Euromillions- what would your family get?!

TheBlock · 07-02-2020 1:22pm

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

I’d sort everyone out except my absolute hell-beast of an ex wife.

Is that why she left you? Cause you couldn't sort her out? :pac:

Irishphotodesk · 07-02-2020 1:22pm

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Bizarre. You should be billing them for the cost of the tickets. If one of them won, do you expect to be in an even split syndicate you never even heard about?

It's not an even split, myself and my wife get 1 portion each so as a family we get twice what the other families get.... I think we could survive with approx 26million.

JohnnyFlash · 07-02-2020 1:25pm

TheBlock wrote: »

Is that why she left you? Cause you couldn't sort her out? :pac:

Nah, pal, I had an affair with your auld one.

Turquoise Hexagon Sun · 07-02-2020 1:29pm

On a 130 million:

15 million to my parents to retire and do what they want. I would encourage them to spend it and not save any of it. Just have fun.
15 million to my OH's familly. She can decide how that's devided.
10 million to my sibling.
50 million to the bank to be untouched for 15 years.
That's 90 million so far.

With the remaing lot, I'd build a house. A really unique one with an unusual layout. It doesn't have to be massive and would be cost-effective should I lose my money. Basically, I would set 5million aside for emergency house maintance. I'll try not to touch it but only as a last resort. I'd build a home recording studio, pool, gym and entertainment room complete with retro arcade machines and home cinema - but not one of those where everyone is sitting miles apart from each other.

I'll have to buy a nice sports car as well as a more "low-key" luxury saloon car. Having nice land to spend time in the garden would be nice. A remote house would be great at the foot of some hills where it's scenic and not you could go hiking nearby.

With the remaining 20 milllion, I would travel the world, see Japan, China, Korea.

I've spent my lotto winnings many times in my head! :P

TheBlock · 07-02-2020 1:34pm

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

Nah, pal, I had an affair with your auld one.

Necrophilia...Nice

07-02-2020 1:34pm

Turquoise Hexagon Sun wrote: »

On a 130 million:

15 million to my parents to retire and do what they want. I would encourage them to spend it and not save any of it. Just have fun.
15 million to my OH's familly. She can decide how that's devided.
10 million to my sibling.
50 million to the bank to be untouched for 15 years.
That's 90 million so far.

With the remaing lot, I'd build a house. A really unique one with an unusual layout. It doesn't have to be massive and would be cost-effective should I lose my money. Basically, I would set 5million aside for emergency house maintance. I'll try not to touch it but only as a last resort. I'd build a home recording studio, pool, gym and entertainment room complete with retro arcade machines and home cinema - but not one of those where everyone is sitting miles apart from each other.

I'll have to buy a nice sports car as well as a more "low-key" luxury saloon car. Having nice land to spend time in the garden would be nice. A remote house would be great at the foot of some hills where it's scenic and not you could go hiking nearby.

With the remaining 20 milllion, I would travel the world, see Japan, China, Korea.

I've spent my lotto winnings many times in my head! :P

Most of the remaining 20 million would be going to revenue to cover the taxes on your tax inefficient way of splitting the win.

Turquoise Hexagon Sun · 07-02-2020 1:41pm

Aaden Stale Jugular wrote: »

Most of the remaining 20 million would be going to revenue to cover the taxes on your tax inefficient way of splitting the win.

Fair enough Mr Pedantic, but I haven't actually won the lotto. When I'm having a good dream about winning the lotto, I'm not generally not dreaming about the visits to solicitors, filling out forms, how I'm going creatively pay as little tax as possible. It's bird-eye view fantasy.

You know like when I'm thinking about going on holiday, I'm generally not thinking about the queue at the airport or how I'm going to dry the moisture on my arsehole as I'm adjusting to the new tempratures. I'm generally thinking of enjoying the sights, having nice food and enjoying some drinks.

Each to their own though

Itssoeasy · 07-02-2020 1:48pm

Spanish Eyes wrote: »

What did all the previous winners of the Euromillions do? The only idiots we hear about are British imo.

Sorry to say it, but it's true, they sell their story to get more.

