Rooter
Money List Winner
did you not see the TV prog on it all recently? a lot of them reckon its ruined their lives!!
I can assure you all, 150mil wouldnt change me. I would still be a knob!
did you not see the TV prog on it all recently? a lot of them reckon its ruined their lives!!
I can assure you all, 150mil wouldnt change me. I would still be a knob!
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Duckster
Tour Rookie
Bunch of taxi drivers near where I live won a jackpot a few years back. Think it worked out about 1.2mill each. I know one of them and it really hasn't changed him that much. Granted he paid off the mortgage, new car for him and one for the mrs, got rid of all his debts etc... but he also used it to buy the motor garage he also worked at. So he doesn't have oodles of cash in the bank but has enough to go on nice holidays each year with his wife and kids, plus has a decent (and profitable) business going.
Still a nice bloke.
Still a nice bloke.
dufferman
Journeyman Pro
You say that, it's easy to whizz away all the money I'd imagine... some bad advice in investments (or rather no advice in investments just blind buying of 'stuff'), cars, houses, or pretty much anything that will be an ongoing cost without thinking about where you might be getting money from in 10 years time and boom. Suddenly the £3k Lambo car service means you can't afford to pay it....
Captainron
Big Hitting, South African Sweary Person
2 million wont go very far these days. Set up properly for life in terms of freeing up spending money though so you would live comfortably
full_throttle
Tour Winner
I don't know, at 4% 2m would return a tidy £80k a year, I could get by on that I'm sure
Duckster
Tour Rookie
Don't forget you'll get taxed on that interest as income. So (guesstimation) you'll see about £50k a year. Sounds a lot, but then see what it's like 10 or 20 years down the line.
hamshanker
Challenge Tour Pro
Mate won just over £2m last year on a lucky dip,always been hard working down to earth lad and still is 18 months on,use to drink together when younger so he got all our new and old mates together and had a beer fest :cheers: :clap: and he also treated me to a new driver as we have been golf pals for yrs....
Thing is he nearly never got it coz as fellas do the jeans he had on the previous day he gave them a quick iron but the ticket was still in them so the heat from the iron made the ticket go black but he had looked at the numbers and could remember 4 for definate and prob a 5th,anyway he called Camelot on the monday and they wanted the long strip of numbers on the top or bottom of the ticket which his daughter could just make out so they said ok someone will be in touch with you.
Next couple days he was getting calls from them and basically they were security checks asking were he had bought the ticket etc then on the Friday woman from Camelot visited him to check the ticket out but she couldnt identify all the strip of numbers so advised him to lock it up in a safety deposit box so if his house burnt down it would be safe and he was to take it to her office on the Monday and their forensic/science geek (not sure what their proper title is)would travel up from London and check it and he was asking her if he had won but she wouldnt say anything apart from keep ya ticket safe over the weekend
,so Monday morning the geek got the ticket went out the room and came back in 5 mins later with the lady and congratulated him by saying you are now a millionaire ,what a feeling that must be and still now he doesnt like to get ripped off even if its a quid
Thing is he nearly never got it coz as fellas do the jeans he had on the previous day he gave them a quick iron but the ticket was still in them so the heat from the iron made the ticket go black but he had looked at the numbers and could remember 4 for definate and prob a 5th,anyway he called Camelot on the monday and they wanted the long strip of numbers on the top or bottom of the ticket which his daughter could just make out so they said ok someone will be in touch with you.
Next couple days he was getting calls from them and basically they were security checks asking were he had bought the ticket etc then on the Friday woman from Camelot visited him to check the ticket out but she couldnt identify all the strip of numbers so advised him to lock it up in a safety deposit box so if his house burnt down it would be safe and he was to take it to her office on the Monday and their forensic/science geek (not sure what their proper title is)would travel up from London and check it and he was asking her if he had won but she wouldnt say anything apart from keep ya ticket safe over the weekend
,so Monday morning the geek got the ticket went out the room and came back in 5 mins later with the lady and congratulated him by saying you are now a millionaire ,what a feeling that must be and still now he doesnt like to get ripped off even if its a quid 
SaintHacker
Journeyman Pro
Bloke at our cricket club won £1m at the start of the year. hasn't really changed him, other than he now arrives at matches in an Audi R8 and plays with a seriously expensive bat!
palindromicbob
Tour Winner
Jesus! Would for me. Would take me about 80 years to earn it.
£103 last week with 4 numbers, paid the water bill 
Wooohooo. WOn £25 on the lottery on Wednesday. Easy street here I come
