To be a bit depressed by the Euromillions story?

[MobLife]

I find myself wishing I knew nothing about it and hadn't read the story about the winning couple!
All day I've been ruminating over that extraordinary sum of money and what it must feel like....it's left me feeling really flat especially when the imagination suddenly dissolves and I'm left mulling over my actual reality of bills and debts and whatever.

It's not even like I have a bad life in so far as I've got a roof over my head and a secure job, no posh holidays or particular luxuries but in the fortune position of not having to worry too much about the food bill and can have a meal out once in a while. And we're all healthy which £184million cannot buy.

The irony is I don't even play the bloody lottery!!

But yeh, very very flat

I think it would be much better to limit each win to 1 million and have lots of winners. No one needs that sort of money, and it would be much better to spread it out. Bet ticket sales would improve with improved odds of winning. It just seems an obscene amount of money.

Better how though? It’s the big prizes that attract people to play; one of the reasons the UK lottery shifted them around a few years back.

i know , it really isnt a lot by todays standards , i often dream about winning the lottery and being able to move back to my home town of romford that i desperatly miss , but the bloody prices of houses there are insane what with it being east london , i mean some of them are just over a million and they aint 15 bed mansions either !! far from , we are talking just like 5 beds or so , but its because they are in a nice area of romford , so a million isnt going to be getting me far at all , after id bought the house and paid all the related costs there wouldnt be nowt left , me and dd plus cats and rabbits would be living in a lovely bigger house in povety with me still having to bloody drag to work everyday 😂

Does anyone else remember the TV programme 'At Home with the Braithwaites'? The mother won some massive amount in the Euro lottery, went public and set up a charitable foundation. But the family ended up having loads of problems and there were issues with keeping the money because the ticket was bought by a minor.

This thread reminded me of it.

I think their crazy for going public, if it was me theirs no way I would and would of stayed anonymous. Your just baiting yourself up for theives imo

A million may not be a lot to some but it absolutely WOULD be life changing for me. I’d be able to buy a nice big family home outright in a naice area of my north-western city for £500,000. And I’d have £500,000 leftover. Not to mention I’d have no mortgage so month to month I’d be better off.

Not everybody lives in London.

With one million I’d buy a family home outright for £500,000. Put £100,000 away for DD. Stepdaughter has 2 kids and is really struggling financially so me and DH would probably give her a similar amount too.

No, we wouldn’t be out yachting in Monaco or living in a manaion in upsate New York, but £1million would still remove so much financial pressure for us, and we’d be able to have more holidays and treats.

Why would it be awkward? Surely any normal person winning that sort of money would just buy her a house? It’d be the same as buying her a cup of coffee would be for most of us.

It probably depends on how he feels about her and why they split up.

You seem to have your numbers a bit wrong, though. A house is going to be about half a percent of his share. Is half a percent of your net worth really only a cup of coffee? Are you genuinely only with about £1,000?

I mean I agree it’s not in the spirit of the lottery to be fair but it’s classic Mumsnet that people are suggesting 1 million pounds isn’t lot. If you live in London on a 6 figure salary maybe not, no. But it’s laughable to suggest that somebody on the breadline won’t benefit that much from winning a million.

This.... I’d be happy with even 500,000 just enough for us to get a bit more comfortable in life. We currently live with my mum. Not that’s she’s ever suggest we move out, she loves it. But it’s not ideal... but we have a roof over our head and food on the table and nowadays that’s the most important. We live in an expensive area outside of london and don’t earn enough to be able to afford a 3 bedroom house or flat but earn to much for help from housing benefits. It sucks but it is what it is. We pay my mum rent and help with bills... it would be lovely if I could just buy a bigger house and not have to worry about anything for a While

