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What would you do if you won €130 million?

  • 21-09-2018 6:08pm
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭


    I did the euro millions tonight and while I know I probably just wasted €10.50, it's nice to fantasize for a few hours that I could become part of the 1%. First thing I'd do is quit my job :) Obviously I would take care of my family and donate to some charities but realistically what would I do with that amount of money? I'd have everyone in the country looking for money and my life would never be the same. I'd actually love to just win a million or €500,000 as it would set me up but wouldn't ruin my life.

    How would you handle it if you won big?


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,231 ✭✭✭Jim Bob Scratcher


    I'd buy a 130 million scratchcards


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,357 ✭✭✭hawkelady


    I’ll let you know in a couple of hours.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,778 ✭✭✭Dakota Dan


    Paddy Cow wrote: »
    I did the euro millions tonight and while I know I probably just wasted €10.50, it's nice to fantasize for a few hours that I could become part of the 1%. First thing I'd do is quit my job :) Obviously I would take care of my family and donate to some charities but realistically what would I do with that amount of money? I'd have everyone in the country looking for money and my life would never be the same. I'd actually love to just win a million or €500,000 as it would set me up but wouldn't ruin my life.

    How would you handle it if you won big?

    Why would you have everyone in the country looking for money off you unless you went public which would be a silly thing to do


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Split it with all siblings, in laws, children and then donate to charities close to my heart until I have about 500,000 left as an emergency fund.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭Paddy Cow


    Dakota Dan wrote: »
    Why would you have everyone in the country looking for money off you unless you went public which would. Eva silly thing to do
    You couldn't hide it. If I quit my job and bought a house, everyone would be wondering how I did it. If I suddenly gave money to my family, everyone they know would wonder. All it takes is one person outing you on twitter and game over.

    The only way to hide it is to continue living my current lifestyle, which is low income and why would I do that is I was suddenly loaded and didn't have to rent?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,644 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    Hookers and coke


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,095 ✭✭✭Liamario


    Too much money for one person to have. I'd have to give/donate a lot if it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,596 ✭✭✭Hitman3000


    I'd buy a 130 million scratchcards


    You'd probably only win a tenner back and maybe another free scratch card .


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,644 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    Liamario wrote: »
    Too much money for one person to have. I'd have to give/donate a lot if it.

    Give it to Maggie Cash.....

    She needs a 4eva home....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,698 ✭✭✭✭Itssoeasy


    I'd firstly tell no one including my family(I mean seconds cousins out) outside of my closest family and ask them to keep their mouths closed. I'd also move and live in a country I've always wanted to live in since I visited it.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,495 ✭✭✭✭eviltwin


    give a few million to a trust fund for my children.

    Pay off my nearest and dearest mortgages and debt

    Go back to college

    Pay for my friends IVF

    Give most to charity


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,288 ✭✭✭Fanny Wank


    I'd be like Big Ern, above the law


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Give it to Maggie Cash.....

    She needs a 4eva home....

    You beat me to it. I’d buy her an island.


  • Posts: 5,311 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Disappear abroad and change my name. Dolores had the flunkies lining up...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,596 ✭✭✭Hitman3000


    Give it to Maggie Cash.....

    She needs a 4eva home....

    You beat me to it. I’d buy her an island.


    There's always some that will try and suck the fun out of everything.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 157 ✭✭The Undecided One


    Hire a lawyer

    Hire an accountant and a financial advisor

    Set up trust funds for my kids and family

    No handing out money, everything gets invested and only some of the interest gets spent

    I’d get involved heavily in my local community needs, always wanted to build and manage a large sports hall that would offer free facilities for different martial arts and sports teachers, who in turn would offer free places to kids from disadvantaged areas.

    I’d teavel the world as well with my family to see all the magnificent places and learn from other cultures around the world.

    (And I’d have a race car....or two...)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭weldoninhio


    First thing, get the fook out of Ireland, telling nobody that I’d won.

    Second thing, wait a few weeks, until a lotto of about €2m is won and the winner goes anonymous.

