If you won the lotto would you go public?

33 comments

1. Heeeeell no.

2. Absolutely not. The begging letters would be a nightmare and then I’m sure you’d have various variety’s of Wooly faced men after some protection money.

3. Be hard to hide the dough. Keep Schtum for a couple of weeks and then tell your family you won a mill on a scratchcard. My ma is a tout so I’d need a plausible story for getting her a new Qashqai

4. End up in the boot of a car ffs 😂 🐅

5. Nope. Nope. Nope.

6. Would I ballix.

   You’d be a go to for every scrounging bastard about. Not to mention every scumbag crook and tealeaf on the island would be targeting you to line their own pockets.

7. I feel I could hid a 2million win, get a nicer house with more outside space and furniture that’s not Ikea, a nicer car, and have a nice nest egg, could hid that by claiming a few pomotions, more money might cause stress plus my Newry inlaws can’t hold their water so would def need to skip the country

8. One of our field engineers won a load of money, he stayed on for a bit and then said fuck it and bought a ferrari and quit. It’s all gone now and he’s divorced. Something Magee if i remmeber correctly.

   So no, i wouldn’t go public. They try to make you go public with promise of financial expertise to help you deal with the money. I reckon you’d be able afford your own accountant at that point.

9. I’ve always said that if I won the Euromillions, I would claim to have won a couple of mill.

   Chances are, I’d be based in the south of France and have someone over here opening up my letters for me.

10. It’s very easy to say you’d keep it secret. Money changes people, especially folks like myself who got paid on 19th and won’t get paid until 19th Jan again already waiting for gas metre to go to emergacy.

    There would be signs and alot of them. I’d be going to the local shop for a packet of dear fags in my tailored suit, I’d be buying 4 pack of Andrex bog roll and I’d enjoy the pleasure of cleaning my arse instead of worrying about fingering it with cheap 2 ply.

11. If I’d won big on the euromillions I wouldn’t even want to tell my wife! Clear my debts and then stick most of it in a dividend portfolio and just live off that instead of pissing through the winnings.

12. I wouldn’t say a thing. Clear the debts, work whilst I was happy to, retire early and do some volunteer work with the Simon Community.

13. Honestly I think anyone who goes public after a big win needs their head examined. Either they aren’t the full shilling and don’t think things through – or they just want the attention. Overnight you lose friends, family and any sense of a quiet life.

14. Of course not.

    Besides the people trying to beg you for money, you’d be a target for robberies, family members and friends would blame you of everything if you don’t help them etc.

    Easier to buy a house then say you won a house. Invest the rest of money and live from the dividends while telling everyone gradually how you were promoted so that’s why you work less.

15. Why does anybody do it, is the thing I always ask myself. It’s not like you’re not gonna get the money if you don’t. What’s in it for them to take part in the big press photo op?

16. No way, I don’t even think I’d tell the wife

17. When I won 18million I went door to door on our estate to let everyone know, this ensured everyone heard from the horses mouth how incredibly wealthy I was.

18. God no. I’ve actually puzzled over how to help out my family without telling them about the lotto win (haven’t figured it out yet.)

19. No. I’d not even tell my family. Only thing I would do is make a large contribution to a pension for my mum as tbh she is not the type who would know what to do with a large sum. Better a monthly stipend.

20. Fuck no
    And I’d emigrate

21. A fella in work was telling me someone he knew won 150k on one of those Facebook comps and the comp posted announcing the winner. A couple of “community representatives” turned up at his door asking for money.

    So absolutely not.

22. I always think you have to be a certain kind of stupid to go public with it. Especially here.

23. I remember there was a young guy called Ryan Magee who won about £6m in 2008, he managed to piss it all away by 2013 and was caught driving while suspended and without insurance in a run down beater car. He had to claim legal aid for the case.

    Some people just haven’t the faintest clue what to do with money. He bought himelf a supercar and a giant house and then decided he was going to open, of all things, a home fuel distribution business. Which was a bit left field for a guy who worked in IT before the win.

    The sad reality is that actively trying to manage or invest a personal fortune is the easiest way to lose it. The most successful people who come into money are the most boring. The silly bastard could have spent a clean million on whatever he liked, then just popped the rest in broad based ETFs and lived on the interest for the rest of his life. Which would still be about £200k a year after tax (assuming about 5% ROI, which is normal enough over time).

24. The fuck I would

25. I have thought about this a few times and honestly I wouldn’t really change much, I’d pay off any debts, buy a bigger house and say that we’d been saving for last few years, which isn’t a lie anyway, but I’ve never been interested in luxury sports cars and what not, always thought someone is just gonna steal it anyway as they aren’t as common over here, so a basic half decent car wouldn’t look to outta place.

    I’ve also always had this mad idea to have a regular looking 4 bedroom house built, but have a basement floor put in, and down there have a gym, jacuzzi, home cinema whatever, so on the outside it looks like a nice house, but nothing too crazy.

    Maybe I’m just paranoid but I’d hate people knowing I’d millions in the bank

26. I wouldn’t be shoutin it from the rooftops but it’s safe to say I’d get busy living. The only one I usually bother with is set for life, so ten grand a month for the next thirty years is a lot of living and honestly, being drip fed it like that sounds good to me (cunt about this month? No worries, start afresh next month sure like a good boy).

27. Presuming we’re talking fuck off money, public. But I wouldn’t move. I’d tumble the gaff and build my dream house on this site. I’d put the money up to landscape and maintain our hamlets communal areas and verges, fix all the potholes and provide a fund for community private health care.

    You can’t half tell I’m 43 paha.

28. Tell anyone. Especially family.
    Then Tiger kidnappings start

    Family member x gets kidnapped. You get a phone call saying ‘we want x amount or they’re dead’

    This happens more often than you’d believe. On this island. And it doesn’t get covered in media anymore but it has.

    Tell. Nobody.

29. The only people that I would let know is the staff at lottery hq, a new accountant, solicitor and independent financial advisor.

30. nah too many paramilitary nonces floating about looking a handout.

    Best to just keep the head down buy a couple of rental properties and move into a quiet neighbourhood, maybe buy a nice car. If anybody asks just tell them you work as a consultant…

31. Would i fuck, the boyos would be at yer door straight away and then all the cryin hoors of the day would have ye tortured. I’d be away like fuck with the family

32. I wouldn’t tell anyone, but I’d say the purple Lamborghini might give it away.

33. Nope, not a chance. I’d buy a bigger house but not a mansion. Just a big 4 bed detached in a nice area but not massive money needed for that anyway. I’d sort out my family so they are all mortgage free in good houses. Put money away for my son and my family’s kids too. Invest enough to live a normal life off the interest. Then the rest I’d spend on causes I care about – sort out some local sports clubs with facilities etc, build a few housing projects and charge affordable rent to families.