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EUROMILLIONS £172 million pound draw tonight

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WomensHours · 08/10/2021 14:01

What would you do if you won? Would you go public or would you remain anonymous? How would you tell people or would just keep it a secret? How would you stop your lives from being ruined from it?

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SwedishEdith · 08/10/2021 15:01

@FinallyGotAnIPhone

Everyone says they’d remain anonymous - so how come so many people go public ? I presume there must be a reason.
Don't the lottery company (it's not Camelot anymore is it?) offer you lots of free financial advice and support if you go public? Otherwise, you're on your own. I'd still stay anonymous though.
HainaultViaNewburyPark · 08/10/2021 15:04

I’d stay anonymous. I’d also keep working (I like my job and it would be a shame to waste all the years of training). We’re extending/remodelling our house anyway (just got planning permission), and the DC are already at private school. I think we’d stand a fair chance of keeping it quiet.

mrsm43s · 08/10/2021 15:04

I'd remain anonymous, but I'd probably tell people I'd won a largeish but not life-changing amount (£100k?)on my premium bonds to cover up our extra spends.

I'd actually find a win of that size quite stressful - I guess we'd have to get a financial advisor to manage investments for us? I'd give up work, and maybe bigger house, newer cars, but I don't think I'd change much else about our lives.

I tend to enter the "set for life" lottery rather than the Euromillions. I find it easier to feel comfortable with a £10,000 a month prize than I do with a colossal lump sum!

branchlight · 08/10/2021 15:05

I'd tell people I had won that £10k a month one, or 1mill

I just want to give up my job really. I just want (free!) money to buy time really rather than luxury stuff.

branchlight · 08/10/2021 15:06

Don't the lottery company (it's not Camelot anymore is it?) offer you lots of free financial advice and support if you go public? Otherwise, you're on your own. I'd still stay anonymous though

I would have thought you could pay for your own financial advice with £172m! You don't really need to be enticed by freebies anymore!

19lottie82 · 08/10/2021 15:07

Bugger off abroad, somewhere hot, maybe with a yacht, get a personal trainer and chef.

Pay off my friends and family’s mortgages and give a large chunk to charity.

bestsoupintown · 08/10/2021 15:19

I'd tell a few people closest to me, I can't see any reason not to. I possibly wouldn't tell them exactly how much though.

I wouldn't go public with it.

CeceJoyce · 08/10/2021 15:20

I’d keep it secret for a while so no one would know which lottery game or amount I’d won.. only tell those I’m close to and can trust…
I’d give away £150 million straight away because 22 million is more than I could ever dream of and I doubt I’d even need that. I’d help family, friends, the schools my children attend and have attended (church schools), charities, gofundme’s…
I’d hate to have a huge house but I’d like a nice sized one, an electric car, definitely a big family holiday with mum and siblings Nephews etc.

babybunny123 · 08/10/2021 15:23

the first thing i would do is give my manager the finger then book a holiday for all my close friends and bugger off !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AlistairCamel · 08/10/2021 15:23

Anonymous. I would pay of debt. Then I would buy a house that’s big enough for our family, closer to our children’s school. I would make sure my parents were comfortable in a home they are happy with, as well as my mother in law. I would book a couple of holidays. Then I would think about the rest of our extended family.

Oh and I would buy a Toyota Estima from about 2011.

Bloodylovecheese · 08/10/2021 15:30

I had this discussion last night with my DH. I would stay anonymous but would build a swimming pool for our village and provide free swimming lessons for anyone who wanted them. My DH says he'll donate lots to mental health charities and McMillan charity. This was just for starters off the top of our heads, obviously the personal chef, hairdresser etc etc would be a given 😉

sqirrelfriends · 08/10/2021 15:32

Anonymous, id help out close family but not friends.

Move away for a few years, somewhere with a lot of local richish people. Nothing too ostentatious but start trading in art, property and stocks to seem legitimately wealthy.

Basically I'm doing well but no one knows how well, they just think I've made some good investments.

Eventually I start up a foundation. I get to choose how to spend the money and get to hold lots of events.

quiteathome · 08/10/2021 15:39

I would remain anonymous.

A lot of charity donations. Donations to local schools for some new facilities/ books, or even so they can fund theatre groups and so on coming in.

Could I buy a scanner for a hospital and fund it for ages. Contribute to some of these just giving sites that are for people raising money for medical treatments.

A small extension on my house, or a loft conversion/ actually finish the work we are doing on it now.

Give some to friends and family. And university funds for the children and buy a first home for each of them so they are pretty much secure for their start in life.

And go on a holiday- lots of holidays.

Waxonwaxoff0 · 08/10/2021 15:42

I would only tell family and a few select friends. I would gift said family and friends a million each, which would total £13 million. Put away £50 million in trust for DS. That would leave me £109 million. I'd buy a nicer house, not a mansion but a comfortable size. I can get something very decent for less than £500k in my area. Then I'd spend my days travelling and donating to various causes of my choice. And hire a cleaner!

Redcrayons · 08/10/2021 15:47

Anonymous, can’t understand why people go public tbh. I’d tell my mum and dad, and I’m undecided on my sister. She lives in a horrible pokey rented flat so I’d want to buy her something nicer, but I think she’d cave and tell other family members.

