Lets say you were to win the powerball....

NWLAsaintfan said
I saw a show about lottery winners that didn't waste it all in a few years.

One guy said he got a CPA, or investor, and one of the first things the advisor did was cut him a check for about 500K and told him to buy the house, or car, or motorcycle, go to Vegas and get it out of his system.

This may answer some questions

Lottery Winners: What to Do With Your Multimillion-Dollar Windfall - DailyFinance
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This would be my plan and it's actually one of the smartest ideas. Give yourself a (by normal standards) a huge budget to just blow on whatever, get over it, and then realize that it's possible to blow through the lottery winnings.