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if you won

  • 11-04-2009 04:04PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,626 ✭✭✭


    was talking to some mates and got talking bout the lotto as its a big one tonight 10million+euros...you know what would ya do if you won it - surprisingly a few said they wouldnt be giving up the day job---

    for me i would be gone - buy a nice house with pool in spain - set up a nice bar business and relax my life away - buy an aprilia mille rsv and away i would be....

    so what would you do if those lucky six numbers came up?????


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 19,080 ✭✭✭✭Random


    I'd collect the money first of all anyway.

    After that I'd just take it all in and relax over the next few weeks and see what happened :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,724 ✭✭✭Vanbis


    shezzie wrote: »
    was talking to some mates and got talking bout the lotto as its a big one tonight 10million+euros...you know what would ya do if you won it - surprisingly a few said they wouldnt be giving up the day job---

    for me i would be gone - buy a nice house with pool in spain - set up a nice bar business and relax my life away - buy an aprilia mille rsv and away i would be....

    so what would you do if those lucky six numbers came up?????

    Id tell all my friends i was going to travel for a year and see the world and think about what i want do with the money. I wouldn't being tell the world i won. Id just hand in my notice in work and try stop myself from laughing :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,623 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    Disappear


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,389 ✭✭✭✭Saruman


    Off to the US, my wife is home sick. I would set up a micro brew pub and enjoy the rest of my life. I would still be working, but it would be more of a hobby than a job to be honest.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    I'll tell you what I'd do, man, two chicks at the same time, man.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,369 ✭✭✭✭Zillah


    I'd dish out large chunks to those I hold dear. I'd buy a titanic home with immense gardens somewhere with lots of green, then I'd buy apartments in a few select cities around the world. I'd go on a shopping spree with a carefully chosen retinue in somewhere like New York or Paris. Once I had settled into my new life of hedonistic luxury I'd do some charitable, but amusing things. Like running competitions here on After Hours where people have to draw Paint pictures and the winner get 1000 euro or something. Maybe give young people the opportunity to convince me why they should get ten thousand euro in ten thousand words or less.

    Upon further thought, 10 mil isn't gonna cut it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,452 ✭✭✭✭Creamy Goodness


    i would wait til i finish college in 7 weeks.

    go on my chicago trip and then would go on a RTW trip.

    when i come back i'd buy myself a new car nothing special probably a 2003-2005 3 series BMW.

    rest would go in the bank.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,269 ✭✭✭cocoa


    well, first, I'd wonder how the hell I had come to be in possession of a ticket...

    Then, I'd spend the rest of my life in college. Continue learning and / or doing research til the end :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,243 ✭✭✭truecrippler


    I'd be asked nicely by local folk to give it back as it's unfair in the times of a recession.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 155 ✭✭Beechman


    after colleting the cheque, pay off the car loans, credit union loan , credit cards and mortage and for once in a long time say "I owe no one"


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,499 ✭✭✭Sabre0001


    Would still work but it would be on my interests (and therefore terms). Use it for my website which would also allow me to travel around the world (thank you international tournaments!

    Nice house somewhere warm and sunny.

    Piss some of it away of course!

    🤪



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,094 ✭✭✭✭javaboy


    Ruu wrote: »
    I'll tell you what I'd do, man, two chicks at the same time, man.

    Buzzzz. Office Space. What do I win?


  • Posts: 36,733 CMod ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I'd buy boards.ie and become the new EVIL ADMIN, banning posters randomly just for fun!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,305 ✭✭✭blahblah06


    id buy a huge house with lots of land and build a motocross track


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 654 ✭✭✭sillyputty


    Im not greedy, i would like to win enough to buy a car (and tax and insure it for a few years) - it doesn't even have to be new - not a fun answer i know


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,452 ✭✭✭✭Creamy Goodness


    javaboy wrote: »
    Buzzzz. Office Space. What do I win?
    I think you mean...

    BUZZ

    What is already a reality for me!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,052 ✭✭✭winston82


    Id stick it all on red 32


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,305 ✭✭✭blahblah06


    ah winston ya couldnt do that when it came down to it


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,144 ✭✭✭DonkeyStyle \o/


    I'd be driven around in my '09 RR Phantom, pull up to bus stops and throw handfuls of 1 euro coins out the window at people. I'd wear a top-hat and a monocle on each eye and light my cicars with €500 notes.
    Then after I've blown all my money doing that, I'd go on the dole.
    Then write a book about my riches to rags story.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,034 ✭✭✭deadhead13


    I don't get this " wouldn't give up the day job" thing. The only thing I can put it down to is a complete lack of imagination. I'd be gone in a heartbeat.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 510 ✭✭✭steo87


    I would buy a crappy football team, install my self as manager, and lead them to championship victory. That'd be the life.

    I'd buy Falkirk....trying to win the Champions League with them at the moment. Hmm I should really take a break from Football Manager....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,124 ✭✭✭wolfpawnat


    Pay for the MIL to be put into a padded 6x3 for the rest of her days. Then the rest of it i would spend on making up for all the **** she caused for my OH and I'd still have enough left to go mental on a disney holiday with the OH and my son when he's older!


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Some things would be the norm like move out of the country to someplace like own private island (if enough money) or just some place tropical.

    Other things would be illegal! :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 442 ✭✭STBR


    Drop from secondary school.

    And use it to hire tycoons and other business advisors to help me build more online businesses.

    I'd put away a lot of it for future entrepreneurship, so I could launch all the businesses I wanted in the future.

    Would also take the opportunity to buy out online businesses that don't realise their full potential yet. So they would sell for less than they're worth.


    Also, I would start my own lotteries anywhere I could get permission.

    I'd rather own the lottery than win the lottery any day. ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,487 ✭✭✭banquo


    Cigarettes. Lots of cigarettes.

    And hard drives.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 633 ✭✭✭dublinario


    I would fulfil my dream of engineering an army of mutant, giant baboons. Not for any sinister purposes. I just need some help around the house from time to time.

    Ok, if I'm honest, I might dispatch them to seize control of Dublin Castle for a few days, but that's more to expose the inadequacies of security in that area more than anything else. My mutant baboons today, but it could be Al Qaeda tomorrow, and their mutant baboons mightn't be wearing muzzles like mine. Think about it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,058 ✭✭✭✭Abi


    I'd buy boards.ie and become the new EVIL ADMIN, banning posters randomly just for fun!

    Your world is rather small, isnt it Blue :p

    I would do what I normally do of an evening. Several wind downers. Order a hit on someone. Nah fück it. I will do it myself.

    Leave it under mattress. Take it back out and look at. Put it back under mattress. Thats all Ive got for now, but many exciting things follow.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 152 ✭✭3 Dollar Bill


    Travel the world


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,995 ✭✭✭Sofiztikated


    Immediately? I'm probably **** myself with excitement. After a change of togs, i'd go on a mad one.
    After collecting it, i'd like to say i'd be sensible, but in reality, i'd be dead in a week. And poor. But i'd cause such a stir that the ****ty media would have something to keep them going for about a year! Infamy.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,043 ✭✭✭✭Mimikyu


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