    Third thing, tell my family and friends I’ve won €2m.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,288 ✭✭✭✭Standard Toaster


    Finally replace the linoleum in the kitchen.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 824 ✭✭✭lapua20grain


    I would look after my near family set up a trust fund for my son, buy holiday homes in a couple of countries and get my fixed wing and helicopter pilots licence. And keep schtum, I would also do the world cup in Japan next year and a few Leinster season tickets for me and the mates.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,586 ✭✭✭4068ac1elhodqr


    Luckily enough have already pre-calculated tonight's numbers.

    K2mw8mY.png

    Actually never play the regular EM, just EM-hotpicks (2/3/4/5).
    5 balls (no stars needed) is 1m+. Cheaper and much, much better odds for getting 7-figures.

    1st thing to do - count it to make sure it's all there.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,778 ✭✭✭Dakota Dan


    You beat me to it. I’d buy her an island.

    Just make sure there are no men or sperm banks on it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,494 ✭✭✭harr


    Pay off a few mortgages for friends and family.....proper trust fund for the kids.
    Good health insurance for my elderly parents and to make sure they are comfortable.
    Help a few decent but local charities as in helping out the local clubs. Then maybe build a decent house nothing to stupid but definitely a room each for the kids and a nice entertainment area.
    Back to college for me and travel at any opportunity I got (with kids) . We have a non verbal special needs child so it would also pay for a full time speech therapist and a occupational health therapist .
    It would a huge difference to the one hour a month speech therapy he currently gets...
    Enough to pay for mortgage would change our lives never mind €130 million


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,039 ✭✭✭✭Kintarō Hattori


    Pay off the mortgage, look for a new larger but not ridiculous home, sort out selected family and friends in some way, look to start a small business or two to have something to concentrate on, setup a trust fund for my daughter and look for the most effective way to be charitable with a very significant chunk of the money.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,837 ✭✭✭✭nullzero
    °°°°°


    Buy boards.ie and start settling some old scores.
    And a solid gold House and a rocket car etc...

    Glazers Out!



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    Coke, hoors and the gee gees. Waste the rest!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,778 ✭✭✭Dakota Dan


    harr wrote: »
    Pay off a few mortgages for friends and family.....proper trust fund for the kids.
    Good health insurance for my elderly parents and to make sure they are comfortable.
    Help a few decent but local charities as in helping out the local clubs. Then maybe build a decent house nothing to stupid but definitely a room each for the kids and a nice entertainment area.
    Back to college for me and travel at any opportunity I got (with kids) . We have a non verbal special needs child so it would also pay for a full time speech therapist and a occupational health therapist .
    It would a huge difference to the one hour a month speech therapy he currently gets...
    Enough to pay for mortgage would change our lives never mind €130 million

    You win 130m and buy health insurance for your parents? You must think they are going to be visiting hospital fairly often.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,378 ✭✭✭CeilingFly


    Paddy Cow wrote: »
    and donate to some charities ?

    If the money spent on charities was actually given to people who had a genuine need, there'd be few issues.

    Homeless "charities" are a classic example

    €40+ MILLION was spent on staff costs in eight homeless charities in just Dublin in 2017!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,547 ✭✭✭Agricola


    Brim the aul jalopy with petrol and maybe invest in four brand new tyres.

    Do the weekly shop at M&S

    Maybe while I'm there, treat myself to a swish suit from their Autograph range

    Book a weekend in the finest B&B in Killarney and then finish the day by buying one round for the house in my local......


    Ah, dreams.........


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,667 ✭✭✭Hector Bellend


    Fly straight to Vegas.

    Hire 6 or 7 top quality porn stars, lap dancers and hookers,

    I'd do the orgies, gang bangs, threesomes and all the other filth that I havent done yet.

    I'd shag to the point of exhaustion then go on a gambling binge for a few days.

    There should still be pkenty left over


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 386 ✭✭radiata


    I'd drink it all over the weekend in the local


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,063 ✭✭✭✭TheValeyard


    Fly straight to Vegas.

    Hire 6 or 7 top quality porn stars, lap dancers and hookers,

    I'd do the orgies, gang bangs, threesomes and all the other filth that I havent done yet.

    I'd shag to the point of exhaustion then go on a gambling binge for a few days

    So after the first three minutes you'd be gambling?

    All eyes on Kursk. Slava Ukraini.



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    Agricola wrote: »
    Brim the aul jalopy with petrol and maybe invest in four brand new tyres.

