First thing you'd do after winning the Lotto

I Heart Internet · 28-02-2013 03:36PM #1

I see that the €6.5 million Lotto wasn't won last night. I didn't get a single number!

I have often spent many pleasant minutes thinking about a big lotto win and what I'd do, how it would change me and how I'd be a really great winner!

I'm sure "what would you spend a lotto win on?" threads have been done. But my question is, what would you do in the minutes and hours immeadiately after you won. Not so much: what would you do with the money - more, how would you react??
Me, I think I'd start weeping and rocking back and forth before running into every room in my house screaming...then sh1ting myself and booking a train to Dublin to collect the winnings. Probably sleep with the winning ticket in my jocks for safe-keeping.

KTRIC · 28-02-2013 03:38PM

Call my boss, resign, go back to sleep.

donvito99 · 28-02-2013 03:39PM

I'd walk from Dublin to Cork, in stillettos, carrying my mother in law, backwards.

listermint · 28-02-2013 03:39PM

Meet with an Architect, design me house.

Then book planes tickets to go around the world for a year.

come back and house built. winning.

ronaneire · 28-02-2013 03:39PM

Piss me pants

Cereal Number · 28-02-2013 03:40PM

Fap

frag420 · 28-02-2013 03:41PM

I told my mates yrs ago that if I ever won the jackpot I would run down Grafton St naked.!!

squrm · 28-02-2013 03:41PM

I Heart Internet wrote: »

Probably sleep with the winning ticket in my jocks for safe-keeping.

Lucky lotto office worker who gets to take the ticket off you

In before obligatory lotto is a tax on idiots reply.

hefferboi · 28-02-2013 03:41PM

Bring all the boys on holiday!

SEPT 23 1989 · 28-02-2013 03:41PM

A train journey to collect 6.5 million?

G Power · 28-02-2013 03:44PM

probably cry for a while tbh

then i'd gather as many friends and family as i could and take them all away for a weeks holidays in the sun, when we arrive back i'd make plans for my own private holiday to decide what career path i'd like to pursue with my winnings and how much to gift some friends and family.

seamus · 28-02-2013 03:44PM

Probably ring the whole family, aul ones first, then open a bottle of champagne.

Maybe try and organise an impromptu trip to the pub and stick the tab on the credit card.

I'd probably also go online and start ordering all those stupidly expensive things I always wanted.

I'd also find two minutes to email the boss out of courtesy and tell her not to expect me into work again.

Then I'd sit down with the missus and work out how much to give everyone else.

I Heart Internet · 28-02-2013 03:44PM

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

A train journey to collect 6.5 million?

Good point. But it would give you some time to try and relax before you get your hands on the cheque.

Dunno.....I've just always imagined I'd get the train.....somehow it wouldn't feel right if I didn't.

Heh, it's my fantasy!!

Shenshen · 28-02-2013 03:45PM

Go on a spending spree in the book section of amazon.com.

The next day, I'd contact an estate agent to find a suitable property we could live in that would have enough grounds with it to house the animal shelter I'd be spending the rest of my winnings on.

If the winnings are big enough, I might then consider opening a mostly-vegetarian restaurant.

krudler · 28-02-2013 03:46PM

KTRIC wrote: »

Call my boss, resign, go back to sleep.

I wouldn't even, just not turn up anymore, so long fcukers.

OldGoat · 28-02-2013 03:50PM

I'd divide the winnings into three piles. Then I'd take the first pile and go on a massive hedonistic binge of coke and hookers.
Then I'd get the other two piles of cash and do exactly the same thing with them.

hollster2 · 28-02-2013 03:55PM

If I won 6.5 million id pay off parents mortgage buy myself and brothers n sister all a new house!!
Oh It would be great plus hubby n dad wouldnt be having to stand for hrs waiting to sign on happy days!!

orestes · 28-02-2013 03:55PM

I'd probably have a panic attack trying to figure out how fast I could get rid of it. The idea of having that much money scares the crap out of me.

28-02-2013 03:58PM

Go to the sunshine. I'd like some sun on my bones. I love the cold and the snow, but I think it's time for some warmth upon my skin now.

I Heart Internet · 28-02-2013 03:58PM

orestes wrote: »

The idea of having that much money scares the crap out of me.

I'd be willing to take the risk. If you're a sensible, level-headed person without it, you'll be sensible with it.

Remember folks - the question isn't "what would you do with the money" - the question is "how would you react the night you found out you'd won"?

The Caveman · 28-02-2013 04:00PM

first thing I would do is check if I am the only winner...

hollster2 · 28-02-2013 04:00PM

Remember folks - the question isn't "what would you do with the money" - the question is "how would you react the night you found out you'd won?

oh well then Id have a panic attack and pee my pants lol:D

Plazaman · 28-02-2013 04:01PM

Go to the local undertaker and buy 5 funerals off him. Collect money. Party hearty until I and at least 4 other people drop dead (if I go, I'm taking people with me).

starskey77 · 28-02-2013 04:01PM

in a word los vegas

28-02-2013 04:01PM

Yep, still I'd just go to the sun. I'd be happy out but not hysterical or anything. I'd just hop on a plane to somewhere hot and think about it there.

orestes · 28-02-2013 04:01PM

I Heart Internet wrote: »

I'd be willing to take the risk. If you're a sensible, level-headed person without it, you'll be sensible with it.

Remember folks - the question isn't "what would you do with the money" - the question is "how would you react the night you found out you'd won"?

Ah, in that case it'll be grand so.

/sprinkes MDMA on cornflakes

Anyone · 28-02-2013 04:02PM

Las Vegas for a month. With the intention of blowing at least 500k.

fishy fishy · 28-02-2013 04:08PM

I Heart Internet wrote: »

I see that the €6.5 million Lotto wasn't won last night. I didn't get a single number!

I have often spent many pleasant minutes thinking about a big lotto win and what I'd do, how it would change me and how I'd be a really great winner!

I'm sure "what would you spend a lotto win on?" threads have been done. But my question is, what would you do in the minutes and hours immeadiately after you won.
Me, I think I'd start weeping and rocking back and forth before running into every room in my house screaming...then sh1ting myself and booking a train to Dublin to collect the winnings. Probably sleep with the winning ticket in my jocks for safe-keeping.

kind of a stupid place to put it isn't it.

The_Gatsby · 28-02-2013 04:09PM

My initial reaction would be "What the fck just happened". Then as it dawned on me I'd probably start screaming "I just won the fcking lottery!" over and over again. I don't think I'd sleep that night...

I think the day I collected the cheque I'd tell my parents I was going away for a week. Then I'd call my few closest friends and tell them to be at my house in the next half an hour; without telling them why, of course. Then, I'd bring us all to get tailored suits and fly straight to Vegas.

fishy fishy · 28-02-2013 04:11PM

would not do anything different. In fact I would not do anything different for a good few weeks/months. By then I would know which charities/family/friends would get what - give it to them anonymously, and then out of my own share I would go on a few sun holidays, and pamper myself.

I Heart Internet · 28-02-2013 04:12PM

fishy fishy wrote: »

kind of a stupid place to put it isn't it.

It's wear I keep all of my valuables.

First thing you'd do after winning the Lotto

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