To ask - whose ever won a large sum of money?

[karmacoma1]

Currently sat playing online bingo with the princely sum of a tenner, hoping I may get lucky.

Anything over 5k and I am not going into my hated job tomorrow

Has anyone ever got lucky and won big?

I won a grand about 7 years about - nothing since

I won a free ticket a while back on the lottery that's it lol. The amount you win and what it means to you is all relative. For example winning 1000 might be a bit disappointing to people who were hoping for more and didn't particularly need it. Whereas 500 pound for us would be life changing atm as it would give us the rental deposit we need to move into a house with our children rather than the tiny 1 bed flat we're in at the minute. If I won 500 I'd feel like I'd won a million haha

Not the sort of hypothetical windfall the OP had in mind, but...

I was checking DW pension death-in-service benefits, as there was an (ultimately unfounded) worry that they'd be worth less then her balance. Having settled that, it turns out that she'd be worth about £2 million dead. I briefly wondered what I'd do with it, which turned out to be depressing, not because she'd be dead, but because I could literally not think of anything it would be spent on, other than a lot of extra tax.

(I have my own money, which is more than enough to pay for the lifestyle, I'm used to and reasonably content with. )

(It's really disappointing to realise that you have spare money and there's no way to use it to buy additional happiness. Maybe I just lack imagination?)

I have very lucky friends. At 15 I bought a lottery ticket with a friend, we weren’t checked for our ID. My friend only bloody won-5 balls and a bonus. It was something like £140k. Her parents had to claim it and they took the lot! They paid for her to go through uni and she did have a nicer car than all of us, but they paid off their mortgages and her mum went part time.

Another school friend had parents who were part of a syndicate that won the lottery.

Finally, a colleague in work won £10,000 on a tv game show and spent it on a new kitchen.

A friend was part of a syndicate that won and they got 1.5 million each. She paid off her house, put a large chunk aside to start the kids off, and goes on lovely holidays but apart from that she's the same. She got to tell her abusive ex to fuck off when he came looking for a handout though :)

I feel like buying a ticket now.

Evenflow you are living my dream, big lottery win then surround myself with dogs. I'm glad you won, you sound like a lovely person.

My aunt and my cousin (not related, opposite sides of the family) both won the national lottery the same weekend. 1.25 million each.

Not a large amount but I won 2,500 on the lottery. We put towards private IVF and got twins.

I collected the money (cheque) from the post office. The ladies were so happy for my win - I didn't know any of them it was the post office near where I worked.

@KC225 so glad you won money and got twins out of it, that's really lovely.

I won £5000 on a sporting match- my first and last dabble into the world of gambling (apart from lottery). I used the money to pay towards tuition fees for a postgraduate degree.

When I was at uni long ago I won £20 in the lottery; which I was extremely chuffed with! It felt like a lot of money to me at the time.

I won the lottery a few years back but as it was as part of a syndicate, and there were 2 other jackpot winners, my share ended up about £70k. Not to be sniffed at! But after paying off debts and giving chunks to my family, it was gone within 5-6 years. Had a couple of nice holidays, a newish car, lots of lovely meals out, but that was it. And I feel my luck is used up now!

I had a near miss. Did the same numbers every week from the start. When you had to go into the shop every week and fill out your numbers to buy a ticket. My boyfriends gran was in hospital and we went to visit her, no time to get a ticket. All 6 numbers came up. My boyfriend was fuming. I didn't bother buying tickets after that. Whose numbers come up twice!

We won £20,000 on a the lotto (one of the raffle numbers). We bought something nice for our two children and ourselves (smaller expensive item), paid for a nice holiday and invested the rest in an ISA. Not a life changing sum but lovely to have.

I won the Euro Friday night.

....well, £7.50 of it.

...oh well, it’ll buy three lines this week.

My df won enough on with football pools years ago to buy a 3 bed house for him and sm. Not enough for a bag of sweets for his dgc though.

Not the lottery but I got a £2,500 tax rebate one year it was just before Xmas which was nice we had a nice holiday and bought a new bed .

Not a large amount but I won 2,500 on the lottery. We put towards private IVF and got twins.
I love you a little bit for writing this post. That's the best use of a lotttery win I have ever read anywhere.

My SIL won forty grand a while back. She paid off a chunk of her mortgage.

She got in everyone´s bad books by offering her parents a paltry amount after they had worked and saved to put her through uni on low paid jobs. They didn´t accept it.

My mum won 20k and gave us half. It paid off the debts. Would have loved to have splashed out but we were sensible. We did have a cheap UK holiday though, which the kids thought was the best holiday ever (we're going back to the same place this summer)

I once won £100, phoned my friend to gloat (jokingly!) only to find she'd won £2500! The smug bitch! Unfortunately she needed it to pay for her car to be fixed. Not much fun!

I always get excited when I get that email saying there's news about my ticket, start planning which house I'm going to buy and I always win £2.60.

DH won almost £2k the first time i took him to the bingo. I thought he had done a false call and was telling him to shut up!

Won £160 on my first ever scratch card but nothing major since. Buy one card a week praying for a win to help me out of my current situation but sadly so far has not happened

We’ve made about £10k this year on crypto currency, but had we kept our original lot of bitcoin rather than cashing out everything when we bought our house last year, we’d have had up to £145k profit. Gutting.

I never play the lottery but maybe I should occasionally.

I wish..I won like £4 on the euro millions once, was very evil as the email subject line said something like ‘you’re a winner!!’ So you can imagine the heart attack I had until I read £4 😄

A friend at school won a year’s supply of kit Kat chunkys after winning a national competition, it was fun at first but he got sick of them! Ended up bringing whole boxes of them to school/parties to get rid of them 😁

I do wonder how many millions people spend every week, doing the lottery, scratch cards etc, thinking it's great if they get £1,400, but they've done the lottery for twenty years, so not really up.
Camelot make a fortune, don't they? So far more must be spent than they pay out (particularly as they have the payout fund, and tax, before operating costs and profits).