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Imagine if you won the lottery during lockdown...

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thelostartofkeepingsecrets · 01/04/2020 13:22

You wouldn’t be able to go on an amazing holiday, celebrate with friends and family who you didn’t live with, buying anything luxurious unless it was online or stocked in an essential local shop.

What would you do? Would it be a massive anti-climax?

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ilovecakeandwine · 01/04/2020 13:23

Maybe , but then I also wouldn't have the worry about my job and if I have a job after all this so it would be good time.

Unknown2020 · 01/04/2020 13:23

It would be a massive weight off my mind if I one the lottery, with not having to worry about how I’m going to pay my mortgage or bills or feed my children whilst not working!

Davespecifico · 01/04/2020 13:24

I’ve thought about this. It would be great. Plenty of time to imagine and plan.

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thelostartofkeepingsecrets · 01/04/2020 13:26

Definitely yes to taking the financial pressure off, but then I thought what if there was nobody working at Camelot to administer the prize. You’d be a in very strange kind of limbo.

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thelostartofkeepingsecrets · 01/04/2020 13:30

I’m really not sure what I’d do in the short term - I’ve got a young baby who I’m co-sleeping with so not drinking. I’d probably get a nice takeaway and definitely give some to charities and loved ones. Then have fun planning for better days to come.

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ThomasHardyPerennial · 01/04/2020 13:30

It would be quite good, as you'd have some time to get your head around it.

ilovecakeandwine · 01/04/2020 13:32

Short term not a lot , I suppose lots of planning but it may be a while before you can go to a restaurant never mind on holiday .
I'd donate to a few charities you'd still be able to do that .

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thelostartofkeepingsecrets · 01/04/2020 13:34

I’ve just asked my husband if he’d quit work (frontline NHS) and he said no, not during this crisis - what a good egg!

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CheriLittlebottom · 01/04/2020 13:36

Hmm planning time I guess. Plus you could quit work and stay home without much suspicion.

The cynical side of me says it's a good time to buy shares.

MrsMisstery · 01/04/2020 13:37

@thelostartofkeepingsecrets I love your husband. What a great man. Thank you. We would be absolutely sd without people like him.

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thelostartofkeepingsecrets · 01/04/2020 13:40

Yeah you’re probably right about the shares, I wouldn’t know where to start with them though so I’d need some good advice.

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FoulMouthedMotherFigure · 01/04/2020 14:27

I lead a very quiet and simple life so was thrilled to win £20 on a scratchcard I bought right before the lockdown began.

I had to wait several days before I had good reasons to return to the corner shop and cash it in. As Davespecifico and CheriLittlebottom suggest up-thread, it was useful having that time to plan and imagine different things to do with it.

...But my goodness, actual millions of pounds? I could spend a couple of years composing lists of things to do with it. Grin

CheriLittlebottom · 01/04/2020 14:28

A good way to while away lockdown hours, at least!

NagaisAce · 01/04/2020 14:30

Someone has won 57M in uk and not claimed it yet.

CheriLittlebottom · 01/04/2020 14:34

Wish it was me!

HoneysuckIejasmine · 01/04/2020 14:36

I've always thought it would be good to give as much of it to charity as possible, so now would be a good time to win.

FaFoutis · 01/04/2020 14:39

You would have plenty of time to browse on rightmove.

Mysterian · 01/04/2020 14:45

Thought about this the other day. Would be a bit of an anti-climax. Or at least a stalled climax. I'd want to spend at least a few thousand in the first week and celebrate with friends. Then with sensible head on sort out wills and investments.

CheriLittlebottom · 01/04/2020 14:47

www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-55229871.html

I could socially distance in here pretty happily, I reckon. But would you not be allowed to move in at the moment?

MrsTerryPratchett · 01/04/2020 14:47

I actually think it would be great. Take the immediate pressure off and give you time to get used to it. I bet people would spend less on utter tat if they had a few months to wait.

Dark humour: buy a ventilator.

TrickyKid · 01/04/2020 14:49

Well I wouldn't need to worry about not having business anymore and not being able to pay the mortgage.

MinkowskisButterfly · 01/04/2020 14:53

If we won the lottery my husband could give up work, he currently works in supermarket who are not helping with social distancing (they say they are but still letting 200+ people in at a time) and he get so much abuse and then comes home to vulnerable people in the house. So quitting that job would be amazing right now.

TorkTorkBam · 01/04/2020 14:55

I heard they always recommend you wait and think before spending the money anyway. There's no time limit on splurging it.

AvonBarksdale99 · 01/04/2020 14:58

It would be great. You could really think about what to buy. And you could still buy a new house in cash, and generously pay a cleaner to disinfect the whole thing over a few days.

bananaskinsnomnom · 01/04/2020 15:01

Well I’ve just been told I’m in furlough, which They are topping up - for now. It’s good news in a sense but it could be redundancy at the end - winning the lottery would lift the huge weight of fear I feel has been plonked straight down on me.

I would book a bloody big holiday for next year, when hopefully we are safe out of this. Probably to make up for the one that I may loose depending on if things are back to normal by October! (To be honest I’m not holding my breath on it)