To think winning £110M overnight would solve a lot of problems but bring a whole set of new ones?

My daughter and I were talking about this just now! We've got as far as I'd keep the round £100 million and the kids (three of them) can split the £11 million!

Well I've been browsing rightmove in anticipation of them emailing me, but I think it's a bit late in the day for it to be me.

I would do so many nice things with the money.

Same here I want a house on a flat long bike trail that I could go out on every day.

Also would get a chef and a housekeeper to look after me!

Nope. No problems at all

I wouldnt tell anyone.

I would simply hand in my notice, work my notice which is several months anyway

Buy a different property on the quiet, move after the notice period runs out and live the life of riley.

I would say I came into an inheritance that allowed me to retire early.

I wouldnt live a life of ferraris and holidays to Barbados anyone, Im more like a Skoda and Devon or Nice holiday vibe but in any case i would just enjoy myself, do some voluntary work, keep a low profile and radiate smugness from the inside.

You must be naive to think to that all our taxes go to improve public services.

I wouldn’t want to stop work, I like my job. What I don’t like is working from home and having no divide between work / house. I would buy myself a smart office, kit it out with a fridge stocked with amazing food and a coffee machine, a huge wooden desk and panelled walls. A new computer. Maybe a driver to take me there everyday. And I’d sit in my nice surroundings enjoying my work. While a housekeeper visits my house every day while I’m out. Come home to an immaculate house, having done a good days work and been productive. That would make me happy.

Lol same!

I had lost my engagement ring a week prior and bought tickets because I thought I was owed some luck.

My son found it at bedtime. Which now I think about it is the time the balls would have come out!

So very pleased, and pleased we had a British winner.

Yeah, it would be really unfair for you to have to stomach paying a small proportion of your multi-million unearned fortune to help fund public services after you had invested two quid on your lotto ticket.

I wouldn’t be able to stomach paying a shed load of tax if I were to put most of £110 million in savings or even a quarter to a half.

I can think of literally 100 things right now that I would rather spend my time doing than working and while a lot might not have any actual purpose, I'd rather do them than work.

Yeah, so you spend 10m in your first year while investing the remaining 100m. After a year you have 5m (more in reality) and you limit yourself to spending that per year for the rest of your life. It might be a struggle to live off such a paltry sum but I’m sure most of us will find a way to cope.

Same here.

My SIL has already told us that if she ever wins the lottery she won't give us anything (DH is her brother), so I wouldn't have to worry about how much to give her, because it'd be £000!

Not skewed at all, different maybe, but absolutely normal for my area. It’s n any case I was reasoning to the poster who suggested the money wouldn’t last a lifetime because of spending 5-10 million on a house. So let’s say your area costs 3/4 times mine, that’s still nowhere near the amount of money that poster was suggesting

This in spades!

I have an old Uni friend who went into "the City", started his own company, recently sold it, evidently he's worth almost £100m now. He's a nice guy, and generous, I know he's supported in laws and some of his own family members - but it's also caused a lot of angst. Two of his siblings are not talking to him - they are committed lefties (evidently 🤷🏼‍♀️) LP members who don't think anyone should have that amount of money. (The fact they both live in detached houses in the S of England and have no mortgage and holiday abroad doesn't seem to register with them.)

Anyway - last time I saw him we had a coffee at his mum's, he said it was astonishing how many old friends and acquaintances came out of the woodwork when the sale was announced and word got around - all with ideas that needed finance.

£1m would suit me nicely as a lottery win!

I understand what you mean. With that sum of money you could live the life you want, potentially never work again (if that’s your preference), and you could make life a lot lot easier for all of your loved ones. I’d rather have it than not.
But it also raises a lot of questions.
Where do you draw the line with people trying to mooch off you all the time after you’ve already helped them?
Would you feel bored and unfulfilled with never working again?
Do you want your kids to feel like they don’t need to try in education ever again because they’ll always be taken care of? How do you foster a good work ethic and desire to be independent?
Does it feel morally right and fulfilling to have lots of ‘things’ and ‘experiences’ you haven’t earned?
If you want to invest or give some to charity or do something philanthropic how do you decide what to do?
Not to mention the media scrutiny and trying to maintain some privacy through it all.

I think there is a family in a French village that won a huge amount. They still live the life they have always done but fund things for their community anonymously. ( Old folks home, amenities…)

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If I decide to fly first instead of economy on my holidays no-one is likely to notice. Not interested in massive cars or yachts but I'd have private medical care - again most people are not going to notice that. I wouldnt want anyone to know if I'd paid off their mortgage but I suspect they might then start to figure it out. I might have to do some random paying off of their neighbours mortgages just to confuse the issue 😁Or maybe I'd just pay to install solar panels and other money saving things for random roads that they live in.

Perhaps I'll buy a lottery ticket, I could have so much fun with that.

Wow, your house is worth £650?

You must live in a pretty shitty area

We have found the ultimate Mumsnet "especially in London."

£110million doesn't go that far, "especially in London"!

I'd buy a house for us, some land, and get some sheep and cows and employ a farmhand or two. I'd also buy a small property for each of my kids eventually. DH would keep working, and I'd raise the kids and animals.

We'd have nice holidays but not so crazy luxurious that it would raise eyebrows.. although I'd fly business class when going abroad 🤣

I'd probably be quite philanthropic... So build a new swimming pool for our town, and maybe something to do with families in the local area. Not sure what, but something.

If you spend the money then people start to notice!

That's a great attitude to have

You are the ridiculous one saying that the poster's child could put down her a level book & never had to study again, due to being funded by their parents. What would that teach them? Budgeting is an essential life skill and they'd be up shit creek if the money disappeared. You should never be reliant on anyone for money

Of course I'd never see my children struggling financially but I wouldn't spoil them with money either