Would you tell people outside your immediate family you won the lotto?

I'd tell nobody

Nope I wouldn’t tell anyone outside my immediate family; but who my immediate family would tell would be beyond my control; I’d love the opportunity to be in that position and wish this family the very best of luck with their winnings. I would probably have to be sedated if I won that amount of money though; so wouldn’t be in any position in the first place to tell anyone!!

I’d tell my immediate family... they’d obviously suss something , with a Mercedes, new house and no need for employment...

My mother could keep her council, my father couldn’t... he is a great guy, the most generous most selfless person on the planet but he’d be ringing the two charities and that he’s involved with and yapping about it and what we can do to help...followed by every charity getting wind and you’d be inundated.

With me I’d spend a week, writing a few cheques for family and friends followed by doing the same for the two charities and maybe researching a few more that could benefit from a dig out but I’d want to resume life as normally as possible. Focusing on enjoying it but not having to be inundated with requests that need processing and considering.

I’d tell the whole world, then drive home to my solid gold house in my new rocket car, and just live it up.

I was travelling in Asian a few years ago and got to know a guy who was on the same circut - after a few weeks of shared experiences and hanging out we were stuck on another long 18 hour commute & he told me in chit chat about how we bankrolled the trip and time off work he had won mega big on the lottery and had given it all up just to travel the world. His wife had died a few years previous and he had never told a soul. It was his lifelong big secret and I think he regretted saying it to me later - but after he realised it didnt make a difference to me and I was still following my dream and bankrolling myself we gad some great giddy nights and many happy beers. We kept in sparodic contact over the next few years - and he kept on travelling and seeing everywhere he had always wanted to - he was a really sound guy who lived life low key and followed his dreams and just wanted to be one of the guys, and whose only regret was that his wife who he loved so much had passed away and wasn’t there to travel with him.. They are out there - amongst us!! RIP E.

I'd tell the misses and the mother, no one else. Throw money away for the god-daughter set certain family members and friends up. Spend a sickening amount on cars and bikes, invest some and just live it up.
No one on the fathers side would ever know jesus the grief that would bring.

I think they would notice when i build the swimming pool and put the pony in.

like many i wouldnt tell anyone but would love to pay off mortgages/debt for family members. often, while dreaming about it though, i wonder how would you actually pay off someones mortgage without them knowing? Is there a way of depositing large amounts of money in peoples accounts unknowingly? surely for tax reasons alone the relationship between parties would need to be identified, no? interested to hear about it.

so, if there is no way of doing that there is a dilemma, tell no one and keep it all to myself which could be boring or literally spread the wealth and let the recipients of your gifts in on the secret. does it mean that some family members dont get anything because of their big mouths? maybe! pays to be known as a discrete person i suppose.

Why the heck would I want to go public? Moochers can **** right off.