Congratulations you've won the 99M on euromillions tonight... what do you do?

[Kelcat9494]

Hello,

I am in the bath with a glass of water 😂 and was thinking about this so mumsnet what would you do?

I'm gonna think about my answer carefully and post it in the comments, I know it's damn near impossible to win the lottery but this is all fun and it's nice to think about fantasies 😂

X

Buy a nice house. Buy a holiday home somewhere nice.

Look after my family and DPs parents and brother.

Give some money to my bestie and her parents who looked out for me when I was a kid.

Donate some to the charities that have supported me.

Then sit back and think what to do with the rest!

Get out of debt. Invest a couple of million over a couple of pensions. See family and friends all right. Book a two week holiday to florida disney world with DH, DS and DSD. Give some to the freeman hospital. Be proud of myself for being sensible and selfless. Gloat a bit to myself. Gloat some more. Book a two week holiday to the Maldives for me and DH with added extras like hiring a private island. Buy some nice scotch. Remember to be sensible. Inwardly cringe at what I've blown on myself. Give some to charity to even it out. Buy a nice modest four bedroom house so the kids can have their own rooms in a nice area, so the kids don't think drug addict alchies are the norm. With a big garden, with a slide and swing set for the kids. A BBQ for DH and a patio set for me.

@Newjez

I'd buy the houses either side of Priti Patel and fill them with asylum seekers.

Actually, I would have a bit left over after taking over my DD's employers' business so I would buy next door but one on both sides to help your mission.

I think I'd hire staff so that I didn't have to cook or clean ever again! But treat them really well and pay handsomely so that they remained loyal.

I'd stress out. 99M is an obscene amount of money and I'd find it hard to trust someone to manage it for me. I say to dh if we win massive, id just donate everything over 2M. 2M is my cap on manageable.

Big house in the town I grew up with smallholding. Hire a gardner and a housekeeper. Bungalow and housekeeper for my parents Intensive driving lessons and car for myself. New family car.
Makeover for myself. Shopping spree for clothes and jewellery. Book holiday's for next year - New York ( ds's dream) anywhere hot ( dd and dp) and I want to see the northern lights (Iceland?). Really good schools for DC.

I would not tell people I'd won that amount as everyone would be looking for a handout. I'd probably tell them I'd won a few million.

Then I would buy a bigger house, but not huge. Would love a swimming pool, big bedrooms for three kids, proper home office for DH to work from home.

Take all my extended family on holiday. We used to go and stay in a huge holiday home all together but it got too expensive and hard to organise.

Buy more horses and a farm to put them on, stop working, have a 2nd baby!

Twice weekly blow drys
A massive Oakley horsebox and a groom to drive it
Have a proper crack at eventing
A full hunt subscription
Holiday home in the bit of Spain DH lived

I think that’s it

I would buy a house in Scotland. Resign from my job.
Think carefully about everything else! It would change my life and I would like to do some good with it.

@Newjez

I'd buy the houses either side of Priti Patel and fill them with asylum seekers.

Genius!

Newjez

I'd buy the houses either side of Priti Patel and fill them with asylum seekers.

That’s so funny.

I’d pay off my and my family’s mortgages.

Get husband to quit work.

Donate loads to charities. Rewilding and environmental or climate change ones.

Buy some new clothes. All my clothes are so old.

Have dinner in a really fancy restaurant to see if that kind of food really is amazing.

Buy a house for both sets of parents. All our siblings would also get a house of their choosing on the understanding that we buy the house and have no more involvement, if they cant afford to run it we wont step in but they can also sell it and do whatever with the cash if they wish.
Gifts of money for nieces/nephews - direct to the adult ones, trusts for the younger ones.
Buy a house for us and then hire a cleaner and a gardener, possibly an interior decorator as well.
Pay people their money back for our booked holiday in October (caravan park for 11 of us) so they have a free holiday.
DP would buy ridiculous guitars
DS would want ridiculous laptop/gaming stuff
I'd probably go shopping and be unable to find anything I like

And then just carry on as we are now probably.

@Newjez that is genius. I’d keep enough to one side so that every time she moves I could buy more houses next to hers.

Split with my DH immediately. Then resign from work. Gift my best friend and my (in theory!) ex boss enough money that they wouldn’t have to worry about money.

Donation to various causes.

