EUROMILLIONS £172 million pound draw tonight

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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?

I love you for posting this!!!

I would not tell a soul. I'd tell my family I had got a big promotion. I'd tell my friends I had a family inheritance.

I'd buy a house (I rent) and a campervan.

I'd buy Lancome skincare.

I'd try to give most of it away.

I always end up wasting money on the lottery when I see this thread so I've self excluded myself from their website.

No way in hell would I go public.

I would set up pensions & buy houses for family & friends & spend the rest of my life giving the rest away

I would remain anonymous if I could.

I've already handed my resignation in so would debate whether to work my notice or not.

I'd buy a few better than average houses around the world and take lots of holidays

I'd buy my kids (all young adults) a house each and put 15million each in trust that they can't touch until they're 30

I'd set up a charity for respite care and put about 20 million into it to get it off the ground

I'd need a pool and a gardener and a housekeeper in my main house

I reckon I'd be pretty happy

Anonymous. I’d pay off mortgage, get all the work done to the house we want and buy a new car. I don’t think we’d move but you never know. I’d give some to charity. Go on an epic holiday. Then put the rest in stocks and shares so that I’d have an income for life (and DS wouldn’t need to work either) and not touch the capital. I’d probably give siblings some too.

And I’d open a bank account at Coutts and hope to be invited to get a Black Amex.

Just bought a ticket with 1 minute to spare... which will make a great story when I win.

@PurBal they open the Coutts account for you!

Anonymous for sure!

I have thought about this much more than I need to!

I’d probably lie and say I’d won a couple of million - realistically we’d be staying put where we are for the next few years as the kids are happy and settled in school and at a crucial point exam-wise. But we’d buy a really bonkers holiday house and nice things but nothing too wild yet. DH could give up work.

Longer term, I’d set up an anonymous charitable foundation basically giving to the sort of for fundraisers you read about in local papers - people running marathons to raise £5000 for a new, better wheelchair etc. where you could just give the money and make peoples lives better and easier immediately. You couldn’t apply for funding, we’d approach you.

I’d aLso make a few massive multimillion donations to charities which have either helped us or are meaningful to us as a family.

Genuinely though, the thought of £170+ m is quite scary.

I’ve seen a lovely country estate in Scotland with it’s own island and
a flat in London overlooking the Thames.
House , cars and income for DD, trust fund for DGS.
Bungalow for my disabled Sister with cleaner/gardner etc.
Set up a Charity for a network of safe houses for abused Women and children.
Large donations to Freedom project and other charities.
Travel, travel and more travel.

Obviously lots of altruistic things as well as having a beautiful hotel, with spa and its soley for people who need a boost and it's free.

Sometimes, having our hair washed and dried, or swim, or any self care can give us that boost to carry on.

Respite care sort of thing.

Short stay max probably a week.

I'd probably do the same thing for Foster children. I was very surprised some Foster children get taken no where and inspite of being given a healthy allowance for essentially a spare room many don't spend anything on the children.

So for these children again I would provide a luxury hotel, with activities... And so on.

I’m thinking it is more difficult to do that anonymous giving of money now with money laundering scrutiny by all banks. Need to work out best way without blowing cover. Not long now all. It’s an awfully scary amount of money when you really think about it.

Anonymous.
Donate to Jerry green dog charity and spend time volunteering at local hospice.

In reality no-one needs 172 million , and often massive amounts of money are more hindrance than help. Most marriages and on big lottery wins , grabby people come out of the woodwork . You tell family members , and they can't keep a secret .
It would be one of my worse nightmares to live in a massive mausoleum , that needs running by a heap of staff . So 172 million ? No thanks .

Definitely stay anonymous. Get a decent wealth management company.
Buy about 30 cheap houses, do them up and set myself up as a charitable HA purely for victims of dv with families and charge a peppercorn rent until they were back on their feet.

Vanity projects would be a decent plus size clothes shop that doesn't charge the earth for bigger sizes, and a coffeehouse with 2nd hand bookshop. With staff paid a living wage.

I would stay anonymous. I would plan to browse GoFundMe and make a lot of people happy.

I haven't got a ticket so my chances are vanishingly small, but I'd invest enough to make sure myself and my family were set for life, make sure family and close friends were comfortable, buy modest properties in my favourite places in the world, buy a slightly less modest property as my full time home, quit my job and spend my time volunteering, and researching genuinely worthy causes to give the rest of it away to - in between enacting as many random acts of kindness as I could fit into a day.

Oh and I'd stay anonymous in theory but I don't know how feasible that really is. Mind you where we live £172mil would still put us in a lower wealth bracket in some circles, so maybe it wouldn't matter

Would only tell my mum, apart from
Husband because she's not entitled. Give her 5 mill.
Give my sis 1 mil.
Give parent in laws and siblings 1 mil each.

Buy myself a modest-house as a base in Chiswick/Barnes with a lovely garden
But multiple properties in the U.K and abroad.

But houses in London and Manchester and rent them out at council rates so essentially become my own housing provider lmao

I don't trust charities. So I would set up my own. Or employ people and do humanitarian work in Afghanistan where my husband is from. And then Yemen, Syria.

Also start work on poverty in the U.K. too.

Buy lots of Chanel

Oh send my children to a nice private school.

ANNONYMOUS definitely. but after a few weeks I would try and arrange a visit, for my Son and Daughter to come for a meal or something, just casual, as don't see them much of late. Then during the usual coversations, as in my Son saying to Daughter, do you know, Mum has not yet gone and had a hearing test, she is hard of hearing in her right ear, and other such silliness talked about, I would then think of something, to give them the biggest shock, about my big lotto win.. and how rich they will be courtesy of me., and promise I will get a gold hearing aid, to please them.

Buy a house (instead of paying £950 a month in rent!),

a million each to each set of extended family

Invest some for each DC.

Travel all over with DC at every given opportunity.

Never worry about choosing a roof over our heads or paying the rent ever again!

A roof over our head or feeding the kids* I mean!

I always smile (in a nice way) at these threads with those who say things like ‘I’d finish my house’ or get a newer car. £170 odd million is a colossal amount of money - quite scary actually. The interest alone would be roughly £100,000 a MONTH!
I literally have no idea what I’d do- give most away I suppose.