A California teen is celebrating two big lottery wins in just a week.
19-year-old Rosa Dominguez was recently driving home from Arizona when she decided to make a pit-stop at a gas station in Paso Robles, California. While there, she decided to buy a few instant scratch-off tickets, and one of those was a $5 Power 5's ticket that would change her life. Dominguez scratched that ticket and discovered she'd won the top prize of $555,555!
"I was so nervous I just wanted to cry," she shared.
A few days later, still reeling from the emotion of winning over half a million dollars, Dominguez stopped at a local gas station and decided to try her luck with a $5 Lucky Fortune ticket. After purchasing a single $5 ticket, she won the game's top prize of $100,000.
Dominguez recently stopped by the California Lottery's East Bay District Office in Hayward to claim her two prizes totaling $655,555. Not a bad week for someone who is technically still a teenager. As for her plans for the money, Dominguez says that she wants to go shopping and buy herself a new car.
Dominguez purchased the $5 Power 5's ticket worth $555,555 at Eagle Energy which is located at 2400 Golden Hill Road in Paso Robles (San Luis Obispo County). The $5 Lucky Fortune ticket worth $100,000 was purchased at the Valero gas station located at 348 El Camino Real in Greenfield (Monterey County).
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Change her life. Really. If she is smart and invest the money correctly that will change her life. Nobody knows anything about her.
have fun and be careful what you spend.
If Rosa Dominguez is smart she will invest some her winnings and ride the roller coaster of the stock market or real estate. She could purchase a nice home for herself. A nineteen-year-old with her own home!
She is lucky and blessed.
Heck a 30 something year old with our own home!(I wish)at any age. I want one here in NC a great part i live in and also back home in CALIFORNIA,is my dream in 1 yr or so. I hope lol
So, to me, age to me don't matter with home ownership, because it can all end any day for us ya know...
Life so short. sad. a 18 y.o. and 30 (two separate accidents) smh, just are now rip too early in heaven all premise on in cali bad fatal car wreck,(not their fault) just to know you're having at ANY age a real chance to own your home, is a beautiful dream for most of us,so i hope she do not waste it, but i don't know.some do. i am so happy for her. God bless and in my home state makes it even better! Now, let some of us win here in NC, my home for a while. Congrats to her. I know she is just beside herself,as her family is. Some call it just lucky.
I call it that but mostly a true blessing.
Right ticket/Right time as my parents always say, when i win much with pick 4 and pick 3.So happy for this young lady .
Enjoy it, and please utilize it/invest while you're able astutely...Be prudent.
My guess, she will squander her winnings within a year. young adults in Americas society are focused on a bunch of trendy nonsense, and nothing that actually matters.
Though she could do everything right and live a nice comfortable life, but i doubt it
Why not just be happy for her? Being irresponsible with money isn't just for the young.
I was just going to say that too. You're absolutely correct. Learn money management, learn things when you're young and be careful who you trust. that is what could happen.
Many of us when we were 19 possibly didn't know what to do. When I was 19 I would have blown it away but as you get older you get wiser and smarter with finances. One of the sentences and I had to read over again says it changed her life forever. That is not a good sign seriously.
Congratulations to her. Hopefully she will get a financial advisor to help her manage her money. Also hope she continues to play.
Congrats !!!
What's the secret?
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We're so happy for her
Wow! Very nice hits for her.
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I hope she addresses her tax obligation(s) first. Then see what's left.
Or, as mentioned here, she should consult someone. But if it was me,
(and of course, it's not) I'd do the tax thing, right off the bat, and see what's left.
If me, and if I was already in Californy, I'd aim for the
turbo Porsche Panamera, FL Harley, and a modest home/garage, (I would hope.)
I'm so sick of not being the winner.
I suspect she may squander it as suggested, and hope for her sake she has some guidance on her windfall.
Groppo
Tonight her story was shared on a major network.
May she gain as much wisdom as she did wealth from this win!
Congratulations Rosa. WTG Girl.
TIME.
Why do us losers even bother! Some people have all the luck!
Congrats!!!
Even better, she should sock away most of iy in a safe place and use a small percentage of it to take some classes in how to invest it herself.
But, look at what she did. First she wins $555K and she's still buying scratch offs. That doesn't bode well for her.
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I know. That's my point at every drawing.
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I don't know why. Working there is not going to make you rich.
No stress, but you still work at a "gas station".
Some customers come in drunk, and talk all kinds of nonsense. . . .
Then, the kids on the dirt bikes. . . .
(no idiot, he's talking about going there to get his tickets.)
Some people are lucky at certain things. If she continues her habit of getting a scratch off when she stops for gas what's the harm in that? That is how she won the $100,000. She could be another multiple lottery winner.
I hope she gets a college degree and puts a large down payment on a starter house or townhouse/condo and saves the rest.
That's like a dream come true for a 19 year old. Lucky lucky luck-e e e
*is that supposed to be a joke or something? Give it a rest Artist, there's so many people here that don't like you why do you even bother? You know nothing which is why you talk so much.
Is that right? I bet you can't name more than a half dozen and I bet she doesn't like them, either. She'll probably toss and turn tonight for...oh, all of five/six seconds worrying about it, too.
I checked her profile and she's averaged 2.7 posts a day since becoming a member. You have averaged 2.8, so I'd say it's YOU who talks so much and knows nothing. From what I've seen in regards to the posts by the both of you, she could spot you 25 IQ points and still best you by at least that many.
You know what I apologize for instigating something here. But you know, I don't apologize to anyone except myself. Maybe I lost my head for just a moment at the fact that someone would attempt to make fun of the deaths of human beings. You know, human beings are God's creation and anyone that mocks or destroys God's creation has something to answer to.
I didn't really read your post Mr. Texas, except for the word check. Check whatever you want to check, it makes no difference to me.
You are nuts. Lol. Did the suggestion that she obtain a college degree upset you? I said nothing wrong so stop trolling.
I'm sure you read every word I wrote and moved your mouth while you did it.
Thanks Mike. I was off today dealing with some home construction and almost missed this post. I think most of my posts are in Maddog's and FJA'S contest which I enjoy immensely. I think hoping the winner continued her education offended him. Lol. He is just trolling and trying to create something from nothing. 3 other trolls tried that in a recent thread and accused me of all types of crazy things and Todd overruled them and said I had not done anything wrong. And I have no clue as to his insane rambling about deaths??? There is an old joke in my signature line but I guess it was over his head. He must be at a new low on the stupid scale not to get the joke.