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What would you do if you won Euromillions?

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Larowe · 04/09/2024 17:54

I’d buy a stone cottage in the Cotswolds with a natural swimming pond and a flat in Notting Hill for when i got bored.

I would rescue 3/4 dogs (would be a gradual process as my current dog shepherds away dogs I show affection to)

Buy siblings and parents a house.

And probably foster. My job would come in the form of investing in female education in my grandparents’ home country. And something to do with the elderly here.

I’m a homebody so apart from a first class trip to Sydney I probably wouldn’t live too much a jet setter lifestyle.

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KreedKafer · 05/09/2024 09:31

Give up work immediately. Buy a better house in a secluded location. Set my mum and dad up in a new place near by with full time nursing care for my dad (has advanced Parkinson’s, severely disabled) and a driver who could take them anywhere they fancied. Rescue some animals. Give to family. Give to charity. Do a Masters and probably a PhD. Travel loads, in luxury.

herecomesautumn · 05/09/2024 09:26
  1. Resign
  2. Go on holiday somewhere hot
  1. Give my sister money
  2. Enjoy my life without scrimping
Temushopper · 05/09/2024 09:22

Quit my job & have OH quit his. We like them but a big euro millions win would mean that we wouldn’t need to work again.
Pay off mortgage
Invest a big chunk to be our salary/pension
Make all remaining changes to house/garden we’ve put off till we saved up
Book an amazing trip away over Christmas break & plan some awesome gifts for close family to share winnings
Donate to local charities we support
Hire someone to come daily and sort all the household admin and a gardener so we can spend all the time from 3:15 to bedtime helping with homework and doing fun things with the kids.
Plan in a couple of hours a day in term time for long walks, swimming or gym classes
Do more to help out places we volunteer
Gift some money to kids (ideally in a trust of some kind till they are 18 or 21)
Hire a fitness/nutrition coach and possibly outsource meal planning and cooking and work on losing weight.
Weekly massages & pedicures

I won’t win as we don’t play but spending imaginary money is always fun,

Arlanymor · 05/09/2024 09:04

Well this infiltrated my dreams (in a way) last night - dreamt I won a derelict theatre in a raffle!

KnickerlessParsons · 04/09/2024 23:07

Depends how much.

I'd like to set my DDs, sister, and DHs siblings up with nice houses, no mortgage.

I'd buy a house on the Côtr d'Azur

Other than that, not sure. I reckon DH and I would fall out actually, because he'd be all about fast cars and lots of holidays.

Changeyourfuckingcar · 04/09/2024 22:39

I’d buy the farm we currently rent, ideally, but realistically buy another as I don’t think the owner would want to sell.
I’d build a fuck off big house with huge beautiful gardens and employ a cleaner and a gardener.
I would put a fair bit in trust for my kids, and help out siblings/parents as fairly as I could, probably equal amounts for all, anything else would cause issues I think.
I would buy myself a new car and husband a new truck, just newer versions of the ones we have now I think. And a new car for my mum.
I would pay for some private healthcare that I need but can’t stretch to right now.
I don’t think I’d go for ridiculously fancy holidays but I would want to go away more often.
Have a really good think about local worthy causes and charities. Chuck some money about there.
Other than that(!) life as normal really. We would keep the business we currently run (albeit it would be somewhat easier with all that money, less pressure etc) and I’d remain a sahm.

UnNiddeRides · 04/09/2024 22:30

GellerYeller · 04/09/2024 22:00

I used to say I’d go into work for a while just to really have some fun:
Imagine a whole week of just saying no to everything you don’t fancy doing, without explanation.

I like this idea. Replying to a request for a report at short notice with ‘I can’t do that’.

XenoBitch · 04/09/2024 22:27

I would get some wine, and browse GoFundMe, and make a lot of people happy.
I would buy my parent's council house for them, and get my DB a place of his own.
I would donate a load to the rescue my dog came from.
I would get some private therapy for myself to combat my demons.
I would move back to my home town, and open a garden for people with MH issues (I was a service user in one where I lived, and it was great).

But I would not tell a soul I had won a big amount. I would not go public etc. Would need some proper advice on investments and how to be discrete.

areallmotherslikethis · 04/09/2024 22:21

Pay off debts
Huge chunk in own pensions / savings
Another huge chunk put away for the kids
Upgrade cars
New house in a beautiful, quiet village with enough space to have my folks living with us but also having their own space
Hire a chef, housekeeper, gardener etc
Fancy family holiday
Fancy couples holiday
Pay back my folks for all the help they've given us plus extra
Give some money to my brother
Share some out between nieces/nephews/family abroad who don't have a lot
Plastic surgery
Hire a PT
Probably go into property - I'd like to do 'Homes under the hammer' type jobbies
Donate to schools / real charity cases where I can see my money making a difference
Upgrade my wardrobe (and DH's and kids)

God what a disgustingly materialistic list 🙃

LadyGaGasPokerFace · 04/09/2024 22:01

I’d firstly walk out of my job and retire. Get a bigger house and then adopt more doggies. Give to doggy charities. Give to the local hospital. Flounce around in happiness 😂

GellerYeller · 04/09/2024 22:00

I used to say I’d go into work for a while just to really have some fun:
Imagine a whole week of just saying no to everything you don’t fancy doing, without explanation.

