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 🙃

Reading this post reminded me that I had a scratch card in my bag. I’ve just won £50😃👏👏

@Lilybugs spend it wisely!

Journalists like schadenfreude stories about 'wrong-uns' or wastrels winning the lottery and blowing the lot on fast cars, drugs etc. It is part if the narrative of there being an underclass of undeserving poor.

I am sure that the majority of people who win lots on the lottery have a lovely time helping out family, friends and good causes close to their heart. Most won't shout about it.

There was a story I read about a couple who won £30m. The DH kept his building company going for an extra year so his apprentice could finish his course. The DW got herself DBS checked so that she could help out a local school with reading support and giving lifts where necessary. They provided (basically funded) their local youth football club. They bought boxes at their premiership football ground and at Wembley. If they weren't using them they raffled them off in aid of charities.

I've only ever seen that story once. The 'lottery ruined my life' stories seem to appeal to editors more.

I've only ever seen that story once. The 'lottery ruined my life' stories seem to appeal to editors more.

Yeah, the "I paid off my mortgage" isn't exactly headline grabbing is it?😆

I do remember one couple who won a few million some years ago.

They were scout leaders for a local troop, and one of the first things they did was fund a trip for a week or so to somewhere exciting, doing white water rafting etc for all of the boys and for the other volunteers.

They really stuck in my mind - I thought it was a lovely thing to do. I'd like to think I'd be like that, but you don't know how generous/ mean you would actually be until the opportunity is in front of you.

But why would the average person have money sense when it comes to £1M plus? It’s understandable that people don’t make £1M last imo. Now splashing out and wasting EuroM is unthinkable to me

PILs won not long before I met DH. Not a life changing amount, but enough to renovate their kitchen and buy a new car.

Back in the 90s, I met a guy (friend of a friend of a friend) who had won a fairly substantial amount. He had bought a big house and a nice car. He didn’t work apparently lived on the money from renting out rooms in his fancy house.

At the time I remember thinking that didn’t seem like much to live on and wasn’t really a long-term financial strategy, unless you always planned to have lodgers. Looking back, he probably won more than he let on and had other investments that he was living off.

I had 4 numbers and the bonus ball on the lotto. Which is in reality just 4 numbers.
But only one away from five and the bonus and winning a million.
Annoyingly on the line below I had the one of the missing numbers that would have made it 5 and bonus.
Still won £140

Husbands friend of a friend won few years back.

Guy’s mates went for a weekend away abroad- neither would lend him any cash as he was out of work,
Whilst “friends “ were away he bought a ticket and won (over a million) .

Over time the friendships dissipated.,

If I won euromillions silly money then I would expect to have only a small proportion of it left after a few years. The rest would have been parceled off to DCs, family and trusts to distribute to charitable organisations.

My lottery plan is that once close family is sorted, the rest of the money would be used to make the town I live in a much nicer place. It isn't a big town but it has its problems. Improving some local services with additional income.

You just know that even if they did get the £4 million they would piss it up the wall within a year or so...

I’d have to set up trust funds for my kids, nephews, nieces etc. I’d pay of the mortgages of my most vulnerable family members. I have a cousin with several disabilities and other special needs. I’d want to try give him a higher standard of living.

I would donate to Mind, Ovarian Cancer and Breast cancer charities.

I would buy property and set up some long term investments (obvs for all this I think I’d need to win north of £20mil).

So I bought a lottery ticket for tonight because of this thread... when do they draw it?????

@PrawnDumplings Set For Life is drawn at 8pm. You can check your numbers here https://www.lottery.co.uk/amp/set-for-life/results or wait for TNL to update them in the app. Good luck!

Thank you!
Sadly I didn't win 😔

@PrawnDumplings there’s always next time!😆

My biggest ever prize has been £30.

I dream of paying off my mortgage and having bills taken care of, and knowing I can afford whatever vet treatment my beloved cats will need in the future. Not being able to help them is a true terror of mine.

All the humans i know can wait till I pop my clogs for a piece of it, unless I've won silly money.

My DM is fairly lucky, won 2k on a hospice lottery about 20 years ago, won the postcode lottery where the area code gets invited to a big do and they share the jackpot (one specific code wins the million, not theirs unfortunately), that ended up only 3k because it was such a big postcode.
Then she won 10k on the Daily Mail competitions page online, literally typed her email address into a pop up and 6 months later got an email. She also gets a lot each month on premium bonds, last month she got £600 in total from separate numbers. Hoping one day she really wins big! She deserves it after all the childcare she’s helped us with.

My DM also bought my DD a premium bond and it won £500 this month. Off to invest my life savings in them…

Wow! We’ve been in postcode lottery for years and have won 2 £10 prizes. 😐

I also know someone who lived on the street where the big draw came out but they didn’t play it and missed out on £250,000 per ticket. However as compensation his daughters street came up for the £30,000 street prize less than a year later

Wow! I must be due soon . Just checked the website and in the last 3 years my postcode has one £30 in 3 £10 prizes!

Someone I know won £225k about 25 years ago . He bought a house and it set him up.

In the first couple of months of the lottery I won £47 and spent it on a leather jacket for my then husband. Not won more than £20 since then!

In the first ever draw of the lottery, I got the first 4 consecutive numbers that came out... but not the others. That was a bit of a rollercoaster. 😄I did win 60-odd quid though, most I've ever won on it.

Oops, I've just realised I already shared that anecdote on this thread. Had completely forgotten. Ignore me. 😂