Between us as a family - we would buy a house and a huge bus style campervan.
Assuming that covid never existed we would have a trip across Europe.
After that ...?! I’ve spent to long daydreaming of winning🤣

Not spilt up with. I meant split the winning with DH 😳😳

Buy a house, get my dog bionic legs, pay for mum to have knee surgery privately, give this shit leased car back, give loads away, buy some land and rescue animals

Give our closest family a million each, give up work immediately, buy a big house here and a couple of holiday homes, go on a couple of amazing holidays (well not at the moment 🙄). Get some plastic surgery after this last baby is born. Then I would love my life of luxury tending my horses and dogs every day in the country, having weekends away and I would give my kids the option of having private tutors instead of going to school because they both absolutely hate school.

Pay the mortgage off on my flat, I wouldn’t move as I’m already in my forever home. I would however reconfigure it to create a third bedroom so its ready for when I adopt again.

Quit my job and return to playing rugby fulltime, which would also mean trying to get signed again in a higher league. But I would happily stay at my current team if need be as I’m getting on for sport, 32.

Player welfare in rugby is shit, so I would try to start a scheme to ensure player welfare is a priority.

London Friend have helped me a lot over the years, so I’d provide them with financial support.

Look into providing safe temporary housing for queer people with access to other support schemes that are already available in the area.

Open a gym thats fully accessible for people with disabilties. My boyfriend has a physical disability and none of the local gyms are accessible without him being helped, the PTs also don’t have sufficient training to assist disabled clients.

Get some decent and regular theraplay for my son.

If I was feeling particularly spiteful I’d send my parents a letter each about my big win and include a cheque for something like £1.

I'm liking these ideas! I can see a lot of people sit in the bath thinking about it like I do 😂

I'm 25 with a baby on the way so I think the first thing I'd do is have a stress nap because holy moly that's a lot of cash!

I'd then resign from my job as would DH I imagine.

I'd probably sit on it for awhile, not tell anyone about it and think about how we'll split it and who with.

Once that's done, probably disappear from my home town and social media! Only keeping in touch with family and close friends.

Once that's done the big dream would be to buy a huge farm house maybe in the USA or Australia and rescue as many animals as I possibly could so be like a sanctuary but they'd be my own pets once rescued (probably hire some staff to help)

And also try fancy restaurants and hotels to see how the other half live (although I'd stick out like a sore thumb) OH! And do the scene from pretty woman, shop rodeo drive in my primark clothes while they all look down on me and drop like $100,000 while they all look shocked 😂😂

Pay debts
Large investment for DS with 'sliding' access ages (eg 18, 21, 25, 30 or when he wanted to buy a house)
Buy my folks ground floor flat with full disability accommodations, mobility scooters and a live in carer
Give some money to main family including my folks so they can have what they want, when they want
Buy, refurb & refurnish our house (love the area)
Luxury cruise
Luxury Cattery while on cruise
Resign
Decent car for DH
Write for pleasure & fun, go on writing retreats

@SimonJT - do you play league or union?

Retrain to become a doctor.
Buy family house
Pay off debt
Eat a lobster
Give to charity
Secretly help people who need something

Pay off my mums mortgage, buy my dad a house, buy myself a house, pay for private surgery for my Grandmas painful shoulder, learn to drive and buy a car, give lots of money to my local cat and dog rescues, pay off all my debts, go on my first ever abroad holiday.

Then I'd get some new clothes and shoes for me and DP and hold on to the rest. I'd do my weekly shop at M+S or Waitrose for the rest of my life 😍

I’d buy a large bungalow fully adapted to their needs for the in-laws and hire housekeepers, cleaners and gardeners for them.

Trust funds for all the dc in the family, mortgages paid off for all adults.

A nice house here and a nice house in a sunny place for us. The house needs to be sorted first, so that we can finally have a dog (or 2)!

I’d like to become a property developer developing proper houses and living spaces, super environmentally friendly and very affordable. I could actually make this a charity as I don’t want to make money with this.

I also want to open my own all-through school with the most amazing facilities, another charity as it would not charge fees.

@Newjez I was already thinking I'd whack a massive amount to asylum seekers, but this is def how to do it.
Nice places to live (big garden) for me and my nearest and dearest, enough left so I can spend the rest of my life painting and writing, and the rest to charity - asylum seekers, homeless children, women suffering DA.

£20 mill each to my two brothers and mum, same for me. £10 mill to charity, and five mill each to my nieces (Trust fund).
I'd buy my dream home and have Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen decorate it. I'd get private therapy. I'd enjoy my indoor pool.