When my cousins won the lottery
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I have a cousin, many times removed, who won the lottery up in West Virginia years and years ago. I was still a teen when this happened. He and his wife opted to stay in the same house they lived in before they won, but they made sure all of their immediate family had all their homes paid off and never really had to work again. I think they were wise with their spending, though I was not keen on their decision to take structured settlement payments. When you do that, you end up with far less money in the long run than if you had just waited things out.
Their house is just up the hill from my grandparent’s home, but I don’t see them all that often anymore because now that both of my grandparents have passed away my uncle decided to rent the family home out to some friends. It made me kind of sad, because the land has been in the family for hundreds of years and the house my grandparents were living in was the original farmhouse, albeit updated. I even found one of the original square nails that were used to build the house in a box of old photographs.
I never saw any of that lottery money, by the way – not that I’m entitled. 
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