If you won a lottery ...

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Faxanadu said:

TomaTito said:
I would buy houses! Lots of them, put some up for renting and voila, live of the rents

Why the risk?

Go to a bank. Tell them: 5% p.a. interest if I put 25million in my account here and leave it.

That gives you: 5 million to spend. And 1.25 million in interest per year. That is 104K a month. Or 3.4 K a day. Try spending that.

 - 3 to 4% inflation  and then - taxes on the interest earned = you losing moneynot losing as much if you didn't invest it in someything but your still losing not profiting