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Guy Who Won $5 6M Dollars Refused To Give Any To His Family

Jonas Grinevičius and
Justinas Keturka
Fighting over money can bring out the very worst in some people, whether they're distant acquaintances or your closest relations. And things can get incredibly heated when there's a golden jackpot full of millions up for grabs. A recent lottery winner, who hit it big and got a whopping 5.6 million dollars in October, shared what happened to him. He turned to the AITA subreddit for their verdict on whether or not he was a jerk because he decided not to give his family any of the money. Instead, he decided to do the smart thing. The fallout in his social circle, however, was pretty big. You'll find the full story below, Pandas. Let us know whose side you're on. And if you've ever won the lottery, let us know in the comments whether it changed you, because research shows that people tend to stay the same even after getting millions. Bored Panda reached out to financial expert Sam Dogen, the author of 'Buy This, Not That: How to Spend Your Way to Wealth and Freedom' and the founder of Financial Samurai, to talk about winning the lottery and how we should behave to protect our wealth. He said that it's inevitable that family members fight over the winnings "because everybody has either a money problem or a money desire. If the winner doesn't magnanimously share their winnings with family members and friends, they will be seen as selfish and greedy," he said. Sam believes that the best course of action is to keep the fact that you won the lottery a secret if possible. "I'm all about Stealth Wealth. If you win the lottery, do your best to keep it a secret. Furthermore, if you win the lottery at work or in your investments, never brag about how much you make either. Instead, try to blend in as much as possible. You can always then be more generous with your money if you wish, without expectations."

Most of us have thought about how our lives would change if we won the lottery

Image credits: Emiliano Vittoriosi (not the actual photo)

Well one man explained what he did with his 5 6-million-dollar jackpot and how his family reacted to his decisions

Image credits: Grand-Signature-4590 Financial expert Sam told Bored Panda how lottery winners should deal with their sudden wealth in order to preserve it. "The first thing to do is sit on your winnings for at least three months and live your life as usual. During this time, read as much financial literature online from sources who have no interest in your money. For example, you can come to Financial Samurai to learn about a proper net worth asset allocation to help ensure your wealth lasts longer," he suggested. "Once you get educated and have formulated a good idea of what you want to do, you can then seek professional advice from a fee-based financial advisor. Or, you can implement your capital allocation yourself. Take your time! There is no rush. You just won the lottery!" Psychology Today points out how Bengt Larsson discovered that lottery winners tend to remain the same. The only thing that changes is that they generally consume a lot more. The myth that winners become someone entirely different is pretty much that-just a myth. The redditor's main concern was that he would fall into the same trap that a lot of winners do: spending all of the winnings within just a few short years. Instead, the author of the post explained how he decided to take care of his and his wife's future by investing the money and paying off all their debt. However, this meant that he wouldn't be able to give his family any of the cash. Some of you Pandas might be surprised to learn that they didn't take it well when they heard that they wouldn't be getting a cent. They expected that this sudden financial blessing would mean that someone pays off all of their debts without them having to lift a finger. And imagine all the luxurious family trips they'd all take! The family quickly turned on the redditor after he explained what he did with the money. They ostracized him pretty quickly, telling him to never speak to them again. Apparently, if you don't spend all of your money on someone, you're automatically branded as someone who is no longer a part of the family. Entitled much? You bet. Financial adviser Robert Pagliarini explained to Business Insider that the very first thing a lottery winner should do after confirming the jackpot is all theirs is to take "a very deep breath," and then hire an attorney, a tax specialist, and a financial adviser. "This financial dream team can help you make smart financial decisions and help you plan for the future," the expert said. Pagliarini warned that many lottery winners experience the so-called "honeymoon stage of sudden wealth." Quite a few allow the prize money to dictate how their lives change, but winners should do their best to resist this. This means actively planning out how you'd like your life to look. For that, you need a clear strategy on how you'll use the money to achieve your goals. In other words, you need to be the one in control of the pot of gold, not the other way around. Exactly what the redditor who asked the internet for advice did.

