Gransnet forums

Chat

Winning the lottery

(31 Posts)
Mildred Wed 04-May-16 13:18:23

When I have trouble sleeping I usually manage to drift off by spending my win, having read in the paper today about the lady who won £148 million and the trouble she has had, how would you spend a large windfall?

absent Fri 06-May-16 07:17:35

"A tax on all fools".

I have never bought a lottery ticket and never shall.

gillybob Fri 06-May-16 08:51:31

Yes Absent I am one of those "fools" but it's nice for me to dream.

I know the chances of winning are minuscule but as the saying goes "if you aren't in it, you can't win it". smile

Cosafina Fri 06-May-16 16:34:09

I don't buy lottery tickets, particularly as the odds got even worse.

If they'd change it around to create 148 millionaires instead of one person getting it all I probably would, as the odds would be better.

What are the odds of winning now? I know it used to be 1 in 14 million, but isn't it 1 in 56 million now?

Willow500 Sat 07-May-16 07:00:55

It might be me! I've had another e-mail telling me to check my lottery account but have resisted so far so that the dream can continue a while longer grin I don't think anyone should win 148m - it's a ridiculous amount for one person and would do far more good being divided up into much smaller chunks so more people & charities can benefit.

varian Tue 10-May-16 07:16:28

If people win ridiculously large sums they can do some good by givibg ro charities but they can also do a great deal of harm if they are politically motivated,

In 2011 a couple called Weir won about £160 million pounds in the Euro lottery. Since then they have been bankrolling the SNP giving them millions of pounds to spread their evil divisive prpoganda,

The Weirs paid for 80% of the cost of the "Yes" side in the 2014 "Once in a generation" referendum. Without their lottery money the minority supporting the separation of Scotland from the rest of the UK would have been much smaller and there would be no talk of a rerun.