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Captain.Remy · 15-02-2010, 06:57 PM

There was a show about it on French TV 2 months ago. It was about the biggest lottery winners and it was rather interesting to see who they told. They have orders to follow such as not telling everyone but a small group of people to keep the confidentiality in order not to get into any trouble.

To be honest, I'd of course say it to my parents and my 2 sisters then my closest closest friends I have known for ages. I think I'd do a world trip on my own, inviting my friends and family on whatever country I am in so they can enjoy themselves. I'd buy a house to my parents, pays fashion school fees to my sister and give some money to my older sister so she can raise her 2 children easily.
I'd financially help my rugby team a lot because I own everything to them and I'd open an orphanage in poor countries.

And that's it, I'd keep the rest of the money to buy a nice car and buy an amazing house in UK or Switzerland.

King Gizzard · 15-02-2010, 06:58 PM

I'd set up some sort of business and employ all my friends. mwaahaha

I'd hate to win 56 million, as weird as it sounds

i'd want 1m max

Would have people asking for money all the blaady time

Tom4784 · 15-02-2010, 07:07 PM

I wouldn't drastically change my life, I'd keep the money a secret and just improve things bit by bit. Big houses and sports cars are for people who feel the need to prove something.

arista · 15-02-2010, 07:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Dezzy

I wouldn't drastically change my life, I'd keep the money a secret and just improve things bit by bit. Big houses and sports cars are for people who feel the need to prove something.

Yes Secret is Best.

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Crimson Dynamo · 15-02-2010, 07:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Dezzy

I wouldn't drastically change my life, I'd keep the money a secret and just improve things bit by bit. Big houses and sports cars are for people who feel the need to prove something.

this is the mythical answer

"I wouldn't drastically change my life"

People have no idea what 56 million is and its no bad thing.

it would change you

get it the right way round

Tom4784 · 15-02-2010, 07:17 PM

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Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

this is the mythical answer

"I wouldn't drastically change my life"

People have no idea what 56 million is and its no bad thing.

it would change you

get it the right way round

No it wouldn't, I like where I live and I like my life. Why would I move away to some posh house miles away from everyone I know? The lifestyles of the rich don't interest me, I'd just like the comfort and the security the money would provide to my current lifestyle.

King Gizzard · 15-02-2010, 07:09 PM

I'd of course want an open plan house

use to love making them on sims, houses with no walls (obviously have a bathroom still though)

Stu · 15-02-2010, 07:10 PM

Absoloutely no reason why you wouldn't be able to keep it under wraps if that's what your intention was.

Crimson Dynamo · 15-02-2010, 07:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Judas Iscariot

Absoloutely no reason why you wouldn't be able to keep it under wraps if that's what your intention was.

I agree with the sentiment. I would try and so the same but I just do not think it would be possible

what a blast trying though

Crimson Dynamo · 15-02-2010, 07:14 PM

the temptation to not build a small igloo out of high grade cocaine would be a real bitch

Stu · 15-02-2010, 07:16 PM

What a waste of good cocaine.

kjtnation · 15-02-2010, 07:30 PM

Buy loads of Apple Computers (iMac's)

_Seth · 15-02-2010, 09:21 PM

I'd rather have the money.

At least I realise that's amazingly shallow, though.

Fom · 15-02-2010, 09:47 PM

I wouldn't lose my friends, I have decent friends. I would rather friends than all that money tbh... money isn't important too me.

*mazedsalv** · 15-02-2010, 09:50 PM

Tbh with so much honesty, i would LOVE to have that money, but i would choose friends ove rmoney, i would be hated and unloved, which is the biggest fear nowadays.

I wouldnt want to live away, i would just buy 2 houses abroad but i would live in the same place because i wouldnt want to be away from my friends.

WOMBAI · 15-02-2010, 09:54 PM

I would emigrate to Australia and buy a lovely property in Sydney Harbour! I would pay for all my family and friends to come and join me!

setanta · 16-02-2010, 12:28 AM

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Originally Posted by WOMBAI

I would emigrate to Australia and buy a lovely property in Sydney Harbour! I would pay for all my family and friends to come and join me!

Yeah, I think you would have to move eventually.