Most people were very supportive of the redditor Here s what they had to say about the entire family drama

Some internet users asked for a bit more information and the OP was open to sharing more about himself

People generally thought that there was nothing wrong with doing the smart thing with your winnings

Anyone can write on Bored Panda. Start writing! Follow Bored Panda on Google News! Follow us on Flipboard.com/@boredpanda! Share on Facebook Jonas Grinevičius Follow Unfollow Jonas Grinevičius Writer, BoredPanda staff Jonas is a Bored Panda writer who previously worked as a world news journalist elsewhere. After getting his bachelor's degree in Politics and International Relations at the University of Manchester, he returned home and graduated from Vilnius University with a master's degree in Comparative Politics. Jonas enjoys writing articles ranging from serious topics like politics and social issues to more lighthearted things like art, pop culture, and nature. In his spare time, Jonas writes books and short stories and likes to draw lighthearted illustrations. A huge fan of literature, films, philosophy, and tabletop games, he also has a special place in his heart for anything related to fantasy or science fiction. Read more » Justinas Keturka Justinas Keturka Author, BoredPanda staff Justin is a photo editor at Bored Panda. He was fascinated with visual arts and arts in general for as long as he can remember. He was obsessed with playing and making music in his teens. After finishing high school, he took a gap year to work odd jobs and try to figure out what he wanted to do next. Finally, around 2016, he started learning how to use Photoshop and hasn't stopped since. He started working as a visual advertisement producer in 2017 and worked there for almost two years. In his spare time, he creates graphic collages and even had his first artwork exhibition at "Devilstone". Read more » Show All Contributors Get the latest inspiring stories via our awesome iOS app! Download Bored Panda app! 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In my fantasy I would try to help some of the friends, family, people along my way in life and repay a bit for their part in helping me become the person I am now. Not that I owe this, but from my heart that would be something I would strife for. Funny though, parents and brothers would most likely not be on this list either. 42 42points reply Iifa A. Iifa A. Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Im sure we all have dreamed similar. And obviously he did plan something for others his immediate family (wife), but it seems he didn't have a nice relationship with parents so why would he. Also 5 million isn't much if you just give it away to needy, investments grow it bigger over time, and he could create college fund for nieces and nephews, do charity. This is how 70% go broke, they spend it all and give away. Funnily if you by 1 million house you will need to pay utilities and tax for that house every year, give away your money and in a year you will lose your house and then you go ask help and money from family you took care off and they most likely won't. There has been numerous jackpot winners going broke and suicidal in a year or two. Bad financial management. 17 17points reply Load More Replies... UpupaEpops UpupaEpops Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago (edited) That's how most people lose their winnings. "Giving a bit" to all who ask. Unfortunately, in my experience, people (especially the financially irresponsible ones) can become extremely entitled if you help them out. Not saying that everyone is like that, but I've lost count of how many people have bailed my mother out and how many times just because she loves spending money she doesn't have. At this point, if I won the lottery, she wouldn't get a dime. Depending on how much it is, I would look into setting up a trust fund for my siblings and that's it. As for OP, his family is literally spending his money before he even has it? Just because he won the lottery, it doesn't make him the family ATM. It's one thing for them to say that hey, we have a medical emergency, have nothing to eat or such. But for the entire extended family to start organizing a massive overseas holiday on OP's money? The entitlement is astonishing. 4 4points reply Milan Milan Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 9 months ago 100% agree 4 4points reply Kathryn Baylis Kathryn Baylis Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 9 months ago Depends on whether the OP’s family had ever done that for them. Sounds like no one but Dad ever did. Seems the OP takes after their Dad, and the rest of the siblings take after Mom, who sounds like a selfish person. But we don’t have quite enough context to know for sure. 3 3points reply Hermione Hermione Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago I agree with you. It’s sad that OP doesn’t have any family they’d want to help out. That would be my first thought- but my family would not ask for anything. 