Posted on 05/03/2023 12:30:00 PM PDT by nickcarraway
One of California’s newest millionaires was homeless just six years ago. Lucia Forseth recently bought a California 2023 Scratchers ticket at a Walmart in Pittsburg while getting an oil change when she scratched the top prize, lottery officials announced Wednesday.
“I only bought one ticket,” Forseth told the California Lottery. “I closed my eyes and picked that one, and it won! I first thought I’d won a free ticket, but I checked, and it said I won $5 million!”
Mega Millions drawing tips offered by lottery expert Back in 2017, Forseth said she was homeless. This year she said she plans to get married and her associate degree. She also said she plans to buy a house and then invest the rest of her winnings.
“You never think you have a chance to win it. It is just random. Being homeless just six years ago, I never thought it would happen to someone like me,” Forseth said.
What’s the betting pool odds on when she will blow through this five million and be homeless and on the streets again?
I’ll give her 2 years.
She’ll blow it all in no time.
I think with $5,000,000 I could overcome homelessness, too!
Sometimes people who have been through money trouble actually become wise managers of money when they’ve dug themselves out.
It’s always exceptionally difficult for someone coming from a low income place, to suddenly having a lot of money. They have no skills in money management.
If I were her I would use some of that money to move out of California.
She had apparently overcome homelessness a long time before.
You can wait around for ‘sometimes’ I’m gonna go with the odds.
If she is white, she should distribute her winnings to 5 black families.
Geez! I bought three today and struck out.
Still, she’ll have a good two years!
Thanks for the Rush-esque clarification.
Originally settled in 1839 as “Rancho Los Medanos”, the area of almost 10,000 acres was issued to Californios Jose Antonio Mesa and his brother Jose Miguel under a Mexican Land Grant by then Governor Juan Bautista Alvarado, one of the final land grants issued prior to the formation of California as a state.
In 1849, during the California Gold Rush, Colonel Jonathan D. Stevenson (from New York) bought the Rancho Los Medanos land grant for speculation, and laid out a town he called New York of the Pacific.
In 1903 the town was incorporated, and by a vote of the citizenry, was renamed "Black Diamond", after the mining firm.
Because of the industrial potential of the site, a name change to Pittsburg was proposed in 1909. On February 11, 1911, the city officials changed the town’s name to "Pittsburg", honoring Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as the two cities shared a common steel and mining industrial heritage.
According to Wikipedia. 🙂
I looked it up after the post: Pittsburg is one hour and 22 minutes from Rio Linda.
Why did Rush pick on Rio Linda? Are the people there known to be especially dim or something?
I’m impressed. Not that she won 5 million, but that she pulled herself up from a homeless situation. That takes real determination. Thus I am happy for her good fortune. 🙂👍
That doesn’t seem to be the prevailing sentiment here. Some seem to want to wish the worst on her and gleefully watch her lose everything within a couple of years. ;-)
Education and investing. Sounds good to me.
Same here. Very first thing I’d do with that money.
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