Lotto winner still working two years after becoming millionaire

Rather than living a life of luxury after winning £2million on the National Lottery, a 50 year old Dad from the West Midlands is still working as a training manager.

When Mick Timmins scooped his big win two years ago making him an instant millionaire he vowed to keep his £30,000 a year job in West Bromwich and has stayed true to his word.

He said recently:-

“I’m not one of those people who can sit around doing nothing.

I get up every day at 6am and make sure I’m in work on time. I’d rather go to work, I have been doing it since I was 17 years-old and I haven’t really changed.

There has been talk of redundancies at work and I guess that winning the lottery means I haven’t got the worry of thinking about paying bills.

We have more security and my salary goes into savings.”

Mick's wife Josie still works each Saturday in a local Salon every Saturday and enjoys scouring the shops for bargains, naming Primark as one of her favourite places to shop.

Rather than moving into a mansion the couple have opted for a £340,000 four bed-roomed house in Tivdale, Oldbury just a few minutes down the road from their old house. But the couple have splashed out on a £60,000 holiday home in the Forest of Dean and a £30,000 BMW.

Their big win also helped the Timmins afford a large deposit on a first home for their eldest son Lee, but prudent Mick says he still made 24 year old Lee take out a mortgage on his first home:-

"We have kept the deeds for now and we made him take out a mortgage, so he has to pay out each month and learn to stand on his own two feet.”