Lottery Winner - what do I do now?

Here's what I've done with my lottery winners so far, I've only had 2.

Grace: Sweet down to earth young adult daughter of my Legacy founder in another save, she's a little innocent, a little naive. I had her living in the run down apartment in Penny Pizzazz's building in the fashion district. She started the save with the basic used kitchen stuff from CL, and a bathroom with a sink, toilet, and a tub shower combo. the only other things she had in the whole apartment was 2 of the folding dining chairs and the folding round dining table from BG found in the patio sort, the cheap laptop, the CL sofa from the flea market, and the chair that's just 2 pillows stacked from TS. She was broke, I mean really broke, and hungry. She had taken her laptop down to the square, being young and pretty, freshly aged up to YA, she caught the eye of a food stall vendor we all know and love, Don Lothario. It was snowing and she was hungry, just about on the point of a pb&j when Don set a plate of pork adobo on the picnic table in front of her at the end of his shift. He gave the girl a wink before going home. Grace ate her pork and scurried home as Vlad took over the stall. Her freelance writing was coming along but she was still barely getting by, she'd added a bed in case she ever got the nerve to invite Don upstairs, which she did the following week. She gave him a key and he showed up several times a week. Then Grace won the lottery, and Don suddenly never seemed to leave. She bought a large house in Windenberg, and the moved in together and got married. Shortly after they welcomed triplets Don Jr, Faith, & Kaylie. Grace was still writing, but spending lots of time in her study, and Don was spending time at the pub, He met wooed and got Luna Villareal pregnant with twins. He now spends his time keeping the ladies apart. Grace is happy and still naive in her big rambling house with the butler and her 3 kids, writing only the books she wants to write (mostly romance). (Current save so this one is ongoing)

Brennan: Typical bad boy, young adult, I see him as being irresponsible and selfish. Living in a little trailer in SV, he's in the athlete career just starting out, and definitely has an eye for the ladies. He soon started flirting with Nancy Landgrab at the gym. She began paying a little attention to him as he climbed the ranks. He won the lottery and went crazy, neglecting to pay taxes on the million, He bought a huge house furnished with only the best, and gifted Nancy with more. Unfortunately the IRS wants their money so they took pretty much everything he had which left him in the even smaller trailer in SV living on not much while he constantly cleans his drains from the vines growing there, but he has been eyeing the pretty conspiracy theorist for the past couple of weeks. (Also a current save)

I too won a few days ago and I just... shrugged. I actually didn't really need the money, I didn't want to move house into something bigger, life for the Sims was just going well as it was lol.

I never spent any of it, but also I moved on to another Sim as I tend to do. Now they're just the rich neighbours to everyone despite living in a normal but oh so cozy house.

Congrats, that's fantastic!
My Sims have never won so the question for me has never really popped into me head. I'm not sure what I would do with the money. Vacation maybe, then a couple charities or something. Maybe buy a house and renovate it to help burn through those funds.

"aaronrulz;c-17093951" wrote:

"Stutum;c-17093640" wrote:

"Sharonia;c-17093574" wrote:
When one of my sims won the lottery it took away the fun of that family for me. I don't know why? I stopped playing it shortly after and started a new game with a new family. I don't have my sims do the lottery holiday anymore. :D

I can relate, when my sims have enough money to buy the most expensive property around, I'm not "hungry" anymore, and the fun fades away. A good time to start another family. :)

I wish the sims could win random amounts of money on the lottery. I mean, sure they can win a million but maybe once in a while it's $5,000 or $500,000 or even 500 bucks!

I agree, some variation would be nice. I hardly win the lottery myself though, happened once or twice, and was just enough to buy drinks for my friends at a gathering. xD

"Simmerville;c-17094023" wrote:
Congratulations! I must admit I would have asked the same question. I actually think the winning prize is a bit over the top, even if it is hard to win. In my game I decided that the money prize is reduced to §50.000 + some "social goodies" that are hard to explain but will give the winner and descendants a small boost ion various ways.

Is there anything but moving into a bigger and more exclusive house? Quit job, at least if they did work for the money? Upgrading a room or improving the garden will cost peanuts, traveling will not cost much either. I wish the game had some options for investing money in stocks, and it could either turn out good, neutral or bad. You can gift money to relatives and friends, but I don't remember what pack it came with - parenthood possibly.

Yes, you can gift money but I can't remember the amounts. I think it came with seasons.
My sims never won and I do t know what you can do... Maybe build a enormous Mansion and a enormous shopping center?

The one family I had win the lottery was olives husband Rigger (he got to enter cause in ts2 he was rich) and surprisingly he won the mill. When he tragically died Olive inherited it and she's gonna leave it to Nervous. Their lives were pretty unchanged cause I decided to live with them as normal. But if a different family had won (I only enter the dirt poor and the already rich sims, so the poor have a chance of a better life and "the rich get richer"), I would have used the money for either

- New lux home/upgrades
- a new retail business (I.e. if Brandi won she could start a bakery)
- holidays (affording the time off work)
- I gift money to family to knock it down too