First thing you'd do after winning the Lotto

I Heart Internet

I see that the €6.5 million Lotto wasn't won last night. I didn't get a single number!

I have often spent many pleasant minutes thinking about a big lotto win and what I'd do, how it would change me and how I'd be a really great winner!

I'm sure "what would you spend a lotto win on?" threads have been done. But my question is, what would you do in the minutes and hours immeadiately after you won. Not so much: what would you do with the money - more, how would you react??
Me, I think I'd start weeping and rocking back and forth before running into every room in my house screaming...then sh1ting myself and booking a train to Dublin to collect the winnings. Probably sleep with the winning ticket in my jocks for safe-keeping.

KTRIC

Call my boss, resign, go back to sleep.

donvito99

I'd walk from Dublin to Cork, in stillettos, carrying my mother in law, backwards.

listermint

Meet with an Architect, design me house.

Then book planes tickets to go around the world for a year.

come back and house built. winning.

ronaneire

Piss me pants

Cereal Number

Fap

frag420

I told my mates yrs ago that if I ever won the jackpot I would run down Grafton St naked.!!

squrm

I Heart Internet wrote: »

Probably sleep with the winning ticket in my jocks for safe-keeping.

Lucky lotto office worker who gets to take the ticket off you

In before obligatory lotto is a tax on idiots reply.

hefferboi

Bring all the boys on holiday!

SEPT 23 1989

A train journey to collect 6.5 million?

G Power

probably cry for a while tbh

then i'd gather as many friends and family as i could and take them all away for a weeks holidays in the sun, when we arrive back i'd make plans for my own private holiday to decide what career path i'd like to pursue with my winnings and how much to gift some friends and family.

seamus

Probably ring the whole family, aul ones first, then open a bottle of champagne.

Maybe try and organise an impromptu trip to the pub and stick the tab on the credit card.

I'd probably also go online and start ordering all those stupidly expensive things I always wanted.

I'd also find two minutes to email the boss out of courtesy and tell her not to expect me into work again.

Then I'd sit down with the missus and work out how much to give everyone else.

I Heart Internet

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

A train journey to collect 6.5 million?

Good point. But it would give you some time to try and relax before you get your hands on the cheque.

Dunno.....I've just always imagined I'd get the train.....somehow it wouldn't feel right if I didn't.

Heh, it's my fantasy!!

Shenshen

Go on a spending spree in the book section of amazon.com.

The next day, I'd contact an estate agent to find a suitable property we could live in that would have enough grounds with it to house the animal shelter I'd be spending the rest of my winnings on.

If the winnings are big enough, I might then consider opening a mostly-vegetarian restaurant.

krudler

KTRIC wrote: »

Call my boss, resign, go back to sleep.

I wouldn't even, just not turn up anymore, so long fcukers.

OldGoat

I'd divide the winnings into three piles. Then I'd take the first pile and go on a massive hedonistic binge of coke and hookers.
Then I'd get the other two piles of cash and do exactly the same thing with them.

hollster2

If I won 6.5 million id pay off parents mortgage buy myself and brothers n sister all a new house!!
Oh It would be great plus hubby n dad wouldnt be having to stand for hrs waiting to sign on happy days!!

orestes

I'd probably have a panic attack trying to figure out how fast I could get rid of it. The idea of having that much money scares the crap out of me.

Go to the sunshine. I'd like some sun on my bones. I love the cold and the snow, but I think it's time for some warmth upon my skin now.

I Heart Internet

orestes wrote: »

The idea of having that much money scares the crap out of me.

I'd be willing to take the risk. If you're a sensible, level-headed person without it, you'll be sensible with it.

Remember folks - the question isn't "what would you do with the money" - the question is "how would you react the night you found out you'd won"?

The Caveman

first thing I would do is check if I am the only winner...

hollster2

Remember folks - the question isn't "what would you do with the money" - the question is "how would you react the night you found out you'd won?


oh well then Id have a panic attack and pee my pants lol:D

Plazaman

Go to the local undertaker and buy 5 funerals off him. Collect money. Party hearty until I and at least 4 other people drop dead (if I go, I'm taking people with me).

starskey77

in a word los vegas

Yep, still I'd just go to the sun. I'd be happy out but not hysterical or anything. I'd just hop on a plane to somewhere hot and think about it there.

orestes

I Heart Internet wrote: »

I'd be willing to take the risk. If you're a sensible, level-headed person without it, you'll be sensible with it.