It is Europe wide don't forget, and many want to remain anonymous. And do. They have brains.

Yeah the British winners are telling all and sundry and I've no idea why. There have been winners in Spain and all over and I couldn't tell you a thing about them.

If I ever did a win( which I won't obviously) the only thing is would that much money get me a shot with Angelina Jolie ? If not than why bother.

Itssoeasy · 07-02-2020 1:50pm

TheBlock wrote: »

50% me an the Wife...50% to Immediate family of us both.

That's the signed syndicate agreement we have always had your honor no tax liable...

"That's FACTS your honour."

Winning_Stroke · 07-02-2020 1:54pm

Who else is getting the urge to buy some lotto tickets? :pac:

Cina · 07-02-2020 1:56pm

I'd buy a 2 bed apartment in Dublin and use the fiver left over to buy a pint of Guinness at the local

dingdong1234567 · 07-02-2020 1:56pm

They would get the pleasure of me telling them I won it. That would be all.

pawdee · 07-02-2020 1:59pm

I'd get a breast reduction, take the missus on holidays, buy a 2007 SsangYong Rodius and give the rest to charity.

Wanderer78 · 07-02-2020 1:59pm

What family!

Praetorian22 · 07-02-2020 2:05pm

Retire early, let the parents retire, nicer house, 1 nicer car, secure extended family and their children's future, real estate.

Finally I would undoubtedly buy a ginormous site of land acres upon acres, upon acres and turn it into a sanctuary for any unwanted/stray pets.

People can adopt/foster but under no circumstances is any healthy animal getting put down!

TheBlock · 07-02-2020 2:08pm

Cina wrote: »

I'd buy a 2 bed apartment in Dublin and use the fiver left over to buy a pint of Guinness at the local

Must be Happy Hour in the Local...

Your Face · 07-02-2020 2:13pm

Which family?

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5 · 07-02-2020 2:22pm

Clear my parents' mortgage, set up some kind of trust for each of my siblings (tax issues aside, wouldn't really trust either of them with a lump sum). My brother's getting chemotherapy at the moment so I'd get him some fancy chemotherapy in a rich person hospital, or just give up every red cent if it meant he wouldn't be sick anymore. Take them all on a mad holiday. My partner's dad works crazy hours and is close to retirement age, would like to sort them out so that he can actually enjoy his retirement since he's worked like an actual fcuking work horse his whole life.

I have some friends who are currently working to get various businesses and community and environmental initiatives off the ground, they'd get some. Few other charities.

And then! Travel travel. Get some ridiculous expensive tattoos in some far flung places. Sure the world would probably end or civilisation will collapse before I could spend it so let's just see how much craic we can wring out of a few million before that happens.

looksee · 07-02-2020 2:23pm

I won the lottery last week. I must remember to go in and exchange it for a couple of scratch cards.

JustMe,K · 07-02-2020 2:25pm

Itssoeasy wrote: »

Yeah the British winners are telling all and sundry and I've no idea why. There have been winners in Spain and all over and I couldn't tell you a thing about them.

I heard before that they get more money if they go public, which could be a load of rubbish but nothing surprises me really.

I think I would make some gradual changes before letting anyone in on the idea that I had won money tbh. Neither my parents or his have a mortgage anymore but I would like the parents to be able to retire and enjoy it. Siblings, I would buy houses from and for, and put them on caretaker agreements so they don't ever really own them so don't have a liability issue. Set up a credit card with a parents & siblings as additional users so they dont have to spend their own money. Trusts for the kids but with very specific restrictions. Cousins etc? Couldn't trust them to keep their mouths shut so they would get nothing. Couple of nice lowkey family holidays.

But before all of that I guess I would speak to my offshore tax advisor :cool:

ambro25 · 07-02-2020 2:31pm

Fun topical trivia: the first and main message from the national lottery in Luxembourg, across all of its PR about €millions, is to maintain anonymity in case of a win.

