Financial experts offer advice on winning the lottery

Tonight's Powerball jackpot worth $500 million

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Posted: 11/28/2012

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) - Visions of lifelong riches are surely dancing in the heads of those rushing to buy lottery tickets for Wednesday night's $500 million Powerball jackpot.

 
Past winners of mega-lottery drawings and financial planners have some more sound advice: stick to a budget, invest wisely, learn to say no and be prepared to lose friends while riding an emotional roller-coaster.
 
Tales of big lottery winners who wind up in financial ruin or other desperate straits are increasingly common.
 
A two-time New Jersey lottery winner squandered her $5.4 million fortune. And a West Virginia man who won $315 million a decade ago on Christmas later said the windfall was to blame for his granddaughter's fatal drug overdose and his divorce.

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