Lotto Win. Who would you tell, would you stay anonymous?

stevejr

So I get five 5 numbers in the lotto tonight, really delighted! But it got me thinking on how I'd behave if I won the whole thing? Would I stay anonymous, how would I behave. All Pie-in-the-sky stuff I know!

KeithM89_old

You won €1,391??
Well done! - Can i have some??

stevejr

Yes...............IOU 1euro:pac:

It's spoken for by MBNA

epgc3fyqirnbsx

You see I'd be kinda pissed off if I just one that amount after getting 5/6 numbers

admiralofthefleet

i would only tell those very close to me, otherwise i would have a lot of new 'friends'

we'llallhavetea_old

congrats op

i'm hopeful about winning the lotto, but unfortunately i never actually play it :rolleyes:

oh, i'd tell my family and close friend and no one else btw.

KeithM89_old

stevejr wrote: »

Yes...............IOU 1euro:pac:

Get in!

And no - i wouldnt tell anyone, not even my close family. Id fake my own death and move somewhere nice.

Gaudizeit

I think they'd notice when I rock up in a nice beamer and tell them to shove their job where the sun don't shine.

kelle

Well done OP!

I once got 5 numbers, but it was on the Lotto plus 1 so I only got €350, I was just one number away from winning €350000!

Arnold Layne

It would depend on the jackpot. If it was over 5 million, I would put my family members on the ticket to avoid them being taxed on any gift over 5K. F*ck giving this country any more money. They will have have to sign an agreement that I was a 40% contibutor to the ticket.

Everyone happy!:D

I would still stay anonymous and be a prick at work until fired/made redundant

January

I would tell no one for a good while, not even close family. Stay anonymous, whatshername got millions of begging letters after she won the €125 mill on the euromillions!!

stevejr

Was actually pretty pissed off when I saw the amount, was having dreams of grandeur for a brief moment.............:o

strokemyclover

Wouldn't tell anyone but I'd probably spend more time than I do already teasing pedestrians with €20 notes and a fishing rod

M.Pool

congrats OP. I'd like to think I'd remain anonymous if I'd the luck to win big. Wouldn't like the attention of the local press etc.
Years ago a man from my home town won the lotto. The story ran in the local papers. He'd the same name as my Dad. We got loads of phone calls congratulating Dad on his win. Needless to say they thought we were lying to cover up.

stevejr

Arnold Layne wrote: »

It would depend on the jackpot. If it was over 5 million, I would put my family members on the ticket to avoid them being taxed on any gift over 5K. F*ck giving this country any more money. They will have have to sign an agreement that I was a 40% contibutor to the ticket.

Everyone happy!:D

I would still stay anonymous and be a prick at work until fired/made redundant

Hmmm sounds like you've one it once before............:pac:

Holybejaysus

I had a friend once who won a six figure sum on the lotto. I was a very interesting experience to see the ex-girlfriends who had previously cheated on him suddenly develop a new 'love' for him, not to mention the so called 'friends' who would invite him over for a game of cards. (Except they had already agreed to rig the game to take as much as they could from him.)

He has nothing left now, people kept pestering him for drinks the whole time and loans that were never paid back. It's like being famous, people no longer treat you as yourself, they see you as a walking dollar sign.

Personally, I wouldn't tell a single soul. I'd quietly invest the money in property or stocks and try to build a secure life for future generations of my family.

Kerikosan

I'd tell my immediate family, then bank it in the credit union and live fat off the interest ha ha

Lone Stone

Id tell everyone then pay to have them silenced, why ? because im fkin rich i can do anything this is Ireland.

kerryman12

Congrats op, u won't find that lying around to often all the same.
Defo tell no one, it will only cause hassle.

krudler

stevejr wrote: »

Was actually pretty pissed off when I saw the amount, was having dreams of grandeur for a brief moment.............:o

How were you not gutted that the last numbers didnt come out?! i know a grand is a grand,hell i'd be beaming if i won that too but soooo close to the bigger one.

If I did (which i plan on doing next week :pac: ) win the jackpot i wouldnt tell anyone for a while, id head up, collect it, then never return to work. I'd imagine thatd be the best feeling, if you won enough to live on for the rest of your life comfortably (or extravagantly :pac:) and knowing you never have to attend a staff meeting, or deal with a dickhead boss, or office politics, or the public or all the other crap that people put up with in daily work life. That first morning of waking up knowing you never have to work again surely must be what heaven feels like.

stevejr

Might even subscribe to Boards now......:D

krudler

stevejr wrote: »

Might even subscribe to Boards now......:D

Oooooh, no recession in your house :pac:

Cheap Thrills!

Yes I would!!! I'd be anomomomyomnommnomimus and RICH !!!


RICH I TELLS YA!!!

stevejr

krudler wrote: »

How were you not gutted that the last numbers didnt come out?! i know a grand is a grand,hell i'd be beaming if i won that too but soooo close to the bigger one.

I didn't watch live thank god or I'd be on a trolley in A&E now.

kelle

During the last recession, a family near us won a 6 figure sum. They featured in all the papers as they won the first ever rollover jackpot. They were inundated with begging letters afterwards, and one couple walked 150 miles to their house to ask for £2000 to stop them being evicted from their home!

They regretted making it public!

mikemac

It'd come out anyway.

If you didn't step forward and it was a big jackpot, the shop owner could release the CCTV footage of you. They know the exact time you were there.
I asked it over in the Legal forum about this. Not much you can do to stop it

And for me, I have a lowly, lowest of the low position in a bank.
I can see the begruding comments now
"Banker wins lotto", I'd be the most hated man on boards

The General.