yes its all relative i think to what you would want to do if you won money , this thread illistrates that a bit , a million would do you , maybe im a greedy cow it wouldnt be enough for me not that id sniff at it if i did get that mind , id want to be able to buy a nice big 5 bedroom house in romford which is in east london , i dont want to have to work anymore , unlike a lot of posters saying it would be boring never having to work or do anything anymore , i would not be feeling that ,as i would have the time to do all the things i struggle to find even minimal time for now , like my drawing , id be able to afford to buy canvases and paints so i could do painting , go to hobbycraft and buy lots of different stuff to do crafting , i could start my own rabbit rescue and create a rabbit sancturary for rabbits that have special needs and cant be rehomed
id have so much to fill my time with id never get bored at all

but money doesnt solve everything thought and if you have problems of an emotinal nature no amount of money makes that better , as paul stanley the guitarist of kiss said in the decline of western civilsation when asked about his millions ,all that having money means is that you never have to worry about not having money !

i have a deep and profound regret from my past that no amount of money will ever make better , not even 184 million if i won it , i could move dd and i to romford ,buy the big nice house , set up the rabbit rescue , do all the crafting and gaming in the world , take dd and i on lovely holidays to different countries , have nice days out here and there , but nothing ,absolutely nothing is going to take away my pain from my past

there are some things that money just cant fix

No-one’s suggesting that though.

Good luck to them. I'd have a ball with it. I know exactly what I would spend 100 million on, I wouldn't go public, and none of it would benefit me personally.

But after I'd done all that I would really enjoy the rest.

I think what people mean is that winning a million Pounds isn't that much now house prices are so huge ( not just in London either )
It would do me , but if I were forty years younger it probably wouldn't ( even though that sounds crazy!!)
Still would be nice though!

This is why I think money corrupts. You start off thinking £1million would do very nicely thank you, and yet before you know it, you've worked out that you'd need at least £5million, and so it goes on.

And gifting £250K would be fine for relatives living somewhere cheapish who have their own homes, but there are very few areas of the UK these days where that amount would buy a half decent home upgrade. And if you didn't already own your own home, even fewer where you'd be able to buy a decent family home in a nice area for that amount. And then they'd not necessarily be able to maintain that standard of living.

I meant in terms of missing the money. Just the simple interest for a year on £92 million is £1.3 million at a very conservative 2%. I think he could probably manage a small house and never notice it!

Comparing my net worth with that of a multi millionaire is ridiculous. But I’m sure you realise that.

yes its this isnt it ?😂i used to think a few years ago a million would do me grand , but now iv worked out i would indeed need about 10 or actually about 20 to be on the safe side !!

Where do you think someone can put £93m and get 2% on it?

I wrote a long post about how people expected me to pay for all manner of things for them when I was first on investment banking money. I didn’t post as it seemed a bit too tangential, but I still don’t understand the view that I should have paid for other people’s meals, or drinks, or those of their guests just because I had more money than them.

It’s like me asking my unemployed mate to come round and sort out my garage for me as he has a lot more time than I do.

It’s ludicrous to suggest that someone buy a house for their ex once they have split up and finalized the arrangements.

It's beyond my wildest dreams.

1 million would change a lot for most people.

I'm sure that they'll spread the joy between family and friends.

Where do you think someone can put £93m and get 2% on it?

I imagine a good investment house could get a great deal better than 2%. He’s not going to stick in Nationwide, is he? How do you think the rich constantly get richer?

It’s ludicrous to suggest that someone buy a house for their ex once they have split up and finalized the arrangements

If I had the thick end of £100 million and my ex was about to be made homeless I’d do it in a heartbeat. How ludicrous that there are decent humans in the world.

They were super rich to begin with weren’t they? I guess money attracts money. Honestly I’d rather have seen it go to someone who was struggling.

There is nowhere to put that amount safely and get 2%. I need to deposit vastly more than that at work, and 2% is a pipe dream.

As for the buying a house thing, it’s very easy for you to claim you’d do it, but come on, be honest, you know that it depends.

If your ex had dumped you to move in with a younger woman, and been a real dick about it, there’s no way you’d buy them a house.

It’s ludicrous to suggest that someone buy a house for their ex once they have split up and finalized the arrangements.

Is it?

Assuming it wasn't an acrimonious split and also assuming I vaguely fond feelings for them I'd happily bung them £300,000 in such a situation.