Lottery Winner Spent $160K on Dream Job, Family, No Savings

Olivia Love, 37, a wedding content creator from Glasgow, won £10,000 a month for a year on the UK's National Lottery Set for Life game in May 2025. She spent every penny. No house. No savings. She calls it the best year of her life.

Love used to work the kiosk at a supermarket that sold lottery tickets. She bought six tickets one evening in May 2025. The next morning, an email from the National Lottery told her she had won. The prize: £10,000 a month for 12 months, roughly $160,000 total.

Her first thought was a house. She and her husband, a truck driver, had been renting, with four kids and no savings. A mortgage on a house they couldn't buy outright felt like a risk, not security. They decided to keep renting.