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Winning the Euromillions

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Ellabella989 · 04/10/2019 16:34

If you won the £169 million jackpot tonight, would you go public or keep it private amongst your immediate family?
I’d like to think I wouldn’t go public but it’s such a huge amount of money that someone is bound to find out and blab.

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SunshineAngel · 05/10/2019 11:36

The only one person who would ever find out would be my partner. My family in general are quite grabby - even when we're broke - so I can't even imagine what they'd be like if we had real money. My partner's family aren't grabby, but do always try to control what we do with our lives, so it'd be best kept from them, too.

My DSS would tell all his mates, without a doubt. I just think it's a dangerous game even telling one person, as it's bound to get out - so just me and my partner would know. We're both agreed on this.

I work from home, and often get lucrative contracts, so I could absolutely spin it that I was treating family/friends due to a really good contract at work. I could also quit work but allow people to believe that I am still working - working from home gives me the chance to do this. I could start talking about having almost saved enough for retirement, then quietly retire in a couple of years.

I wouldn't like keeping things from people, but I just think lives could be ruined if it was found out, and people would want you for your money rather than for you.. if that makes sense.

EggysMom · 05/10/2019 11:38

We wouldn't go public, I'd just find a reason to leave my job (DH doesn't work). We'd tell family though, they'd benefit from some of the money and they are bound to notice the difference in behaviour!

We've already discussed and decided what we'd do if we won such a huge lump sum. We'd buy some land and build the UK equivalent to Morgan's Wonderland / Inspiration Island - a huge theme park complex designed specifically for disabled children and adults. And the front seat(s) of every rollercoaster would be named for our son (and taken up by him as often as he can!)

So if you hear of such a theme park being built in the UK ... nudge nudge, wink wink

MovinOnUp · 05/10/2019 12:48

@GoldenNoodle Cheers.......I hope our winnings won't change us :)

Sarah261260 · 05/10/2019 17:29

My local co-op 1/4 of a mile down the road sold a 71m winning ticket earlier in the year. The winner lived the next street down. Think he moved away. Never been seen again, house just sits empty. He went public, amazingly no press outside when it came out.

Toomuchtrouble4me · 05/10/2019 17:31

I would tell a few choice people that I dislike and share with I do like, but not public. I'll let you lot know later...

MrsBadcrumble123 · 05/10/2019 17:32

Private I couldn’t do with my kids being kidnapped by nutters. I don’t think I’d tell my family the full amount in case it got out but would of course ensure my close family never had to work again

hoxtonbabe · 05/10/2019 17:40

I would go the private route I wouldn’t even tell family, even if I won 10k I’d still say nowt, I’m just a very private person in general and no doubt all
The cousins will come crawling out the woodwork, so no matter how big or small I’d keep it undercover.

Although when I up and leave to live in my beachside mansion in Grenada or Bora Bora and my family get a postcard from there, then I think they will get an inclination something was up

Loveyou3000 · 05/10/2019 17:46

Wouldn't tell a soul other than my mum. I'd get a trusts and estates solicitor, have my DD as a beneficiary for a sizeable chunk and my mum as a trustee in case anything happens to me, wait a few years and buy a house when it would make sense for me to be earning enough to get a mortgage even though I'd buy it outright, I would be discrete about it. No one in my immediate circle is bad off so no grand gestures needed. I couldn't cope with all the people that'd come out the woodwork wanting money

Simonfromharlow · 05/10/2019 18:00

I'd keep it private and tell people I'd won £10 million so I could still go on a spending spree of massive proportions and help my family and friends but no one would know just how much I had won.

c75kp0r · 05/10/2019 18:03

I wouldn't tell anyone. I'd tell DH only. I'd pay my debts and save enough to keep us in a comfortable lifestyle into old age. I'd buy each of the kids a flat, change to part time work and give the rest to good causes. I'm working on the basis that my kids are too self centred to even realise that we couldn't possibly afford a flat for each of them with our current income.

If DH disagrees with that I spose I shall have to give him his half which won't be any skin off my nose if I still had the best part of 80 mill-minus-tax to play with.

