Why tell the world you have won £33 million?
Can anyone understand the logic behind announcing to the World via TV and press that you won the big lottery? Have they not just set themselves up for potential kidnapping?
I would have said nothing to anybody and in six months time admitted to close relatives that we had won 1.5 million
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Can anyone understand the logic behind announcing to the World via TV and press that you won the big lottery? Have they not just set themselves up for potential kidnapping?
I would have said nothing to anybody and in six months time admitted to close relatives that we had won 1.5 million
Why 1.5 million? Do you have something to share?
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Not something I would announce to the world, not sure about friends and family
. Nice to win enough to have a good backstop and money for kids and grandkids and possiibly good friends, but do you admit how much? How do
you then mantain friendships etc when those around you are aware of your win? Do they stay friends for what else there maybe? If you were used to going away with friends/family would they still be able to go or would they expect you to pay. Quite a double
edged sword really.
Not one I'm likely to have to hold as we don't do the lottery and ERNIE has forgotten I've got any numbers
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Pressure from Camelot I'm sure. For a northerner, £1.5 million would be nice wouldn't it?
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I'll send ERNIE a nudge for you. He remembers me most months.
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I suspect its Hobson's Choice. Ideally you would keep quiet about it but because of the size of the win the press would move heaven and earth to uncover the identity of the winners. If they were discovered in that way they are bound to be less kind to them
than an official announcement as it happened.David
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They live in a small town, very difficult to keep quiet if they suddenly start buying new homes etc but I think I'd try not to speak to the press. Not much chance of that win happening to any of us .....anyone going for the next big pay out on Friday?!
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That's because he remembered me today. How much Learjet can you get for twenty five quid?
I think the sad thing about a mega win is that the recipient, in order to avoid the begging letter/freeloader/ sick aunty operation problem is to break with old acquaintances and they end up moving in totally new circles. As I've posted before, creates as
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A fortune teller once told me that I'd never be rich, but I would always be comfortable, although I would have to earn every penny. As the years go by I feel I need to take issue with her definition of comfortable, though! I did once win a yoghurt maker
in a tombola. I'm fairly certain that this publicity dilemma will never be mine...
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That's because he remembered me today. How much Learjet can you get for twenty five quid?
I think the sad thing about a mega win is that the recipient, in order to avoid the begging letter/freeloader/ sick aunty operation problem is to break with old acquaintances and they end up moving in totally new circles. As I've posted before, creates as many problems as it solves.
I'm willing to trial it
I always told them at work if I'm not in Monday (after a big rollover) I'll be thinking of you all while I'm laying in the sun somewhere
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It's the thought of the tax I'd be paying on the invested money that would upset me. Even at 1% return it would be around £150k per year.
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In todays paper it seems they are going to help out with the local flood victims, nice to hear.
Last night OH and me talked about what we would do if we won that amount of money, we didn't get much further than about 5 million
the rest
we decided would have to be given away. With that in mind we feel that these huge payouts would be better spread out among the other winners, ie 5 numbers etc. that way giving more people a nice win.0
sorry
