[Finance] EuroMillions £105m won by Sussex couple

[Invicta]

Can you buy us a good striker instead?

105m is an insane amount of money. I'm not sure i'd be able to blow all of it, but i'd just relish the opportunity to try tbh.

Haha. I wrote this after hearing Newcastle spunked something like £80M on 3 strikers including that pair that have 1 goal between them this season. Maupay a bargain !!

 

[Tim Over Whelmed]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-england-sussex-50559136

I so wouldn't go public if I won. Asking for trouble surely? But then I don't do the lottery.

There are a legion of long term reporters sniffing around the area of the winner, tapping up car dealers, bank workers, estate agents etc etc it'd be hard to explain moving from the 3 bed semi to a 5 bed mansion and swapping the works transit for an Aston Martin DB11, wouldn't it?

You could, of course, say it wouldn't change you. However, as soon as the local hospice needs £1m or a friends child needs a chair etc to help with their life you'd be there and however discrete you'd tell people to be it'd be out. The only hope people would have is saying they'd inherited a million, or so, burn through that quickly and spread the story you've blown it all but got a nice house and a car .... even then you'd still need to head off in your transit at 7 a.m. every morning to maintain the ruse!

 

[Tim Over Whelmed]

What about keeping £5m, then dishing out equally the £100m between the active NSC membership (excluding trolls/supporters of CP, Stains, Burnley, Swansea, Bmuff).

No doubt based on the number of posts?

 

[Tim Over Whelmed]

No doubt based on the number of posts?

I said, no doubt based on the number of posts.

 

[AmexRuislip]

This is the real image of the couple, not that fake builder crap

 

[Weststander]

No doubt based on the number of posts?

On a inverse (to number to posts) proportionate sliding scale, with a base of only those with 7,500 or more posts qualifying. For example, someone with 7,700 posts would walk away with a high c.£475,000. Would be that equitable?

 

[BensGrandad]

On that basis how much would I get?

 

[dazzer6666]

All jackpot winners are offered help whether they go public or not. Apparently most big winners do not take it but the lower millionaires do, which seems a little strange to me. Although, I'm sure they will invest in accountants etc.

As an aside, my wife's cousin won £1m on Xmas eve a few years ago. Lotto use Coutts as their bank and my wife's cousin was offered a gold Coutts card, which they turned down. I would definitely have taken that!

I would stay anonymous and leave the country to try and avoid scroungers and hangers on with a £105m jackpot.

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Correct - although its' not just Coutts, Camelot have (or at least had) a panel of banks and the winners can choose (some, for example, want to stick with their current bank, some absolutely don't want their existing bank to know). I've been to some presentation events when I worked in the private banking division of a big bank and we were on the panel. The most critical thing a lot of winners want is instant cash for a celebratory pissup - a £10 million cheque is no use at your local boozer. We used to take a bundle of notes to hand over at the time whilst we sorted out clearance of the cheque. Of all the winners we ended up looking after I can't recall a single one going public.

 

[Questions]

Use about 4 % immediately to get a nice place/pay off bills/set kids/family up and invest rest in one of them high interest accounts offshore and all the cash raised above inflation give to charities .

What about that ‘Spoke Spanner’ you’ve always wanted ?

 

[Questions]

That sounds like a great way to alienate the rest and sow resentment throughout the family.

Oh lovely... We have a member of our family that we’d give £10.00 too.

 

[Weststander]

On that basis how much would I get?

Enough to buy a new mouse for your laptop, from Pets Corner.

 

[Weststander]

 

[Originunknown]

Good luck to them.

There are many local and wider UK charities which could use donations this time of year.

 

[BensGrandad]

Apparently the family live in Selsey so the chances of their win not becoming common knowledge would be virtually nil I would think in such a small community.

 

[Southpaw]

I hate it when lottery winners say they will continue as normal.He's actually going to continue working as a builder??Well he thinks he is but on a cold grey winters morning when he has a hard days graft ahead of him let's see how committed he is.

 

[Coldeanseagull]

If I won a sum of money that meant I received begging letters to share my fortune, you wouldn't see my arse for dust!
It won't happen though, I never buy a ticket

 

[South Stand Bonfire]

Apparently the family live in Selsey so the chances of their win not becoming common knowledge would be virtually nil I would think in such a small community.

And quite a handy location for the Camelot Press Officer at the announcement today who doesn't live a million miles away and views/posts on NSC

 

[Motogull]

Its not big a deal is it? It just about covers the cost of a pretend new main stand at a shite south London football club.

 

[jessiejames]

Cocaine and hookers

The rest I would just waste.

 

[METALMICKY]

The very best of luck to them. However, and apologies for perhaps trotting this out again but wouldn't be nicer if 105 people won a million each? Spread the happiness?