# Ah, poor baby. Win $34 million and your poor widdle life goes to crap

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [December 5, 2005, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ah-poor-baby-win-34-million-and-your-poor-widdle-life-goes-to-crap/334177 "2005-12-05T15:25:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2005, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ah-poor-baby-win-34-million-and-your-poor-widdle-life-goes-to-crap/334177/81 "2005-12-09T13:27:58Z")

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> [@StarvingButStrong](#):
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> …Not huge wins, but $2 and $4.5 million.

Ah, I miss the days when $6.5M was considered a lot of money. 😛

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**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2005, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ah-poor-baby-win-34-million-and-your-poor-widdle-life-goes-to-crap/334177/82 "2005-12-09T13:51:39Z")

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> [@JSexton](#):
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> I am not wealthy. I make a decent living, though. I’d like to think that I wouldn’t piss away a big lottery windfall, but I’m not at all certain, and here’s why

I worry myself with spending sprees like that, if I had more money I’d be no different.

I like to think my ex-banker father would help me squirrel it all away so I wouldn’t be able to blow it away all at once.

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**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2005, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ah-poor-baby-win-34-million-and-your-poor-widdle-life-goes-to-crap/334177/83 "2005-12-09T15:29:18Z")

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> [@levdrakon](#):
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> Just sitting home all day drinking would get pretty old, pretty quick, I’d think.

Don’t be so sure. I did that for a while. It becomes really cozy really quickly, and it’s really easy to just go on doing it.

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