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Then you could occupy some of your time by working for/with those businesses and not get bored
With that amount of money, believe me, I would never be bored. EVER
As I keep banging on about how many of societies ills are related to lack of good quality, affordable social housing, I’d be keen to put my money where my mouth has been.
I've thought about this. I'd buy properties to let out but rather than just pocketing the income I'd put it in a holding account. 2yrs down the line hand that 24months worth of rent back as a mortgage deposit and sell the house to the tenant. Repeat to fade/death/lack of money.
Well, it’s been claimed.. That’s the end of my dreaming 😭
Alas it's not a ticket I'd forgotten about and left in my bag :(.
Of course there's still hope its a close relative or friend 🙂
idiotdogbrain
Euromillions tickets are sort of a version of Schrödinger’s cat – until you check the ticket you both have and haven’t won; checking the ticket just confirms you haven’t.. 🤣
I love the "Schrödinger’s Lottery win" theory. I think I operate on that between getting the email and the winner being announced. It's quite a delectable thought that it could indeed "be you" no matter how improbable.
It's not me by the way. Sorry
Yep - I occasionally buy a ticket and when I do I deliberately don't check it for a few days. It's a nice feeling 🙂
Not me.
The Wife mentioned it this morning, how great it would be. I’m pretty sure it would end in tears and suffering. It’s just too much for me. I can imagine the arguments at home already.
We frequently have the "what if" discussion, my ideas on how to use £150m+ are a bit more mundane than hers, and the conversation usually ends with me saying something like, "The most sensible thing would be to put a big chunk in a trust for the kids, a few tens of millions in a rainy day pot, then we can divide the rest in two and piss it away in whatever way we each deem fit without judgement from the other..."
She'd just give 75% of the whole pot to whichever "good causes" caught her eye, and spend the remainder on one mega holiday.
I would still like to tackle the "problems" that come with having excessive, unearned wealth 🙂
I never even won on the "EXTREMELY LOW ODDS!!" days on the Dream Bike Competition, so there's no way I'm chucking money away on the bleeding lottery.
Yep – I occasionally buy a ticket and when I do I deliberately don’t check it for a few days. It’s a nice feeling
Yeah, i'm bad for this, i do a ten week ticket. Rarely check the results until i log on to do the next ten week ticket. Doesn't help that the site is blocked at work and i can't be bothered to do it at home.
One day i'll win, and carry on working for another 2 months, completely oblivious.
I think if the euro millions gets up to £150m they should drop the single ticket win to other money maker numbers to create 150+ millionaires.
We frequently have the “what if” discussion
There are some serious questions that need answering. For me it always boils down to:
Where do we move to?
What car?
What bikes?
Where and how do we go on holiday?
I’d buy properties to let out but rather than just pocketing the income I’d put it in a holding account. 2yrs down the line hand that 24months worth of rent back as a mortgage deposit and sell the house to the tenant. Repeat to fade/death/lack of money.
We don't need more home owners, we need a permanent stock of affordable rented housing
*Lottery fantasy warning* I quite fancy the North Wales coast if our numbers came up - on a corner of the many hundred acres plot of land I would buy, I would build budget, green, low-cost, high efficiency homes and sell them below cost to people from within the postcode. If I can get a clause in the deeds that they can only ever be sold to local folk, I would. I'd do some kind of co-operative business stuff too.
The trick with friends and family, is apparently to tell them you’ve won, but not how much. Just phrase it as you’re now comfortable. Indicate it’s enough to buy a house, some nice cars and holiday, but not enough to give away to anyone who asks for some.
Then be discreet.
I’d do a Musk, buy Singletrack, and migrate it to some AWS instances that actually have some power.
Then you could occupy some of your time by working for/with those businesses and not get bored
With that amount of money, believe me, I would never be bored. EVER
Things to do list:
Learn to sail.
Learn to dive, again.
Buy boat, obviously once the above two are accomplished and after many hours of research and training. Use boat.
Tour French vineyards buying wine.
Tour Scottish distilleries buying whiskey. Drink it. (Some of it.)
Many bike holidays.
Foreign rugby trips.
Plant an orchard after hours of research. Rewild the many acres I'll have bought. Spend time watching the wildlife.
Have time to surf again.
Buy a big telescope and get into astronomy again.
Cook lots of nice food.
Have time to watch lots of old films.
Buy lots of guitars and play them lots. Learn other instruments.
Get drunk in the middle of the day for no reason.
Ride lots.
Now, this is just off the top of my head, far from exhaustive and doesn't include time spent buying cars and houses, and the things my family would want to do. I'm fairly sure it would take me a long, long time to get bored, but to start with I think I'd just enjoy eating biscuits and drinking tea while lying on my sofa in my pants at 2.30pm, listening to loud music. Only for a few days. I haven't got time to waste.
I'd spend half on coke and hookers. Then I'd probably waste the rest.
We don’t need more home owners, we need a permanent stock of affordable rented housing
Why? When the post you are commenting on actually helps people get on the property ladder? Renting is dead money and this idea gives people who would never be able to afford a deposit a leg up
I quite fancy the North Wales coast if our numbers came up – on a corner of the many hundred acres plot of land I would buy, I would build budget, green, low-cost, high efficiency homes and sell them below cost to people from within the postcode.
The problem is that there's no industry there so the locals don't actually want to live there as there's not enough jobs.
But it's a nice idea anyway.
idiotdogbrain
Euromillions tickets are sort of a version of Schrödinger’s cat – until you check the ticket you both have and haven’t won; checking the ticket just confirms you haven’t.. 🤣
I love that! When I do the occasional lottery, it’s online, that way I don’t worry about losing a possible winning ticket.
