Living in hope

[SueA]

I do the lottery but only �1 once a week & the euro one when they say it's a massive amount. I would be terrified if I won the jackpot though & would tick the 'no publicity' box. I'd like to win enough to get out of this awful house, have a detached house with large but manageable garden, give some money to family, get O.H. to retire, give some to charity & stick some in the bank to live off.

[Hilary B]

We occasionally buy a lottery ticket (less often than it used to be, since so many of the 'good causes' seem a bit dubious). I'd love to win enough to pay off all we owe anyone (mortgage etc), and a bit over to retire on, anything more, would simply be to give away! (and what my family and friends did with whatever I might give them would be entirely their business, the rest would go to my favourite charities)

[dogsbody]

So why apart from money aren't you persuing your dream?

I am but not as well as I could be if wasn't at work all week! Still, the number that is the difference between working and retiring to the full dream is getting smaller by the year.......

.....Ernie helps me out now and again too,

[lizzylemon]

I dream very week of what I would do if I won and have different scenarios according to the amount won. It ranges from a nice shampoo to my own Island.

I have to admit that these big amounts are awesome but I would split 50/50 with the soon to be ex and then then I would share whats left with my family and friends, buy some land / island some where warmish, build an eco house/mothership with a sustainable small holding type situation and then use the rest for charitable work.

And most definitely tick 'remain anonymous' box

I try to buy a ticket every week but if I miss I don't fret but usually tell myself that was the week I would have won instead

[rustylady]

Ernie has never done anything for me. I still have a few premium bonds bought forty years ago that have never won anything at all.

[Cosmo and Dibs]

I'd be so happy if I won the Lotto. Sure, it'd be wonderful to win the jackpot, but if I can just get enough for me to just not need to work again, I'd be the happiest man in the world.

[bubblewrap]

I was once asked "IF" I won what I would do with the begging letters.
I said keep sending them.

[swansea girl]

I would keep quiet if I won,didn't the police stop a planned kidnap of the son of the Irish couple who won a big euro millions...I'd be worried somebody would do that to my son...they'd probably end up begging me to take him back though

[binley100]

I don't very often think to do the lottery .....but it would be nice not to have to worry that the outgoings were exceeding the incomings every month.

[Alison]

I've never bought a lottery ticket. I'm like Alison - Life is sweet as it is - it ain't broke so I'm not trying to fix it!

Glad it's not just me . Am lucky that I earn enough to cover my bills and have never wanted a bigger house / car or a fancy lifesyle so don't need spare cash to worry about.

[Flummery]

I know people say that those who think money can't buy happiness don't know where to shop - but I believe it's true. I really don't think that all those who say I'd be happy if I had a big win, really would be. Happiness is inside you. If you're dissatisfied now you will in all probability carry that with you.

[Marthaclematis]

I agree Flummery. We have enough not to have to worry and to be able to look forward to a fairly secure future (and well earned too) so I don't see how having loads more would make us any happier. When first married though we didn't have a pot to pee in though and during those dire financial times a bit of a win would have taken some of the stress off paying the mortgage. Then again I can look back now at those days of everything being second hand or donated and living on onion and carrot soup and be proud of what we've achieved. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger and all that.

[womble]

I know people say that those who think money can't buy happiness don't know where to shop - but I believe it's true. I really don't think that all those who say I'd be happy if I had a big win, really would be. Happiness is inside you. If you're dissatisfied now you will in all probability carry that with you.

I absolutely agree, I really believe it's true too. Of course you do need some to live without pressure, but not vast amounts.

People remark how lucky we are that we don't work that much and lucky that we can afford to live on the money we do.
They fail to realise that we live on that money because we don't like working all the hours in the day. Moneys alright and all, but you only get one life.

[Brengirl]

Wise words Flum. I have had ups and downs. Been broke and in the money but I can honestly say some of my best times have been when I was broke. Money can reduce cares but it cannot buy happiness.

Happiness is..

A circle with corners, a clear sky of passing clouds
Nightime with sunshine, solitude in crowds
The future behind us. The great lean on the small
When happiness befriends us little men are tall.

Having sunset at daybreak and spilling milk for fun
Freewheeling uphill, sufficient having none.
Lullabyes to stir us and rockaby at trumpets call
When happiness befriends us nothing matters at all.

[womble]

What people fail to realise, is that when life is normal and bubbling along, they're the good times and you should appreciate them much much more, because life does have it's bad moments.

I look around every day and almost without fail I say "it doesn't get much better than this" and it's true.

Some say I have no ambition because I don't want a high pressure, highly paid job, because I am satisfied with little in the way of "things".

I say, sod off