Euromillions

dxhound2005 wrote: »

Jackpot heading for €160 million on Friday.

Top tip. Buy your tickets in another town, or online. Nobody will ever find out if you win.

It would be a full time job in itself trying to hide that amount of money

dxhound2005 wrote: »

Jackpot heading for €160 million on Friday.

Top tip. Buy your tickets in another town, or online. Nobody will ever find out if you win.

Damn your spoiler.... it means I didn't win it tonight.

If I won it, I think I'd keep working.

dxhound2005 wrote: »

Jackpot heading for €160 million on Friday.

Top tip. Buy your tickets in another town, or online. Nobody will ever find out if you win.

Nah, the nosey bastards were i live would twig the gold plated lambo and know something was up. :mad:

Even if you got 1% of that jackpot you would still walk away with 1.6 Million. Imagine what you could do with that let alone the full 160. Mind-boggling.

I'd stage a coup in a small 3rd world county. But I wouldn't cock it up like that Mark Thatcher clown.

El_Bee wrote: »

has anyone ever won online?

I have got small wins playing Euromillions online. I find it handy that i was always forgetting to check my numbers (i do quickpick) or i put the ticket in a drawer and forget about it. They email you when you win and you have to log in to see how much you won. its handy.

"Yeah I got a really good raise at work actually, decided to put it towards upgrading the Golf to a Ferrari. Got unreal PCP on it"

It's a mental amount of money really. You and your family would be a target for kidnappers. Would have to employ bodyguards, obviously you have the money to.

Not sure what I'd do. One side of me thinks I'd set up a charity to buy equipment for children's hospitals or children who need specialist equipment at home.

Another side of me says homes in New York, London and a few other places. But your life would never be normal. Everyone who ever met you would expect a payout.

WB Yokes wrote: »

I wouldnt tell anyone except family and close friends. And theyd be set for life. Anyone else can feck off, id be that far away from them theyd never get a chance to ask me for money.

You might only tell family and close friends but you won't be able to keep it quiet. I know my Mother would let it slip to everyone she knows, even if she promises not to tell anyone

Deebles McBeebles wrote: »

Have heard stories of the app/website being very unreliable but I'm not sure how true that is.

There was a fairly big winner of the Irish lotto a few weeks back, couple of million I think.

Just move to a country or city where having 150mil is not of the ordinary.
You could easily blend into New York with 150 mil - nobody would bat an eye. Plus they don't gossip anywhere near like us Irish.

WB Yokes wrote: »

Ah i know its easier said than done. That would be my aim anyway.

How would people deal with family and close friends regarding looking after them? With that amount of money you could obviously make sure they were all very comfortable for the rest of their lives..

I think id just give my family x amount and then help set my friends up in business so they could make their own money.

How far do you go with the gifts too? A sliding scale? I was thinking immediate family €5m each, that would be €20m between mine and the wife's brothers. Both sets of parents wouldn't want that much. So maybe €2m for each set of parents. That's only €24m.

Then close friends, maybe €3m each. Say that's 15 between me and the wife, another €45m.

Still have €91m left :eek:

Do I move onto cousins? €100k each? Friends who aren't as close, the same? Then they get resentful that they 'only' got €100k.

It's actually incomprehensible with that amount of money.

I'd probably be happier winning €250k on the lotto plus. Mortgage paid and extensive work done on the house without a loan. Set up for life then and no one expecting you to clear their mortgage too. Could still afford to give money to brothers but it would be in the €10ks

Leg End Reject wrote: »

Yeah, always easy to hide a €160 million windfall and carry on with your normal day to day life.

Even easier to cut ties and move somewhere that no-one knows your name!
That kinda wealth smoothes a lot of visa issues