Thread: How would you handle a huge lottery win? Would you be happy? Would you go broke?

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72 million Euro are in the Euro Jackpot right now. That's a nice sum of money and made me think about the impact it would have on my life. How I would handle it.

I'm pretty conservative with money and my main goal would be to invest and manage it wisely so the next generations of my family would profit from it. Which would stress me out quiet a bit. But I have good contacts to people who work in investment etc. so I wouldn't be too worried.

Btw. 70% of lottery winners go broke.

On a personal level though, it would introduce big issues. Don't think my marriage could survive it because my wife would be totally corrupted by the money and our philosophies would be totally contrary. I'd want to keep a rather low profile. Sure, I'd buy some nice stuff, but I know that it isn't fulfilling and would limit myself. While she'd go high life, would show off etc.
Also, depending on each other financially and needing to be a team kinda holds the marriage together to some extend. Having that kind of money would most likely end in a divorce and constant fights how to raise the children and so on.

I think it would be more of a curse than a blessing. Winning a couple of million, yeah sure, would be great. But 72 mil would introduce issues I wouldn't want to deal with.

How about you? Would you spend all of it on cars, hookers and cocaine? Would you be corrupted and go broke? Would it make you happy?
 
I would firstly get a nice house in England, then I would get enough GPU's to get a mining farm making at least $50,000 a year. After that I would probably invest in an investment property or two, invest in some crypto holdings and help family pay off debts. After that I would probably give a lot to charities, then with what I had I would go on the search for a wife who is great at cooking. I would need to make sure she'd was a good person firstly and then test the food over time.

All in all, a wonderful future of good food awaits.
 
I would pay all the employees at my work 3 years salaries to quit work the same day.

Then I would sell my house, move (not sure where) and build my dream car/bike/house. I would be broke or dead inside of a year.

I would fly everyone here to my mansion for a weekend of shenanigans.
 
What about friends? If you can afford everything and they are "normal" people, there'll be big potential for conflicts. You'll lose a friends and most likely family as well. People will be after your money. They'll get greedy. People will ask you for help, to lend them money. They'll expect you to always pay and invite them, will get salty if situations aren't clear. And so on.

Your normal life will be over. Everyone will treat you differently. Neighbors, friends, family.
 
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I'd give my friends some money, and family too of course. None of them are greedy and they have decent jobs. Maybe the friend with drug issues would want more, but he's an electrician so he's not exactly poor.

I wouldn't be telling the world about it.

If you had that much money you could just leave it in the bank and live off it.
 
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I'd give my friends some money, and family too of course. None of them are greedy and they have decent jobs. Maybe the friend with drug issues would want more, but he's an electrician so he's not exactly poor.

I wouldn't be telling the world about it.

If you had that much money you could just leave it in the bank and live off it.
Some places you can't be anonymous. Which is absolutely stupid.
 
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Its enough money that i could live rent-free inside society's head.

So i would first and formost send/procure a sizeable amount to my aunt living in Riga to help her accuire medicine for the poor and elderly.

I'd put some away in a fund for some kind of purpose after being gone. Probably to set up a school or a place of knowledge, maybe for a publisher house or something.

I'd probably keep a portion myself to do travels. There are places still to go and to hike, and that's where that would be for.

Another fund perhaps for the family.

I wouldn't really size up. That kind of money can get you a lot of luxury, but not a lot of happiness.

Any friends who want to harvest off this would very soon find out that i can't be argued against when it comes to money.
 
What about friends? If you can afford everything and they are "normal" people, there'll be big potential for conflicts. You'll lose a friends and most likely family as well. People will be after your money. They'll get greedy. People will ask you for help, to lend them money. They'll expect you to always pay and invite them, will get salty if situations aren't clear. And so on.

Your normal life will be over. Everyone will treat you differently. Neighbors, friends, family.
I wouldn't treat you differently regawdless. All I would ask is for you to post all the cool stuff you get in the mouse thread, mansion thread, thot thread etc.
 
I'd give my friends some money, and family too of course. None of them are greedy and they have decent jobs. Maybe the friend with drug issues would want more, but he's an electrician so he's not exactly poor.

I wouldn't be telling the world about it.

If you had that much money you could just leave it in the bank and live off it.

Money fucks shit up and causes issues. I wouldn't be that confident, personally. I've seen best friends and siblings break up because of money. It poisons people's minds. Especially that much.
 
Money fucks shit up and causes issues. I wouldn't be that confident, personally. I've seen best friends and siblings break up because of money. It poisons people's minds. Especially that much.
I don't think it would change things too much with my friends and family. Most them are level headed. I'd give my brother and sister a fair bit of it, so they would have nothing to complain about.

Also I would give some money to charity. Things like homeless charities, Lifeline, Kids Helpline etc.
 
I don't think it would change things too much with my friends and family. Most them are level headed. I'd give my brother and sister a fair bit of it, so they would have nothing to complain about.

Also I would give some money to charity. Things like homeless charities, Lifeline, Kids Helpline etc.

I'm just very sceptical because I've seen it way too often that money caused issues. Even if not directly between friends, then for example because suddenly they had a new women in their life who seeded some bad thoughts in ones head. Definitely helps to have a rather small and very down to earth circle of people.
 
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I'll buy RTX3090 for sure then.

If serious, I'd probably build a new dream smart home for me and my family stuffed with different electronic devices, a pair of sport cars. Buy my best friends gifts for a couple of hundreds of thousands. Leave a million or two in the bank account and try to invest all remaining money. Then go into travelling spree.

But first - hire a good lawyer.
 
