Euro Millions jackpot amounts to 162 million

Can you believe it? Just imagine you'd win such a jackpot!

But is winning really that great? For most people, assuredly not. It's a fact that big lottery winners aren't always careful. Most of them have gone through their millions in a short time and then end up just as poor as they were before.

The trick is to be completely annonymous. Hard, but it can be done. One way already is playing online. That way you avoid going to the newspaper shop and handing over your winning ticket - well viewed by all other clients, and the shopkeeper who will tell anyone that he/she had a big winner. When you play online, you'll get a phonecall as the Lottery has your personal data. And next you have to keep quiet about it. Don't tell anyone, especially not your best friend.

In our case, this would be easy. If my sister and I would be a winner, we'd make sure nobody knew about it. I'm already pensioned and my sister is nearing that age. We'd simply announce we'd be moving to live permanently at the coast - we've been doing that for a while, because it really is our plan. In our street, noboby has any notion how old my sister actually is. When we say she's got her pension, everyone will believe it. And once at the coast, who there knows how much money we have? We could easily buy something new - a bigger flat. And when we travel (as we do frequently now, as well) who know we'd fly first class or premium on the train and book a suite instead of a standard room?

We'd most likely wouldn't spend too much of a big win. We really don't need that much. But it would make life somewhat easier - and after our death, the money would go to several good causes.

What would you do?