PermanentTemporary · 04/09/2024 21:53

-Order handmade shoes and silk lingerie

-Buy some Dom Perignon 2010 vintage- I had a glass once and it was the most incredible thing I've ever tasted, it's about £500 a bottle

-Set up a non profit housing association that buys absolute wrecks and 'difficult' properties and develops them, forming housing cooperatives of about 20 households for long term low rent and self-government

-Give money for musical instruments, library books and music teachers to schools in the most deprived areas of the UK

Scorchio84 · 04/09/2024 21:51

You'd need the Euromillions to buy a house here

so that, sort my son out for life but also stipulate he has to study & work in whatever field he suits (his dad has never had to & it really shows)

money to help out my extended family

& lots of travel

& animal charities

LostittoBostik · 04/09/2024 21:47

First pay off the mortgage, then move house - a bigger property in a nicer area of our city, recently renovated so there would be nothing to do except maybe add some paint colours

Buy my single friend a small flat outright so she has some security for later life

I am self employed and wouldn't stop working altogether but would massively reduce my workload and only take on the odd project I really want to do

YellowphantGrey · 04/09/2024 21:47

Pay off the mortgage
Buy some land and build our house (I love to draw pretend floor layouts for my dream house!)

That's pretty much it. I'd carry on working and DS could easily go to Uni.

GellerYeller · 04/09/2024 21:45

‘Go freelance’ in my current job, in a bid to explain my:
house renovations
food shop at M and S
going to concerts and not just buying the cheapest seats
Gardener and cleaner
Having a whole weekend of saying yes to the kids. Spree in Urban? Hollister? Trainers? Go on then, just this once.
charity work
Going to uni after ‘selling my business’
Obviously would make family and friends secure if I can figure out a way to keep them quiet! With good community work.

AllThePotatoesAreSinging · 04/09/2024 21:44

Move house and not tell anyone my new address

YellowphantGrey · 04/09/2024 21:43

Prawncow · 04/09/2024 18:37

Obviously lots of practical and charitable stuff but also pay someone to dress up as a giant squirrel and run around the garden so my dog could chase them and (eventually) catch them. It would make her so happy.

For goodness sake, how adorable is that?!

What breed of dog do you have?

UnNiddeRides · 04/09/2024 21:41

After sorting out immediate family I’d give maybe £10k each to my colleagues on my current team & the one I worked in until 3 years ago (but still have daily contact with). I’d also get give £10k each to the staff at my local small Co-Op as I haven’t forgotten their professional & patient approach during the days of queues, limited stock, threatening customers etc in the chaotic lockdowns.
Then I’d arrange a housekeeper & chef for each home that I’d buy so that I would never have to plan meals or food shop again. I’d help the chef with the actual cooking (i.e. I’d be an annoying spoony fucker).

AngeloMysterioso · 04/09/2024 21:26

Buy a gorgeous dream house that is actually big enough for my family.

Offer to buy PILs a new house (they’d probably say no) or do something else wonderful for them.

Get everything done to my old, dinged-to-shit car so it is as good as new.

Enrol DC in the lovely local private school.

Take some fucking amazing holidays.

Set up an incredible women’s shelter where they are really safe and looked after.

Donate enough money to pay all the wages of the amazing staff who work at the hospice where my Dad stayed before he died, every year. The year he died they were working over Christmas for free because there wasn’t enough money to pay them.

Get a hospitality ticket to Glastonbury every year.

That’s just for starters…

ToBeOrNotToBee · 04/09/2024 21:24

Buy a small cottage with some land for a smallholding and be known as the weird woman who lives on the hill.
I can imagine it now.

MsLavender · 04/09/2024 21:22

I would cut everyone off, disappear and create a new identity for myself.

DelilahBucket · 04/09/2024 21:11

Immediately buy a house somewhere, anywhere, so I don't have to live next door to my shitty neighbours one moment longer. Get my mum a nice bungalow, car, and cleaner. Give to mine and DH's siblings and parents. Set up a fund for DS for when he's older. Travel. Expand my business just to see if I could make it with a cash injection. If nothing else it would provide employment to the area and keep me busy.
I'd also donate loads to various local charities, particularly the places that help with injured birds and hedgehogs as they are really struggling.

HelpMeGetThrough · 04/09/2024 21:09

I'd keep very quiet and move away, with no forwarding address and change my phone number and email address.

TemuSpecialBuy · 04/09/2024 21:07

So many holidays.
Disney at least annually

holiday houses in Cotswolds and Norfolk
Housekeepers plural 😍
A chef

set up all our loved ones financially

set up and run a charity for girls around critical thinking / decision making, self esteem and health