I won the lottery !

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Sadly, only around a fiver and not 5 million - that darned decimal point is always in the wrong place for me.

Has anyone you know won anything substantial?

Many moons ago, one of the receptionists at work one a cool £1M and came into work to hand in her notice with immediate effect. We were all really happy for her as she'd had a bit of a rough run in luck - our manager however tried to insist she work her notice!

She didn't 🙃

I have a very tenuous link to someone who won several millions n on the lottery ,she's my friends ex sister in law 😂
It must be about 20 years ago bow and Appearently shed spent up and working as a barmaid .

Many years ago, my MIL was part of a school syndicate who won just over 1/4 million between them. Not life changing for anyone, but a nice sum (think a year’s salary each).

We were so excited for her - big holiday, new car? Nah. She bought a loft ladder. What a treat! 😂

Hi

We stoppoed doing it many years ago soon after it went to twice a week

We don have premium bonds and do hope to win a few thousand

What we have done is not just worked hard like most people on this site but spent and saved prudently. It paid off as both of us were able to leave work at around 55 years ago.

The recent massive spoke in inflation has made the savings we have useless and our private pensions are as good as fixed - all thanks to the dangeorus clown Truss. Thankfully we dont have a mortgage unlike millions of others whose rates have shot up

Why am I posting this - working hard does not count a lot its what you do with your money - I wish you luck and hope you win a hundred million and those that say thats "too much" - send me whatever you consider "too much" lol

Good luck

Won £60 a few weeks ago. Treated us and teens to a take away. Made for a lovely family evening actually.. Much appreciated.. Ds 15 actually left his room...

@Desperate2023 what do you mean by ‘private pensions as good as fixed’?

I have renewed doing the Postcode Lottery. Worth a whirl.

A few months after the lottery started a friends parents won just over a million. They bought houses for both their adult children ( early 20s) and told them that was the last penny they would get until they had their inheritance. The parents went first class to NZ and after that had 2 holidays a year. They didn't even buy a new car and both kept working.
Syndicate in a village near me won about 20 years ago, they ended up with just over 150k each, not a huge amount but an awful lot for ex miners.

A friend won nearly a million many years ago and was very prudent with it. He still works, just doesn’t have to.

Someone in our village won £250k last week on a scratch card ..Good for them !

I won £3 achievements in couple of weeks ago and I've won around £2.50 several times

A fella I went to school with won 1 million on a scratch card. He's skint now and delivers for Evri

Not earth shattering, no, but won £1800 on the National Lottery two or so years after it started. Had 5 numbers. Other weeks 5 numbers would have won me a lot more, but it was still a nice amount 27 0r 28 years ago 😀

Lol silly plonker!

I hate it in my insomnia moment I check my emails and national lottery say you won but you can't log on in the night. . Deep down I know it's only a 5.00 but do wish.

Friends won close to a million. It was gone in a couple of years and they divorced shortly after that. They didn't even pay off their mortgage.

I know of three people, one was a guy who used his winnings to invest in pubs and dealt coke, my mate introduced me to him as she was buying coke from him.

Another was a hospice syndicate, they won big and spread it between them. As far as I know they all carried on working at the hospice. Made a great difference to them and their families.

Third is a local guy, really guy and unassuming, big win. Doesn’t talk about it but doesn’t work. Sends his adult children on nice holidays, loves his Grandchildren

When I was at school, a lad in my class had a go at the football pools (remember that?!) as soon as he turned 16. He won a million and we never saw him again!

Like PP, I matched 5 numbers many years ago, and thought it was going to change our lives. Turned out to be just under £3,000. Paid a few bills, though, and I was pretty happy once I got used to the fact that I still had to work.

one of my closest friends won 102k the night before her wedding - she gave me the spare and kept £100k and I just hope one day I can return the favour

I always think when this happens that the person will have had plenty of friends when they won and that number would go down and down the more broke they got.

I really cannot fathom why or how so many winners burn through their winnings. I would see a financial advisor if it ever happened to me. If it were a sizeable pot I mean.

I matched all numbers on win for life, 10k a month for 30 years, but I'd not played that week!

I didn't play every week, and have ditched the saved numbers. I can only dream if winning when I've actually put it on!

Maybe I'm just not meant to be a millionaire

My work syndicate won the jackpot about 25 years ago, long before I worked there.

Unfortunately for them there were 3 winners that week and they had so many members in the syndicate they only got £30K each. Apart from most of them driving around in a new car, normal life quickly resumed.

I have a relative who we think must have won the lottery.

She was always incredibly generous to people and helped out number of different people with things in the family. Funded a few through university- that sort of thing.

It was only at her funeral, when she also left a couple of thousand to everyone in the family (large family), that we all added it up and realised that over her lifetime she'd given away significantly more than she could possibly have earned. She also would have been the sort to give a lot to charity, so she could well have won millions and we'd never have known.

She already lived in an idyllic location surrounded by friends and family, so she wouldn't have wanted to live anywhere else.

So our guess is she won the lottery about twenty years before she died, said nothing, and just quietly spent it on others, and small treats for herself and her dog. She would sometimes buy a little box of Ferraro rocher and get enormous joy out of eating a couple with her lunchtime vegetable soup.

Yep. We'd get the house refurbished, plastering, 30 yo kitchen etc. replace our dilapidated furniture. Cars - ours have 300,000 miles between them. Mortgage. Pensions. Deposits for DC.