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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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SchadenfreudePersonified · 05/10/2019 18:46

what kind of a feeble, grasping moron writes begging letters to lottery winners?

Shameful, innit?!

Disfordarkchocolate · 05/10/2019 18:53

I'd love to set up a charity too. When you see families fundraising for specialist wheelchairs, limbs or needing to adapt their houses and can't do it I would love to intervene. I'd also like to set up some support for talented young athletes. Being able to buy kit and training support shouldn't be limited. Finally, a small amount of social housing that doesn't look like social housing.

Loveislandaddict · 05/10/2019 19:36

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

Apparently one winner got 9000 begging letters!

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

Loveislandaddict · 05/10/2019 19:37

Sorry, meant to link to a newspaper article

Petlover9 · 05/10/2019 19:43

@EscapeTheCastle - agree with you, I must remember to buy a ticket!

BrendasUmbrella · 05/10/2019 20:07

If this is the standard plan - tell people you won a smaller amount - there must be so many people out there who did win smaller amounts and are under suspicion by friends and family of secretly winning a huge jackpot!

Butchyrestingface · 05/10/2019 20:12

I wouldn't tell a soul however I suspect people would figure out I'd come into money when I buy a country by the change in my lifestyle.

AppleKatie · 05/10/2019 20:22

I wouldn’t tell anyone. I might tell family I’d won a smaller amount if I really had too but I’d try not to say anything.

I would gift my family what they need- eg, I have a sister who probably needs enough for a small house and not to work for several years, my parents don’t need anything/much at all so I would give them less.

I’d put money away for DSs future but I wouldnt tell him til he’s adult and fully mature.

I’d pay for school fees for DS.

I’d buy a hobby business which would also help people and involve buying property/land.

I’d buy a small theatre.

I’d refit my current house completely and buy a house in a rural area which I’d spend my holidays in and pay for year round housekeeping/maintenance. I’d let friends and family stay there too probably passing it off as ‘my parents/distant relatives’ place to friends.

Have I spent it all yet? Probably...

OhMyDarling · 05/10/2019 20:40

I wouldn’t tell anyone either.
But I might say I won a smaller amount, tell people I’d paid off my debts or carefully improve our quality of life by saying I got a significant promotion, got some inheritance etc
Not putting everything on social media (any holidays etc), and not splurging on unnecessary crap would help keep it under wraps.

avamiah · 05/10/2019 21:18

I bought a couple of tickets for tonight’s lotto ( rollover ) £7.2 million, not checked my numbers yet lol , but I couldn’t imagine winning 7 million never mind £ 160 million.
I imagine that Camelot provide you with financial advisors any assistance you would need .

avamiah · 05/10/2019 21:23

I know this is a bit off post but I couldn’t believe the couple who went public with their huge win on Euro millions.There have been lots of stories about them ever since, divorcing ,relationships etc. Who knows what is true or false but that’s a lot of money to go public with .

keffie12 · 05/10/2019 21:28

Private. I know who would know. I would lie about the additional money I was spending as to where it came from it anyone was cheeky enough to ask.. No way I would let it out.

My adult youngsters would know and that's it. They would be told to tell people with what I gave them it was inheritance.

calmalamadown · 05/10/2019 21:30

Private. Tbh I'd rather not even tell family but DH would as he's shit at secrets and is much closer to his family.

lyralalala · 05/10/2019 22:48

I know this is a bit off post but I couldn’t believe the couple who went public with their huge win on Euro millions

There was one couple who said in one interview that because they live in a small village and the shop gets a “we sold a winning ticket” poster there was no chance they could keep it quiet as everyone would be on the lookout

Ever since then I’ve bought my ticket online.

Casiloco · 06/10/2019 00:05

That kind of win can seriously fuck you up. I would give it all away except £5million, which I would share with the family (I'm one of 6 siblings and have 2 sons).

Other than that, I would carry on living in our semi, would keep our cars unchanged and just look for ways to be generous in small ways for friends who are struggling.

