[Niamh.]

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!

[sooty]

Originally Posted by WOMBAI

That is a nice, original idea!

[xDramatick]

Originally Posted by Judas Iscariot

Speak for yourself, LT. Although I would jump country straight away it is possible to keep friends.

I really wouldn't live that differently, rather use the money for lots of little things. I couldn't care for mansions and sports cars but the idea of being able to buy ten DVD's a day and all the classic guitars I want appeals to me quiet a lot.

I wouldn't change my lifestyle, rather use my fortune as an on tap supply of free money to supplement my existing lifestyle.

Same here.
The only major expense that I would do is buy me and my partner our own place, because we both really want one but it looks like we'll have to house-share for a few more years.

Otherwise, I'd just use it to be able to get all concert tickets, CDs/DVDs, food etc that I want.

Most of my mates probably wouldn't care tbh, I'd be quite open with it and happily pay for their drinks when we go clubbing and stuff. They're the sorta people who can't bear not to pay you back so I doubt they'd let me anyway.

No I will give my very good family (5people) £3m each, my best friends (6people) £2m each.
Now were all rich.

[rapunza1977]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

how many people have current friends who are millionaires, who have pots and pots of money?

3 all in however one is a familty member who is a premiership footy player so there is no way I can relate to the cash they have

the other is an old scchool friend wuith a very very successful business - very down to earth chap

the other is me boss but very close

[rapunza1977]

i would see all my family right - ensure brothers and sisters are financially secure

financially secure my mums brothers and sisters and my dads small family - pay off friends mortgages etc and give cash towwards kids schooling etc and nice new family cars of their choice

all in all just make my own life more financially secure and those i love around me

[rapunza1977]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

Having been to Sydney (like being in England in the 1930s) i would not bother. Its empty.

Absolute piffle.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by rapunza1977

Absolute piffle.

true dat


its a hole

[Crimson Dynamo]

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.

[30stone]

I would try keep my close friends.

I would try keep it secret.. just throw a bit of money around..

If i bought a new car just say parents got it for me..

Id also buy the house i want and probably rent it until i was ready to move in.


Wonder what my relationship would be like... i could imagine it ****ing up really.

[Crimson Dynamo]

problem is close friends are close friends because of similarities. much of the similarities are based on your finances one way or another...