Do you know a lottery winner

WomensHours · 2021-09-26T20:58:23+00:00

Do you know anybody who has won a significant amount on the lottery? What have they done with it? Has it made them happier? Do they still have it? Are they still working? Did they go public?

SaddenedByItAll · 26/09/2021 21:59

Yanbu

superram · 26/09/2021 22:01

Yes, 3 million, not public but everyone knew. Not sure about happier but life was easier.

Blindleadingtheblind · 26/09/2021 22:02

My friend knows a lot to winner. I've only met the lotto winner once years and years ago, via my friend. So I know of her but don't know her. Friend says the winner remained humble. But this is going back 15 years or so, so maybe a lot has changed since then.

cricketmum84 · 26/09/2021 22:03

My daughters friends grandma won 250k. They have stayed in the same house, spread it out between family.

Sarah2384 · 26/09/2021 22:07

I know someone who won about £80k. I didn't find out about the win for years after it happened but they're still in the same house and doing the same job. I think they had an amazing family holiday, a new car and paid the last little bit of their mortgage still owing, so very welcome but not really life changing.

lovebuggers · 26/09/2021 22:13

F

Aliveandkicking23 · 26/09/2021 22:14

Friends won £1.7m. lived out in the countryside in a mobile home.
Sold and bought a flat near the facilities in town.(they were late 70's)
It enabled them to visit their son and family in the USA.
After not seeing them for 5 years.
They went low key public it was only in the local paper.
Treated close friends including us for a lovely meal and drinks.
It hasn't really changed them just allowed to not worry about money.
Lots of the money is invested and their 2 sons be comfortable.

Hadjab · 26/09/2021 22:14

I literally won the lottery last night - £30.

I won’t let it change me, and I definitely intend to stay in my job...

Puzzledandpissedoff · 26/09/2021 22:15

Yes, if you count someone who was in a work syndicate

They won a lot (several million) and it's become absolutely poisonous because one of the group hadn't paid their subs for ages but still expected a share. Last I heard it was all in an account and unspent, pending the court case this guy was threatening to bring ... personally I'd have told him to go spin, but there you go ...

MrsLeclerc · 26/09/2021 22:15

Friend won £1.6 Million about 10 years ago and it was in the papers locally. They stayed working in the same job. Got married, split up and split the money (they were together when they won). They’d bought a house, big holiday and had a very fancy wedding.

Don’t know that it made them happier really, I suppose they had more options open to them. But life is life and you have hard times no matter how much money lands in your lap.

romdowa · 26/09/2021 22:17

Guy in my town won over 7 million and he is utterly miserable looking and drinks quite heavily now.

EL8888 · 26/09/2021 22:17

I know someone who won a few hundred thousand a while back. Used it to buy a house and go back to university to qualify as a paramedic. She seems happy and thriving

ClareBlue · 26/09/2021 22:18

Nobody wins. It was all explained in George Orwell's 1984. It is just to give the ground down masses some hope and excitement every week and is basically a tax on the poor to pay for things that a fair tax system would pay for.

Kljnmw3459 · 26/09/2021 22:22

An ex colleagues boyfriend won 200k, not massive amount but enough to help him to get on the housing ladder.

And another ex colleague whose family member won a massive jackpot but it caused a huge rift in the family from what I heard. They gave a million or so to my colleague but she wanted a lot more.

FrostyFruit · 26/09/2021 22:25

Yes a family friend. Not sure how much he won but he was already rich before he won so it didn't change much. He has a crap life, doesn't see his kids at all and trys to buy womens love because no one wants to be with him as he has all the red flags of an abuser. Money can't buy happiness.

Oblahdeeoblahdoe · 26/09/2021 22:31

Knew a couple who won £2m 20 years ago. Woman was shocked and didn't seem to be happy about it at all. Her DH was ecstatic but dropped down dead with a heart attack a year later. I always felt she had had some sort of premonition about it.

naggy095 · 26/09/2021 22:37

My grandparents won the jackpot of around £2.5m in the late 90s when I was a few years old so I have no memories of it, but they bought a new house and gave each of their children an equal amount of the winnings. They were also able to send my brother and I to private school. Also bought a couple of properties in Spain. They were in their 50s when they won so didn’t work anymore. Can’t speak for them in terms of being happier but I would think they most definitely have lived a happy life since winning. They didn’t go public and only family and close friends knew/know.

ClareBlue · 26/09/2021 22:46

@Puzzledandpissedoff

Yes, if you count someone who was in a work syndicate

They won a lot (several million) and it's become absolutely poisonous because one of the group hadn't paid their subs for ages but still expected a share. Last I heard it was all in an account and unspent, pending the court case this guy was threatening to bring ... personally I'd have told him to go spin, but there you go ...

This is so common the lottery write advice on it for work syndicates. There have been a number of court cases on it. It usually comes down to established practice for each syndicate.

MargaretThursday · 26/09/2021 22:51

Person in front of me won £10 last week. I suggested he celebrated his winnings by buying everyone in the queue a drink. He didn't think it would go very far among 8 of us.

Drywhitefruitycidergin · 26/09/2021 22:55

I won £2.40 with my 2 colleagues on Euromillions on Friday? Won't change my life....🤣😂

gwenneh · 26/09/2021 22:58

My mother's cousin won £1m.

He and his wife paid off their house, bought a more reliable car, and the rest is waiting for retirement.

leavesthataregreen · 26/09/2021 23:03

Not sure. An old acquaintance of mine and his partner retired very early and spend their lives on holiday. I asked him if he was a secret hotel inspector once and he just laughed. But I do wonder if they won the lottery. He had a good job but not one that could lead to this sort of life style for years on end. And he's generous. They usually take a couple of less well-off friends with them and pay for them.

tintodeverano2 · 26/09/2021 23:10

I know a couple of people that won big amounts twenty years or so ago. Both wasted it! At the time it could've brought a nice house but that's about it, not much would've been left over.

Also someone locally won a huge amount but has had nothing but bad luck ever since.

Cagedbirdsinging · 26/09/2021 23:10

A woman I know won well over three million pounds . She was in charge of purchasing tickets weekly with the same chosen numbers for a family syndicate but insisted that she had bought the 'winning' ticket separately and was therefore hers and hers alone .
It caused a terrible family rift and much of the money was spent on legal fees .

Mymapuddlington · 26/09/2021 23:11

Yes.
Made them stingier and nastier.
Bought a house and constantly complains about how hard life is.