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

Have PM’d you @Blarting

I hope they enjoy it all. If I won the lottery I’d buy a huge estate of land with a lake. I’d invest the rest and live off the interest. My family would be sorted for generations.
I’d give some to siblings and a few good friends.
There are a few charities I support which I would make donations to but I wouldn’t be handing over millions.

Just found it on drunk, just off out now but I will respond.

I can’t see any good coming of it. I’d be worried sick about my kids being kidnapped. It’s a massive overnight change. It will surely rock relationships to the core. It must come between friendships. Do they move their kids to a school with other rich families? Will their adult kids decide never to work again and want a big share?

Why they went public unless it’s because they’re spectacularly stupid is beyond me.

*junk not drunk

I saw the story and so felt flat, for the opposite reason. Winning that much would bring so much uncertainty and potentially lots of unhappiness. It would turn my life upside down. I would lose motivation to work or do anything. Why work? Why clean? Why bother cooking or doing the food shop? You can't just fill a life with shopping and travel.

Well, ( according to the DM anyway ) it seems they are filling up their time seeking out new homes near to where Jeremy Clarkson lives ! Maybe he'll feature them in when he next makes a series for Netflix.
I don't think they will have time to be bored for a while yet.

I most definitely wouldn’t be bored. That money could do so much good. I’d spend a lot of time making sure it did.

I wouldn't be the teensiest bit bored. If you'd ever harboured a dream of opening a coffee shop or a bookshop or a furniture restoration business, or whatever, you could do so and not give half a fig whether it lost ££££ every week.

You don’t even understand the definition of advice do you? Had I said “taking into account your circumstances, I recommend that you invest your money in X” then that’s advice. What I wrote isn’t.

How can you claim to be an advisor and not understand.

As for the FCA, you’ll need to send it to the ECB I’m afraid champ. I’m regulated on the mainland only.

It’s probably worth your while, if you are going to keep up the pretence of being a financial advisor in the UK to understand the rules. This document from the FCA covers it.

This line is one that you need to know “In the context of financial services, “advice” is a service which recommends a specific course of action based on consumers' individual circumstances and goals”

@SlightlyGeordieJohn didn't realise you weren't a proper regulated FCA adviser, again just some. not fully regulated banker or whatever.

Anyway, you can get >2% interest rates!

Meh that will probably be the cost of a weekly shop in a couple of years. Lottery wins will need to be billions, not millions, the way that inflation is going...

Yes!
I would also be writing my book ( by the pool in the South of France ) and making the horror film that’s been ticking over in my head.
And I’m also head of a charity I’d set up to help the kids I work worth. They’d be a lot of stuff to get that off the ground and well promoted.
Busy, busy, busy.

I'd love to spend this amount. DH and I would buy land and create a nature reserve (we know where) Then we would run it as a social enterprise for people with disabilities.
Lovely coffee shop, accessible boardwalks over marshland, photography workshops etc.
Just need to win now!

lollipoprainbow · 21/05/2022 10:25
@MrsSkylerWhite how do you know we all have good health ??“

that was to OP, who says “we all have good health”.

I don't think the FCA would give a fig about "advice" being given on Mumsnet! You overestimate their resources.

I just can't understand why people want the publicity. I realise the people closest to them would find out anyway, but why on Earth choose to have your photo all over the papers, when you don't need to? I see there's already a negative story about them this morning. They should have kept away from the press in the first place.

I think that the lottery people let you choose if to go public or not ( so I read once)
I definitely wouldn't , but you don't know how it's worded or if they feel it would be better to just get it into the open ?
There are ways you could hide your win , but I guess it's so much easier now to look up online at where someone might be living after they move and discover that way ? Especially family !
I'm not sure why people go public, but many do and I often wonder what the motivation is there ?

Don't other couples who have gone public say they get nothing but grief, bags of post daily begging letters. I wouldn't like that.

Can you imagine the mail or letters you would get with 61 million in the bank ?

I think they could well end up fearing for their personal safety and that of anybody close who they love eg children with that kind of money. Wide open to kidnap or blackmail. A few million would be fine! Much safer.

Do you remember that marvellous lottery drama ‘The Syndicate’? Sudden money out of nowhere makes a great story. V Shakespearean!