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Mon 6 Mar, 2006 10:34 am
Lotto man blows $2.5m - on women
A BRITISH man who kept his $2.5 million Lotto win a secret from his wife has blown the fortune on gold-digging women.
David Godward, 47, even continued working at his $500-a-week job in a box factory and living in a $100-a-week council flat in Huddersfield so his estranged wife, Dawn, would not find out about his good fortune.
But he embarked on a frenzy of affairs which cost him most of his millions.
"These women must see me coming," he told his mates.
In one case, the loser gave a dying woman $250,000 after she said she would leave it to him in her will.
He only found out she had died when her solicitor told him to stop paying $2500-a-month into her bank account.
In another case, he took a woman to Florida on an expensive holiday and bought her a $30,000 ring before she did a runner.
"It's hard to find a woman who's not obsessed with the cash," Mr Godward said.
The news isn't all bad for the Lotto loser, who put some money is trust for his two sons, but the bulk of it has flown the coop.
The lovelorn former millionaire's search for romance continues as he spends $750-a-month on internet dating services.
That's sad, really. Whatever happened to good ol' dating? Sure, pay for the dinner, perhaps a movie, but nothing more! I can't say I pitty him for obviously trying far too hard to impress ladies that, it seems, he hardly even knew to begin with.
Don't think you've got that headline exactly right, Reyn.
Shouldn't it read:
Women blow $2.5m lotto man.?
Sanctuary wrote:That's sad, really. Whatever happened to good ol' dating? Sure, pay for the dinner, perhaps a movie, but nothing more! I can't say I pitty him for obviously trying far too hard to impress ladies that, it seems, he hardly even knew to begin with.
Yes, indeed he was not thinking clearly at all. He probably didn't know how to handle money, no matter what his situation was.
lmur wrote:Don't think you've got that headline exactly right, Reyn.
Shouldn't it read:
Women blow $2.5m lotto man.?
Yes, that probably has a ring of truth in it as well!
I have read studies that show that people who suddenly come into a lot of money, such as winning a lottery, usually end up worse off financially than before they got the money. The problem is that many people do not understand the concept of "making money", and think that cash is something simply to be spent.
Test me! Test me! I'd know how to look after it. :wink:
This is precisely why I think I am perfectly deserving of, ohhhh say, 5 million or so. I am a great budgeter and spender, and would just love to show people how it's done right
It'd last me the rest of my life.
Or, if you're determined to lose it, donate it to some good cause and get a building named after you.
Pheonix, I would invest in stocks, in land, maybe valuable objects that I could easily sell for more profit down the road. I would also save, spend wisely etc.
Why don't people like you and me ever win, huh? Just so we can do it right!
Yet another way for me to save! I've already got my
dream car...
Though having the cash to fix her up properly would be a treat.
One reason my boss is so rich: He has driven the same Toyota Corolla about as long as I've known him (13 years). He says he has never had to do anything major to it.
For the longest time, we kept our cars for 8-10 years each. It is just for the last few cars, that we have been trading them in while they still had some value.
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