    Do the weekly shop at M&S

    Maybe while I'm there, treat myself to a swish suit from their Autograph range

    Book a weekend in the finest B&B in Killarney and then finish the day by buying one round for the house in my local......


    Ah, dreams.........

    Whoa there Keith Richards. Calm it down a notch!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,934 ✭✭✭Renegade Mechanic


    So after the first three minutes you'd be gambling?

    With genital herpes. For a few hours :p


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,667 ✭✭✭Hector Bellend


    So after the first three minutes you'd be gambling?

    Sure youd only be having a nap after the first load.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,225 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    Give it to Maggie Cash.....

    She needs a 4eva home....

    I remember seeing a post by a woman on Facebook saying she'd buy an area of landed on the outskirts of Dublin and build several houses for the homeless families and charge them no rent.
    I was thinking how would she feel when she'd be getting complaints about the houses from the tenants and the damage that might be caused.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭Paddy Cow


    CeilingFly wrote: »
    If the money spent on charities was actually given to people who had a genuine need, there'd be few issues.

    Homeless "charities" are a classic example

    €40+ MILLION was spent on staff costs in eight homeless charities in just Dublin in 2017!
    I was thinking more along the lines The Galway Hospice, Madra, GSPCA, funding for kids who need to go to America for treatment etc. Genuine situations where I could help. There are plenty of charities out there that actually spend the money they receive on making a difference. I'd do my research ;)


  • Site Banned Posts: 386 ✭✭Jimmy.


    Get Dans wife a vaginoplasty.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,596 ✭✭✭Hitman3000


    It's a fun question in after hours can the gloom merchants just lighten up. It's Friday


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,225 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    Is actually give a Christmas gift to my favorite Boards users.
    It might be a physical or cash gift.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    I'd put a life expectancy of about 5 yrs on me.

    I'd go crazy with it. Don't have any willpower or self control.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,658 ✭✭✭joebloggs32


    I coild build social housing with it. Might have enough to biild 150 units if lucky going by the government are paying for them!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,946 ✭✭✭indioblack


    "Spend, spend, spend."
    The lady who made that remark discovered that wealth gave her little in the way of happiness.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,644 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    Is actually give a Christmas gift to my favorite Boards users.
    It might be a physical or cash gift.

    What do I get.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,602 ✭✭✭RocketRaccoon


    Myself, my kids, my family and close friends would never want for a thing for the rest of their lives. All of their mortgages and loans paid off and a few bob to enjoy themselves afterwards.

    A lot of people would be over the moon to just be able to keep all of their wages without having to pay rent/mortgage/loan repayments.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,596 ✭✭✭Hitman3000


    I'd spend the rest of my life travelling the world, I'd even let the wife come.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 336 ✭✭firstlight


    New jocks,I'd need a shovel to clean out the pair I was wearing,need a shovel for the pair I'm wearing already

    One way ticket out of Ireland and never come back

    Can't even get 3 numbers in the bookies nevermind win 130 mil


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,644 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    Hitman3000 wrote: »
    I'd spend the rest of my life travelling the world, I'd even let the wife come.

    Prime Target for a kidnapping.....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,225 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    What do I get.

    A day out with John Connors and a set of Alloys!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,596 ✭✭✭Hitman3000


    Prime Target for a kidnapping.....

    You don't know my wife.....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,934 ✭✭✭Renegade Mechanic


    indioblack wrote: »
    "Spend, spend, spend."
    The lady who made that remark discovered that wealth gave her little in the way of happiness.


    That's because funnily enough, simply throwing money at problems to make them go away works, but you don't get any real sense of reward from doing so. That builds up over time....
    Why buy a brand new top of the range Merc to cart yourself around when you could buy a W124, restore it and cart yourself around in that instead? The fact that you wouldn't have been able to restore a W124 from the ground up, at your leisure, without that euro millions ticket is actually outweighed by the time abd effort spent on the car every time you sit into it.

    Why buy a brand new mansion, when you could get one you like built to your preference, or buy an older one and work on it? Same time/effort/reward rules apply.

    Money does buy you happiness, it is your health but you have to make it be those things, she just figured she could think of something she wanted and buy it instantly.

    The need for instant gratification and money di not mix. At all. I reckon I'd have a lot of fun proving that.
    Oh, and a house FULL of old bangers running like day one.
    Oh and a Tatra 813, converted to a camper....


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