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 🤷🏻‍♀️

I would love to win it. If you win, and don't want the prize money, feel free to give it to me 😁

I prefer the draws where you win £10k a month for 30 years. Seems more sensible to me.

We would wait a few weeks and then claim to have won a much smaller amount to stop people sniffing. We would buy a new house and a new car but neither would stand out compared to the neighbours. We would love to win it though.

Exactly this.
Wealth of that size can only bring stress, isolation and loads and loads of fake friends.

I think they should cap it at £10m (or €10m) so mega accumulation of it would just mean more winners. Still an incredible life changing amount. But then I guess that would lower the amount buying tickets.
My husband refused to play the lottery as he said he didn't want to get money that way - he wanted to earn it.

I once one the EuroMillions. All of £2.50.

I'd be gutted to win millions, only because right now I haven't finalised the financial part of my divorce so my fuckwit of an ex could be entitled to half.

Why do you think it should be capped to allow more winners? I understand people who don’t want to play and wouldn’t want to the prize. But what I don’t get is why people who don’t have an interest in playing say it shouldn’t exist. The prize is funded entirely through ticket sales, so doesn’t affect anybody who doesn’t buy a ticket. And clearly the people buying the tickets and funding the prize draw want to win the big prize, or they’d play another game. And there are many lottery games with better odds, cheaper tickets and lower prizes for people who want that. Euromillions being £130M tomorrow doesn’t stop Lotto and Thunderball happening.

I’d love to win it. I have a list already of all those I’d give money too. I wouldn’t tell anyone outside of immediate family and friends. We are rural so no nosey neighbours either.

I wonder what impact it would have on my marriage and other relationships. My kids and their ambitions, ethics. But I would love to wins several millions. A house with space, my pension boosted (I have nothing at the moment), something aside for my kids and my siblings kids, settle my sibling who may never work/do business again after horrific violence with monthly payment and therapy as long as needed, best neurologists, get my other sibling life long care for his chronic health issues, set an education or development fund for x people in country y. All these would require a minimum if £43 million. But chances of winning are ultralight so I go to bed each day worried about my siblings and try not to think of my (grim) penniless future.

DH and I don't play for fear of winning too much! If it was 500k then yes I'd play.

This is exactly what I dream of doing! I have made a note of all my friends/family and how I could help them (pay off mortgages, give deposits so they could get on the property ladder, etc) and then after buying a reasonable sized house myself with some land, I’d buy up many of the small run down properties locally and help the community with housing by offering fair (low) rents. My parents would love to do the same - they said they’d charge a fair rent but put some aside each month and if they’re good decent honest enacts then after a few years give that money set aside back to them to help them buy themselves if they wished to.
I don’t understand people that say they wouldn’t know what to do with it etc. I’d do SO much for myself, my family, my friends, help charities…..the list is endless!

I generally don't play Euromillions. However I've been in full-time employment for long enough that I could retire a few years early and have a good standard of living that I could attribute to 35 years of major company pensions.
I wouldn't flash the cash.
But my dream is to win the Set For Life draw. 10k a month for the rest of my life would be ideal.

I don't understand the thinking that it's too much and should be split between more people, I'd rather me win it and make lots of people I know millionaires and give to the charities that I support than me get 1 million and the rest be split with strangers and go to charities I'm not interested in.

I love the idea of making my friends and family rich too so we can all lead a comfortable life

I wouldn't want to win a large amount of money - I wouldn't know what to spend it on (hate shopping) I have enough to live on (old enough to have a tiny mortgage and fairly simple tastes) my children are doing okay with secure jobs etc.
However if I did win my lazy feckless BIL and arrogant SIL would suddenly make contact and would be asking us to help out them and their families and I would have to speak to them again having had a long time of having nothing in common
I much prefer a small raffle or draw where the prize is a bottle or jar of something at the local fete.

Probably destroy my family 😅

My husband would tell everyone most likely (he can not keep a secret at all) then want to pick and choose gifting..my family are lovely but when it comes to money empathy goes out the window.."yes shes sad her mum died, but they have all those assets so they're ok"
They would most likely keep demanding more and more.
Our marriage would become strained with a family fallout, also completely different desires out of life with it.

Oddly enough i expect my brother and SIL who i don't see much would probably be the ones who wouldn't be changed, expect anything ect.

Courts would get involved and drama from his Ex..honestly this "blessing" would probably send us into an early grave 😂

Much better if it was just enough for a home and that be that.

Oddly enough more than a home worth of money we would be bankcrupt at some point and worse off 😂😂

I’ll take the 300M thanks

I only play it when it's 9 figures, I'm not getting out of bed for less than 100 million.

But my dream is to win the Set For Life draw. 10k a month for the rest of my life would be ideal

Same here.

Don't get me wrong, I'd not turn down a Euromillions win! But when my mind wanders to that happy lotto-winner place it's the set for life I daydream about. Planning how to spend it, in what order to buy/save for things etc, imagining the ultimate life-long security that would bring us.

I only play when it's big money.

I'd keep the 30 million for me and my family & friends (no point being rich if all my friends are at work) then the other 100 million I'd give away.

The thought of that much money fills me with anxiety! I would be so worried about the impact on my family relationships and friendships. And like someone else said, I am too content in my life to want this kind of disruption/upheaval. Although a few million would be just fine haha

The likely chance any of you are to win the jackpot is closer to 0% than 1%!

I won 99 pounds on the lottery,ended up spending it on the boiler! 130 mil for one winner is insane , it would be great for say 1 or 2 mil,however I think with 130 mil give away half sa to charity, and help friends and family out.

I’m an occasional player. Usually the Lotto or the Set for Life game where you get £10k a month. A million or two would do me nicely. Wouldn’t want to move, unless a bigger house in our immediate area came on the market,but I’d do up and extend my own house. And travel a lot.

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I'd be quite happy to win it so I'll have yours OP!

I'd keep it very quiet, move to another part of the country, and I already have no social media presence. I wouldn't buy anything stupidly extravagant. I'd tell my brother and my mum I'd won a smaller amount and give them some. The rest would be invested in land, farms, property, bonds etc as soon as possible. Wouldn't retain millions of liquid cash. I'd work on my own farm (with a farm manager who actually knows what they're doing) and be quite happy.

I was talking about this with dh the other day.

£100+ million is a scary amount.
I know I could change lots of peoples lives with it, especially people in my family, but it makes me feel uneasy and I don’t really know why.
I feel like you’d have to go into hiding & live in a bit of a bubble. I’m happy with my life & don’t want to change it. It’s for that reason I only play thunder ball or normal lotto.

500k-£1m would be my dream amount.
Enough to buy a slightly bigger house with a huge garden. I’d go crazy at the garden centres. A camper van, money in kids bank account for when they’re older. A nice extended hol. Give a bit to my mum & dad & siblings.