3 3points reply Beth L Beth L Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 9 months ago There isn't anything planned as immediate gifts, no. But OP is setting up a strategy for long-term ability to help nieces and nephews out with college, say, or a no-interest loan to keep a sibling off the street after a catastrophe. If the OP just hands everything out now, sounds like it is going to be gone pretty quickly. I've watched relatives of my own burn through multi-million dollar windfalls and end up losing everything; they're no good with money or with long range planning. Their retired parents are now paying their rent at their dumpy little apartment in a bad part of town. 3 3points reply Yvette Desmarais Yvette Desmarais Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago No longer in the family? Great! Have a nice life. 2 2points reply Otter Otter Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago That's the thing. It's sensible to refuse the family's dream of luxury at someone else's expense, but dude! You've come into money you didn't earn, you now have a Karmic debt to pay off! Your life has been made easier, now you make someone else's life easier. I don't mean give all the money away, but give first-and-last-month's rent to someone in unstable housing, pay down someone's crushing student loans, set up college funds for kids, look around you and see what's needed. You can do this and still be "fiscally responsible", plus, if you give to people in need it makes it a LOT easier to say "no" to your family. 1 1point reply Beth L Beth L Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 9 months ago Ask any nonprofit whether they'd rather have a pile of cash right now or an endowment that will provide a steady cash flow for 100 years. OP set themselves up to be able to contribute towards charities every year for a long time. They'll have money to help out a dozen people with a deposit on an apartment or a down payment on a house. Nothing in their post said they wouldn't take the investment income or the apartment income and contribute their "karmic" share of that to worthy causes. They just don't see taking the extended family on a ritzy vacation as a worthy charity, and I'm ok with that. 1 1point reply Otter Otter Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago True, nothing in the OP's post said they wouldn't give to the needy, and nothing said they would, he seems only concerned with himself and his wife. Hopefully that will change with time, he's very young. 0 0points reply Corey Blown Corey Blown Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 3 months ago How Dr Benjamin the great lottery spell caster helped me win lottery by giving giving me the winning numbers. You can reach him via email [email protected] or call/text/whatsapp +17066036031 0 0points reply Marcellus II Marcellus II Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago "In my state it's public if you win. They found out before I told them"?! That is just insane. That is just inviting hordes of beggars to bombard you with requests, not just family but endless companies trying to sell you whatever. 29 29points reply A girl A girl Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago That's the way it is here too. If we won, we'd contact a lawyer, hire a security team, change our phone numbers and move. Stupid, dangerous practice to make the info public. 28 28points reply Load More Replies... Pat Bond Pat Bond Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago I was completely shocked by the revelation it's public info....utter madness. You have the choice of announcing or keeping it secret in the UK, the amount of times people went public, someone burgled their home while they were doing the press shoot. Always keep it secret. 2 2points reply Agamemenon Triforce Agamemenon Triforce Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago That hilights the stupidity of the thieves. What are they thinking? As if you're going to have a huge stack of cash delivered in a box or something and sitting on the kitchen table? Christ almighty people are dumb. 0 0points reply Dre Mosley Dre Mosley Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago (edited) It works like that in about 12 states in the US where you can choose remain anonymous. I wish this was applied nationwide. 0 0points reply Shane S Shane S Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Lottery winners will go completely off the grid sometimes. Move. Change phone numbers. Become recluses. Everyone you’ve ever met comes out of the woodwork looking for a handout. 1 1point reply Claudia Limock Claudia Limock Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 3 days ago Lord Bubuza is the right man for the job, Dont let anyone deceive you, Lord Bubuza lottery spell is Ultimate and he will give you the right lottery winning numbers after casting the lottery spell. Contact him via email: [email protected] or WhatsApp:+1 951 442 2214 0 0points reply Corey Blown Corey Blown Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 2 months ago The spell caster that helped me win lottery, he gave me the winning numbers and I won, he can help you too email him today drbenjaminlottospell711 @ gmail. com 0 0points reply Corey Blown Corey Blown Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 4 months ago Contact Dr Benjamin today and win mega million lottery as he had done for me, he helped me win $122 million contact him via his email drbenjaminlottospell711 @ gmail. com 0 0points reply Corey Blown Corey Blown Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 5 months ago Contact Dr Benjamin today and win mega million lottery as he had done for me, he helped me win $122 million contact him via his email drbenjaminlottospell711 @ gmail. com ..................................... 