Mrs_oab and I would tell each other.
We would likely not tell others beyond our parents and kids.
A lavish lifestyle* doesn’t work for us, so a big win would see us having enough to live on and an effort for the rest of our lives to give the money away to better causes than us.
(*Probably a slightly bigger house with no mortgage, a few trips to see family around the world, and an income yearly ongoing).
This, basically. When we talk/dream about it, we normally land on a post-lottery lifestyle that looks something like what we have now but without having to work, so that’s something like:
– pay off mortgage and do whetever we want to do to our current house. We don’t really want to move.
– have a yearly income that’s about what we have now, as we’re very comfortable on it and it allows us to do the things we want to do with people we want to do them with, i.e. our friends.
– we’d like to help friends/family do the same if we can and they want it
– if it’s a monster win, I’d spend a lot of time giving a lot of it away.
We’d deffo tell each other and family. To be honest, I don’t think I’d broadcast it, but I wouldn’t lie to anyone that asked.