I wonder how long you could pretend to go off to work on a morning and go ride bikes / go surfing / fishing / metal detecting etc. instead. You just need some discipline and pretend to be in a shit mood when you go out the front door every morning. No one need ever know.
I’ve always fancied an island in the Forth. You’d definitely not be noticed by anyone. To be extra cautious, wear a fake mustache when heading over on your boat.
I’ve always fancied an island in the Forth. You’d definitely not be noticed by anyone. To be extra cautious, wear a fake mustache when heading over on your boat.
Id tell the wife straightaway, but It would be incredibly difficult for us to keep it from the wider community our my lives are part of that, and we couldn’t just move away quickly.
Wouldn’t be possible here as the funds would be in the shared bank account. If she survives the shock we’ll go mad together, if she doesn’t I get a younger model!
My Citroen is red and so is a Ferrari. I reckon my wife would never tell the difference.
Reminds me of the story about a chap who raced MX. He’d by a new Maico every year but as it was just another red bike his wife never twigged. When Maico changed to blue he switched to Honda. Wife thought he was marvellous keeping the same bike for 10 years 😆
Thinking about it I’d just give the wife the majority of the money. As long as I have enough left to buy myself a little cottage somewhere with a bit of land to grow some veg. And….
A secret underground bike store/pool-room/bar/gym/cinema/endless-pool.
Like a batcave just with fractional less jet-cars and black rubber suits. 😆
It would be easy.
Lottery money goes out of our joint account, any winnings go into the lottery ‘wallet’ & can be transferred into another account.
Like mine for instance.
I’d tell my wife, I’d tell my brothers, I’d tell my very closest friends and family – and share winnings with them. I believe they would keep the win in confidence. I hope.
my wife is my number 1 cycling buddy. and drinking buddy.
we would cycle tour the world , staying is swanking hotels and visiting many drinking establishments.
The thursday lottery here is $160m….. I may have given this some thought.
My conclusion is that trying to keep it a secret from close friends/family is only possible if you don’t intend doing anything with the money – or are so committed that you’d be literally lying about everything.
I think you’d have to have a “cover” story for all but your closest friends/family – maybe some sort of job that would explain you having money, and taking regular holidays/work trips etc. But vague enough not to invite further questions – some sort of consultant or board member or something. I recon you could tell everyone that you are an “actuary’ without ever needing to explain what that is.
I wouldn’t want everyone knowing – but I wouldn’t want to be constantly lying either.
My wife has a friend with a mysterious husband who apparently does something mundane like fitting gas … but seems to spend his whole time away on boats. They seem to have a bigger house and fancier cars than you would expect. We’d assumed he was a drug dealer. Maybe he won the lottery and didn’t tell his wife. Maybe he did but she’s not letting on.
