have seven beautifull female nannies from all seven continent over the age of 21 taking care of me and all my loneliness and i will feel like a baby all over just to be pampered 24/7 and i dont want to see you thru my door peep hole begging for money .l will send my small puppy after you. lol
i hope hes ready for more harassment after doing this interview
LL, it may take a little bit more than 10-20k to get into a nice house. Perhaps telling curious friends/neighbors that you inherited a sizable portfolio from and aunt/uncle might be more appropriate.
I agree. If you even hint at having won any money in a lottery, they will eventually figure out you won more that you said. Or say you are a writer and you get royalties. If anyone asks more, say it is a private contractual matter and you cannot breach the terms of your contract.
Yes, you could say you won a lawsuit and as part of the settlement the judge said,
"you could not discuss it with anyone"
you hear this all the time with regard to legal settlements.
? answered, end of of disscussion, on to next subject.
Just a matter of screening the calls.
If it takes more than $20K to get into a nice home, then you must be around $400-$500K. While nice, it's very impractical to me and I'd never own that much home even if I could with lottery monies. I was talkin' more around $200-$250K which is a very comfortable and practical home in my opinion. Also, this kind of home doesn't really shout "Hey, this person hit the jackpot, y'all..!!!!"
The portfolio deal sounds good also but, I'd still want to establish a sense of the funds being allocated for business somehow. Otherwise, they'll just think you have all this money lying around waiting to be dispersed at their disposal.
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