Millions of people in the world love betting games and there are stories about lucky winners who just won a big amount of instant cash from the lottery, ironically end up destroying their lives in misery. Dozens of lottery winners, those scoping millions of jackpots from many casinos or online games in almost all parts of the globe are involved in financial problems right after they spend days of their victory. They do not really know how to start their new life with all the money they have in their pockets and instead of making their future brighter, they ruin it completely.

That big problem arises because those winners are not smart enough when dealing with the cash they won. Although players usually use many strategies to win a lottery, they do not do the same to the money they win. After winning, they suddenly feel the euphoria and do not think that spending money is much easier than earning. Like what often happens to almost all lottery winners, once people win in a betting game and get instant cash, suddenly their life changes drastically. They start perform luxurious living as if they are from the Rockefeller family!

They completely forget that they will still have much longer lives ahead them and they just have fun with this ‘instant bonus’ they get. Fast cars, expensive life styles, drinks, lavish clubs and girls are the most common things lottery winners spend their money at.  Joining expensive clubs, partying every night and finally, they end up in debts and criminal problems. Not many lottery winners even remember to save the money or make some investment for their future.

Luckily, among a few winners who neither spent fortunes directly on leisure nor acted like a rich person after winning a lottery is Lisa Lougan from Bathgate, West Lothian who won £1.56 million in a Lotto drawing in March 2004. When winning Lotto she was just 17 yet she had already known what to do with the money. She could have acted like the granddaughter of Hilton hotel owner; buying expensive bags, hanging out with her teenage friends to some expensive boutiques or taking holiday in a warm sunny place but instead, she chose to do her normal life like nothing ever happened.

When she won the money in 2004, she was the youngest winner in Scotland and definitely she got many temptations to spend the money. Lisa remembered how her friends asked her to have fun with the prize but she did not think that it was wise enough. She did enjoy her fortune but she got some advice from Camelot, a lottery organizer who suggested that she should take care of the money rather than spending it for some luxury.

Unlike other lottery winners who stop working and spend their time dining out to some expensive restaurants, this humble lucky girl keeps doing her low-paid job everyday though she has millions of pounds in her account. She runs a very ordinary life. She got married with a security guard and has two lovely kids now.  She gets up early morning, prepares breakfast and the kids’ needs and goes to work. She does not try to taste luxurious life with the prize but now she feels secure with the saving she has. She never has problem with money and she believes she will not screw her life and the life of her loved ones just like other common lottery winners.

Now she is almost 26 years old and she never regrets for what she did when she won the lottery. She is one of successful lottery winners who should inspire other winners so that they do not turn their luck into disasters just because they do not know how to deal with the money wisely.