Imagine you just won the lottery...

Nando19

What would you do?

Now, before you answer the question, think about it. If you decide to give money to friends and family, where do you stop giving it away? At what point do you stop giving and say "I need to live my life and not piss away all this money"? How do you choose which friends to hook up and which ones to bypass?

Me? The first thing I would do is avoid ALL publicity. No news conference, no interviews, nothing. I wouldn't want ANYBODY, other than my immediate family to know about it. I would then setup a series of trusts for some of my favorite charities. After that, I would setup up some sort of anonymous gift to my core group of friends and I would include myself in on the gift-giving so they wouldn't suspect it came from me. After that, after making sure I kept atleast half the original winnings, I would invest the **** out of the money and try to triple it before I died...

Sarky

I would buy some love and respect.

Megatron

Get a orignal AC Cobra, have it insured for LIfe, Then look after my family.

Thats about it.

petes

I just won the lottery. Only thing was it was only a tenner. Not really going to be sharing much of it though.

DonkeyStyle \o/

Mih, the lottery isn't really that much money... you'd easily pay a million for a 3 bedroom house in Dublin now.
Just invest it all and live off the interest... aahh financial independance.

AlienGav

Move to Thailand and live like a king!!

Wine, women and song baby!!

the_syco

Lottery, eh? The €3,000,000 lottery?
Keep it quite. Pretend nothing has happened. Keep on working. Make a will. And then...

Buy a house in Portugal for about €300,000 so I can go there for holidays, and also the parents can go there for golfing holidays (they both golf alot).

Buy a house in Maynooth, or Enfield, for myself. Both have railway access to Dublin, and also Dublin Bus bus-stops. Why there? Because I could proberly get a 4 or 5 bedroom house there for about €800,000 away from the estate's, so I can party if I want to, and turn up the volume:cool:

And then continue on with life.

The_B_Man

Are we assuming its a good lottery win or the bare minimum million?

suppose i'd pay of me parents mortgage, then give them sum cash aswell as my brother & 2 sisters. also, id give all me mates some cash. cash amounts would vary depending on actual winnings. the trouble is with cousins, aunts/uncles and grandparents. maybe 5/10 grand each per family and my fave cousins (depending on actual winnings again). i'd love to buy a decent house or an apartment in dublin city. that would get me on the property ladder then i'd try build on that. hopefully the lotto win would be enough to set me up for life. also, id get a nice pimped up car and a trophy girlfriend. might try set up me own business too if i had the right funds. this is all just off the top of me head.

netwhizkid

If i won the lotto i'd buy another lottery ticket, and then i'd buy an 05 BMW 316,my dream car (i've always aspired to one) and as for that i'd retire and enjoy life.

Regards netwhizkid

LadyJ

I'd buy a pony. It's name would be Clip Clop and it'd like sugar

wheres me jumpa

im going to have to go with golden spatula's and lots of them

DonkeyStyle \o/

Windmills ... yeah... hundreds of windmills.










...from the add like.

netwhizkid

Originally Posted by DonkeyStyle \o/
Windmills ... yeah... hundreds of windmills.





...from the add like

Buy a lottery ticket or "it could be him"

Regards netwhizkid

Gazza22

AlienGav wrote:

Move to Thailand and live like a king!!

Wine, women and song baby!!

LOL, when i seen this thread, that's near enough what i was going to say.
I would pack up and go to Thailand straight away...

Mac daddy

use half to open a brothel, a bookies, double my money.
Invest the rest and move to somewhere nice and warm no bloody rain.

impr0v

I'd use it to buy a million lottery tickets.

Otherwise, I'd use it to arm and train a small band of mercenaries in order to stage an assault on the lottery headquarters. Once the building was captured I'd put Ronan Collins into enforced exile outside the domicile and burn the building and the machinery down. I'd put each of the coloured balls on a pike and parade them 'round the streets and finally free my people from the dreams which keep them going.

fatherdougalmag

Buy an island. Here's one: "It is visible from the mainland and only takes twenty minutes to get there in a canoe from the Ugandan shore, but a speed boat is recommended".

Either that or start a website selling islands.

BobTheBeat

oh where to start... i've just one 3 million bones,,,
First off, id buy a nice holiday home on the west coast for my parents and gift them about 50k, to justspoil themselves. Then I'd pay for a big holiday for my closest circle of friends and live it up for two weeks in the sun. Oh and id go on a big holiday every year (without all my mates of course!) to loads of different places, for example, id love to go tornado chasing around the U.S.Also id like to go to every major theme park all over the world!
Nextly, I would pay for a world tour for my band and I. Do this for about a year, nothing lavish, just a beat up ole studabaker takin us from place to place!

After all that madness, id come home, reapply for my old job, invest the money and live comfortably for the rest of my days!

mad m

Give it all away to cats&dogs home.








yeah right,im thinking of the scene where Father Ted is in Las Vegas with the gambling and women.The money was just resting in that account dougal,I swear.

spoofilyj

So I've won £3 mil. I'd tell all my friends i've had a small win of about 40 grand so that would excust my taking them on a holiday and giving them pressies. I would want to remain private about the full win 4 ever. I'd sort out my family and give a fair bit to charity. To my best friend I'd give him a small plane such as a cessina so he could get his full flying licence and we could fly around the world in short hops. When all the fun is gone from having lods of money i'd live a normal life and have a job but live an unstressed life... :cool:

tSubh Dearg

instead of the pittance of a 'jackpot' we have here, lets just say i won the english lottery, 25mil payoff First thing id do is sort out my family with about a mil each, that still leaves me 20, then for my closest friends id but them each a house, on the same street, next to mine, a million each, and boy would we have some fun

/deadwing

Agent Smith

i'd buy boards....


and with the remaining 2 million 999,000 i'd get some coke, hookers and i'drop out of college.



Joe

joejoem

Id go on two holidays, one where I bring all my family to the Burgh Alarab (spelling) for a few days (and give one or two of them some presents) and then take all my friends on a holiday accross America. I would buy some bands tour bus and drive it accross the states for a few weeks and party really hard.

Id buy myself a house in dublin, and then I would invest alot in property in Poland and Japan, and invest in shares and possibly buy a company here.

I'd pay off my parents & sisters mortgages. That'd eat a chunk into it. Then I'd get some property of my own.