£161 million pounds finds a good Scottish home....

[Pyramid*]

:D

Wonderful news.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2013655/Were-rich-Beckhams--161m-winners-join-jet-set-promise-fun.html

*been a while since I've been in Largs, time for a begging letter to be sent*!!

[joeysteele]

Congratulations to them, crazy amount of money to win though, they will now find themselves very popular with everyone and likely have relatives crawling out the woodwork that haven't been seen for decades or a fair bit of their lives.

Good luck to them though.

[Pyramid*]

Congratulations to them, crazy amount of money to win though, they will now find themselves very popular with everyone and likely have relatives crawling out the woodwork that haven't been seen for decades or a fair bit of their lives.

Good luck to them though.

:o

:nono:I take great offence to that. :mad:


*curses under breath, cancels car journey, destroys begging letter*
















:D

[Pyramid*]

Neighbours described their only hobby as ‘takeaways’ with their favourite being the town’s Fish and Chicken Bar.




Having noted the pictures ........ they clearly are big fans indeed!! :devil:

But hey...good luck to them: it's nice seeing it go to two people who appear to have worked, grafted and now can live the rest of their lives and their retirement in absolute bliss.

Think of the amount of Chip shops they could buy!!! Superb!!

[patsylimerick]

Don't know, Mids. I genuinely wouldn't want to win Euromillions - have never done it. I'd be quite happy to win a million or two on the National Lottery. But I wouldn't want several dozen million. Here's part of the reason why:

WHEN struggling mum Dolores McNamara won EUR115million on the EuroMillions lottery last summer she knew life would never be the same again.

The mother of six could give up her part-time cleaning job and stop worrying how to pay for her youngest child's school uniform.

Instead she enjoyed planning how to spend her cash... on a fabulous new home, extravagant holidays for the family and maybe even a racehorse.

But wealth has come at a price - and that's a sobering thought for whoever wins the even bigger EUR125million jackpot up for grabs next week in the same lottery.

Six months after her dream windfall, Dolores, 47, and her family have been plagued by kidnap plots and death threats which have forced them to go into hiding.

While decorators put the finishing touches to their palatial EUR1.76million new home in Co Clare, the McNamaras are living in fear for their lives.

Dolores's eldest son Gary, 26, has been forced to flee his home on the outskirts of Limerick with his girlfriend and child after police told him of plans by a notorious Irish

Also, though, such a huge amount of money has to completely change your life and the relationships with those around you. Wouldn't want it. Careful what you wish for.

[Pyramid*]

Don't know, Mids. I genuinely wouldn't want to win Euromillions - have never done it. I'd be quite happy to win a million or two on the National Lottery. But I wouldn't want several dozen million. Here's part of the reason why:

WHEN struggling mum Dolores McNamara won EUR115million on the EuroMillions lottery last summer she knew life would never be the same again.

The mother of six could give up her part-time cleaning job and stop worrying how to pay for her youngest child's school uniform.

Instead she enjoyed planning how to spend her cash... on a fabulous new home, extravagant holidays for the family and maybe even a racehorse.

But wealth has come at a price - and that's a sobering thought for whoever wins the even bigger EUR125million jackpot up for grabs next week in the same lottery.

Six months after her dream windfall, Dolores, 47, and her family have been plagued by kidnap plots and death threats which have forced them to go into hiding.

While decorators put the finishing touches to their palatial EUR1.76million new home in Co Clare, the McNamaras are living in fear for their lives.

Dolores's eldest son Gary, 26, has been forced to flee his home on the outskirts of Limerick with his girlfriend and child after police told him of plans by a notorious Irish

Also, though, such a huge amount of money has to completely change your life and the relationships with those around you. Wouldn't want it. Careful what you wish for.


Ach I know... but you know what.... I still woudn't mind a shot!! :)

[joeysteele]

[QUOTE=Pyramid*;4378875]:o

:nono:I take great offence to that. :mad:


*curses under breath, cancels car journey, destroys begging letter*


Aah, sorry Pyramid, I just think suddenly acquiring great wealth can bring out the worst in 'some' other people.

(I recall a different situation but one where on my Dad's side an Aunt died and left a great deal, suddenly from what seemed nowhere were people who said they knew her and then also there was relatives, very distant ones,who came from near and far who had never been seen or had communicated even for years).

I hope this couple enjoy their win, that ir brings them great happiness and all they need and it must give them massive security.

Sharing a win like that with others is a good thing sadly there are people if they are allowed to, who would take massive advantage of a situation like this.

Having said that, I would enjoy being in that position myself.

[Pyramid*]

Aah, sorry Pyramid, I just think suddenly acquiring great wealth can bring out the worst in 'some' other people.