I would hope that I would live in a way that people would have no idea that I could be a big winner.

mrshousty · 06/10/2019 04:33

I'd like to THINK I'd be very quiet. I'd secretly pay off my loved ones mortgages, ideally without them even knowing but tell them after they notice they've got more in their bank than usual 😉

Then quietly hand in my notice and TRY to work a notice period.

I would then buy a big house in the country and have a big 40th birthday party (if it happened by then of course😉

I've put THINK in caps because I know fine rightly that i wouldn't be able to contain my excitement.

FluffyAlpaca19 · 06/10/2019 06:29

Well the jackpot is up for grabs people as it's been rolled over to Tuesday. So make sure you buy your tickets online rather than a physical shop. As a pp said the shop that sells the winning ticket has to advertise that it did so.

I have identified 10 local charities that would receive a donation. No way am I going to give it to the big charities that monopolise the market with sleek advertising & sharp practices.

LeekMunchingSheepShagger · 06/10/2019 09:02

I would absolutely keep it very private. Wouldn't even tell the kids the full extent of
it.

I think our day to day lives would be in danger of getting very boring. We could give up work but our youngest is only 9 so we have a lot of years of school left. There's a limit to what DH and I could do with ourselves between the hours of 9 and 3 for the next 8/9 years!

I've no idea what cover story we'd give for stopping work either. We can hardly say early retirement when we're not 40 yet. And no one would believe it was a small win when we don't go back to work in a year or two.

On the other hand we'd have some amazing holidays in the in the school holidays and i'd finally get my new kitchen and bathroom!

Zoejj77 · 06/10/2019 09:09

That amount of money is ridiculous you could barely tell anyone you would be a target for thieves

Chocrock · 06/10/2019 10:10

I wouldn’t tell a soul but would help out my friends and family and maybe say I had won a smaller amount much later!

Outsomnia · 06/10/2019 15:36

If the Euromillions jackpot is not won next Tuesday, I read somewhere that there will be no big jackpot, as it can only be rolled over a maximum of five times. However, the 160m will be shared amongst those in the lower tiers.

So it probably will be won outright ha ha.

ginghamtablecloths · 06/10/2019 16:53

I'd want to keep it quiet.

I'm already under suspicion as my sister often asks if I've bought a ticket/ had any wins lately. Sadly, not.

I feel that no matter how generous you were it'd still provoke arguments. We've had this hypothetical conversation. I've said I'd share it with all the family, even those we don't see much of.

"Well, I wouldn't, I bet they wouldn't give anything to us if they won," was the mean-spirited response. A big win could be very troublesome to family harmony.

tinkz92 · 06/10/2019 17:33

If it isn't won on Tuesday, it doesn't get shared to all the lower tiers, the full amount goes to the next lower tier with at least one winner rather than spread between all lower tiers. There was a video about it at bottom of page here www.national-lottery.co.uk/games/euromillions?icid=re-eu-drhi-prbr-1244:bd:1:bsp:em:dbg:pl:btn-so

ThanksForAllTheFish · 07/10/2019 12:03

Bit late to the party on the thread. I’d not go public but tell family and close friends. If I won that amount I’d share out a fair bit of it. A couple of million to parents, my cousin and brother. Older relatives and people who are more set in life (houses paid off / retired etc) would get 1 million, same with close friends - they would get between 1/2 to a million depending. I don’t have a huge amount of family so it’s perfectly doable without making much of a dent. I’d also set up accounts for my niece and nephew for when they are older and offer to pay for private education for both. I would ask DH what he wanted to do with his side of the family. They generally as quite a bit better off than my side of the family but I think we would still give them something as his parents are retired and his sister would appreciate being able to pay off her mortgage and perhaps retire early.

I would buy a nice house (currently rent) and a nice car, nothing stupidly flashy, maybe a Tesla. Also book a nice beach holiday pretty much immediately and take my some family to Disney for a Christmas break, staying in the posh expensive hotel as I know the children (DD, Niece and nephew) would absolutely love it.

ethelfleda · 07/10/2019 12:06

I would definitely not go public. I cannot stand the images of those grinning morons holding giant cheques and waving at the cameras.
I would complete the back of my ticket as though it was a syndicate with our entire family so we all get an equal share. I wouldn’t like the burden of that much money, tbh.