Euromillions €210 million

So guys, the jackpot this Tuesday night is a staggering €210 million.

Question is, what would you do if you were the sole jackpot winner and scooped the lot?

Would you leave the country?

Who would you help out?

Would you tell anyone?

Was chatting the wife about it the other day, i'd be all for telling nobody. Not even the kids. It would ruin them, turn them into complete wasters was my view. Obviously make them comfortable, but let them think their ould fella just worked his way into a position where he doesn't need to work every day.

Would be a job in itself of course, but i'd make a load of donations completely anonymously, i'd pay complete attention to detail to make sure the cover doesn't get blown.

What would everyone else do?

murpho999 wrote: »

You really think you're going to win €210m and your kids won't notice all the extra things?

Unless you plan not to spend money then what's the point in doing it. Never get that.


You won't win anyway so nothing to worry about.

Jaysus you sound like a barrell of laughs!

Right OP, time to get back to making plans.

Would be very hard to keep it secret from family, i'd imagine you would have to not see alot of people again unless you were going to be very low key about it all.

Winning any lottery amount would be a thrill in the short/medium term but once the buzz of buying whatever you want etc.. wears off you will be back to worrying about the same day to day stuff (apart from what you will do for €€€). Health, how your family/mates perceive you (some may be jealous as f*ck and may avoid you) etc..

Giving people a dig out may be a curse aswell, you could be the most level headed person in the world, but the person you give a dig out to may lose the head completely with what you give them.

Myself, i'd give the kids the best education they could get, buy a really nice home in a perfect location to raise my family (with an epic games room, gym, sauna, the works), couple of new cars for myself and wife, holidays 2/3 times a year. Help our families out as discreetly as possible, anonymous donations to raft of worthy causes, maybe holiday home or 2 abroad.

For me, the ability to secure your entire future and buy my time so I don't need to do the 9-5 until i'm 70 would be the dream. Being able to turn over in bed on a wet monday morning if I fancy it, or a late sunday night knowing i'm only going golfing at midday the next day, rather than stressing out about the week ahead!

Just some thoughts anyway

Honestly I would probably just disappear.

I’d put half of it all on red in Vegas

Greenlights16 wrote: »

I’d put half of it all on red in Vegas

and the other half on black

Yeah, we've spoken about this before and realistically we would make sure it wouldn't last that long. You don't want 200 million sitting in a bank account where you can get your hands on it, for all sorts of reasons.

Our families and friends would all be sorted. Probably €5m apiece to siblings & parents. €1m apiece to all of our good friends.

Obviously sort ourselves out with a permanent home, decent size, nothing obnoxious, just enough rooms and outside space. A holiday home as well, maybe Spain or something. Somewhere to go whenever you feel like a no-hassle break.

Throw enough into a fund that will pay out a decent salary, maybe 100k/year, for the rest of our lives.

After that you'll probably have at least €100m floating about. I've no interest in taking over the world, or turning that into millions.

I'd probably use it to help provide grants to community projects, charities and ethical businesses looking for no-strings seed funding.

That'll take up a few years of my time, then I can retire with no bills and 100k a year in a tax free salary for doing nothing.

I never play euromillions when there is high amounts to win. €210M is a ridiculous amount - it would completely change your life for the worse IMO.

I would love to see them split it up - say 21 winners of €10M. Their revenues would go up because people would think they have more of a chance of winning.

Join Elon Musk by buying €200 milion in bitcoin and live on the €10 million :-)

Go to every major sporting event that I could ...
Super Bowl, champs league, World Cup, us masters, Wimbledon, World Cup skiing, olympics, Ryder cup etc etc etc
Houses in several cities like Perth (love it there and not the Scottish one) New York, Nice, California, Ski Chalet in Alps, etc etc

With that kind of dosh in the bank, I would vow not to go mad or anything, 12 months later I'be completely cream crackers.

I think I would set up a a business I'd like to run, offer a crazily good service at a cheap price, it could lose a million a year, who cares, just tell everyone you are raking it in.