A jackpot win in Friday’s Grand Lottery would boost your bank account by €1.25 million. The financial freedom this would bring is fantasised about and is the topic of many a conversation. What would you do with all that spare cash? Waylon Johnston went down to Republic Street in Valletta to find out.

Charles Brincat, 69, Naxxar

“I wouldn’t do anything because I don’t play.”

Sylvia Cassar, 69, Lija

“I would help my children and help people in need and go for a nice holiday with my family.”

Jennifer Saliba Butler, 32, Żurrieq

“I would die and really wouldn’t enjoy it because I would die of happiness.”

Anthony Borg, 50, Valletta

“I have always worked and even if I were to win I would still work because, as they say, if a person stops working he will die.”

Bertu Borg, 75, Għargħur

“Three-quarters of the money I would give to the poor, to children who don’t have a home or food or drink, and the rest to my children. I don’t want a holiday and have a nice car too. It would be better for me to stay without and others around me to benefit because that is the way I have been taught. That’s what Our Father Jesus Christ told me and I will obey him.”

Shirley Cauchi, 41, Mqabba

“Well, basically I would tour the world first so I would spend a part of it there, but then I would open a holistic centre where I would help cure people with different diseases. I’m a macrobiotic counsellor so I would definitely promote that.”

Veronica Quaedvlieg, 29, Holland

“I live in Madrid. I would probably buy an apartment there. I would pay for it in one payment to not have to pay rent anymore, which would save me a lot of trouble. Probably work less, but not quit because I really love what I’m doing. I’d spend more time visiting my friends in Malta. Have a little bit less stress. I wouldn’t spend money on expensive bags but on lone travelling, buying food and restaurants which I cannot afford now.”

The jackpot could buy you:

Five million pastizzi or
961,538 Arriva day tickets or
1,666,666 Maltese loaves of bread or
1,453,488 litres of milk or
850,340 litres of unleaded petrol or
3,125,000 packets of Twistees or
781,250 kilograms of bananas.

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