Beastie · 16-02-2010, 12:34 AM

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Originally Posted by WOMBAI

I would emigrate to Australia and buy a lovely property in Sydney Harbour! I would pay for all my family and friends to come and join me!

Ooo very exotic

WOMBAI · 16-02-2010, 12:36 AM

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Originally Posted by thebeast

Ooo very exotic

My idea of heaven!

Niamh. · 16-02-2010, 11:13 AM

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Originally Posted by WOMBAI

I would emigrate to Australia and buy a lovely property in Sydney Harbour! I would pay for all my family and friends to come and join me!

Sounds great! I think I'd have houses in a few different countries and rotate!

Crimson Dynamo · 17-02-2010, 03:18 PM

Psychologist: lottery win may spell misery

The couple who scooped a record-breaking £56 million on the EuroMillions lottery may be facing a life of despair, a money psychologist has warned.

Nigel Page, a handyman, and Justine Laycock, a senior sales negotiator at an estate agent, are celebrating their EuroMillions windfall and have both since quit their jobs.

Dr Chris Boyce, an economic psychologist, argued that: “Money, as the age-old truism goes, does not buy you happiness”.

He said that “suddenly acquiring lots of money disrupts every aspect of our lives”.

“Someone who lives in a modest home with a close circle of good friends and neighbours may take one of several courses of action when he wins the lottery”, said Dr Boyce.

“He may think it judicious to stay in his familiar surroundings, but upgrade his run-down semi with a millionaire makeover, installing a pool in the back garden and planting several flashy new cars on the drive.”

But Dr Boyce commented: “I suspect he’ll quickly discover that his neighbours will resent the flashy accoutrements and be consumed with envy”.

Press reports say the family plan to move from their £235,000 three-bedroom semi in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, to a six-bedroom detached, ideally with a pool. But they want to stay in the same area where their children enjoy school and have lots of friends.

But the psychologist argued that moving house will leave the couple’s friends “no less jealous”.

Dr Boyce commented that the couple, in quitting their jobs, will certainly lose “another vital component of a joyful life – connection with other people”.

He said: “We do not appreciate – until we don’t have it any longer – how important this day-to-day commerce is. How will Mr Page and Mrs Laycock fill their days from now on?

“Without the discipline and structure provided by their jobs, there is a very real danger that their lives will lack purpose; their sense of self-worth will plummet”.

Dr Boyce added that his own research had shown how “psychologically devastating the loss of a job can be”.

He said: “It so often results in depression brought on by the sheer sense that life has lost its purpose”.

He added: “I’d suggest that most of us who enjoy our work are driven more by the rewards of achievement, by that inner glow of satisfaction that comes from doing a job really well, than by the money we earn. All that is lost to the lottery winner.”

In January one of Britain’s youngest lottery millionaires was found dead alone in his home.

Stuart Donnelly, who was 17 when he won £2 million in 1997, had become a recluse as he struggled to cope with his new found wealth.

In a 2003 interview Mr Donnelly said: “It was very hard to deal with all the attention I got”.

“It put a huge strain on me and my family”, he added.

In November last year a national newspaper cited a survey of 30 of the biggest jackpot winners and said it branded the lottery “Britain’s biggest marriage wrecker” when it found that a third of respondents said their lives had been blighted by their new found fortune.

Families had fallen apart, marriages had ended and envy had destroyed friendships, the survey reportedly revealed.

Since the start of the National Lottery a number of jackpot winners have admitted misery because of their windfall.

Last year Callie Rogers, 22, who won close to £1.9 million as a teenager in 2003, revealed that she is now facing bankruptcy.

She admitted her life was a “shambles” and the money she won had not made her happy.

Michael Carroll, a former dustman, won £9.7million in 2002 but claimed it had made him miserable.

After he won the jackpot, his wife Sandra left him and took their baby daughter with her. Mr Carroll turned to cocaine, was jailed and was later served with two anti-social behaviour orders.

In 1999 Stephanie Powell won £7.2million, but her family life began to break down as a result.

Her partner Wayne Lawrence walked out on her, claiming the stress of her riches as his reason.

Research published last summer warned that the lives of lottery winners could be cut short due to excessive alcohol-fuelled partying.

In 1999 Phil Kitchen, a jobless carpenter, won £1.8 million but two years later was found dead in his £500,000 home after drinking himself to death.