€130m...even the Mrs wouldn't ever know

Semi-seriously though: no cash hand-outs to anyone, but a corpo structure created (behind oodles of further holdings cos to obfuscate who's behind), with a raft of non-exec appointments (family members, very few close 'quasi-family' friends), each with a moderate annual salary (up to €50-75k say, enough to improve average life substantially, not enough to upend lives/shock the system too hard) and full income tax/social sec contributions for respective health+pension rights. Besides educational trust funds for the younguns. And all to be funded from interests/dividends on invested/sheltered principal.

Get that sorted first, then relax and think about what I'd really like to do.

Blitzkrieger · 07-02-2020 5:11pm

Deleted User wrote: »

I haven't done the lottery in a decade. Can I buy a ticket online from outside the EU? I fancy some daydreaming.

I can't recall how easy it is to set up an account with lottery.ie, but I don't think you can get it done in one day. There's loads of lotto sites out there that you can sign up to straight away - just beware that there's so many lotteries that look so tempting....

kingtut · 07-02-2020 5:12pm

€130 million?

I'd give €100 million to my parents and keep the rest to spend how I please.

Snails pace · 07-02-2020 5:31pm

I have a syndicate with my parents, sister and her family. Get the euro millions and irish lotto twice a week. It cost roughly a little under a fiver a week. If i won I'd keep working because I love what I do. I'd go travelling, give money to charity and help out a few friends who are under pressure.

ziedth · 07-02-2020 6:25pm

My aunt won the pools for something like £500k+ in the 1970's which obviously was quite the sum of money in those days. I remember her telling us that it pretty much "ruined" their lives as they knew it. Friends and family either accused them of flashing the cash or being mean...... They literally couldn't win. On top of that people called to their door looking for handouts all hours of the night. She ended up upping sticks and moving in the end.

My mothers cousin then (other side) won something like €12m in the irish lotto in the 00's and played an absolute blinder. Said nothing to a soul, denied everything when rumors started spreading but didn't go so much as on holiday then when it all died down she quietly sold up and moved to the other side of the country to "be near her son". We were far enough away in the family tree that you wouldn't have expected a cup of coffee out of her so I really admired the way they played it. They even published their names in the paper and the husband went around saying he was going to sue for getting the story wrong (obviously they never did and if you google her name the story still pops up).

So with all that being said, I'd learn nothing and tell everyone then look after them for life..... I reckon I would become awfully eccentric though

The Tetrarch · 07-02-2020 6:48pm

I would give 33% to Revenue because that is the tax on gifts.

beejee · 07-02-2020 6:59pm

I would elongate my nipples miles into the sky like very long whips, locate a plane and then inscribe onto a window the amount I had just won by taking advantage of the temperature differential between my roasting hot nips and freezing altitude.

For starters.

olestoepoke · 07-02-2020 7:02pm

I'd be like the guy from the Bourne Identity movie. Open my phone take out the SIM card break it in half and disappear.

Ken. · 07-02-2020 7:33pm

beejee wrote: »

I would elongate my nipples miles into the sky like very long whips, locate a plane and then inscribe onto a window the amount I had just won by taking advantage of the temperature differential between my roasting hot nips and freezing altitude.

For starters.

If I win it I'm financing this.

My friend had a good idea.
If I won it I'd wait till the lotto plus 1 or 2 was won and say I won that. half a mill, brought a house, sorted out the kid,brought a new car. Money gone.

donkeykong5 · 07-02-2020 7:44pm

I'll let you all know tomorrow.

Dr Turk Turkelton · 07-02-2020 8:30pm

Obviously there is a tax on giving money to siblings but rather than putting them down as an equal winner if you had four siblings could you put each of them down ar 5% and say that was their contribution to the"yearly" syndicate?

Ubbquittious · 07-02-2020 8:40pm

Dr Turk Turkelton wrote: »

Obviously there is a tax on giving money to siblings but rather than putting them down as an equal winner if you had four siblings could you put each of them down ar 5% and say that was their contribution to the"yearly" syndicate?

Only equal is allowed. of course there are ways around it

AndyBoBandy · 07-02-2020 8:54pm

How about setting up a company, say a property management company (to manage say 5 rental properties), and making all your family executive directors. Then injecting loads of cash into the business, say 10m, and the company then buys all the stuff like cars/houses, and pays all/most bills, and for holidays etc for each of the directors..

