If you won the lottery

I can't do anything such as leave this god forsaken dump of a town until I'm released from all parental duties. Nobody is keeping me here but I have to stay until my mum passes, it's non negotiable I have to see my family obligations through to the end after that I'm a free agent. So if I did win lottery or euro-millions after mum passed I'd sort my kid sisters and bro out for cash first then adios splitsville to the back of beyond coastal sticks and not keep in contact with any of my family. I owe them nothing, I owe nobody anything. Not the banks nor credit union I have no kids or debts, I have no disgruntled ex's or enemies.

I live and exist as a total nobody and can easily disappear, my wife not to easy to tell her to do anything but she can either agree and go with me or I give her half and she can go her own way on her own without me to protect her, she couldn't live without me obviously I'd expect her to sort her family out with cash as well whether she stayed with me or not but I've put my life on hold for the last 7 years and deserve peace and quiet.

Irish lotto, think people would just think fair play, drinks on him and kind of leave you alone after that.

Euro millions, no hope for you.

Moral of the day, if you win, say it was the irish lotto. And then you blew most of it paying off your house/ car /debts.

Wouldnt have it all blown, but half anyway!

few hundred k for a house. New car for yourself. Bit of money left over so you can quit your job hopefully?

I’d tell no one, just say I did well on trading crypto.

Don't worry Niall, you will never be faced with this awful dilemma. And don't worry about it on behalf of other people.

Of course I would. If family and friends do this then it's a case of you just having bad family/friends. The lotto brings happiness only if you spend the money wisely

If I won the lottery I wouldn't treat my family or anyone else differently. If it became obvious that I won, then I'd simply state that I had won some money. Winning that amount of money, I think you need to be philanthropic, which I would intend to be.

I’d just tell people that an investment paid off…..

give them a generous cash gift and on with life….

far easier then taking calls every other week from people who know you are 50 million rich , who heard this cause, that cause….need a dig out…

not that you couldn’t help but it’s just going to be boring and time consuming dealing with people seeing you as an ATM…

I’ve an aunt whose always dealt with my dad as a one stop shop for advice, DIY, loans ( yeah right ) of money that ended up turning into gifts…. Not worth the hassle.

” had some luck on an investment, this is for you“… the end.

I'd buy a set of golf clubs ................... St.Andrews, County Louth and my own beautiful Greenore.

I know people with mega money (not me), things change but not as much as you think for most.

If I won the Euromillions I'd tell nobody. And I mean nobody. Your life would be seriously changed, and lots of it wouldn't be for the better.

I like where I live and wouldn't like to be hounded out of the place. I also don't like the idea of my mother or any other family members being threatened or kidnapped. And because I'd tell nobody, I couldn't go flashing the cash, not right away at least.

I'd pay off my mortgage and any outstanding debts. I'd buy a nearly new car, not brand new. Not a McLaren or anything exotic, maybe a nearly new Toyota Carolla or something boring like that.

Then I'd set up my own sham business and leave my job and pretend I was working in my sham business that involved me working from home etc. I wouldn't be working of course, I'd be taking it easy. I'd take several very nice holidays and live pretty relaxed for a year or two without doing anything too extravagant all while pretending to work from home. Then after a year or two, I could pretend my business was doing very well and slowly start spending more and more of my money.

Eventually people would think 'that cnut's loaded', he sells stuff online' or whatever my sham business claims I do. Then I'd be able to help family members etc.

I wouldn't feel safe going public. What's 'urban legend' about the stories below?

I could go on.

Go on and tell me how badly these people fared. Or what miserable lives the tens of thousands of millionaires endure, who didn't get their riches from the Lotto.

Since 2020, Dublin has unsurprisingly topped the charts for National Lottery wins with over €68 million paid out to 275 players, 22 of which won prizes in excess of €1 million. In the last three years, ten separate millionaires were made in Co. Cork while Galway and Mayo have had six new millionaires each.

I'd buy every property on main street, then half the rent of those who occupy them.

I'd upgrade the 2012 car to a 2014 at least anyway, paddy spec of course.

Why would you force your parents to retire? If working is what they want to do, rather than need to, then leave them at it!

Exactly how you would force them is another question.

Fair enough! My comment wasn't particularly relevant to the conversation anyway. 😀

If i won the Euromillions. I'd buy a new house same town just a nicer one & get it done up lovely, Just cause the kids are in school so I'd need to stick around the area ,Get myself a new Land Rover,

5 years later i'd move again to a bigger house , Nobody would think iv won the lotto just got a few more quid,

Id leave my job & say im going somewhere else but obviously just retire, nobody would know they'd see you around the odd time just say your working from home or on a day off ,

Take long summer holidays to 5 star resorts , No one checks up on where you go so they would be none the wiser,.

I'd live the same life just with nicer things but nothing massively different , You could build up to total change over a 5 or 10 year period & people would just think your doing well ,

Some people have a high opinion of how important their lifestyle is to the rest of the community. Nobody would pay a blind bit of attention to what you do with your money.

i know someomne who won big on our miserable lotto, nice tidy fortune. Their family / freinds came out of the wood work asking for money for various things, and ppl they havent seen for a long time. They could afford to help them out im sure, but flat blank denied to share a penny with them for various reasons. I didnt think any less of them for not doing so, their choice. It hasnt changed them in any way with the look at me trinkets or nasty bling.

if it were me, id share it around with a chosen few ppl and a few smaller charities, but id be out of ireland as quickly as i could, south italy direction for a simple life and retire there, and do a lot of global motorbike travel in between.

Don't worry yourself about it. You, literally, have more chance of dying in a plane crash.

Ah that kind of an amount is life defining. The 3m you left yourself to live on, if you invested that in a very safe managed portfolio with almost zero risk you'd make an easy average 7-8% interest every year. That would leave you about 150k (after tax) to live on every year without even touching the 3m.

I plan all this out every tie I but a lottery ticket.

(Daydreaming is most of the fun of it, really):

A house for each of my children

A swimming pool for me

An apartment in Dublin for town visits and night life

Another apartment for temporarily homeless friends

and the rest to charity;

Charities:

Ireland- a good dollop to Sister Stan

A sponsorship for young Traveller education

Rest of World - a clean water charity, plus a few others.

And if there's anything left over - eat ice-cream!

A month long binge of drugs and hookers , or depending on how much I win maybe 6 months 😁