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First thing you'd do after winning the Lotto

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,114 ✭✭✭✭wp_rathead


    Pub


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    change my undercrackers


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,599 ✭✭✭quad_red


    I wouldn't tell a soul until I was in the Lotto offices and they showed me the money transferring into my account.

    I'd be too afraid I was misreading the ticket or something!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,035 ✭✭✭uch


    I'd go to Lotto headquarters and pull me wire in their Jax

    22/25



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 750 ✭✭✭Tisserand


    Well I won 50 euro on the prize bonds a while ago. I nearly squeezed the dog to death with excitement when the cheque came in the post. So if that's anything to go by, the first thing I will have to do if I win the lotto will be organise a dog funeral...no expenses spared of course.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,493 ✭✭✭long range shooter


    Move back to Norway


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,635 ✭✭✭Pumpkinseeds


    I'd collect it with my husband and then get the best financial advice on how to hold on to as much of it as possible. Immediate family wouldn't be told about the win until after we'd had time to process that we actually had a shed load of money. I think its best to tell nobody about it until you know what you want to do with it. I'd imagine it'd be fairly easy for others to spend a lot of it very fast.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 240 ✭✭The Barefoot Pizza Thief


    Two chicks at the same time.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,249 ✭✭✭✭castletownman


    I'd contact the girl I fancied back in high school who turned me down to both the Prom and the Spring Ball, even though I didn't ask her to either one, let her know I'm now in the money, and wait patiently as she suddenly "falls in love with me".

    Then ditch her, and head to Vegas with the lads.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    Have a good poo and use up all the bog roll.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 227 ✭✭Moll'll fix it


    I'd turn on the heating


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,075 ✭✭✭Rasmus


    Not a thing til it hit my account. EDIT: + 1 to above!!
    Then pay off debts before going for an expensive meal to discuss WTF we're going to do with our lives!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,351 ✭✭✭NegativeCreep


    Buy me and my college friends a week away during the Summer. All 26 of us! Would be amazing :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,629 ✭✭✭jaykay74


    Throw it on the pile I suppose.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 774 ✭✭✭debabyjesus


    Get the 41 to abbey street


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,006 ✭✭✭_Whimsical_


    Crumple in a heap of relief.
    I'm sure I'd be easily revived with champagne though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,391 ✭✭✭Mysteriouschic


    Book a flight to Australia for the next day . Then go and celebrate and buy everyone I know drinks for the night.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 638 ✭✭✭flanders1979


    Freak out, head down to the cop shop and put the ticket under lock and key. Party, collect winnings, pull a sickie and emigrate.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,133 ✭✭✭FloatingVoter


    Freak out, head down to the cop shop and put the ticket under lock and key. Party, collect winnings, pull a sickie and emigrate.
    ..assuming a cop hasn't cashed the ticket while you're partying.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,597 ✭✭✭dan1895


    I'd go to Dublin airport and find a taxi man who has been waiting hours for a fare. I would hop in his cab and ask him to take me to Ballymun. His anger and frustration i would video and post on youtube. Then I'd do it again and again. No end of fun.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,007 ✭✭✭Autumn Moon


    I'd check the numbers - make SURE they ARE they winning ones.......... Check them again,......and again.......and possibly again!.....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,941 ✭✭✭ronjo


    When I won it I was surprisingly calm


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,140 ✭✭✭✭TheDoc


    Quit job, buy house, buy car, look after family, invest

    In that order, win at life


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,942 ✭✭✭missingtime


    I'd probably get really paranoid and try to stick to my regular schedule in fear that all this good luck is going to be evened out by me getting injured doing something that I wouldn't normally do because I'd won the lotto.

    Then I'd look in the mirror and laugh for a bit. Then probably cry for a bit. Then I'd ring the parents and tell them to quit work. And the girlfriend that she can quit work too.

    Then I'd make a plan for travelling around the world.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 228 ✭✭KT10


    Go down town and have a quiet pint, sitting there with a little smile on my face, saying nothing to no one.

    The next day into the Lotto offices then I'm outta here for at least a year so I can come to terms with whats happened and plan exactly what to do with it.

    While on the road I'd organise for my family to be looked after anonymously.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,414 ✭✭✭kraggy


    I'd turn on the heating


    And leave the immersion on ALL week.

    Yeah baby. Now we're talkin.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    "I'd stay in my job to keep me grounded"

    Anyone who says that should have their winnings taken off them. Live the dream! work for yourself or something. I couldn't fathom sitting at a desk working for someone else with millions in the bank.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    Retire to the toilet, take a massive dump in peace while clutching the ticket in my hand and smiling.

    Carefully place the ticket on the ground where I can see while I wipe (don't want to spend the afternoon googling 'how to clean faeces off a lotto ticket'!).

    Then get a taxi to the Spar on Abbety St. (never get one straight to Lotto HQ or the bloody driver will sell the story to the papers!)

    Buy a bottle of wine and walk into Lotto HQ swigging from it.

    Get money transferred into my account.

    Once money is safely in account spend spend spend spend spend bitches!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,381 ✭✭✭nbar12


    When's the next bank holiday?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    nbar12 wrote: »
    When's the next bank holiday?

    March 18th.


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