Would anyone *Not want to win the lottery/euromillions

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I know I sound crazy, but was just thinking about it.
Live abroad, nice but average house in nice area, have a small mortgage, paying off car, do ok each month but no savings and certainly no fancy holidays etc since Dd came along. Life can be a struggle financially at times, but I’ve learnt to cut right back and can enjoy some simple pleasures-coffees out, the odd lunch.
The euro millions is something like €130
million this Friday, I haven’t bought a ticket for years, but was considering doing it as parents are here and might be lucky (highly unlikely though!)
Then I was thinking what a huge impact it would have and everything would change. Instead of my parents staying with us and us all sitting around and sort of squashing into our 2 bedroom house, we’d all have much larger houses and they’d stay in one when visiting. Family we hadn’t seen for years would probably come out of the woodwork, no matter how quiet we tried to keep it. With more wealth comes more chance of burglars etc. We’d move house from our little cul de sac with DD’s friends, all the dogs, the woods nearby.
Would my family change? My marriage, my sister, my parents…I don’t know…I think a huge amount such as that could potentially have a negative effect 🤷🏻‍♀️

Dunno. I'll buy a ticket and let you know 😉

I think maybe if it was a good win but a smaller amount 🤔 a few million, but surely that amount is far too much

I don't understand the love for the tens/hundreds of millions pound prizes.

Winners will have every last acquaintance suddenly wanting to be their bestie and the gutter press trying to out them to the world. No thanks.

I'd cap prizes at no more than £5-10 million. Surely that's more than enough for anyone unless you're dim enough to spend most of it on a not very impressive house in London?

Like you I’m at the fortunate end of the normal life spectrum and I think there’s an awful lot to be said for it. Then obviously another part of me thinks no fuck off, gimme the £130million.

It's too much, a million and I could buy a 500k house. Why not have more winners?

@MiddleParking Exactly 🤣

@Kalevala I agree, it’s insane

@Bjorkdidit Yes, my worst nightmare would be press intrusion or trying to dig up stories etc

I only play the lottery when the Euromillions when the prize gets over £100M. People on threads like these always come along and say it’s too much money to win. I have no idea why someone would think it should be capped because they wouldn’t want to win that much money. The prize is funded through ticket sales, and no-one is forcing anyone to play. The national lottery have many games available with lower prizes (and a correspondingly lower ticket price and better odds) for those who want that. But personally, £130M would suit me. And I wouldn’t share news of the win so no-one to come crawling.

I just wonder if you’d have all this extra and people would change and if you’d think back to those days with much less, but happy days all squished in together, things being special mais they’re treats and so on

Yes it's far too much realiy.
But I have a mental spreadsheet of how I'll share my ludicrously enormous winnings... 😁

@toastofthetown What would you do with it all, would you really need that much? Would you worry your life/people you love would change?

I would hate anything to spoil my quiet, anonymous, little life. I am pretty content with my tiny house and garden. If I won I'd keep a couple of hundred thousand so that I never ever had to worry about money again and would give the rest away to charities and people I love and trust not to tell the Daily Mail where I live. I won't win. I don't do it

If I was lucky enough to win I think after recent events and after seeing family and friends okay I would be buying a place with acres to have the horses from the guards in London come and have a holiday.

I'd also buy up houses do them up and let them out for below the average rent - give people a leg up and help them out.

The rest to charity

@toastofthetown people aren't stupid though. You're going to spend it on something right?

We became quite a bit richer recently and it was difficult to hide. We went on much nicer holidays for example. Bought a nicer car.
It didn't take long for certain family members to come sniffing.

If you wouldn't share the news, you'd have to hide the Ferraris and helicopters. What's the point?

I wouldn't want to win 100s of millions. Essentially I'm happy. Would a massive change to my life make me more happy? Chances are not.

I'll take a million though. Nice house, a few good holidays.

Euromillions has the highest ticket price and longest odds of any of the lottery games. That’s why the prize is so large. Why would I pay £2.50 for a 1 in 189M chance of winning a smaller prize alongside someone I don’t know or care about when I could buy a cheaper ticket with substantially better odds with the Lotto or Thunderball? Euromillions brands itself as dream come true money. With £130M, I would never have any financial barrier to anything for the rest of my life. £1M would be a nice windfall, but not life changing in the same way. I get that not everyone would want to win that much money. No one is forced to play though and I don’t see why people think that because they wouldn’t want the prize, it shouldn’t exist. Euromillions (as I said in my last post) is self funded through ticket sales, so it has literally no impact on anyone who doesn’t play.

Wondering what I'd need to invest to make, say, £25k a year in passive income? Plus £500k for a house, and I'd be more than happy. Just the house would be amazing though.

I would be quite happy to win 130 million absolutely. I have an absolutely massive family and could love to be in a position to make every single one of them mortgage free. - parents, siblings, nieces, nephews, aunts, uncles, cousins.

I would live off the rest and probably turn my job into some sort of voluntary hobby, helping people who can't afford to pay for the service and working only when it suited.

I would have a lovely debt free house and travel frequently.

That said, I would really just like to win half a million and that would be more than enough for me.

I wouldn't really want to win £130m; I'd prefer there to be 130 winners each taking £1m. While it wouldn't be never work again money, it would significantly make a lot of people's lives much easier.

That said, I'll be buying a ticket, and if I win, I won't be telling anyone.

The Euromillions jackpots are undoubtedly what sells the tickets. Worth remembering that the rest of the proceeds go to charity/good causes for society too!

I would absolutely love to win that sort of money. The difference I could make to the lives of my family and friends would be huge. As for people sniffing, they could sniff all they want. I don’t answer their messages anyway.

People on threads like these always come along and say it’s too much money to win. I have no idea why someone would think it should be capped because they wouldn’t want to win that much money. The prize is funded through ticket sales, and no-one is forcing anyone to play.

I can't speak for anyone else, but I don't buy a ticket because the odds of winning are so miniscule.
I would be much more likely to buy a ticket if there were 10x the likelihood of me winning £13million. Or, even more so if there were 100x the possibility of me winning £1.3million.

A million would be life changing for virtually everyone.
Up to about £10miliion would just set you up for life.
£130 million would just isolate you from virtually everyone you know. It would also be a fulltime job just managing it. Even before the press intrusion and the scroungers and the kidnap threats etc etc.

Give me a vastly improved chance of winning a much smaller, but still lifechanging amount and I'd be more likely to buy a ticket.

I would be very happy with 500K and overjoyed with 1M - but I have no desire whatsoever to have any more than that, and don't even buy tickets in any lottery with a massive prize

Those games exist!! You can do that!