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’d buy classic cars for DH and I as they don’t depreciate. I’d buy a house for both DDs and a lovely house in the nearby town we love but can’t afford at the moment.

Boy I went to school with (well, his parents) won 100k not long after it started, he was the talk of the year group.
My Gran is a scratch card enthusiast and I swear she beats the system, she's had one 1k win but several £100 wins over the years and regularly gets 'today's batch' effectively for free.

A syndicate at a local pub won the jackpot I think the got around 1.9 million each. They were all local people so I knew most of them. One man had 2 shares because someone had dropped our a couple of weeks previously and took his numbers.

Many years ago one of my staff won multi million prize in very early days of lottery, rang me up and told me she wasn't coming back to work, can't begrudge anyone such good fortune.

I think £150k is just about the right amount, enough to sort out your life but not enough to make you give up your job

Few people/colleagues at previous job won on syndicate around £170 each

Not me but the parents of a girl I knew at school won something like £30 million. She was a horrible bully so I was a bit 🙄The only thing I know they spent it on was a very lavish wedding for this girl.

I've never won more than £20 but I've got all sorts of plans for a big win. It keeps me amused when I'm stuck in a bad traffic jam on the way to work. First on the list after sorting out my own family is getting a decent solicitor for my friend who's living in a horrible council house with her DD. All their things have been ruined by the cigarette smoke coming from the chain smokers living below them. I'd love to be able to hand her and her DD legal freedom from her abusive estranged husband and a big wodge of cash to set them up comfortably.

Yes, I agree with this. Winning hundreds of thousands is still life changing and many more people would win,

I work with someone who used to work at Camelot and the stories he tells me about how he never heard one happy story, it ruined so many lives makes me wonder if I'd want the big win. I'd be content with £500k now I think

I’ve been playing the same numbers for years now. They came to me as a sort of Christmas present 😂 as Einstein termed it a ‘spooky action at a distance’. I don’t doubt for one minute that I will win a Euro million jackpot with them … and I totally trust the timing. I cannot for the life of me imagine that I’d ever keep more money than I need - which isn’t a lot - I like to think when the time comes I’ll be able to do an awful lot of good 😊🤞🏻

I won €6000. I really made good use of it. Holiday to Spain for our family and a trip on my own plus various other things. Was great

I would guess that they are capped at a very low figure e.g. 3% . They aren't like public sector pensions!!

When I win big, I will not tell a single soul in real life apart from my DH. I think people behave appallingly when someone comes into money and all sorts of people come crawling out of the woodwork who didnt give a shit about you beforehand.

I will move to a lovely house and just tell people I've taken out a huge mortgage combined with my life savings which I've been saving up since age 15. I will never, ever admit it to anyone- I think this is the key to it not ending in disaster. Its noone else's business to know anyway

If anyone has a spare couple of million after winning my dream house has just come on the market 😁 (there was actually a thread by a real winner on here once).

I just don't understand how this happens? Do winners completely lose their minds and spend beyond their means? Don't they educate themselves about what a million pounds means nowadays and what the purchasing power of it is? Have they not thought that if you spend it frivolously and don't care about interest rates/inflation, give up your job, then yes, you will eventually go through it ALL.

I've said it before on here and I'll say it again, that bloody phrase/song "Who wants to be a millionaire?" needs adjusting for inflation. We all think of a million as being the benchmark for what it means to be rich. But when that song came out for the film High Society it was 1956, it was referring to dollars and that would be over 10 million dollars in today's money. So the lyrics to that song/phrase should now be, for a British audience "Who wants to be worth 7.9 million pounds?" I DO!

It's weird to think of but a million actually isn't mega rich these days. Not that any of us would turn it down. But you couldn't just spend it how you liked without thinking carefully whether you were eating into your capital, and how long it's going to last. You couldn't be mega generous with your friends and family with a million, like buy a few people a house or cars. You could with 7.9 million. But no-one uses that phrase 😆

I quite agree, @CurlyhairedAssassin . I'm always thinking how the million pound figure on the Euro millions lottery needs to be adjusted, for example.

@FeralNun was the school in the North East? My teachers won a large amount in a school syndicate which between them would have been about £30k each. The physics teacher traded in his old banger for another old banger! We were all very disappointed 🤣

I love this story! She would have touched so many people's lives and made a real difference. Far better than wasting it on bling and private helicopter rides.

I won £2.90 on Friday and £5 last night. At this rate of increase I should be in line for the jackpot pretty quickly 😀

We have regular small wins on premium bonds but this month won £1000 - it was very exciting!

Too many stories like that. I have no sympathy for them. You get what you deserve in life. Well, HE got what he deserved, I mean.

True, 1 million is not much if you are factoring in buying property but.... much better than £0.

I don’t play but Dh does sometimes if it’s a rollover week. If he won a million we agreed to pay off the mortgage, treat both sides of the family to a nice holiday, maybe upgrade my car and other than that just keep living our lives as normal. Anything more than a million and I think you’d just have to spend it doing good for others.

Oh, yeah. I'd be happy with it, I wouldn't even mind continuing to work if I had no rent to pay any more and could spend my salary on luxuries instead.

You'd be fine, @Beezknees , purely because you're aware that it's "only a million" and you wouldn't have much left once you get a house and pension. You've already given yourself an advantage there by being savvy enough to realise that. I'd have every confidence that you'd educate yourself on how to invest, wouldn't be screwed over (you wouldn't need a financial advisor anyway with what you'd have left after buying a house and sorting a pension). I hope you win and you get to find out!