Remember folks - the question isn't "what would you do with the money" - the question is "how would you react the night you found out you'd won"?

Ah, in that case it'll be grand so.

/sprinkes MDMA on cornflakes

Anyone

Las Vegas for a month. With the intention of blowing at least 500k.

fishy fishy

I Heart Internet wrote: »

I see that the €6.5 million Lotto wasn't won last night. I didn't get a single number!

I have often spent many pleasant minutes thinking about a big lotto win and what I'd do, how it would change me and how I'd be a really great winner!

I'm sure "what would you spend a lotto win on?" threads have been done. But my question is, what would you do in the minutes and hours immeadiately after you won.
Me, I think I'd start weeping and rocking back and forth before running into every room in my house screaming...then sh1ting myself and booking a train to Dublin to collect the winnings. Probably sleep with the winning ticket in my jocks for safe-keeping.

kind of a stupid place to put it isn't it.

The_Gatsby

My initial reaction would be "What the fck just happened". Then as it dawned on me I'd probably start screaming "I just won the fcking lottery!" over and over again. I don't think I'd sleep that night...

I think the day I collected the cheque I'd tell my parents I was going away for a week. Then I'd call my few closest friends and tell them to be at my house in the next half an hour; without telling them why, of course. Then, I'd bring us all to get tailored suits and fly straight to Vegas.

fishy fishy

would not do anything different. In fact I would not do anything different for a good few weeks/months. By then I would know which charities/family/friends would get what - give it to them anonymously, and then out of my own share I would go on a few sun holidays, and pamper myself.

I Heart Internet

fishy fishy wrote: »

kind of a stupid place to put it isn't it.

It's wear I keep all of my valuables.

wp_rathead

Pub

admiralofthefleet

change my undercrackers

quad_red

I wouldn't tell a soul until I was in the Lotto offices and they showed me the money transferring into my account.

I'd be too afraid I was misreading the ticket or something!

uch

I'd go to Lotto headquarters and pull me wire in their Jax

Tisserand

Well I won 50 euro on the prize bonds a while ago. I nearly squeezed the dog to death with excitement when the cheque came in the post. So if that's anything to go by, the first thing I will have to do if I win the lotto will be organise a dog funeral...no expenses spared of course.

long range shooter

Move back to Norway

Pumpkinseeds

I'd collect it with my husband and then get the best financial advice on how to hold on to as much of it as possible. Immediate family wouldn't be told about the win until after we'd had time to process that we actually had a shed load of money. I think its best to tell nobody about it until you know what you want to do with it. I'd imagine it'd be fairly easy for others to spend a lot of it very fast.

The Barefoot Pizza Thief

Two chicks at the same time.

castletownman

I'd contact the girl I fancied back in high school who turned me down to both the Prom and the Spring Ball, even though I didn't ask her to either one, let her know I'm now in the money, and wait patiently as she suddenly "falls in love with me".

Then ditch her, and head to Vegas with the lads.

Duggy747

Have a good poo and use up all the bog roll.

Moll'll fix it

I'd turn on the heating

Rasmus

Not a thing til it hit my account. EDIT: + 1 to above!!
Then pay off debts before going for an expensive meal to discuss WTF we're going to do with our lives!!

NegativeCreep

Buy me and my college friends a week away during the Summer. All 26 of us! Would be amazing

jaykay74

Throw it on the pile I suppose.

debabyjesus

Get the 41 to abbey street

_Whimsical_

Crumple in a heap of relief.
I'm sure I'd be easily revived with champagne though.

Mysteriouschic

Book a flight to Australia for the next day . Then go and celebrate and buy everyone I know drinks for the night.

flanders1979

Freak out, head down to the cop shop and put the ticket under lock and key. Party, collect winnings, pull a sickie and emigrate.

FloatingVoter

flanders1979 wrote: »

Freak out, head down to the cop shop and put the ticket under lock and key. Party, collect winnings, pull a sickie and emigrate.

..assuming a cop hasn't cashed the ticket while you're partying.

dan1895

I'd go to Dublin airport and find a taxi man who has been waiting hours for a fare. I would hop in his cab and ask him to take me to Ballymun. His anger and frustration i would video and post on youtube. Then I'd do it again and again. No end of fun.