GruciusMalfoy · 05/10/2019 18:04

Guys, I'd like you all to be the first to know I won £9.90 (or something like it, 2 numbers on one line, 3 on another). My first ever lottery win, I have managed to keep it private so far

Drabarni · 05/10/2019 18:14

I'd have to buy a ticket first, as never bought one.

TheFastandCurious · 05/10/2019 18:14

I wouldn’t tell a soul. I’d buy a business, pretend it’s doing very well and help my family and close friends out. Nobody would ever know I won it. Too much could go wrong.

Besides I’d give most of it to those people with sick kids who are trying to raise money for life saving treatments abroad who cant get it on the NHS. I think it’s a bit wrong to have £160 million and not help. I’m not aultristic and am actually quite greedy / selfish but really, who needs that much?

ElspethFlashman · 05/10/2019 18:17

Well I didn't get one single number.

But some jammy person in Dublin won 2.5 million on it.

That'd do me. That'd be lovely.

Alleycat1 · 05/10/2019 18:24

We would te!l nobody and would then pretend weeks later that we had won a smaller amount. Then we would have great fun giving a lot of it away anonymously. It would be wonderful to help people through hard times and to give.large amounts to our favourite charities; also to pay for help for two friends who have debilitating illnesses and are struggling.

DanceItOut · 05/10/2019 18:25

I wouldn't go public. I also wouldn't tell anyone exactly how much I had won. I would just tell them I win some money on the lottery or on a scratchcard. I would also happily help out members of my immediate family but again not tell them how much I won. I just know that several of my family members would somehow suddenly have a million and one sob stories appearing and of course I'm more than happy to help people that need it and share with people I love but I don't want relationships to become tainted by money. I want family and friends to love me as I am and not just smile and play nice for the sake of gaining free money from me.

stackthecats · 05/10/2019 18:27

I wouldn't go public I don't think. I'd probably immediately buy a bigger house near me - though not massively big, I don't like very big houses - and an electric car (I really want a Leaf but can't remotely afford it!) Then I'd buy my parents a nice holiday and park the rest of the money for a while to think about it. I'd set up a charity or endow a cancer research foundation, but I'd need a bit of time to really think about how to do it so that people who need it benefit and the money doesn't just disappear. Some causes I'd like to support include blood cancer, child bereavement counselling, treating birth injuries in the developing world, women's charities generally.

I'd also take DD on holiday somewhere like New York or Paris - she's desperate to go to another country And just for once we'd fly first class and stay somewhere super nice. Just once before I started feeling guilty about the old carbon footprint.

HappydaysArehere · 05/10/2019 18:32

I would t tell family until Dh and I had worked out exactly what we intended to do re giving money to family and sensible investments for the future. If it was a great deal then I would give donations to the local hospital etc.

Elsie1966 · 05/10/2019 18:35

I don't think I'd tell my family and friends tbh either
& I definitely wouldn't go public I'd just carry on as normal

lyralalala · 05/10/2019 18:37

I wouldn't go public. Only DH would know for a couple of months and then when there was a jackpot of a few million won on normal Lotto I'd tell close family and friends we'd won that.

If you win a couple of million then when you give folks some money they'll be grateful, if they know you have 169 million then some will think you tight no matter how much you give.

Then over the years just say the investments the camelot people helped you get had done well to explain away everything we'd give or spend.

RuffleCrow · 05/10/2019 18:40

If you think about it, i think we all know people who, very quietly, suddenly became better off with no real explanation. Good for them. I'd do the same.

SchadenfreudePersonified · 05/10/2019 18:41

But you could afford to sue

Never mind sue - you could afford a hit man and have the lot of them taken out!

riceuten · 05/10/2019 18:43

As an aside - what kind of a feeble, grasping moron writes begging letters to lottery winners?

SchadenfreudePersonified · 05/10/2019 18:45

People would guess if I won a humungous sum of money - the extra cocker spaniels and west highland terriers would be a clue, and the handmade collars and coats, not to mention the gold embossed doggymobile to transport them round the country in luxury for our hols.

RuffleCrow · 05/10/2019 18:46

I guess it's ok if you're desperately in need of non nhs funded medical treatment for something very rare and serious. Otherwise no.

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