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

It would put unimaginable strain on all your relationships with nearest and dearest, and people you've barely met, as you never know who is genuine and who just wants a slice of the pie. You'd be literally stressing at how to spend it all. I think it would be psychologically extremely damaging to win such an obscene sum. I do wish, and I know this sounds really mean, that someone a little less comfortable and affluent as the winners were had it as it seemed like they are hardly hard up ;) But it would be a bit of a poisoned chalice

Imagine a life with no dreams or ambitions. When your not rich you dream of having things or working towards a goal it becomes gratifying when you do it because you earned it.

Having everything readily available and anything within grasp sounds like such a boring life. Yes it would be amazing initially but once you have your amazing home car and sorted your kids/ family and friends out and travelled around the World and given to charity what is there left?

I'm quite happy with my life it's not perfect we struggle at times but I wish they wouldn't do these large amounts. That could have given a comfortable life to thousands of people.

its always different with people that win huge sums of money by sheer luck than if they had earned it through hard work , of course people are going to judge them as thats just what people do , its a sheer fluke when you win big money like that on a lottery and if you go public you are going to have everybody and his brother saying what they think about it ,

and yes i suppose some of it is jealousy in part , but then if you were a single struggling mum of 2 scraping by and then read about a comfortably well off couple winning a fortune its understandable to feel a bit peeved or again these old loves that win a ton and then dont seem to want to spend it at all , of course that single mum might feel miffed as do loads of the rest of us i guess,

I play the lottery occasionally but always think I would never want to win that amount. It’s too much, an obscene amount of money. It should be split in to smaller prizes.

That would pay for the NHS for about three hours. They will be paying 20% of nearly everything they spend on VAT though, which has to be a good thing.

How exciting! I wish them well and hope they won't get too much hassle now that they went public about their huge win.
I disagree that big wins should be split as suggested by some posts.
The fact is, those playing lottery games are directly funding the wins because they want to part with their money to buy a ticket/play a game and most if these players are hoping to be the big winner.
If the potential for a big win was £1mil instead if £175mil or whatever big number happens to be, then I'd imagine there would be less players so less available money to win.
I doubt many players are only taking part for altruistic reasons to support schemes funded by the national lottery.
On the other had, I bet there are a lot of players who constantly spend lots of £2s they can ill afford out of desperation where winning £500 would get them through a very bad patch short term.
It is gambling. It really isn't charity. Lots of things wrong with the system. But it is what it is.

This seems like the oddest complaint. I mean you're quite free to give away the bit you don't want!

I must admit I don't play the lotto, as much as I would like the amount to try the stock market and build my eBay business, at the same time unless I get a random inheritance etc, then they are dreams at the moment. It's a pickle, but yea, one of those what ifs really.

I would love giving my my close friends a nice fat cheque each to enjoy!

Maybe there is. Karma would say that good people already had the nice house, and now have some extra money too.

The government spends £140,000 million on the NHS each year.

I purposely don't do the lottery when it's a big win. I find the amounts too scary. What happens to your children do they suddenly need bodyguards as they are a kidnap risk? Would I need a bodyguard?

Would my children go off the rails and get into drugs? How do you keep them grounded when you have that amount of money? And yes I know I could give it all away and just keep a small amount.

I know a lot of marriages of marriages fail when couples win big. Give me a mill or 2 and that'd do me nicely.

Good on em.
I spent several happy weeks mentally planning what I would do with that amount of money. A lot of good was my conclusion.

Haven’t heard the story but I never envy massive jackpot winners. It’s too much for anyone. I’d like to win £200k

Gave up halfway through this thread of begrudgery.🙄🙁

I said/shouted into DH this afternoon in his home office the £184 million couple are going public today.

No further comment from him apart from Okie dokie

He then shouted after a minute , it was a lucky dip, I shouted back GITS, that was the end of the begrudgery.

Even when we were on the bones of our arse, we would say what would you have spent it on, we would then spend a happy half hour wasting invisible money, anymore thought process than that is not good. IMO

Yes I felt rubbish when I saw it in the news earlier, had to turn it over. I think going public was a mistake but I wish them well.

£184 million? Wow. I’d make lots of people comfortable and clear people’s debts.

Bloody hell! This thread alone is proof of why it's better not to go public. So much pearl-clutching, moralising, finger-wagging, purse-lipped, holier-than-thou, bad-tempered, green-faced nagging envy, virtue-signalling and judgmentalism! What have they let themselves in for??

That’s not what the lottery is though. If people don’t like it, they don’t have to take part. People want to change their life if they win the lottery. Winning a million at my age wouldn’t even mean I could give up work if I wanted to maintain our current lifestyle.

I am a little jealous it wasn't me, but at the same time its such a huge change I am not sure I would be happier, richer beyond my wildest dreams, but happier, I'm not sure ?
If I am trawling rightmove, my dream home is usually in the range of a million, big enough for everything and everyone without it being a pain in the arse, bit of land for reject animals, that sort of thing.
Day to day daydreams tend to focus on winning 10k as that is the amount that would change the life I have now, enough to be a lot 'better' 😀Or I could get off my fat arse and do something about it myself

Also like absolute fuck would anyone on this thread win the lottery and the first thought be “what charities can I give some to?”

Your first thought would be - what can I spend it on for myself? Whether that’s paying off your mortgage / buying a new house / going for lunch / being a Ferrari etc you would put yourself first and then think of others second.

No one, but no one plays the lottery just so they could donate their winnings to worthy causes

Why are people so hung up on the fact they live in a 600k house? They might be mortgaged up to the eye balls, and have shit loads of debt.

This is exactly why lottery winners should never go public. Jealousy causes hate.

I’m happy for them….but I wish it was me 😁

Bonkers going public with it in my view.

Because they have horses which apparently means they don’t care about anyone else…?!

I'd probably play it if that was true. I can't be bothered to raise my hopes every week to be one in a million, but I night raise them to be 183 in a million.
something to think about lotto hand!