I'd get my family's mortgages and what have you paid off, make sure everyone is comfortable and secure for the future with some property investments.

Move to the west country, get a nice farm to do up with a decent amount of land, so I could be comfortably self sufficient.

Buy/build houses to rent at low prices to locals, to prevent londoners pushing them out of their homes.

Crypto mining sounds like a solid investment too, as well as a few business ideas I've had. A horror maze, farm shop and Christmas centre thing for a start, as there's a huge gap for that out west.

Open a rabbit rescue sanctuary.

I'd also want 4 kids instead of the 2 the missus and I currently plan for.

I'd also pay for this place to keep running forever.

Oh and I'd give my colleagues at work a years pay each as a goodbye present, before I immediately fuck off, never to see them again.
 
70 million is a fuck load of cash but I would spend most of it pretty easy I think.

4 kids = 60 million immediately into bank accounts they can't touch until they are 25

The rest of it buying properties for family and then never working again.
 
I'd get whatever lump sum was really won in my possession and immediately pay the estimated taxes on it. I'd go to a financial planner and only tell them about half of what was left. That half could go into some very safe, long-term investments so that decades from now, it'll be like winning the lottery a second time when the money comes back with growth.

The other half I'm gonna live as fucking crazy as I can with to some degree. I'm getting the nice house and a very decent car up to $100K and then probably pay people to drive me anyway while it sits in the garage. I'll help some family members pay off houses and stuff depending on how much money is realistically left. And then I'll get a vasectomy after freezing a bunch of sperm so that some gold-digging bitch can't trap me and take half of what's left.
 
72 million Euro are in the Euro Jackpot right now. That's a nice sum of money and made me think about the impact it would have on my life. How I would handle it.

I'm pretty conservative with money and my main goal would be to invest and manage it wisely so the next generations of my family would profit from it. Which would stress me out quiet a bit. But I have good contacts to people who work in investment etc. so I wouldn't be too worried.

Btw. 70% of lottery winners go broke.

On a personal level though, it would introduce big issues. Don't think my marriage could survive it because my wife would be totally corrupted by the money and our philosophies would be totally contrary. I'd want to keep a rather low profile. Sure, I'd buy some nice stuff, but I know that it isn't fulfilling and would limit myself. While she'd go high life, would show off etc.
Also, depending on each other financially and needing to be a team kinda holds the marriage together to some extend. Having that kind of money would most likely end in a divorce and constant fights how to raise the children and so on.

I think it would be more of a curse than a blessing. Winning a couple of million, yeah sure, would be great. But 72 mil would introduce issues I wouldn't want to deal with.

How about you? Would you spend all of it on cars, hookers and cocaine? Would you be corrupted and go broke? Would it make you happy?
I would act exactly like you.

I don't like to flaunt or exhibit anything. I'm a very low profile person. I would travel a lot, eat a lot of good food and visit a lot of historic and nature sites around the world. But as incognito as I could. And I would also keep working.
 
About friends and family and shit... is this a mandatory public info or can't you just hide the info from them? I don't have many friends to begin with but I would try to remain incognito with this.
 
About friends and family and shit... is this a mandatory public info or can't you just hide the info from them? I don't have many friends to begin with but I would try to remain incognito with this.
I think what a lot of lottery winners do in the states is set up a trust that collects the money. It depends on the state whether you can collect anonymously. But if you can, you can get the money paid out to you through the trust without anyone knowing.

Your family might wonder how you suddenly bought a mansion and see that the most recent jackpot win was in the city where you live and put it all together, but you can afford hitmen.
 
I would buy a portfolio of investment properties. Around 10 mil.

Put 10 mil in a Swiss account hidden away.

I would give 10 mil to my brother and another 10 to my wife. I would make sure my parents last years were the best they ever lived.

With the remaining 30 mil I would buy a few houses around the world and furnish them to my liking. Then live a life of travel, adventure and debauchery.

I would not go broke, I would not tell people and I would hopefully enjoy life to the max according to my likings. You only live once. I wouldn't do drugs. All the whores would be top notch and tested. I would indulge in the best food and I would continue taking care of my body and mind.
 
Security for me and the close family first (keeping it a secret from the guys and gals that just show up begging for free stuff will be difficult though), quitting the job and trying to get my manga published. Next to zero chance of this happening but with millions in the bank, it's a gamble worth taking.
 
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I wouldn't tell anyone.

I'd buy some retirement property in the Caribbean like St Marteen and set up and investment account to payout an annual "salary" for me that's big enough to travel the world.

The only thing I really wanna do is travel and see as much of the world as I can before I die

And two chicks at the same time.
 
I'd ride off into the sunset never to be heard from again

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Take care of family, co-workers, taxes, ect.

Travel to see all the stadiums, museums, operas/theaters, castles, landmarks I've always wanted to see.

Travel to taste all of the amazing looking food I've always wanted to try.

Buy Dragon Quest IX, Pokemon HeartGold and SoulSilver.

Actual genuine copies.
 
Going broke from that substantial figure has to be harder than it is easy, that's a lot of buffer to make mistakes.

The easy stuff is what you do in the first month: sort out my parents, get them a nice new home and a retirement fund and anything else they might want or need. The same for some friends, without getting them into a situation of living above their means.

Long term is essentially that but for myself but fleshed out. A retirement fund means my money needs to make money, so I imagine it would be fingers in various pies. A combination of simple savings and investments. Then, both related and separate, comes what to do with my life. I don't want to be bored, so some of it would be invested into businesses on a more personal level.

After that it's leisure. Learn and experience a lot to have a full life. I do have fairly simple tastes. Things like flying Dpad members to a private island and making you fight for my amusement.