0 0points reply Craig Reynolds Craig Reynolds Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 months ago Same here, so if it ever happened I would contact a lawyer to form some kind of LLC, Trust, etc, to claim it discreetly if possible, The second thing I would do is immediately freeze/lock my credit reports, so no one can find me that way. Those FKrs have literally every address, bank, vehicle, and employer you have ever been associated with! The third thing I would do is move and buy a home under an LLC or shell company. 0 0points reply Patrick Connolly Patrick Connolly Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 months ago The spell caster that helped me win lottery, he gave me the winning numbers and I won, he can help you too email him today [email protected] 0 0points reply I'mNotARoboat I'mNotARoboat Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Where I am, you have to have your picture taken and publicised or else the lottery corporation won't give you the money. The excuse is to promote the lottery and have the unspoken message as "These people won at XYZ store, maybe you'll be next!" 0 0points reply Auntriarch Auntriarch Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Your money, your choice, smart choice. I'm just sorry you aren't blessed with the kind of family that you would want to share even a little with 24 24points reply TTorrest Author TTorrest Author Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Exactly this. I can't imagine NOT sharing with my family, but then again, we all kinda like each other LOL. 21 21points reply Load More Replies... Claudia Limock Claudia Limock Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 3 days ago Lord Bubuza is the right man for the job, Dont let anyone deceive you, Lord Bubuza lottery spell is Ultimate and he will give you the right lottery winning numbers after casting the lottery spell. Contact him via email: [email protected] or WhatsApp:+1 951 442 2214 0 0points reply Anyone-for-tea? Anyone-for-tea? Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Same. Especially since I lost my job through ill health, a few thousand would make a huge difference, and if I could help out my family, even though they piss me off, I still would. 1 1point reply Corey Blown Corey Blown Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 3 months ago How Dr Benjamin the great lottery spell caster helped me win lottery by giving giving me the winning numbers. You can reach him via email [email protected] or call/text/whatsapp +17066036031 0 0points reply Memoona Malik Memoona Malik Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 months ago Exactly! Its beautiful to share! Because otherwise everyone is for their own anyways! If I were the family, i wouldn't cut them off but I would be hurt they didn't think of maybe helping with my debt to make my life a little easy! Thankfully in real life, I do not have any debt though.. 0 0points reply Load More Comments POST Kanuli Kanuli Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago It is kinda interesting (fake or not aside), that in all his plans there is really 0 to anyone else planned. In my fantasy I would try to help some of the friends, family, people along my way in life and repay a bit for their part in helping me become the person I am now. Not that I owe this, but from my heart that would be something I would strife for. Funny though, parents and brothers would most likely not be on this list either. 42 42points reply Iifa A. Iifa A. Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Im sure we all have dreamed similar. And obviously he did plan something for others his immediate family (wife), but it seems he didn't have a nice relationship with parents so why would he. Also 5 million isn't much if you just give it away to needy, investments grow it bigger over time, and he could create college fund for nieces and nephews, do charity. This is how 70% go broke, they spend it all and give away. Funnily if you by 1 million house you will need to pay utilities and tax for that house every year, give away your money and in a year you will lose your house and then you go ask help and money from family you took care off and they most likely won't. There has been numerous jackpot winners going broke and suicidal in a year or two. Bad financial management. 