Somebody's after winning 88 million

Dexter Bip · 24-01-2017 11:30PM

The Raptor wrote: »

It will only **** you up if you tell somebody. Which basically means driving around in a 99 Corolla so that you don't give it away.

I think that amount of money all of a sudden would cause more problems than it would solve in the long run which makes me wonder wiat the ideal amount would be. In my case €6m would allow me to take care of all financial issues, set my two children up and live carefree in a modest fashion for the next thirty or forty years assuming the arse doesn't fall out of the economy and inflation burns it up. Realistically I'd invest it and live off the earnings to future proof it. Do a bit for charity as I'm not greedy.
The younger you are the more you'd need.
So what would your ideal win be? Enough to be comfortable but not ruin your life?

topmanamillion · 24-01-2017 11:30PM

I`ve always wondered what my reaction would be if I won that much.
I suspect a heart attack or at a minimum a soiled pair of trousers.

whoopsadoodles · 24-01-2017 11:30PM

Dónal wrote: »

I hope it's a syndicate.

Me too!

My one!

jonon9 · 24-01-2017 11:31PM

Nice bit of cash to have. Id take the lot and buy a house in Austria and live there.

Heraldoffreeent · 24-01-2017 11:31PM

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

No anonymity when the local shop winds back the CCTV

No CCTV if you use the interwebmajjiggy.

murpho999 · 24-01-2017 11:31PM

Sam Kade wrote: »

Some lucky b@stard :mad:

Could be unlucky as well. Lotto wins often prove disastrous for people.

CFlat · 24-01-2017 11:32PM

jonon9 wrote: »

Nice bit of cash to have. Id take the lot and buy a house in Austria and live there.

Make sure you get one with a cellar.

jonon9 · 24-01-2017 11:33PM

CFlat wrote: »

Make sure you get one with a cellar.

And a pool have to have a pool oh and decking have to have decking.

Dr Crayfish · 24-01-2017 11:34PM

Personally I think it's obscene having that amount of money let alone giving it to anyone. Apart from a nice holiday maybe I can't think what I'd do with it apart from try to give it away to just causes.

B.A._Baracus · 24-01-2017 11:35PM

Guy Sajer wrote: »

It wasn't me because only a fool throws money away on lottery tickets.

Never got why people say this.
Price of a ticket is the price of an average pint... Or even the same as an overpriced sandwich or coffee. Yet people still pay for them but don't feel like a mug. But oh no no, a lottery ticket? A mugs game huh :pac:

Sue Pa Key Pa · 24-01-2017 11:35PM

Winner could cover Carlos Tevez's wages for at least 2, if not 3 years

24-01-2017 11:37PM

Dr Crayfish wrote: »

Personally I think it's obscene having that amount of money let alone giving it to anyone. Apart from a nice holiday maybe I can't think what I'd do with it apart from try to give it away to just causes.

Come on now. Let's be honest with ourselves

Shannon757 · 24-01-2017 11:39PM

Dr Crayfish wrote: »

Personally I think it's obscene having that amount of money let alone giving it to anyone. Apart from a nice holiday maybe I can't think what I'd do with it apart from try to give it away to just causes.

If you don't want it is know a few just causes you could give it to

Dr Crayfish · 24-01-2017 11:39PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Come on now. Let's be honest with ourselves

Ok a nicer house or theee and a 6 month long binge on cocaine and all the trimmings and then give it all up and adopt a Colin Farrellesque spirituality

24-01-2017 11:39PM

Dr Crayfish wrote: »

Ok a nicer house or theee and a 6 month long binge on cocaine and all the trimmings and then give it all up and adopt a Colin Farrellesque spirituality

That's more like it

jonon9 · 24-01-2017 11:43PM

In all seriousness I would do some good with it, Im the type of person that gets bored of a holiday after a week so jet setting all over the world doesn't appeal to me much.

I would help a certain amount or students a year who love to go to college but cant afford to.

I would open a state of the are Animal clinic/center and hire great vets not your horse and cow vet.

Give terminally ill children a day of pure enjoyment no matter how small it is.

h3000 · 24-01-2017 11:45PM

Dr Crayfish wrote: »

Personally I think it's obscene having that amount of money let alone giving it to anyone. Apart from a nice holiday maybe I can't think what I'd do with it apart from try to give it away to just causes.

I'd give a good go at spending that now. I'd easily spend about €10m on cars alone. There would have to be a little motor cruiser yacht. Helicopter. Nice house with its own leisure centre/spa. Land to have a little off road race track. Look after family/friends/select charities.

24-01-2017 11:46PM

Shannon757 wrote: »

Sound

I'd throw you 50 quid for your school books

Permabear · 24-01-2017 11:47PM

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Dr Crayfish · 24-01-2017 11:50PM

Permabear wrote: »

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That's why I said just causes. You could become your own charity organisation cut out the middle man.

Guy:Incognito · 24-01-2017 11:52PM

Bet that person feels a right fool for paying the "idiot tax"..............

jamesbere · 24-01-2017 11:57PM

It's tough to figure out what you would do, I'd be very cautious who I would tell at first, try to remain anonymous but even that would be difficult after a while.

I think I'd give a lot of it to charity. Then family and close friends. Then tell them all to f off while I move out of the country.

Mouseslayer17 · 24-01-2017 11:59PM

How many people could be smuggled through aer lingus

fergus1001 · 24-01-2017 11:59PM

begrudgery will comence in 3. 2. 1.

mansize · 25-01-2017 12:00AM

https://twitter.com/EidinNiShe/status/824010424551149569

doolox · 25-01-2017 12:01AM

Average house price in Dublin.....€330,000
Buy 100 of them for €33,000,000
Rent them out at €15,000 each per annum = €1,500,000 income pa.
Buy a modest but spacious house in a middling area so as not to attract the attention of thieves and the likes.
Also nice 2nd hand 3-4 yr old car looking rough but maintained to death....new engine, new tyres, running gear etc so as not to attract thieving personages to steal it.

Probably buy a pub in a touristy area and run ballad sessions for the tourists like Riverdance etc. Have fun doing it.

Buy a private Spa and Hotel for my wife.

Buy a private stud farm for my horse mad daughter.

Buy a private care home for my aging mother-in-law fully staffed with expert card players, bingo callers, artists, and whatever she likes.

I just put in details in a Deposit account comparison website and the best I could see was Permanent tsb at 0.75% giving €680,000 pa on investing €88,000,000 for 1 yr term.

At that rate of going one would be mad to buy houses and have all that hassle being a landlord, just put the lot in a mix of banks and live on the interest.

Andy From Sligo · 25-01-2017 12:10AM

If me calculations are right and its true that there were officially 6,985 people officially homeless in 2016 (according to Focus Ireland) - if that was shared amongst them it would give them €12,598eur each .... - not to be sniffed at I suppose

thierry14 · 25-01-2017 12:18AM

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

If me calculations are right and its true that there were officially 6,985 people officially homeless in 2016 (according to Focus Ireland) - if that was shared amongst them it would give them €12,598eur each .... - not to be sniffed at I suppose

Alternatively get yourself a La Ferrari and a mansion in the Alps

Andy From Sligo · 25-01-2017 12:25AM

thierry14 wrote: »

Alternatively get yourself a La Ferrari and a mansion in the Alps

dont want either - neither appeal to me

TheQuietFella · 25-01-2017 12:29AM

Best of luck to whoever won it and may they enjoy it in all the ways that it's possible!

Somebody's after winning 88 million

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