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Imagine if you won the lottery during lockdown...

54 replies

thelostartofkeepingsecrets · 01/04/2020 13:22

You wouldn’t be able to go on an amazing holiday, celebrate with friends and family who you didn’t live with, buying anything luxurious unless it was online or stocked in an essential local shop.

What would you do? Would it be a massive anti-climax?

OP posts:
Sloff · 01/04/2020 15:16

I would use it to pay off the mortgage so that if the business goes under we would still have a home. Plans were to sell but won't be able to do that now for a long time, probably never for me.

maa1992 · 01/04/2020 15:21

I'd tel my husband to stop working (he's a keyworker, works on the docks)

CountFosco · 01/04/2020 15:26

Depend how much. £1M is a decent retirement fund but not much else. £57M is give lots away and still be very rich. Agree lockdown gives you time to think but usually it would be a case of make yourself secure (mortgage, pension, mixed risk savings for a rainy day), spend a bit, give some away. You could do 2/3 of those.

Neverenoughcoffee · 01/04/2020 15:27

You can move house. I would rent somewhere with a pool, hot tub, plenty of land etc and form a household with another family.

Nquartz · 01/04/2020 15:30

I'd give a massive donation to the local food bank & take great pleasure in handing my notice in Grin but then it would be really weird to not be able to buy anything.

Or I'd try to buy hazmat suits so I could hug my mum Sad

Kazzyhoward · 01/04/2020 15:32

You wouldn’t be able to go on an amazing holiday, celebrate with friends and family who you didn’t live with, buying anything luxurious unless it was online or stocked in an essential local shop.

Yes, you would, you'd just need a little patience before you could do all that.

CeibaTree · 01/04/2020 15:40

I wonder how big prizes would be paid as you have to do it in person currently.

HarrietThePi · 01/04/2020 15:40

I'd be overjoyed if I won the lottery. I know exactly what I'd do with the money and I wouldn't mind if I had to wait for a while. I don't enter the draw though so it would be even more miraculous if I won.

mindutopia · 01/04/2020 15:42

I'd buy the house in cash that we are currently stuck in mortgage approval limbo trying to buy because the bank can't send out anyone to do the valuation. Then I'd buy a lot of cheap shares and sit on them until the markets come back up. And then I'd buy a few crates of wine.

Likethebattle · 01/04/2020 15:56

I’d gone a ton to the NHS. Then I’d plan what we would do with the rest. A holiday cottage, a new house, treat my faintly. The unclaimed £58m is in my home county.

HarrietThePi · 01/04/2020 15:57

Even if it was "just" one million. I'd get myself a nice 2 bed apartment so I could finally leave my partner. Bedroom for me and a bedroom for DD. Maybe an extra bedroom so her dad could visit and stay over sometimes. Or my mum. Somewhere right in our town centre near the shops and the station. I'd online window shop for somewhere to live and maybe furniture in the meantime. I'd probably do research on a good driving instructor too. I have never managed to learn. I have ASD and dsypraxia and it's something I really struggle with, but maybe if I had enough money I'd be able to find a really good teacher. Once the place to live was sorted, and possibly a car if I manage to pass the driving test, then I'd just live a normal life. I don't spend a lot of money on clothes or luxuries and have no desire to do so.

RhymingRabbit3 · 01/04/2020 16:02

Buy a huge house with an annexe so my parents could move in and we would technically all be one household.

PeterPiperPickedWrongAgain · 01/04/2020 18:25

I would immediately quit so that I could stay home and properly shield DH, who is in the extremely vulnerable group, instead of having to go out and work with people and risk bringing CV back to him.

Likethebattle · 01/04/2020 18:54

@HarrietThePi have you tried in an automatic. No gears or clutch the deal with?

HarrietThePi · 01/04/2020 19:03

I have like, and I was terrible. But my instructor was impatient with me to say the least. He was quite a shouty man. I am definitely a slow learner in that department and I'm honestly not sure that I could ever learn to drive, I'd be the first to admit that, but do think I might have more chance with a more understanding instructor. I will give it a go again one day, just a bit difficult financially as I'm trying to save to move out. I know it would be well worth it though if I do manage to pass my test. Not just practicality but also it would really widen my options in getting work.

DryHeave · 01/04/2020 19:05

Anticlimax?! It’d be a blessing. No rash spending, peace of mind from a financial point of view & hope on the horizon for what you can do when this passes.

Pelleas · 01/04/2020 19:07

I'd spend the rest of lockdown browsing Rightmove.

MrsSnitchnose · 01/04/2020 19:09

I would prepay all of my appointments from the self employed I usually use. I'm already going to offer this to my hairdresser when I get paid on the 15th. My tattoo artist I would pay too for however long he thinks my new sleeve would take

AdoptedBumpkin · 01/04/2020 19:10

Would be something to look forward to. Unless the worst was to happen...

RedDiamond · 01/04/2020 19:11

@HarrietThePi - Strange as this might seem, after this is all over, research specialist schools near you , in particular, those that cater for pupils with Aspergers. My son has Aspergers and he passed his test along with his dyxpraxia too. You never know, the local schools might pass on the info as the instructor my son and other pupils had had the patience of a saint.

StarUtopia · 01/04/2020 19:12

Be amazing!!! Take all my money worries away.

Permanantlypuzzled · 01/04/2020 19:17

I have a holiday booked for 12th of May, to Crete.
I had an e-mail from Jet2holidays last week asking me what I am looking forward to doing on my holiday.
The airport hotel where I have booked an overnight stay and 8 days parking are still taking bookings on their website.

What are my chances of jetting away?
Nil to minus plenty ?

Alpacasmum · 01/04/2020 19:35

I would give money to charities, they are bound to be hit badly even when this is over.

HarrietThePi · 01/04/2020 19:36

@RedDiamond thank you very much for that. I'll definitely look into it. I didn't know specialist schools existed! Well done to your son too!

MulticolourMophead · 01/04/2020 19:38

I'd get in touch with estate agents about houses, with the plan to be offering on one once we are out of lockdown.

I'd spend the rest of lockdown planning what I'm gong to do. Money will also be sent to charities, but I like to research which ones.

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