If you won the lottery

looksee · 20-04-2023 09:21AM

Why would you force your parents to retire? If working is what they want to do, rather than need to, then leave them at it!

Exactly how you would force them is another question.

Creamy Goodness · 20-04-2023 09:25AM

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Force was probably too strong a word. It's complicated and don't wish to get into it here. They're still working because of some family reasons (family run businesses), not because they love to.

I'd would take them on holidays to showcase the life you "should have" after you hit 65. They've both been working since 15 so 50+ years is enough of a shift for anyone in my mind.

looksee · 20-04-2023 09:44AM

Fair enough! My comment wasn't particularly relevant to the conversation anyway. 😀

theteal · 20-04-2023 09:53AM

I've said it before and I'm not entirely joking but I still doubt I would even tell the wife tbh. . .definitely not the extent of the win - not because I'm going to run off or anything but just to keep a closed circle as much as possible. I wouldn't move house but some pending improvements would be done sooner than currently planned. No change of cars, the 07 Mazda and 10 Honda are perfect for us. I reckon the biggest change would be more expensive holidays. I'd probably like to buy a better house in a sunnier clime but not sure how I'd get that beyond the wife's attention. . ."eh I got a payrise"

yourdeadwright · 20-04-2023 11:03AM

If i won the Euromillions. I'd buy a new house same town just a nicer one & get it done up lovely, Just cause the kids are in school so I'd need to stick around the area ,Get myself a new Land Rover,

5 years later i'd move again to a bigger house , Nobody would think iv won the lotto just got a few more quid,

Id leave my job & say im going somewhere else but obviously just retire, nobody would know they'd see you around the odd time just say your working from home or on a day off ,

Take long summer holidays to 5 star resorts , No one checks up on where you go so they would be none the wiser,.

I'd live the same life just with nicer things but nothing massively different , You could build up to total change over a 5 or 10 year period & people would just think your doing well ,

razorblunt · 20-04-2023 11:40AM

At this stage if I won enough to clear the mortgage I'd be happy!

You could get away with a lot by just saying you won enough to do just that. No one is going to come cap in hand and your sudden new car and extra holidays still gets covered by the lack of mortgage payments.

I'd sort out my immediate family first though.

dxhound2005 · 20-04-2023 12:37PM

Some people have a high opinion of how important their lifestyle is to the rest of the community. Nobody would pay a blind bit of attention to what you do with your money.

BattleCorp · 20-04-2023 12:40PM

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I'd buy dxhound2005 some happy pills. 😁

Banzai600 · 20-04-2023 12:49PM

i know someomne who won big on our miserable lotto, nice tidy fortune. Their family / freinds came out of the wood work asking for money for various things, and ppl they havent seen for a long time. They could afford to help them out im sure, but flat blank denied to share a penny with them for various reasons. I didnt think any less of them for not doing so, their choice. It hasnt changed them in any way with the look at me trinkets or nasty bling.

if it were me, id share it around with a chosen few ppl and a few smaller charities, but id be out of ireland as quickly as i could, south italy direction for a simple life and retire there, and do a lot of global motorbike travel in between.

dxhound2005 · 20-04-2023 01:01PM

What sort of things did they want money for? From how long ago did people reappear?

Did they give you all the information first hand, or was it passed on to you by other parties? It is very detailed knowledge.

Tony EH · 20-04-2023 01:51PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058293025/if-you-won-the-lottery

Don't worry yourself about it. You, literally, have more chance of dying in a plane crash.

Potential-Monke · 22-04-2023 11:17PM

I'd tell as little as possible that I won the +1 draw, half a million. Pays off the house, buys a nice car, no questions asked. They wouldn't see the millions in tech I'd have hidden in the secret underground building I would then essentially live in. Being unsocial before winning the lotto would be a boon, I'm halfway there. I would look after my immediate family and close friends (a handful) as best I could, and the following is the list of people/organisations I would give money to, in order of how much they could/would help/care about a single male with no dependants:

Clareman · 22-04-2023 11:46PM

If I won the EuroMillions, I'd bring all my family and close friends close by and sign up a contract so that we're all a syndicate, half of it is mine and the rest is divided up depending on who they are to me, if anyone has a whinge about their cut, then they're out. There's no point in pretending that you could hide the fact that you won it, people would know, I've heard of shop workers going through CCTV of lottery ticket sales to see when people bought tickets to figure out who it was but being part of a syndicate would make it easier.