I'm not so sure if i woud tell everyone if i won the lotto or not. I suppose it all depends on how much i won.
With my winnings though, i would probably get a tattoo across the top of my back saying "I am considerably richer than you". LOL. I'd have to check to make sure the spelling is correct first,though.

shrewdness

I'd tell everyone, and enjoy watching people coming up to me acting all friendly when I'm out, people who'd never look at me otherwise nor me them, looking to get something out of me. I'd then enjoy telling them to fcuk away off whilst I spark up a big cigar with a €100 note.

LETHAL LADY

Before I had childers I would but now only myself and the hubby would know. My parents won 10,000 in a local draw on Monday biggest win in my family ever delighted for them.

LizT

It depends on how much I won. Although I would tell my family of course, but if I won a massive amount of money, I think people would cop on.

Like if I won 100m, I'd probably finish my degree and then just do voluntary work for a while, go on a trip around the world, buy a nice house, a nice car and make sure my family were looked after. I think people might cop on!

Cakes.

I would tell my family, and then buy a big field and build a house for each of my brothers and sisters and parents in the field and take all of us on a big holiday.

Cheap Thrills!

feelingstressed wrote: »

It'd come out anyway.

If you didn't step forward and it was a big jackpot, the shop owner could release the CCTV footage of you. They know the exact time you were there.
I asked it over in the Legal forum about this. Not much you can do to stop it

And for me, I have a lowly, lowest of the low position in a bank.
I can see the begruding comments now
"Banker wins lotto", I'd be the most hated man on boards

*spits chips*

You, you, you BANKER!!!




*only jokin! hope you line your jocks with taxpayers cash every day!!!:D

stevejr

But what if you told nobody at all and just started buying stuff? Think I would be afraid of the neighbours etc drawing the wrong conclusions. Junkies showing up at the door, a la The Commitments, thinking you're selling drugs.

Bit far-fetched I know...but it would be nigh on impossible to explain the new wealth.............Imo

fabbydabby

Make it public, and change your answering machine to simply say 'Fk Off'.

Or keep it private, lodge it in an offshore account and then one day, just disappear.

Don't you get more money if you go public?

The General.

stevejr wrote: »

But what if you told nobody at all and just started buying stuff? Think I would be afraid of the neighbours etc drawing the wrong conclusions. Junkies showing up at the door, a la The Commitments, thinking you're selling drugs.

Bit far-fetched I know...but it would be nigh on impossible to explain the new wealth.............Imo

Simple answer to them folk. "F**k off and mind your own f**king business"

Biggins

Anon.

stevejr

krudler wrote: »

Oooooh, no recession in your house :pac:

No I gotta Lotto Bailout!

mikemac

fabbydabby wrote: »

Don't you get more money if you go public?

Irish lotto, you have the choice
20,000 euro extra if you go public with the Irish lotto

Afaik with the Euromillions they force you to go public

stevejr

feelingstressed wrote: »

Irish lotto, you have the choice
20,000 euro extra if you go public with the Irish lotto

Afaik with the Euromillions they force you to go public

20k extra to go public?? Maybe being greedy would cost you in the long run tho.......

starbelgrade

I wouldn't tell anyone.

Not even the missus.

KeithM89_old

starbelgrade wrote: »

I wouldn't tell anyone.

Not even the missus.

Former missus... :rolleyes:

starbelgrade

KeithM89 wrote: »

Former missus... :rolleyes:

I wouldn't tell the future missus either.

worded

Holybejaysus wrote: »

I had a friend once who won a six figure sum on the lotto. I was a very interesting experience to see the ex-girlfriends who had previously cheated on him suddenly develop a new 'love' for him, not to mention the so called 'friends' who would invite him over for a game of cards. (Except they had already agreed to rig the game to take as much as they could from him.)

A friend of a friend met a mates x. Did you hear the news about Jim? He has won the pools! (He hadnt and he didnt tell his mate he had told her a fib)
She of course called him out of the blue ........

LETHAL LADY

Love many trust few and always paddle your own canoe.

starbelgrade

Eat cake, get baked & don't forget to pull your snake.

epgc3fyqirnbsx

fabbydabby wrote: »

Make it public, and change your answering machine to simply say 'Fk Off'.

Or keep it private, lodge it in an offshore account and then one day, just disappear.

Don't you get more money if you go public?

Tbh if I won and they started messing about with that sh1te I'd just ask for my €2 back and tell them to forget it

spider guardian

anon in the caiman islands

starbelgrade

Gunnar Mysterious Snorer wrote: »

Tbh if I won and they started messing about with that sh1te I'd just ask for my €2 back and tell them to forget it

A friend of mine won a brand new BMW sports car a few years ago through the Evening Herald. It was a "lowest bid auction".

He bid €1.38.

When he went to collect the car, he brought the money with him, in exact change, just in case they asked him for it.

He's from Cavan, which explains the last bit.

epgc3fyqirnbsx

starbelgrade wrote: »

A friend of mine won a brand new BMW sports car a few years ago through the Evening Herald. It was a "lowest bid auction".

He bid €1.38.

When he went to collect the car, he brought the money with him, in exact change, just in case they asked him for it.

He's from Cavan, which explains the last bit.

Did he get a feckin beemer for €1.38!? :eek:

CorkMan

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

i would only tell those very close to me, otherwise i would have a lot of new 'friends'

If you have millions of dollars, you have millions of friends.

Potential-Monke

Depends on the amount. €1/2million, i'd tell people, because i'd have it spent nearly straight away, and i wouldn't be lieing when i tell people i have none left. I would be living comfortably however.

If i won €5million+, i probably wouldn't tell anyone outside my family and a couple of very close friends. If it gets found out, it gets found out, still not going to be giving anyone money.

And yes, i'd flash the cash with expensive cars and an oversized house. And i'd never work again. I'd quit by ****ting on my bosses desk while he's on the phone.