(I recall a different situation but one where on my Dad's side an Aunt died and left a great deal, suddenly from what seemed nowhere were people who said they knew her and then also there was relatives, very distant ones,who came from near and far who had never been seen or had communicated even for years).

I hope this couple enjoy their win, that ir brings them great happiness and all they need and it must give them massive security.

Sharing a win like that with others is a good thing sadly there are people if they are allowed to, who would take massive advantage of a situation like this.

Having said that, I would enjoy being in that position myself.




I was messing ! I wasn't being serious !!! No apols needed ya dafty! :)


WTH is going wrong with the quotes !!!

[joeysteele]

I was messing ! I wasn't being serious !!! No apols needed ya dafty! :)


WTH is going wrong with the quotes !!!

I knew that Pyramid,I know you don't take offence at me nor I you, I forgot to put my a joker in.:joker:

[Pyramid*]

I knew that Pyramid,I know you don't take offence at me nor I you, I forgot to put my a joker in.:joker:


yeaaaahhh!! the quotes sorted themselves !!!

*Spies my bank statement. Checks family tree details again.... *

I liked the comments where the man says no need to replace their perfectly good 2 cars...and the wife chipping in that she'll be changing hers!!!

I like her style !! :hugesmile:

[Smithy]

They can get matching gastric bands

[Rob]

The lucky sods!

[Pyramid*]

They can get matching gastric bands

they could but I doubt it's likely to be on the top of their priority list.....and who would blame them for not giving a damn. I don't.

[Zippy]

Eww

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/07/15/article-2013655-0D0702FF00000578-157_634x484.jpg

[Pyramid*]

Eww




With £161 million smackers in their hip pockets, I doubt they'll be too worried what people think of them.

I sure as hell wouldn't!!

[Novo]

Eww

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/07/15/article-2013655-0D0702FF00000578-157_634x484.jpg

Looks a bit like the fat woman from the Texas Chainsaw Massacre

[Pyramid*]

Looks a bit like the fat woman from the Texas Chainsaw Massacre

my my...the sheer jealousy pouring out of some on here!!! Superb. :D

[Zippy]

my my...the sheer jealousy pouring out of some on here!!! Superb. :D

yeah, looking at them Im really desperate to be one of them...

[tmi]

If I wouldnt want to win that much money, money dosent buy happiness , I would like to win around £200,000 and that would put my money matters to bed with a little over for pension security and a caravan, Im not greedy. Heard of the expression more money than sense.

[Pyramid*]

yeah, looking at them Im really desperate to be one of them...

Desperate to be in their position ;)

[Pyramid*]

If I wouldnt want to win that much money, money dosent buy happiness , I would like to win around £200,000 and that would put my money matters to bed with a little over for pension security and a caravan, Im not greedy. Heard of the expression more money than sense.

Hi you! :wavey: BTW>... love the new cars !! Very nice (jealous!!):hugesmile:

£200k really is not a lot of money these days. The price of a small flat in central London, or a half decent 3 / 4 bedroom house in decent area.

:hugesmile:

[tmi]

Hi you! :wavey: BTW>... love the new cars !! Very nice (jealous!!):hugesmile:

£200k really is not a lot of money these days. The price of a small flat in central London, or a half decent 3 / 4 bedroom house in decent area.

:hugesmile:

Dont live in London live in Valleys and I have bought my , bought house around 9 years ago:xyxwave: Just had quote for insurance over 400.00 bloody crazy and have been driving 13 years.:bawling:

[Kerry]

I play the lottery so am not going to be a hypocrite and say I wouldn't love to be loaded. But that much, I'd make other millionaires put it that way.

[Shaun]

I'm not even lying when I say I'd probably donate £100m of that to charity, the other 61 is way more than enough to set you and your family for life.

[Kerry]

The interest alone is more than enough to live on

[Pyramid*]

I play the lottery so am not going to be a hypocrite and say I wouldn't love to be loaded. But that much, I'd make other millionaires put it that way.

The interest alone is more than enough to live on


With the amount they have won: I'd be surprised if they didn't make quite a few 'millionaires' - I know for absolutely certainty that if were me, I would not think twice - people who have been true friends, would never have to worry financially ever again.


£7,000 a DAY interest (estimated) Bloody hell !!! :o

Can you imagine the 'good' that could be done. How fulfilling your life could be, visiting places all over the world if that was your thing, helping, seeing the results.....what a fantastic position to be in.

[Marc]

I'm not even lying when I say I'd probably donate £100m of that to charity, the other 61 is way more than enough to set you and your family for life.

I agree, so much of that money can go to charity. It can infact completely change the lives of numerous charity organisations.

[Marc]

£7k interest a day! What would be enough to live on.