17 17points reply Load More Replies... UpupaEpops UpupaEpops Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago (edited) That's how most people lose their winnings. "Giving a bit" to all who ask. Unfortunately, in my experience, people (especially the financially irresponsible ones) can become extremely entitled if you help them out. Not saying that everyone is like that, but I've lost count of how many people have bailed my mother out and how many times just because she loves spending money she doesn't have. At this point, if I won the lottery, she wouldn't get a dime. Depending on how much it is, I would look into setting up a trust fund for my siblings and that's it. As for OP, his family is literally spending his money before he even has it? Just because he won the lottery, it doesn't make him the family ATM. It's one thing for them to say that hey, we have a medical emergency, have nothing to eat or such. But for the entire extended family to start organizing a massive overseas holiday on OP's money? The entitlement is astonishing. 4 4points reply Milan Milan Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 9 months ago 100% agree 4 4points reply Kathryn Baylis Kathryn Baylis Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 9 months ago Depends on whether the OP’s family had ever done that for them. Sounds like no one but Dad ever did. Seems the OP takes after their Dad, and the rest of the siblings take after Mom, who sounds like a selfish person. But we don’t have quite enough context to know for sure. 3 3points reply Hermione Hermione Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago I agree with you. It’s sad that OP doesn’t have any family they’d want to help out. That would be my first thought- but my family would not ask for anything. 3 3points reply Beth L Beth L Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 9 months ago There isn't anything planned as immediate gifts, no. But OP is setting up a strategy for long-term ability to help nieces and nephews out with college, say, or a no-interest loan to keep a sibling off the street after a catastrophe. If the OP just hands everything out now, sounds like it is going to be gone pretty quickly. I've watched relatives of my own burn through multi-million dollar windfalls and end up losing everything; they're no good with money or with long range planning. Their retired parents are now paying their rent at their dumpy little apartment in a bad part of town. 3 3points reply Yvette Desmarais Yvette Desmarais Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago No longer in the family? Great! Have a nice life. 2 2points reply Otter Otter Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago That's the thing. It's sensible to refuse the family's dream of luxury at someone else's expense, but dude! You've come into money you didn't earn, you now have a Karmic debt to pay off! Your life has been made easier, now you make someone else's life easier. I don't mean give all the money away, but give first-and-last-month's rent to someone in unstable housing, pay down someone's crushing student loans, set up college funds for kids, look around you and see what's needed. You can do this and still be "fiscally responsible", plus, if you give to people in need it makes it a LOT easier to say "no" to your family. 1 1point reply Beth L Beth L Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 9 months ago Ask any nonprofit whether they'd rather have a pile of cash right now or an endowment that will provide a steady cash flow for 100 years. OP set themselves up to be able to contribute towards charities every year for a long time. They'll have money to help out a dozen people with a deposit on an apartment or a down payment on a house. Nothing in their post said they wouldn't take the investment income or the apartment income and contribute their "karmic" share of that to worthy causes. They just don't see taking the extended family on a ritzy vacation as a worthy charity, and I'm ok with that. 1 1point reply Otter Otter Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago True, nothing in the OP's post said they wouldn't give to the needy, and nothing said they would, he seems only concerned with himself and his wife. Hopefully that will change with time, he's very young. 0 0points reply Corey Blown Corey Blown Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 3 months ago How Dr Benjamin the great lottery spell caster helped me win lottery by giving giving me the winning numbers. You can reach him via email [email protected] or call/text/whatsapp +17066036031 0 0points reply Marcellus II Marcellus II Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago "In my state it's public if you win. They found out before I told them"?! That is just insane. That is just inviting hordes of beggars to bombard you with requests, not just family but endless companies trying to sell you whatever. 29 29points reply A girl A girl Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago That's the way it is here too. If we won, we'd contact a lawyer, hire a security team, change our phone numbers and move. Stupid, dangerous practice to make the info public. 28 28points reply Load More Replies... Pat Bond Pat Bond Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago I was completely shocked by the revelation it's public info....utter madness. You have the choice of announcing or keeping it secret in the UK, the amount of times people went public, someone burgled their home while they were doing the press shoot. Always keep it secret. 