What would I do with a ton of money? Well, I wouldn’t move far, in fact I’d keep my current house and spend money properly upgrading it, with a nice shed/summerhouse with power, and find a plot of land somewhere near/on the coast and have something built, maybe using recycled shipping containers, rather than take an existing home from a local - I’d hate to be a part of the holiday 2nd home problem.
I’d contribute to charities like Air Ambulances and the RNLI, mountain rescue and local search and rescue teams as well.
Surprised they've gone public but I don't know how you'd keep it quiet really, other than waiting a few weeks before discretely collecting the money, work your notice and pretend it was just a couple of million.
I see divorce in your future
Harsh - they actually appear to be a nice couple from how I read the article – the sort of people that might actually do something good with the money.
Well this explains why I've had a meeting next week randomly cancelled!
I bet gangsters everywhere have been making notes.
Still rather see 184 people become millionaires, than one person getting more money than most could responsibly manage.
Harsh – they actually appear to be a nice couple from how I read the article – the sort of people that might actually do something good with the money.
got nothing to do with them, the going form for +100 million winners going public is 100% ending up in divorce and about 80% for sub 100 million winners. It's common in all lotteries
They've got two primary school aged kids, so guessing they'll stick around for a while, most of the divorces have been in the 50 something couples, or childless couples, so these two have a chance of staying together for a few more years.
They're just up the road in Gloucester as well, i'm sure they'll do well with their money and life from now on, but going public means they'll have to get used to the begging letters for eternity, i know a few other big winners used to just get their mail shipped to solicitors to vet all the begging or nasty letters, hopefully they get some advice on this!
My neighbour won the lottery, 25mn, spiffed it all away on supercars and a stupid footballer style mansion which he never actually moved into. His wife didn't like it and it's been empty for 5 years.
Now sold all the cars and moved back into his old house. I suspect his kid got loads of hassle at school. The cars really were bad taste tho, salesman must have been hiding his smile with a mask when he did the deal.
They’ve got two primary school aged kids, so guessing they’ll
stick around for a whilebe hiring a security detail,
FTFY
Surprised they’ve gone public but I don’t know how you’d keep it quiet really, other than waiting a few weeks before discretely collecting the money, work your notice and pretend it was just a couple of million.
Going public at least you break the news on your terms in a friendly news story. It would likely be impossible keeping that sort of step change in wealth secret for long.
A cousin or something would no doubt start blabbing off and before you know it you'll have the gutter press interviewing a "friend" from school who apparently knew you as "Stoner Steve" as you once took a toke on a splif behind the bike sheds aged 17 or some other bullshit story to discredit you.
is "gangster" a euphemism for "Leggy Blonde" ?
Why? When the post you are commenting on actually helps people get on the property ladder?
Because cheap social housing keeps other rentiers honest and drives down the cost of renting allowing many more onto the housing ladder if they wish. There's nothing wrong with renting for all of your life, someone else has the joy of maintaining the property because if you're on a low income the boiler breaking in your own home (other maintenance disasters are available) could put you out on the street.
I know people would work out that something was up when the boat and supercars turn up but there is no way in hell I'd go on the news to announce it.
It could be you!
I am not a winner.
Bu at work we are donated £1m from Postcode Lottery players this year....
https://www.postcodelocaltrust.org.uk/apply-for-a-grant/local-school-nature-grants/
I see they are going to fix their leaky roof and can now maybe go on their dream holiday to Hawaii.
Their apparent dullness about wanting to go public is reflected in their aspirations.
I'm so glad they won so much money - if they can't think of anything to do with it, I hope they at least give a good chunk of it away
Mr Thwaite did admit that he was likely to buy his 'dream car' - a Skoda Superb Estate.
.......and spend more time on STW
Trees and land for me lots of it.
No way I would go public. my uncle has won it they are grounded with it too nice bloke tbf
Haha. Funny I'm looking at a Skoda Superb estate, the go faster version. Basically a Golf R underneath. All you really need for day to day motoring.
But I'll be honest I'd buy loads of classic cars and also start building my own kit car for fun.
But other than a large garage and cars I'd spend most of my day riding my bike and going to the pub.
Edit: Oh and make sure family and friends are sorted. Then give the rest to charity.
It's usually boring stuff, at their age they're not exactly going to be on the brag about ferrari's and caribbean mansions, when telling the world you've won nearly £200 million it's all about looking normal!
I keep praying everyday to Almighty (all of them) to grant my wish of striking the lottery jackpot.
Almighty agreed so I was very happy with my wish granted but then ...
I waited and waited and waited but it did not happen.
I asked again ... "Almighty please grant me my wish of striking the lottery jackpot ..."
Then one day Almighty said to me ... "You need to buy the lottery ticket first".
LOL!
Moral of the story don't envy others, just buy a lottery ticket because you can be the next person celebrating.
I get the feeling that the "presenting the winners", "the story" and "what we'll do with the money" are all very carefully managed with no big vulgar ambitions and it all feeling very grounded and "nice".
These 2 look to be good ambassadors for the lottery, hope they manage to do well and enjoy it not self destruct like a few.
TBH the reality of their situation hasn’t set in yet.
It’s the kids and grandchildren who’ll be doing the self destructing 🙁
It wasn't me, but if it was:
amesfts
Well this explains why I’ve had a meeting next week randomly cancelled!
You work with them then?
It wasn’t me, but if it was:
You can have that, I'll have this for the worlds coolest bike van 🙂