Would that be a way of dodging some tax?

chooseusername · 07-02-2020 9:11pm

I would get all family members that I'd want to share it with to sign the back of the winning ticket.
Then I'd draw up a syndicate ,signed by all, backdated a year or so.

07-02-2020 10:35pm

I see it was won in Spain anyway. Bastards. The whole lot of them.

Ubbquittious · 07-02-2020 10:53pm

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I see it was won in Spain anyway. Bastards. The whole lot of them.

Probably a Brit who won it

Mrs OBumble · 07-02-2020 11:11pm

Family would get nothing, they're all either dead or financially comfortable.

Mr O'Bumble wouldn't even get told. Shure he'd just drink it if I gave him any.

I'm become self-employed in a very vague kind of way that no one really understood, but which required several overseas work trips each year, and which left me free to do some charity work while not travelling. And some lucky solicitor or accountant would be kept busy administering the anonymous donations I'd drip free to various charities over time.

iamstop · 07-02-2020 11:11pm

I'd pay off all their mortgages and other debts. This way they can live more comfortably and instead of paying mortgage can lash it into retirement fund or where ever. I'm not one for just giving someone a huge sum and expect them to cope with it.

Get them all nice cars if they needed or wanted and probably a big family holiday somewhere nice and pampered.

Other than that I'd prolly start investing in things I believed in. Green energy type stuff. And music. Maybe start my own label and record press.
Start or buy a stake in a micro brewery.

07-02-2020 11:16pm

My immediate family would share it 4 ways.
My father would get nothing.
I'd look after other family so they would never have to worry about money again.
& I would give my friends enough so we would all be equal

08-02-2020 1:21am

bubblypop wrote: »

My immediate family would share it 4 ways.
My father would get nothing.
I'd look after other family so they would never have to worry about money again.
& I would give my friends enough so we would all be equal

I wouldn’t be even telling friends never mind giving them money. I’d be limiting sharing the money to close family, aunt/uncles/1st cousins is as far out.

Nearly every poster mentioning giving large amounts to charity? I just don’t get it or maybe I’m just mean. I do wonder how fast they would be handing it over in reality though.

08-02-2020 1:42am

Aaden Stale Jugular wrote: »

I wouldn’t be even telling friends never mind giving them money. I’d be limiting sharing the money to close family, aunt/uncles/1st cousins is as far out.

Nearly every poster mentioning giving large amounts to charity? I just don’t get it or maybe I’m just mean. I do wonder how fast they would be handing it over in reality though.

I'd rather give some of it towards the benefit of those I've been fortunate to become close friends with in my own life rather than to 'family' who'd be getting lucky just because of who their parents were.

Not a hope would any aunts, uncles or cousins see a cent from me. Mostly lovely people, but they're my mother/fathers siblings and their offspring. We're relatives, but no more than that.

As for charity, I suppose I'd buy some specific equipment or facilities for a very select few, for things I know would be put to good use directly as opposed to ever having a cent of it go towards paying executive salaries. Charities in Ireland are as bad as televangelical 'churches' in the USA.

the dark phantom · 08-02-2020 2:02am

My immediate family wouldn't need any money but if any of them are still paying mortgages or loans I'd offer to clear it, Buy the sis's place in Spain off her, I'd grow weed there then the next time they visit they would be horrified at the plants and the smell, don't think they know or care that growing a few plants is legal or tolerated in Spain.

08-02-2020 2:08am

Aaden Stale Jugular wrote: »

I wouldn’t be even telling friends never mind giving them money. I’d be limiting sharing the money to close family, aunt/uncles/1st cousins is as far out.

Nearly every poster mentioning giving large amounts to charity? I just don’t get it or maybe I’m just mean. I do wonder how fast they would be handing it over in reality though.

The Euro millions?
Absolutely my friends would be getting **** loads of money!
No fun having money on your own!
& I would have so much I could give most of it to charity really!

