Scratchcard Win

[MissLead]

So yesterday we had our annual pre-Xmas family meal (my brother, sister partners and kids).

every year we have done this I’ve bought everyone a scratchcard as a bit of fun.

BIL won £50k on his card yesterday and is not going to share it!

I think he should!!!!

Yes.

If I give someone a bath bomb that I didn’t care for the scent of but then it smells better than I expected, I don’t expect to the be able to crawl in the bath with them.

At the very least i would expect a bloody fabulous Christmas present from my sister!

how has she reacted?

If it was me I’d give you half.

I missed the k too......he won £50k !

How much would be enough OP?

ETA: dunno why the quote happened.

That would be bloody weird 😆

You could always scratch them yourself in private beforehand - save them all of that work - and then only give the ones that aren't winners!

I agree with you OP. If it's supposed to be a bit of fun for everyone and it's a family thing I would share it. I don't know how much it who with exactly but I wouldn't just sit on £50k under those circumstances.

It does seem like a rubbish scenario, doesn't it?

"Here, have a scratchcard as your present - unlike an actual present that's guaranteed to be of a certain value, it will most probably end up being worthless; but in the unlikely event that it turns out not to be worthless, you have to share it with everybody else".

ASIF

Seriously! No he shouldn't. Yabu

Right!!! Bitter much, I wouldn’t share with her either

The thing is that, even if he does share it... one person has said £1K, somebody else has said £5K, others are suggesting a proportion. A lot of people would actually take offence at 'only' being given £1K when you've won £50K - "especially as I bought it, and if I hadn't given it to you, you wouldn't have won anything".

Also, do you just share it with/give a proportion to the giver, or everybody present? And how is it fair if you scratch it then and there, win £50K, and are expected to share it around - when somebody else could have waited to scratch theirs (or sneaked out to the toilet to do so), won £1million and then they get a share of your £50K as well as their own million which they get to keep in full?!

Well you lot are nice (not).

Right? Can you even imagine?! 😂

You're the one thinking other people should share their presents with you 😂

I genuinely would have been happy for him in your shoes and would absolutely not expect a share. You bought them as fun gifts.

Why should he share? He won it. It’s his to do as he pleases.

How many of you were there? How many adults and kids?

I would want to be all pleased for them and magnanimous. But I'd be kicking myself I didn't get that winning one. Especially when I had it and gave it away!

This thread is the reason that if I ever won anything on the lotto/a scratch card I would keep my mouth SHUT!! I'd pretend I didn't win and quietly stash the card away. I'd get everyone a nice gift or a holiday or whatever. £50k to me would be absolutely life changing, once in a lifetime. Equally if one of my siblings won a significant amount I think I'd rather not know about it, it brings out the worst in people (including me!)

I wouldn't share either - it's life changing - but I would have given the buyer maybe 1k.

I never buy them for anyone but family at xmas and before we scratch we agree everything over a 1000 be shared equally by number of families ( so singletons don’t just get half what a couple would) I buy them so it’s my rules 😅 very organized I am but we’ve never won much more than a tenner.

We do this at family get togethers and wins are shared!

Not £50, the OP said it was £50k