2 2points reply Agamemenon Triforce Agamemenon Triforce Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago That hilights the stupidity of the thieves. What are they thinking? As if you're going to have a huge stack of cash delivered in a box or something and sitting on the kitchen table? Christ almighty people are dumb. 0 0points reply Dre Mosley Dre Mosley Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago (edited) It works like that in about 12 states in the US where you can choose remain anonymous. I wish this was applied nationwide. 0 0points reply Shane S Shane S Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Lottery winners will go completely off the grid sometimes. Move. Change phone numbers. Become recluses. Everyone you’ve ever met comes out of the woodwork looking for a handout. 1 1point reply Claudia Limock Claudia Limock Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 3 days ago Lord Bubuza is the right man for the job, Dont let anyone deceive you, Lord Bubuza lottery spell is Ultimate and he will give you the right lottery winning numbers after casting the lottery spell. Contact him via email: [email protected] or WhatsApp:+1 951 442 2214 0 0points reply Corey Blown Corey Blown Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 2 months ago The spell caster that helped me win lottery, he gave me the winning numbers and I won, he can help you too email him today drbenjaminlottospell711 @ gmail. com 0 0points reply Corey Blown Corey Blown Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 4 months ago Contact Dr Benjamin today and win mega million lottery as he had done for me, he helped me win $122 million contact him via his email drbenjaminlottospell711 @ gmail. com 0 0points reply Corey Blown Corey Blown Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 5 months ago Contact Dr Benjamin today and win mega million lottery as he had done for me, he helped me win $122 million contact him via his email drbenjaminlottospell711 @ gmail. com ..................................... 0 0points reply Craig Reynolds Craig Reynolds Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 months ago Same here, so if it ever happened I would contact a lawyer to form some kind of LLC, Trust, etc, to claim it discreetly if possible, The second thing I would do is immediately freeze/lock my credit reports, so no one can find me that way. Those FKrs have literally every address, bank, vehicle, and employer you have ever been associated with! The third thing I would do is move and buy a home under an LLC or shell company. 0 0points reply Patrick Connolly Patrick Connolly Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 months ago The spell caster that helped me win lottery, he gave me the winning numbers and I won, he can help you too email him today [email protected] 0 0points reply I'mNotARoboat I'mNotARoboat Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Where I am, you have to have your picture taken and publicised or else the lottery corporation won't give you the money. The excuse is to promote the lottery and have the unspoken message as "These people won at XYZ store, maybe you'll be next!" 0 0points reply Auntriarch Auntriarch Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Your money, your choice, smart choice. I'm just sorry you aren't blessed with the kind of family that you would want to share even a little with 24 24points reply TTorrest Author TTorrest Author Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Exactly this. I can't imagine NOT sharing with my family, but then again, we all kinda like each other LOL. 21 21points reply Load More Replies... Claudia Limock Claudia Limock Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 3 days ago Lord Bubuza is the right man for the job, Dont let anyone deceive you, Lord Bubuza lottery spell is Ultimate and he will give you the right lottery winning numbers after casting the lottery spell. Contact him via email: [email protected] or WhatsApp:+1 951 442 2214 0 0points reply Anyone-for-tea? Anyone-for-tea? Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Same. Especially since I lost my job through ill health, a few thousand would make a huge difference, and if I could help out my family, even though they piss me off, I still would. 1 1point reply Corey Blown Corey Blown Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 3 months ago How Dr Benjamin the great lottery spell caster helped me win lottery by giving giving me the winning numbers. You can reach him via email [email protected] or call/text/whatsapp +17066036031 0 0points reply Memoona Malik Memoona Malik Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 months ago Exactly! Its beautiful to share! Because otherwise everyone is for their own anyways! If I were the family, i wouldn't cut them off but I would be hurt they didn't think of maybe helping with my debt to make my life a little easy! 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