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If I won the lottery, straight away I'd give half of whatever I win ton charity. Say I won £77million, I'd give about £50million to charity, various hospitals, animal charities, the charities dealing with the Niger crisis etc. BUT I'd want proof of everything they spent, no fatcat charity directors are going on holiday with my money :x :!:

Then I'd buy my parents and other loved ones the house of their dreams, invest a bit, buy myself a villa in Ibiza, lodge in the mountains etc. By then I'd probably only have a few million quid left, which I'd happily leave in the bank and live off the interest :D
 
There was a programme on TV a while back about people winning substantial amounts of cash on lottery etc., and how its ruined their life...

There was one guy who said that it was so hard to find a niche in your life where you felt comfortable..... basically he was saying that he had very few of his original friends left in his life, either because of jealousy and back stabbing or through the fact that they couldnt keep up with his lifestyle anymore and that they wouldnt accept the fact that he would offer to pay for whatever so that they could enjoy themselves doing frivolous things. He also found that he couldnt move in circles where people were extremely well off themselves, because they looked down their noses at him and classed him as "nouveaux riche "(sp?).
He said he ended up just spending cash, and sitting in his house looking at his expensive belongings, not fitting into any particular niche anymore and feeling quite lonely. He wasnt married (and he came across as a decent bloke, not unattractive by any means) and he had had a few relationships with women, but they turned out to be after him for one reason only ....

I thought after watching the programme that much of what he said was true - it must be very difficult and scary to come to terms from scrapping a living or just plodding on in your life, to become one of those people who will never ever have to worry about paying the next bill, or being a bit extravagant on the next monthly shop etc.,

Good Luck to her I say, and I hope she has a good family behind her who will keep her balanced and dont take the piss out of her.....
 
I think you've got to be a relatively confident, well-adjusted person to deal with the changes in life after winning. I think it would be much harder on people who have lived in one place all their lives with the same group of friends. When you move around a bit, you're always making new friends, and in the corporate world you make and maintain acquaintances with people of various income levels. Those skills would come in handy in adjusting to post-lottery life.

A lot of my well-to-do acquaintences are Russian, who have only built their wealth over the past 15 years, so they can't really look down their noses at you :lol:

Becki - it would be better to put the whole pot into investments and use the annual proceeds for both your charity work and your living expenses. You'd be able to better monitor what charity work is done (and be personally involved) and you'd end up giving more over your lifetime than that lump sum.
 
Yep, most charities wouldn't want big lump sums - it would ruin them in the long term.
 
Beckiboo said:
straight away I'd give half of whatever I win ton charity. Say I won £77million, I'd give about £50million to charity
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On this logic Miss Boo, can you lend me a grand and I'll pay it back in installments. No worries I'll work out the figures!

(Apologies for my pedantry!)
 
she's actually 50 years old, living in the roughest gangland shithole in Ireland, she'll have to leave Limerick or risk extortion and kidnapping for the rest of her life
 
ED CASE said:
she's actually 50 years old, living in the roughest gangland shithole in Ireland, she'll have to leave Limerick or risk extortion and kidnapping for the rest of her life
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Is that an exaggeration ?? That's so f**king horrible.... :?
 
ED CASE said:
she's actually 50 years old, living in the roughest gangland shithole in Ireland, she'll have to leave Limerick or risk extortion and kidnapping for the rest of her life
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Yup, hasn't a close relative got gangland involvement too? - meaning that even without the publicity they would have found out and targeted her...
 
puppylover said:
ED CASE said:
she's actually 50 years old, living in the roughest gangland shithole in Ireland, she'll have to leave Limerick or risk extortion and kidnapping for the rest of her life
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Is that an exaggeration ?? That's so f**king horrible.... :?
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no, her nephew was convicted of murdering a druglord in a high profile spate of killings about 2 years ago
 
ED CASE said:
puppylover said:
ED CASE said:
she's actually 50 years old, living in the roughest gangland shithole in Ireland, she'll have to leave Limerick or risk extortion and kidnapping for the rest of her life
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Is that an exaggeration ?? That's so f**king horrible.... :?
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no, her nephew was convicted of murdering a druglord in a high profile spate of killings about 2 years ago
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Ah...... oh dear! Retribution by proxy..
 
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