I totally had this happen. When I was growing up we didn't have much money, and I've always tried to be really frugal. I tend to agonize over minor necessary expenses like gloves or shoes. When I went from a couple hundred bucks in the bank to almost a million I felt strange. I tried to ignore those feelings, so I could live like a normal person. It only took me about a year to...

I mean... Well... It goes pretty fast and things are pretty much back to the way things were.

I did not understand at all how people who win the lottery could blow through it all so quickly. Growing up, the limit on my spending was availability. When that availability went up, I didn't really have the right tools to change my internal spending algorithm quickly enough to maintain a comfortable level for a longer time.

It truly didn't fix as many problems as I had hoped, and it turns out a million dollars isn't nearly as much as I thought it was.