If I won the Irish lotto, I wouldn't tell anyone, it'd be touch and go if I'd tell the wife 😂 at the risk of sounding depressing, it's no long a life defining amount, it's a making you comfortable amount. Let's pretend you win 4 million, you "blow" 1 million clearing debts, looking after family, going to Vegas, whatever, you're left with 3 million, assuming 40 years left in you, that's 75k a year for the rest of your life, as a middle aged married man with 2 children, that just takes all the pressure off, children's college sorted, decent holidays for the rest of our lives, etc. etc., enough for an extemely comfortable life, enough for Mrs Clareman and I never to work again while setting our children up in life, I doubt it.

I was made redundant in the past and was out of work for a while so when I hear people saying "I'd never work again", sorry but boredom would get way too much for me, I'd love not having to work but having nothing to do, nope, I'd need something, I'm not saying 9-5, chasing promotion kind of work, but I'd need something to keep me occupied.

cena · 23-04-2023 12:19AM

Finally, get a full-time ice rink built in Ireland. Build a house with a nice size garden and garage to be able to work on my car

BnB · 23-04-2023 07:07AM

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Ah that kind of an amount is life defining. The 3m you left yourself to live on, if you invested that in a very safe managed portfolio with almost zero risk you'd make an easy average 7-8% interest every year. That would leave you about 150k (after tax) to live on every year without even touching the 3m.

AyeGer · 23-04-2023 07:41AM

i don’t do the Irish Lotto but I do the euro millions and the daily millions the odd time. If I won a million I’d split 100K on the family and keep the rest.

When I win the Euro millions I’ll hold on to half and give the other half to family and good causes. I’d be careful in the charities I choose as I’d want the money to go directly to those who need it.

With my half I’d go on a long holiday to some great places and buy a nice car. I would never work again and look about where is the best place to put the money so it doesn’t disappear.

Anyone who called to my door looking for money would be raced.

Day Lewin · 23-04-2023 07:50AM

I plan all this out every tie I but a lottery ticket.

(Daydreaming is most of the fun of it, really):

A house for each of my children

A swimming pool for me

An apartment in Dublin for town visits and night life

Another apartment for temporarily homeless friends

and the rest to charity;

Charities:

Ireland- a good dollop to Sister Stan

A sponsorship for young Traveller education

Rest of World - a clean water charity, plus a few others.

And if there's anything left over - eat ice-cream!

SEPT 23 1989 · 23-04-2023 11:42AM

It will be a full time job just trying to hide it

I would look after those who looked after me when I had nothing because how could you trust anyone else?

cj maxx · 23-04-2023 12:22PM

A month long binge of drugs and hookers , or depending on how much I win maybe 6 months 😁

iniscealtra · 23-04-2023 01:36PM

Wouldn’t tell anyone but would pay off the mortgage and work part-time. Buy some land and plant a woodland. Get a campervan. Go on holidays once a year as i now do but more luxurious. Stay the hell away from social Media.

cj maxx · 26-04-2023 10:56PM

Id travel , in style , around the world. 1st I would pay a visit to Petra in Jordan , down to Egypt or across to India . From India and China .

Then back west to South America and down to Antartica .

CopperFaceZachs · 27-04-2023 01:03AM

I would travel to a warm country for a few weeks to think about the best way to spend and organize my new win! just let it settle in a bit before doing anything crazy! lol

If it was mad money I would help any relatives I have out with something after our direct family ☺️

27-04-2023 01:36AM

It's a hard call to be honest!

I would eventually retire from work.

I think I would just leave it in a few banks!

I wouldn't trust investors & why would you need to invest?

I would travel some more but I don't think that it would change my lifestyle as I'm already fairly comfortable. I'm not wealthy but I don't need a whole lot!

Dramatik · 27-04-2023 01:52PM

I'd give anyone who deserved it a bit and if they asked how I got it, I would look at them directly in the eyes, whilst lightly tapping on my nose and say: "you ain't seen me... Right?"

joe35 · 27-04-2023 02:52PM

Do a 4 way syndicate with myself, wife, parents and in laws.

So we would keep half, my parents would have 25% to share amongst my siblings. The in laws would have 25% to share amongst the wifes siblings. Try and get parents and in laws to say nothing. Just that they came to a few euro and want to share it amongst their children.

I'd buy a couple of hundred acres. Lease most of it out and farm dry stock on the remaining.

Andrea B. · 29-04-2023 09:07AM

I would apply for jobs in companies that have arsehole management/HR.

Just take them down garden path with bullshit CV and first performances.

Then see how far you could get by introducing small quirks.

A fart.

A wink.

Quick nose pick and eat.

Excuse yourself to use bathroom and stay there until they are forced to come looking for you.

Etc.

If you won the lottery

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