Well obviously enough! Then I would get rid when I'm about to die

[Marc]

£7k interest a day! What would be enough to live on.

Well obviously enough! Then I would get rid when I'm about to die

[arista]

In the papers
that silly couple had to move out there home due to strangers asking direct for cash.

She said she thought of not going Public
that would have been better.

They thought they could stay in the house
after telling the World the place the live.
They have much to learn.

[billy123]

Good on them any derogative comments about them speak volumes about the morons making them.
They have already expressed a wish to set up a charitable organisation bless them x

Personally i would tell everybody that i planned to keep every penny and screw charity whilst simultaneously going about making decisions on how would be best to contribute a good chunk of it to help as many people/charitys as i could. Any haters would be exposed and seen for what they are.

[Pyramid*]

£7k interest a day! What would be enough to live on.

Well obviously enough! Then I would get rid when I'm about to die


Yep..... £7k a day. :hugesmile: Utterly beyond everyday folks comprehension really.... I'd just sit and giggle seeing the interest rolling every day - feck...imagine the compound interest !!!

[Pyramid*]

In the papers
that silly couple had to move out there home due to strangers asking direct for cash.

She said she thought of not going Public
that would have been better.

They thought they could stay in the house
after telling the World the place the live.
They have much to learn.


Here comes the down side of the lottery winners.... from a head ******* pov - it must be right up there in the top 10.

This is where they find their lives have now changed forever - and this is the down side coming into play. This is where they find who their true friends are.

[Lewis.]

They should be able to spend their money in whatever way they want - they won it fair and square.

[Pyramid*]

Dont live in London live in Valleys and I have bought my , bought house around 9 years ago:xyxwave: Just had quote for insurance over 400.00 bloody crazy and have been driving 13 years.:bawling:

I know you live in Wales.:blush: Even if you've paid your house outright - £200k still is not a lot of money.

It's £20k per annum for 10 years: and honestly, as much as it sounds a huge amount -it isn't. It can be spent in the blink of an eye.

[Lewis.]

I've always said that if I won that amount of money, I'd build my own little area with a few houses, and everyone that I loved would get their own house and we'd make our own little village with all of our massive mansions :tongue: I'd also give a lot of money to support local charities - the bigger and more well known ones all get a lot of money but quite often the smaller local ones, such as local hospices and animal shelters really have to scrape the bottom of the barrel to survive, so I'd like to make a big difference to them, rather than a smaller difference to another charity such as childline, which already gets a lot of money.

[arista]

Here comes the down side of the lottery winners.... from a head ******* pov - it must be right up there in the top 10.

This is where they find their lives have now changed forever - and this is the down side coming into play. This is where they find who their true friends are.



Yes they
can not get back to there home
how silly of them to think freaks whould not visit them.

[arista]

http://news.sky.com/sky-news/content/StaticFile/jpg/2011/Jul/Week3/16031788.jpg

[Pyramid*]

Yes they
can not get back to there home
how silly of them to think freaks whould not visit them.

I'd rather opt to call them naive - they've never experienced this before. I do however think they should have avoided the publicity until they got their heads around it all...and when it had sunk in, then made a decision on whether to go public - when they have grasped how this would change their lives.

Shame but it was a certainty to happen. As long as they are able to not let it 'get to them' - they have a lot of adjustment to do.

[Pyramid*]

I've always said that if I won that amount of money, I'd build my own little area with a few houses, and everyone that I loved would get their own house and we'd make our own little village with all of our massive mansions :tongue: I'd also give a lot of money to support local charities - the bigger and more well known ones all get a lot of money but quite often the smaller local ones, such as local hospices and animal shelters really have to scrape the bottom of the barrel to survive, so I'd like to make a big difference to them, rather than a smaller difference to another charity such as childline, which already gets a lot of money.

I would pack up and ship out to foreign shores - if I won anything that was truly substantial (ie: I mean a few million)

I live a life where I actually don't need too much to keep me happy - I don't need (or want) a huge amount of people around me.

I'd jaunt between some fab private tropical exotic beachhouse and somewhere in the middle of a forest - and be happy to become the next old Brigette Bardot, with my closest friends being at the end of a phone/keyboard and coming to visit.

If I won what this couple did... I'd probably do the same as you Lewis: give a lot of it away:

Sounds bliss!!:blush:

[Marc]

I've always said that if I won that amount of money, I'd build my own little area with a few houses, and everyone that I loved would get their own house and we'd make our own little village with all of our massive mansions :tongue: I'd also give a lot of money to support local charities - the bigger and more well known ones all get a lot of money but quite often the smaller local ones, such as local hospices and animal shelters really have to scrape the bottom of the barrel to survive, so I'd like to make a big difference to them, rather than a smaller difference to another charity such as childline, which already gets a lot of money.

