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Why wasn't it me who won £115 million?!

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smokealarm · 02/01/2019 09:51

Urgh!

Why wasn't it me??? I'm a good person!

I never win 😭 When will it be my turn?!

Anyone else upset they didn't win the £115m euro millions jackpot?

(Lighthearted!)

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Whisky2014 · 02/01/2019 09:53

I woke up to a "news about your ticket" email and had visions of a new life ahead. Yeh, not on £9.30 :(

smokealarm · 02/01/2019 10:00

Ha @Whisky2014 Grin I saw in my lottery app that someone in the UK had won it late last night and then obviously thought it was me and couldn't get to sleep as was fantasising. Didn't want to check my ticket till the morning to keep up the fantasy. When I eventually checked I won sweet f-all!

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x2boys · 02/01/2019 10:00

Yeah it's not fair but than I didn't buy a ticket so I suppose you need to be in it to win it !

smokealarm · 02/01/2019 10:07

@x2boys it's getting expensive to play these days. £2.50 for 1 line is ridiculous and I once matched 4 numbers and only got £25 😤

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EscapeTheCastle · 02/01/2019 10:10

I don't understand why I didn't win it. The radio announced it was a UK winner this morning and I thought ooooooooooh! Deluded I know!

WickedGoodDoge · 02/01/2019 10:13

I didn’t play either but still think I should have won. Entitled much? FWIW, OP, I definitely would have shared it with you if I’d won. Honest. Grin

Jocasta2018 · 02/01/2019 10:17

I was queuing for the one-basket counter yesterday and let a young man in front of me as he only wanted to buy a Euromillions ticket. I wonder if his was the winning ticket?
I meant to buy one myself after his reminder but in the fluster of packing my groceries, I forgot....

TarragonSauce · 02/01/2019 10:18

I don't know why it wasn't me but I shall be watching dsis and mil very closely over the next few days. First sign of a Waitrose carrier bag, I'm in there.

tinstar · 02/01/2019 10:21

I often fantasise about what I'd do if I won the lottery. Though I've never bought a ticket in my life ....

Sometimes I even get beyond the 'nice' phase thinking about the enjoyment of giving large sums to family and friends and start worrying if it would spoil their lives!

messyhousetidymind · 02/01/2019 10:25

I really thought for 5 min I might have won. The lottery app was being slow (prob due to everyone checking) and I thought maybe just maybe it's because they were verifying my details etc!

But nope.

I don't know why it wasn't me either

CannyLad · 02/01/2019 10:26

Statistics, that's why;

The chance of winning the National Lottery jackpot is 1 in 45,057,474 according to lotto website (Google search).

+45 million other people didn't win, you're not alone at least Grin

smokealarm · 02/01/2019 10:31

@CannyLad the stats for euro millions jackpot win is even worse - 1 in 140million or something ludicrous like that. BUT someone somewhere will win every so often!

I actually used to think playing the lottery was for fools given the statistics and never played until I lost everything (family business loss) and ended up on benefits for 6 months, it's amazing what "hope" can do for your mental health.

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brick10 · 02/01/2019 10:38

@TarragonSauce 🤣🤣🤣

Wasn’t me either, imagine 115M?! The mind boggles. It’s just too much money 😬

Littlepond · 02/01/2019 10:42

OH I definitely don’t want £115 million! What a terrifying amount of money.
I’m in a syndicate at work and haven’t heard if we won yet though... 🤞

Feb2018mumma · 02/01/2019 10:46

I would join in the conversation but I am winning 5 million tonight so I have forgiven not winning the euromillions!

MissionItsPossible · 02/01/2019 10:55

I sometimes don’t check my tickets for months to prolong the fantasy. Pathetic, I know.

This is not jealousy and I know the huge rollovers drum up interest but I think that is FAR too much money for one person to win.

BarbaraofSevillle · 02/01/2019 11:09

I agree about £115M being far too much. They should cap the top prizes at £5-10M, which is more than enough for anyone. The other day I was reading about a woman who had won £4M a year ago.

She really seemed to have the right approach as she had bought a house for herself and another for a friend, given some away, had some big treats and still had over £3M left, which had been invested to give her an income, which she paid to herself at a few thousand a month so she could have a nice life and hopefully the money will last her well for the rest of her life.

Jocasta2018 · 02/01/2019 12:14

I would've loved to win the £160 million jackpot and was gutted when I didn't get the lucky ticket.....

I want to set up a not-for-profit care agency, where carers get paid min £25k/year, they have decent pensions, annual leave, maternity leave, sick leave, fixed shifts, use of a pool car to go to residents, the opportunity to study and gain more qualifications. A care agency that didn't cost the earth for the users and had enough staff so you got more than just a fleeting visit - minimum an hour per visit (regardless of how many visits you have a day). Initially in the south-east but maybe nationwide.

I also want to set up a fund/charity for care. People could apply for care fee top-ups such as self-funding people living at home and people who are in care homes, self-funding, whose money has run out. Again initially in the south-east then nationwide.

Plus there would hopefully be enough left over to ensure my family, friends and neighbours have an easier life. To have the opportunity to be mortgage-free, to be able to choose their jobs, have a better life-work balance, to have a decent retirement, for their children to enter adulthood debt-free and to be able to follow their dreams.

For me, well I want to stay in my house, it suits me and I like the area. It was last decorated about 15yrs ago so could do with a lick of paint and new carpets/wood flooring, maybe new doors on the kitchen cabinets and a couple of new toilets (limescale build-up...). The oven needs cleaning. There's stuff that needs doing in the garden to tidy it up a bit. Someone to clean the house once a week and do the bloody ironing. Plus a personal trainer that collects me 5 times a week, drives me to my local leisure centre & frogmarches me into the gym or pool.

£120 million for the care agency and charity.
£35 million family and friends.
£5 million me.
Yes, £160 million would suit me fine!

Apologies for the long post - got a bit carried away in my dreams!

JustMarriedAndLovingIt · 02/01/2019 12:43

Because it was me!

Whistles nonchalantly.....

BigStripeyBastard · 02/01/2019 12:57

Don't tell fibs, JustMarried.
It couldn't have been you because it was me!
But it won't change me..... I'll carry on working. I'll just get the gutters cleared, the cat's teeth cleaned and maybe get a second hand caravan to take to the coast on Bank Holidays.....

Catsandbootsandbootsandcats · 02/01/2019 12:58

It might have been me. They're just taking their time sending the email - they obviously have to get everything in order first.

I often wonder how the email differs if you win a huge amount. Or do you still get "News about your ticket" and log in to find £150m in your account. Grin

Anyway, I'll assume no news is good news and that I am in fact the winner. Off to choose a house now.

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 02/01/2019 13:13

So do I. If its not going to be me I just hope its someone who needs it, say a single mum in despair waiting for her UC claim and facing eviction and not a upper middle class couple whos just got back from a 3 week lux7ry cruise.
Mind you it'd help if I actually boughtt a lottery ticketGrin.

MissionItsPossible · 02/01/2019 13:32

@Catsandbootsandbootsandcats

I read somewhere before that you still get the ‘exciting news about your ticket’ email but it doesn’t have an amount, it has a number to call if it’s over 50,000, I think? For the super huge rollovers after you meet them and verify the ticket it gets paid into some sort of special bank account, not your typical high street one.

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