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Lottery Big jackpot winners. Ever known or know one?

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  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,617
    The problem with giving money to friends & family would be the tax that someone would have to pay.
  • cafcdave123
    cafcdave123 Posts: 11,491
    I’d do things like buys my mates their dream car but get it painted tartan for a laugh 
  • IdleHans
    IdleHans Posts: 10,965
    guinnessaddick said:
    The problem with giving money to friends & family would be the tax that someone would have to pay.
    Yeah, that's what I'd tell them too.

    Though unless the rules have changed drastically, such gifts are Potentially Exempt Transfers and as long as you survive seven years after the gift it's free from tax.
  • Huskaris
    Huskaris Posts: 9,848
    SoundAsa£ said:
    I’d buy CL and immediately change the LOL option.
    I heard they won't take a penny under £200m
  • Rob7Lee
    Rob7Lee Posts: 9,595
    Covered End said:
    Rob7Lee said:
    The euro millions winner is apparently local, 19 year old lad!
    How local?
    Not 100% sure, will try and find out, the person who told me (a friend of his girlfriend) is Sidcup.
  • cafctom
    cafctom Posts: 11,365
    Anyone else gone out and bought a lottery ticket after reading this thread?

    Just me then.
  • Athletico Charlton
    Athletico Charlton Posts: 14,273
    guinnessaddick said:
    The problem with giving money to friends & family would be the tax that someone would have to pay.
    Just say you were in a consortium with your family.  You put in £3 and the rest of them put in 5p each x10 so they are due their money.  No tax. Job done.
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,825
    Huskaris said:
    SoundAsa£ said:
    I’d buy CL and immediately change the LOL option.
    I heard they won't take a penny under £200m
    They will…
  • Gary Poole
    Gary Poole Posts: 1,874
    If I won that kind of money I wouldn’t buy the club, but I’d buy the Valley and Sparrows Lane.
    The rent charged would vary depending how much I felt the owner of the club was trying to make a success of it.

    I’d also buy Matt Southall’s wife’s fake tits and donate them to the museum 
  • TEL
    TEL Posts: 10,100
    cafctom said:
    Anyone else gone out and bought a lottery ticket after reading this thread?

    Just me then.
    Yeah won $10.65 for a stake of $24.80 :)
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  • valleynick66
    valleynick66 Posts: 4,889
    TEL said:
    cafctom said:
    Anyone else gone out and bought a lottery ticket after reading this thread?

    Just me then.
    Yeah won $10.65 for a stake of $24.80 :)
    I'd direct you the Crypto thread in that case  ;)
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 51,995
    Rob7Lee said:
    The euro millions winner is apparently local, 19 year old lad!
    Middle aged couple from Gloucestershire.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-61495849
  • cafctom
    cafctom Posts: 11,365
    Good luck to them.

    Still have no idea how anyone from a working/middle class background could ever find £184m worth of things to spend it on. But then again, I guess they probably won’t.

    Their family will be looked after for about 6-7 generations with ease.
  • Rob7Lee
    Rob7Lee Posts: 9,595
    Covered End said:
    Rob7Lee said:
    The euro millions winner is apparently local, 19 year old lad!
    Middle aged couple from Gloucestershire.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-61495849
    Someone was telling porkies then!
  • valleynick66
    valleynick66 Posts: 4,889
    Rob7Lee said:
    Covered End said:
    Rob7Lee said:
    The euro millions winner is apparently local, 19 year old lad!
    Middle aged couple from Gloucestershire.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-61495849
    Someone was telling porkies then!
    I assume they also have the inside track on TS & MS too!  :D
  • blackpool72
    blackpool72 Posts: 23,670
    Some of the wins are ridiculous. 
    If it was up to me instead of one person winning say 100 million. 
    I'd rather 100 people win one million 
  • clb74
    clb74 Posts: 10,824
    cafctom said:
    Good luck to them.

    Still have no idea how anyone from a working/middle class background could ever find £184m worth of things to spend it on. But then again, I guess they probably won’t.

    Their family will be looked after for about 6-7 generations with ease.
    Dont last long mate.
    My free away train travel would knock me back at least £750000 a season.
  • _MrDick
    _MrDick Posts: 13,104
    My mum won the Littlewoods Pools in 1958 - £12k - which was a lot of money back in those days. Everyone in the family got something as did her work colleagues. Would you believe she chose not to buy a house, (could’ve got a fairly decent one for £2-3k), because she lived on the Progress Estate in Eltham and was on a protected rent for life. The side story to the protected rent is my grandad worked in the Woolwich Arsenal during the first world war. The Progress Estate was built for the munition workers in the Arsenal in 1915  
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,825
    Rob7Lee said:
    Covered End said:
    Rob7Lee said:
    The euro millions winner is apparently local, 19 year old lad!
    Middle aged couple from Gloucestershire.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-61495849
    Someone was telling porkies then!
    It’s taken years but we’ve finally found something you’re not an expert on! 

    (Ps. I’d told loads of people it was a local 19yr old :-) 
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,598
    Covered End said:
    Rob7Lee said:
    The euro millions winner is apparently local, 19 year old lad!
    Middle aged couple from Gloucestershire.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-61495849
    Middle aged, she's 10 years younger than me :(

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  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 51,995
    He's 49 & looks 59.
  • clb74
    clb74 Posts: 10,824
    I'd also be the 1st person to win the euromillions and national lottery in the same week by covering every permutation on the national lottery.
    Just to be on the safe side I'd also do the set for life for £15 million.
    That way I'd know if it all went tits up I'd still have 10 grand a month for the next 30 years.
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,728
    A person wants many things until a loved one or themself experience serious bad health, Then they only want one thing.
  • The Red Robin
    The Red Robin Posts: 26,126
    Won a fiver on Set for Life last week. Just deciding on which yacht to buy. 
  • Elthamaddick
    Elthamaddick Posts: 15,810
    blackpool72 said:
    Some of the wins are ridiculous. 
    If it was up to me instead of one person winning say 100 million. 
    I'd rather 100 people win one million 
    This say £2m max win could change so many more lives 
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,849
    People do the euromillions due to the large pots - they would just stick to their own national lottery if the winnings were capped like that

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