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Think I read that the UK has the highest number of winners of these massive jackpots, and I admit to playing in the slim chance that I might actually win one day...

I think the normal National Lottery can be hit and miss, for a 21 year old winning £3million, it will be life changing, but it will soon run out in this day and age.

However, winning £45million would be fantastic, but prizes of £161million have been won by individuals in this country recently!

So if you won say £75 million on the Euromillions what would you spend it on?? As this forum has all ages, walks of life etc I think it would be really interesting!

Being a serious loner and one to hold a grudge against people who have been detrimental towards me in life, I would set aside at least £30 million in my "revenge fund". Not to go into too much detail, but I envisage purchasing of billboard rights with custom messages, my own TV/radio adverts to make my points. Nothing slanderous, although if they sued I wouldn't really care.

£1m spent targeting each person would soon settle the past.

I'd also like to buy something cool like a fireworks factory and then torch the thing...

As well as the usual stuff like decent house, car etc. I really would be so selfish though. Not a penny would be just given to anyone. You make your own luck.
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Said in the Standard tonight that France had the highest number of Jackpot winners.

Ooh La La
 
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You'd think the highest number of jackpot winners would be the country that buys the most tickets. And being as the UK and France are the countries with the highest population in the pool (both around 62 million) it's hardly surprising that they're more likely to win.
 
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I saw the couple who won last Tuesday on the news. £45 million. Good luck to them, and they seem to have a generous nature - promising to buy all their relatives houses.

I am not sure that I would be comfortable with publicity if I had won that amount, because there are some callous immoral folk out there, who seem to want to obtain other people's property and money at any cost. I think I would become permanently paranoid if everyone knew I had that much money.

On the subject of what I would do with it? I suppose it is not enough to re-open and re-electrify the Woodhead route, so I would have to console myself with donations to relatively smaller preservation projects.

I would love a house with a 35ft x 15ft workshop or loft conversion for a giant model railway layout, and that would be me sorted. My only fear is that temptation and unlimited funds for alcohol would see me dying a rather painful liver related death.
 
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Although that depends on how old you are, and how long you expect to be able enough to spend it.

For an old git such as myself, you could almost treble that yearly figure.
 
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Eagle said:
Yes, but if you don't want it to run out, it works out as fifty grand a year for the rest of your life... that's not massively rich.
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No one wants money to run out whether its £3m or £30m and the former may not be superstar money, buts its certainly enough to have an excellent quality of life and not worry about your finances for the rest of your days....if your not an idiot! The yearly interest rate on £1m alone would be decent enough.
 
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I play Euromillions more than the UK Lottery mainly because when I bought tickets for each on a weekly basis I won more times on the Euro one.

And it was almost a fair comparison, even though one is twice the cost of the other because I used to buy more lottery tickets than Euro ones.

If I added up how much I have spent over the last 15 years or so I would probably be rather shocked, but it gives me a chance to dream about what might be.

Very sad, I know.
 
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If I won the Euromillions I would:

Put £5m in the bank and have it feed me an annual salary out of it. £30k a year or something modest like that. Pay off mortgage etc.

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Buy a brand new fleet for Banga Buses and Travel Express, on the condition they don't sell them on until I say so.

Purchase the Woolworths building in Wolverhampton outright and pay for Wellchester to open a branch there where they can live rent free for as long as they like.

Purchase the Wolverhampton old post office and turn it into a natural history museum.
http://www.localhistory.scit.wlv.ac.uk/listed/oldpo.htm

Purchase the Midland Bank building and give it to the Art Gallery as an extension.
http://www.localhistory.scit.wlv.ac.uk/listed/midlandbank.htm

Purchase the drill hall and inside it develop a perfect scale replica of the Stour Valley Line stations in OO scale (with lines inbetween) and open it up as a museum.
http://www.localhistory.scit.wlv.ac.uk/listed/localist/staffstdrill.htm

Save the Bolton Paul museum by moving them to a large museum building in the city centre. (They're being kicked out of their current site)



Not sure I'd have much left after all that! But my city would be great :)
 
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Badger said:
I've heard it called a "stealth tax on the poor" before. :/ Not sure how that even works!
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That doesn't make sense at all. Unless the people who said it are implying that poorer people are more likely to be gulled into buying lottery tickets/more likely to get addicted to them/something equally objectionable.
 
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I think that was their argument, that almost all poor people are guaranteed to buy lottery tickets, and therefore every poor person is spending at least £1 a week more in "tax". I agree it doesn't really work as a statement, I forget where I heard it now.
 
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On the subject of lottery win spending though, how much do you reckon it would cost to open a station on the WCML between Wolverhampton and Penkridge? ;)
 
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On the subject of lottery win spending though, how much do you reckon it would cost to open a station on the WCML between Wolverhampton and Penkridge? ;)
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I tried to find out the cost of Coleshill Parkway, but the best that I can do is multi-million.
 
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I really can't understand why any of these people go public though. What on earth is the point?

I have heard of some people who won a big prize and went public. They have (apparently) had begging letters, people just turning up on their doorstep wanting money and kidnap threats made against their children.

Surely the best thing to do would be to keep quiet, and then move house.
 
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Well, half would go straight in the bank, to be invested (wisely or otherwise). If I had enough, I would fund the Great Central bridge at Loughborough, although a lesser ammount would go towards "unrebuilding" a Merchant Navy (I've always wanted to see an unrebuilt one). A small quantity would have to go on a few trips abroad, mostly by train although visiting people in Canada might involve some flying. Oh yes, and an ALR sometime this summer. The people at university would never know, since in general I intend to go on living exactly as I have been up to now (with the exception of travelling first class occasionally). I certainly wouldn't go public.

That's assuming I'd be allowed to keep any of it, I come from a very large family.
 
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Indeed. Whenever I see a headline like this I always think "Oh dear, forgot to tick the no publicity box !!"
 
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