£250,000 Postcode Lottery Winner So Nearly Stopped Playing

Jannet Balansag from Birmingham in England is so glad she took her husband’s advice. He persuaded her not to go ahead and cancel their Postcode Lottery ticket. Now it’s just won them £250,000.

The couple both work as nurses at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham.  A Welsh player found out about his £333,333 win while in his hospital bed.

Jannet admits that she’s so glad she listened to husband Dave. He told his wife to “keep going”, especially as the Postcode Lottery helps charities.

Emma Down from  Southsea, England,  nearly quit too but then won a £154,000 Postcode Lottery prize.

Dream trip to the Vatican City

Plans for their winnings include buying their first ever family car.  Jannet is a catholic and now a dream trip to the Vatican City is planned. “I really want to see it with my own eyes,” said the Postcode Lottery winner.

The couple moved from the Philippines to the UK in 2020 and haven’t seen their family for two years. They now plan to go there next month. Doing so will mean their parents will see their granddaughter Jada for the first time. Her husband also wants to “roam around Europe” and fancies going to Italy or Spain.

Annette Hinde is also celebrating a £250,000 Postcode Lottery win. The great gran now plans on buying a seaside mobile home on the west coast of England. Her plan is to “live by the sea for six months of the year.”

Bliss

That’s something she says will be “bliss” but there is a good reason for her dream. The Postcode Lottery winner has chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and the salty sea will be good for her lungs. “It’ll do me the power of good,” said the delighted winner. A holiday to Cornwall is also on its way.

A shopping trip with her two daughters is being planned. “It’s a case of whatever we want we can have, instead of just adding things up as we go around. It’ll be fantastic,” she said.

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