Winning the Euromillions

[Ellabella989]

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.

100% private.

I wouldn't even tell family we'd won that big.

Of course I'd say "we've won a large amount of money and would like to pay off your mortgage/give you money for a house/put x amount in trust for each of your children" etc.

Would share it all over the place. I wouldn't be able to enjoy it if family and friends weren't benefitting too.

But if other people I knew heard it'd be non-stop begging.

Would actually be interesting to see who would appear out of the woodwork.

We always said we’d lie and say a smaller amount, and we’d be okay locally because we live nowhere near family, only have a small group of friends nearby (who don’t interact with one another), my husband doesn’t work in the city we live in and my work has high turnover! So we’re ready!

I wouldn't go public, I am not very photogenic for a start

I feel I would have to tell my boss. I haven't long been there and I am really grateful for being offered the job. But... it is very full on and I really don't think I could sustain the 6am alarm and 50+ hour weeks for long if I never needed to work again.

The only benefit for me to go public would be so people who had been shit to me in the past like ex boyfriends, evil ex friends, horrible work colleagues etc would see I had won and then regret treating me so badly. There are a million more benefits to remaining anonymous though

I’d not go public but would make numerous large anonymous donations.

Does anyone remember that tv show years ago at home with the braithwaites I think it was called ? It was about a woman who won the lottery but didn't tell anyone ,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AtHomeewiththeeBraithwaites

Omg I loved at home with the braitwaits!

I'd tell DH, obvs, my parents and my sister and maybe my best friend. That's it.

I’d keep it totally secret, only dh & I would know.

We’d work our notice period then tell people we were taking some time out to travel while the dc are still young. And just pass it off as ‘we’ve come into some money’ and let people assume what they want.

Wouldn`t tell a soul.

Just chatting with DP about this, he said just put it in a bank account and think about it for a while whilst it sinks in. I said I’d take leave from work and go think about it in a private villa in the Maldives, and he’s welcome to join

As I understand it, the reason some people go public is because Camelot (or whoever it is) offer pretty decent incentives such as sound legal/financial advice and the like, in exchange for the publicity. Some people may feel that it's so overwhelming they would want to take that in exchange for the publicity.

I’d rather keep my privacy and pay for financial advisor/personal concierge/therapist etc

My plan would be to take the money and divide it up equally between me, my extended family, and my close group of friends.

I'll never need all that money, I'd rather make 169 millionaires than keep £169m to myself. I don't need it weighing me down.

With that money, I could afford to pay for decent legal & financial cover so no need to go public.

I would do the following:

• pay for my bil's divorce, they're currently separated but can't afford to pay for a divorce.
• I'd then buy him a little house and some therapy as he's going to need it! *buy my close friends and family houses or pay off their mortgages
• keep my job for at least a year as it's part time anyway.
• pay for the family children's education & set up university funds for them
• buy health care for my family
• donate to some charities
• pay for my brother's wedding

In the middle of a divorce. I'd keep it fucking silent from everyone. Put it in trust for my children or something.

Our discussion centres round do you pay off mortgages - or gift an equal amount to family members. There’s usually one sibling who is more spendy than the others < in my case they have married in > so if paying off mortgages they would benefit more, indirectly, in comparison to other fiscally diligent siblings who have been overpaying for years. Mr T says anyone who felt shortchanged could feel free to decline the gift ;-) of equal value cash sum.

I’ve not played but I know exactly what I’d do with that level of winnings (and no I wouldn’t go public). I’d set up a charitable foundation. £50-60m would be plenty to have a stable endowment and to operate off investment income and do something interesting albeit not world changing. With the rest of the money I’d have property around the world, some mega holidays and just have the security of knowing I could buy my children the best possible education and be around more for them.

Now unfortunately, my husband disagrees on the whole foundation thing. He’d want to spend the lot. We have had lots of hypothetical arguments about this. I think he’d change his mind though.

I’d tell DH and our parents but that’s it. I’d let everyone else think it was a sizeable inheritance

I wouldn't go public. Why would anyone?! I don't understand the people that do.

I would have one spree in Selfridges, have a nice holiday, save a whole bunch for my baby's education, and I don't know what with the rest, but it would be invested and saved.

I would tell my DH. No one else. Not even the kids.

@verytiredandstressed I loved that programme! Would love to watch it again.