Exactly what I would have done. I always figured lottery tickets were basically just a form of "stupidity tax".

It's fairly common up here for the people who win the big lottery jackpots to end up in a year or two in the same financial position they were in before they won the lottery...or even worse off than that...and having lost several of their "friends" and/or their marriage along the way. As the old adage goes: "a fool and his money are soon parted"