Estimated £201 million jackpot this Friday ‍

karatekid wrote: ↑

Wed Dec 06, 2023 7:30 am

Estimated £201 million jackpot this Friday ‍

If I won that I might be tempted to have my heating on all day this winter.

How many wingers would that buy?

JR1882 wrote: ↑

Wed Dec 06, 2023 8:34 am

How many wingers would that buy?

At least one more who would sit on the bench and still not get on before JBG.

Was golfing at Conway a few weeks back and as we walked to the tee we noticed a table with a couple of bottles of champagne in an ice bucket. A few moments later a family came out all dolled up, plus photographer and a lady with a large, golden envelope. We hung around to watch and it turned out to be a photo shoot for someone who had won a million on Euromillions. Very nice indeed.

karatekid wrote: ↑

Wed Dec 06, 2023 7:30 am

Estimated £201 million jackpot this Friday ‍

Absolutely ridiculous!

Lip wrote: ↑

Wed Dec 06, 2023 9:12 am

Absolutely ridiculous!

That’s what I’d be saying every time I checked my balance

Wake me up when it's £250m, and I'll have a go.

Keep 1m to see you through the 1st year, then 200m invested @10% return, a nice 20m/year. Spend the rest of your life paranoid.

If I won that sort of money I would buy Accy Stanley with the first 6 months interest on the money.

No Ney Never wrote: ↑

Wed Dec 06, 2023 10:59 am

Keep 1m to see you through the 1st year, then 200m invested @10% return, a nice 20m/year. Spend the rest of your life paranoid.

I think I would rather keep the £200m in the building society as basic rate. No need to pursue high risk investment.

I’ll adopt the same tactic as I ask my team to adopt…. Win it first and then decide how to improve everything else.

I think winning that amount of money would completely ruin your life

beddie wrote: ↑

Wed Dec 06, 2023 8:06 am

If I won that I might be tempted to have my heating on all day this winter.

Ha. Trust you to blow the lot just for warmth!

claret2018 wrote: ↑

Wed Dec 06, 2023 1:37 pm

I think winning that amount of money would completely ruin your life

Wouldn't mind the chance of finding out...

200 millionaires would surely be better than one person winning such a huge amount.

I can honestly say that if I won such an amount of money that I would give each of my close family and friends (and ourselves) £5m each and then give the rest to Cancer Research UK. What a preposterous sum of money.

Last night 88 people were 1 number away from winning £187m and instead each won £667!! How sickening would that be.

I got the email this morning telling me I’d won something and should log on. £2.50 I got !

DCWat wrote: ↑

Wed Dec 06, 2023 3:03 pm

200 millionaires would surely be better than one person winning such a huge amount.

Always thought that would be much better! Honestly don't know what I'd do with that much, probably give most of it away.

claret2018 wrote: ↑

Wed Dec 06, 2023 1:37 pm

I think winning that amount of money would completely ruin your life

Winning £201 million might not make you happy but at least you could be miserable in comfort.

That sort of money can make your family wealthy for several generations if invested correctly

Create trust funds for the kids/grandkids and buy houses for your close friends

The invest the rest so it pays out every so often and that’s it, you’re laughing

I’d retire on Saturday at 43 if I won on Friday

Best game of brewsters millions ever..... life objective would still to finish at exactly zero.....

skibum84 wrote: ↑

Wed Dec 06, 2023 4:17 pm

Last night 88 people were 1 number away from winning £187m and instead each won £667!! How sickening would that be.

That prize is for those who only picked 4 of the 5 main numbers. If you selected 5 main numbers but no lucky star number entrants received over £11k, and for 5 main numbers plus 1 of the lucky star numbers lucky entrants received £100k+

Absolutely no way that wouldn’t improve anyone’s life.

I’d try to live similarly to how I do, but I’d be free to pursue whatever I wanted. Also I don’t think I’d work a normal job. Maybe manage some of my own properties as a passive income. If you owned maybe 20 millions worth of houses, your income every year would be easily enough to live a great life. Then the rest can be drop fed into historically medium risk ~7% per year and it can stay there pretty much forever. You’d make money over inflation on average and if your kids were brought up right your family would be more than comfortable forever.

I'd go absolutely mad and buy TWO Twixes.

I’d probably be dead after 6 months.

I've always wondered what it'd look like on a cash machine screen. Would the zeros fit on?

I’d probably be dead within 5 years from mindless hedonism.

And I’d enjoy every second of it.

I might open a tin of salmon

Cirrus_Minor wrote: ↑

Wed Dec 06, 2023 6:22 pm

I might open a tin of salmon

Spoil yourself and go for red.

jedi_master wrote: ↑

Wed Dec 06, 2023 3:07 pm

I can honestly say that if I won such an amount of money that I would give each of my close family and friends (and ourselves) £5m each and then give the rest to Cancer Research UK. What a preposterous sum of money.

I know this probably sounds really awful but I think I would really struggle to give any life changing money away to friends or family in that way as it would worry me how it would affect them and the relationship I had with them.

karatekid wrote: ↑

Wed Dec 06, 2023 7:30 am

Estimated £201 million jackpot this Friday ‍

Wouldn't get out of bed for that

dsr wrote: ↑

Wed Dec 06, 2023 1:29 pm

I think I would rather keep the £200m in the building society as basic rate. No need to pursue high risk investment.

10% is easily achievable and hardly high risk, I have an investment vehicle earning me 10%.

Stick it all in Crypto and become Billionaire in a few days

dsr wrote: ↑

Wed Dec 06, 2023 1:29 pm

I think I would rather keep the £200m in the building society as basic rate. No need to pursue high risk investment.

Imagine the disappointment of those lottery winners who had their millions on deposit with Northern Rock, only receiving the maximum FSCS compensation of £85k when it went t1ts up!

I never understand it when people say they don’t want to win that much money. You can do so much good with it. Keep enough to see you comfortably through life, help those close to you, and give the rest causes/people who really need it eg foodbanks

No Ney Never wrote: ↑

Thu Dec 07, 2023 9:22 am

Imagine the disappointment of those lottery winners who had their millions on deposit with Northern Rock, only receiving the maximum FSCS compensation of £85k when it went t1ts up!

The bigger jackpot winners are advised to use a bank like Coutts, I recall reading about

They’re more set up to deal with very wealthy people

No Ney Never wrote: ↑

Thu Dec 07, 2023 9:22 am

Imagine the disappointment of those lottery winners who had their millions on deposit with Northern Rock, only receiving the maximum FSCS compensation of £85k when it went t1ts up!

Good point.

Could I keep it in 2,365 different building societies?

beddie wrote: ↑

Wed Dec 06, 2023 8:06 am

If I won that I might be tempted to have my heating on all day this winter.

That is just ridiculous, you would still need to keep it at quite a low temperature though surely??

CnBtruntru wrote: ↑

Wed Dec 06, 2023 8:06 pm

Wouldn't get out of bed for that

I would get into bed for that.

...with anyone!

Could buy Burnley for that.

Foshiznik wrote: ↑

Thu Dec 07, 2023 1:07 pm

Could buy Burnley for that.

I’ve got better ways to spend my money and not get abused by strangers for it

kentonclaret wrote: ↑

Wed Dec 06, 2023 4:58 pm

Winning £201 million might not make you happy but at least you could be miserable in comfort.

And as Beddie says....warm.

burnley007 wrote: ↑

Thu Dec 07, 2023 10:58 am

I would get into bed for that.

...with anyone!

Easily bought!