Lottery: Would you reveal yourself?

[Electric Alpaca]

Never, no good can come out of anyone knowing. No one knowing also has the advantage of keeping you well grounded.

I would certainly buy a modest house, and a modest car and tell a white lie about where I work, quitting my current job in the process that I certainly don't enjoy (but is well paid enough to excuse some purchasing decisions if I pace myself). I'd take my friends on holidays and such, making sure to always be the organiser so I can lie about prices so they feel they are attaining a bargain and I'm covering the excess.

Plus it would speed up my dream of becoming a writer (and the main barrier at the moment is the money to set up) and once I'm successful at that I've got an excuse for buying more lavish things for myself and others.

I always find it funny the mentality behind lottery winners, you wouldn't beg someone who had a high paying job but there seems to be an acceptability that because someone was gifted extraordinary luck you should be able reap also.

 

[Ham_authority95]

A couple, Colin and Chris Weir, have come out and revealed they are the winners of the Euro millions lottery. Winning a grand total of £161m

Source BBC [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14161661]

I can't help but wonder why you would come out and tell, pretty much, the world you've won that sum of money.

There's been previous winners of huge win who remained anonymous and have never been identified, so it can be done.

Myself, I would keep it hush, I would never do anything to give away the fact I won so much. I wouldn't want to buy a flash car, I would move to a slightly bigger house, but never tell friends I brought it out right. I'd also give a lot to certain charities.
I would spoil my family, but nothing that will make people think "where did they get the money from?"

So - would you come out and tell everyone you won, or would you remain anonymous?
Also, if you ever one that sum, what would you buy?

I would keep it hush, too. Money>fame. Fame just makes you mentally ill. Money lets you pay your bills.

And it would be a trade-off, too, since if I told the world I had money, they would all know me, but they'd all want it.

I would just reserve it and hope nobody notices that I've bought an apartment and I fly to Denmark to see my girlfriend 7 times a year.

 

[Hagi]

Stay anonymous.

My money is my business. Your money is your business. Let's keep it that way.

 

[sinterklaas]

161 million euros, oh wait it's actually pounds holy jesus that means it's over 200m euro!

I would not announce it to the world, but I would to my friends and family of course. Then I would hold a 1.000.000 euro Starcraft 2 tournament and meet all the pro's. After that I would buy everything I ever wanted and have no idea what to buy anymore.

I would probably donate some money to nuclear fusion research.

I would just buy a house I liked, it would not have to be big or expensive.

 

[razer17]

Me and my friend Sam have already established that we would build a huge paintball place if we won that Euromillions jackpot. We'd recreate some famous CoD maps, like shipment and Nuketown. And build the Big Rig from Metal Gear Solid 2, and hire people so we can recreate the entire game, in real life. Because we are that geeky.

Also I'd buy a load of cars and motorbikes, houses, go on holiday often.

Although I wouldn't go public about how I got the money. People expect things of lottery winners, and I don't want to get loads of letters begging for cash.

 

[JET1971]

No I wouldnt reveal myself as a winner unless it was mandated to collect the winnings. only reason is I wouldnt want to deal with all those "best friends" that wouldnt help me when I needed help come out of the woodworks begging for a loan.

I would quietly buy a house, get a new mid priced car, pay off my debt, and invest the rest.

 

[Nuke_em_05]

I'd keep quiet about it.

Usually a prize like that gives you two options; a lump sum for half, or incremental payments for the total over X years. I'd take the payment plan and use it as passive income.

 

[C95J]

I don't know really. I probably wouldn't over TV, to the whole of the UK and more. But I would tell everyone I know

 

[iLikeHippos]

NEVER in a million fucking years would I reveal myself. I'd just say I sold drugs in my off-times.

Whatever I would do with the money on paper, is irrelevant. When you stand with enough money to make Scrooge McDuck blush, you're pretty much impossible to predict, even with yourself.

 

[TheLastSamurai14]

I'd buy a guy

Would you really? Isn't that slavery?

You know, I should change that but I'm going to let that flub stay there.

what you should have said is "SCREW THE RULES I HAVE MONEY!"

Boy, I say, BOY! It looks like the rules...just screwed YOU.

As much as I would like to continue making YGO Abridged quotes, it's time for me to get back...

OT: I'd not reveal myself. I'd rather avoid the publicity as much as I can. I've always been like that in any aspect of life.

 

[RastaBadger]

I'd probably keep it pretty quite. Buy a better computer and pretty much anything I felt like but I wouldn't tell anyone exactly how much I got (except maybe close relatives).

 

[Ensiferum]

I'd definitely try to remain anonymous as possible, though that would be hard to do because I'd be sharing it with family, friends, charities and missionaries for sure.

 

[DanielBrown]

Nope. I'd try to stay anonomous for as long as possible. Would be nice to shove in peoples faces, but I'd feel safer without people knowing how filthy rich I am.

 

[Scarim Coral]

I had won the lottery, do I really want to gloat it out to the media that I got more money now? I mean I still got the money even if I don't reveal myself to the world. Beside I don't want fame for being "that guy who won the lottery on [insert date]"

As for spending it I will clear out my student loan and also my parent and brother loan as well. I will give some of it to my family and my uncle (but I will keep most of it). I will move into a luxury flat in the city and buying stuff like HD tv, couch etc in my new flat. I will not buy expensive stuff just for the sake of it but rather getting stuff for the best value of money and on sales.

 

[Viral_Lola]

If I won the lotto, I would keep that to myself and quietly donate money to charities.

 

[Dags90]

I wouldn't mind being in the papers a bit, most big lottery winners are only in the media spotlight for about a week until they do something stupid later on. And I'd be spending most of that week (possibly longer) with lawyers, accountants and interviewing personal assistants.

 

[KiKiweaky]

I'd probably go batshit banana nuts crazy if I won that much money, and hell no I wouldn't keep it secret. Why would you want to???? You have a license to go mad for a day, when people ask 'Whats that freak doing?', 'He just won the euro millions, leave him off'. I think it would be hilarious.

Sure your going to get letters bumming money but I'd just forward them to a large multinational who could buy and sell you a few trillion times over.

 

[PureChaos]

i'd only tell a few immediate family members but that would be it. i wouldn't want all the attention

 

[Farson89]

I honestly have no idea how it'd be possible to keep that much wealth a secret.

Besides, I couldn't even if I wanted to, I know for a fact that one of my brothers would blab within a week.