Try getting planning permission for that :suspect:

[Pyramid*]

Try getting planning permission for that :suspect:

Money talks.... !! Shouldn't be a problem!

[arista]

I'd rather opt to call them naive - they've never experienced this before. I do however think they should have avoided the publicity until they got their heads around it all...and when it had sunk in, then made a decision on whether to go public - when they have grasped how this would change their lives.

Shame but it was a certainty to happen. As long as they are able to not let it 'get to them' - they have a lot of adjustment to do.


But Camelot would have pre warned them
about invasion of beggers.


They are in a Hotel.


They can buy a Gated Home
or a High rise Top Class Flat.

[tmi]

I know you live in Wales.:blush: Even if you've paid your house outright - £200k still is not a lot of money.

It's £20k per annum for 10 years: and honestly, as much as it sounds a huge amount -it isn't. It can be spent in the blink of an eye.

Bib It is lot money for me, and my house would be paid of with a 10% of that money, I havent a big mortgage, whats the point in that have three bed mid terrace, comfortable for 2.4 children.:hugesmile: I dont see the point of having a whoppa of a mortgage and you have to break a arm and a leg to keep up with repayments in a few years time when inflation goes up which it will people will loose they houses like in the eighties, people live for today and frig tmoz, that attitude has ruined a lot of lives. Save a little and spend a little, not spend like mad and skint for the forseeable, credit cards are abombunation, you know I cant spell:hugesmile: Look after the pennies and the pounds look after themselves.:nono:

[tmi]

ON THE RUN (http://www.dailystar.co.uk/ourpaper/view/2011-07-17)

[Pyramid*]

But Camelot would have pre warned them
about invasion of beggers.


They are in a Hotel.


They can buy a Gated Home
or a High rise Top Class Flat.


Yes, Camelot would have advised them. Not only would they have done so, Camelot would have provided their own advisors to be available to them, and free of charge. You can take that from me, that I know this as absolute fact.


To bring it down to simplicity for you - an advisor advises. They give advice only. They would have been advised on reasons for disclosing, as well as reasons against. The decision belonged to the winning couple.

[Pyramid*]

Bib It is lot money for me, and my house would be paid of with a 10% of that money, I havent a big mortgage, whats the point in that have three bed mid terrace, comfortable for 2.4 children.:hugesmile: I dont see the point of having a whoppa of a mortgage and you have to break a arm and a leg to keep up with repayments in a few years time when inflation goes up which it will people will loose they houses like in the eighties, people live for today and frig tmoz, that attitude has ruined a lot of lives. Save a little and spend a little, not spend like mad and skint for the forseeable, credit cards are abombunation, you know I cant spell:hugesmile: Look after the pennies and the pounds look after themselves.:nono:

Much as I love you to bits tmi.... this is one we are not going to agree on. I accept you are saying that to you, £200k is a lot of money.

It believe it isn't a lot. To me, I do not regard it as enough to be life changing. Nowhere near close enough to be life changing in the way some people may think.

We are going to have to agree to disagree and accept that we have very different opinions on this one.

:blush:

[tmi]

Much as I love you to bits tmi.... this is one we are not going to agree on. I accept you are saying that to you, £200k is a lot of money.

It believe it isn't a lot. To me, I do not regard it as enough to be life changing. Nowhere near close enough to be life changing in the way some people may think.

We are going to have to agree to disagree and accept that we have very different opinions on this one.

:blush:



I suppose the old mid is back:devil: and I agree a bit like another one's tat is another one's gold, but if I was offered 200k on a plate I would farking take it beggars cant be choosey and I would probs by you a pimms:xyxwave:

Hey havent had message of your for while you better:hugesmile:

-----------:wavey:

[Pyramid*]

I suppose the old mid is back:devil: and I agree a bit like another one's tat is another one's gold, but if I was offered 200k on a plate I would farking take it beggars cant be choosey and I would probs by you a pimms:xyxwave:

Hey havent had message of your for while you better:hugesmile:

-----------:wavey:

I'm feeling better thanks toots. Still not quite fully recovered but still...far better! will pm (I promise!)

Oh I totally understand what you are saying, and why. You are indeed correct: but I don't like the comparison to 'one man's tat, another man's gold'. It wasn't meant like that.

As for the Pimms.... large one please... full of ice!

[GypsyGoth]

I bet they will make the world biggest battered mars bar.

[tmi]

I bet they will make the world biggest battered mars bar.

Ever tried one ? I dont fancy that.:joker:

[GypsyGoth]

Yep, I tried one once, it was nice but gooey and very filling :D