Pwindedd · 08-02-2020 2:28am

To be honest on the rare occasion that I do buy a ticket I don’t have the jackpot in mind. It’s more of a whim at the till and maybe get a few bob for a new pair of shoes or a nice meal if I’m really lucky. But if the jackpot should come my way then I guess my first call would be to an advisor who could tell me the best way to look after my loved ones. I wouldn’t want to freak anyone out with grand gestures. Just make sure they were looked after and free from worry.

I read a statistic that 70% of lottery winners blow the money within 7 years of winning it.

You don’t have to turn your family into millionaires. Just keep treating them like family. Look after them by all means. Healthcare, education, holidays etc. You got lucky. Be humble.

Airyfairy12 · 08-02-2020 3:10am

Id give my parents 500,000 enough to fix up their house with a bit left over to help them out when they retire but that's it.
Family never helped me with anything, I put myself through college three times, paid for all my driving lessons, car and insurance, got no help from anyone learning to drive and the one time I borrowed a bit of money they were worse than a bank so I don't feel any obligation to give them anything, Only would do it out of soundness.
I wouldnt tell anyone how much I won - family would hound me for it, and wouldnt tell anyone outside immediate family that I won anything. Id give the 30 million to charity, mostly animal and homeless shelters and mental health charities. I would love to go to children's hospitals and cancer ward's and pay off a load of randomers medical bills, go onto gofundme and donate money to people who need it, leave 50's, 100, 200 and 500 euro notes inside books in secondhand shops and bookshops to surprise random people, find genuine charities that build homes and supply education and medicine for people in third world countries. Id buy some cheap, vacant houses, fix them up and give them to homeless people.
The rest id keep for my self, buy a house, take a year or two out to travel a bit, buy a nice car, save the rest for a comfortable life and reduce my work hours to part time.

Potential-Monke · 08-02-2020 3:26am

I always said that if I won, I'd build a huge interconnected house for them. They all have their own kids, so I'd build a large house for myself, and 4 more large houses around a central 'hub', a playroom of sorts. They could all live in their own houses and send the kids into the hub to entertain each other.

Then I'd disappear.

job seeker · 08-02-2020 3:30am

I’d change my work on Facebook too: Full time mad bast***..

I’d continue to work in my ‘just above’ minimum wage dead end job for 3-4 weeks. Then I’d just quit. Tell my nasty boss what I really think and how he is such a grade A ****.

Then I’d give a million or two to people who really helped me out in life, with their advice and encouragement!

I’d buy my family what they wanted within reason of course.. not golf houses or rocket cars thank you very much!

After that, I’d donate some to charity

Then, I’d most likely buy a house.. after that I don’t know..

Realistically, if you won that much money and didn’t remain anonymous. You have to move away for a while until it the local parish gossip would die down..

job seeker · 08-02-2020 3:32am

the dark phantom wrote: »

My immediate family wouldn't need any money but if any of them are still paying mortgages or loans I'd offer to clear it, Buy the sis's place in Spain off her, I'd grow weed there then the next time they visit they would be horrified at the plants and the smell, don't think they know or care that growing a few plants is legal or tolerated in Spain.

That’s actually a genius plan!

08-02-2020 3:33am

job seeker wrote: »

I’d change my work on Facebook too: Full time mad bast***..

I’d continue to work in my ‘just above’ minimum wage dead end job for 3-4 weeks. Then I’d just quit. Tell my nasty boss what I really think and how he is such a grade A ****.

Then I’d give a million or two to people who really helped me out in life, with their advice and encouragement!

I’d buy my family what they wanted within reason of course.. not golf houses or rocket cars thank you very much!

After that, I’d donate some to charity

Then, I’d most likely buy a house.. after that I don’t know..

Realistically, if you won that much money and didn’t remain anonymous. You have to move away for a while until it would local parish gossip would die down..

No offense but it sounds like you're one of the ones who'd be broke in seven years..

job seeker · 08-02-2020 3:35am

[Deleted User] wrote: »

No offense but it sounds like you're one of the ones who'd be broke in seven years..

None taken! The change in Facebook job title is more a way of people not knowing I won the lotto. As opposed to actually acting the mick with the winnings..

Euromillions- what would your family get?!

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