If you don’t want people to find out, you’d have to carry on as normal and just upgrade your life little by little.

I’d carry on working and would stay in my house, although I’d gut it and refurbish with all the super expensive stuff I can’t otherwise afford. I’m not into fancy cars but would buy the top of the range in the one I’ve already got.
I’d probably give a lot of it away as that’s an obscene amount for one person to have.

Kljnmw3459 · 08/10/2021 15:50

I won't go public ( I bought the winning ticket today). I'm buying a house, giving some of the money to my DC and family, then investing the rest.

HeronLanyon · 08/10/2021 15:55

Retire early right now.
Buy property in London and somewhere remote (with a huge acreage (including woodland and water (without flooding of house danger) and outbuildings and resident couple/family caretakers and a city European top floor great apartment - most likely Cadiz or Naples or Palermo or something in the Péloponnèse.
Then money to family and friends. Money to now ex workplace to make life better there for loved colleagues.
Then money to core charities.
Then make a will - actually that first - plus wealth advisors.
Travel organisers hired including yacht chartering sorted out.
Private car service sorted out.
Set up a few scholarships/charitable funds likely for widening access for women/education etc.
Then get on with rest of what is a short life for us all !
Good luck all.

Watchingyou2sleezes · 08/10/2021 15:57

I haven't RTF, there is a book out there (can't remember off the top of my head) that charts the experiences of other 100 lottery winners.

The ones that undoubtedly enjoyed winning the most invariably (even if it took them a couple of years) left their old lives completely behind and moved on.

There was one massive winner who gave his close drinking buddies a couple of million each and then realised that he needed to drop them all when they all pretty much still expected him to get every round in, pay all their trip fees etc etc
CFs

Danikm151 · 08/10/2021 16:01

quit my job in a dramatic style then go on a spending spree :)
get a new house and pay people to pack and unpack. Hire a chauffer whilst I learn to drive :)

HeronLanyon · 08/10/2021 16:03

danikm is that a flounce you are planning ? Doors slammed involved ?

picketingpanic · 08/10/2021 16:04

I would love to give my siblings £5m each. But then I would have to give DH's siblings that and it'd annoy me because they're not very nice and one hasn't spoken to us for two years.

I would buy a patch of woodland or countryside and build a school for autistic children, with farm and forest school and pool and literally every single thing they would need to thrive: a sensory integration therapist, speech therapists, occupational therapists. And I wouldn't charge any parents a penny to send their kids there, leaving enough money aside to ensure it can operate for at least twenty years.

I would give my dad 25% of the amount I give my sister because he gave me that much for my wedding compared to hers. Grin

OdettySpaghetti · 08/10/2021 16:10

I’d spend slowly and remain anonymous. I’m not into really flashy cars so I’d buy a Range Rover which is a beautiful car but not out of the realms of possibility that I could have afforded it without a lottery win. I’d pay off all debts - nobody needs to know about that. I’d buy a house in the countryside with shit loads of land - not a mansion, just a big country house. Id probably set up a dog rescue or dog training business. Would go to America for 6 months - then just keep around £10m and give the rest away. Nobody needs over £10m

Ahhhhhbisto · 08/10/2021 16:15

@picketingpanic

I would love to give my siblings £5m each. But then I would have to give DH's siblings that and it'd annoy me because they're not very nice and one hasn't spoken to us for two years.

I would buy a patch of woodland or countryside and build a school for autistic children, with farm and forest school and pool and literally every single thing they would need to thrive: a sensory integration therapist, speech therapists, occupational therapists. And I wouldn't charge any parents a penny to send their kids there, leaving enough money aside to ensure it can operate for at least twenty years.

I would give my dad 25% of the amount I give my sister because he gave me that much for my wedding compared to hers. Grin

Can my son to come to your school please?Grin

I would pay for DS1 to have all the therapy that he needs that CHAMS won't provide.
I would pay for a private tutor for autistic DS1 as he very rarely goes to school (school refusal).
I would absolutely spoil all of my DC!
I would make sure all friends and family are finacially secure.
I would ask my husband to go part time so we had more family time. (He wouldn't object!).
I would buy my first home.
I would keep, but fix our little car.
I would buy my dad a new work truck.
Loads to charity

TuftyMarmoset · 08/10/2021 16:17

I’d donate £100m to the National Trust to buy up land, and buy a load of crap houses in my town and retrofit them to make them eco friendly and sell them on at a loss.
I’d also buy myself a nice detached house (not too big but room for a library) with a big garden on the outskirts of town and employ a gardener, cleaner and housekeeper, and set up an account with a local taxi company to ferry me around.
Go mad in Selfridges and buy myself some jewellery and bags I’ve loved for a while.
Do a few exotic holidays and drop to 3 days a week at work. Maybe buy a second home in Germany.
Put the rest in trust for future DC.

Energy4You · 08/10/2021 16:20

I’d stay anonymous.
I’d keep a small part to ensure a regular income for myself and then spend my time finding the best way to use that money for the benefit of others (I’m thinking environment and social issues there - charity support etc…)