What would you do if you won the Euromillions?

[honeybeeandme]

This is a frequent thought of mine, every time I purchase a ticket I think 'what if?'

What would you do if you won an unbelievable sun of money - £54,000,000 for example?

Leave my job, buy a farm and rewild it.

I'd keep my job (I love it). Aside from all the nice stuff like charity, buying stuff for my family etc.? No idea. My car is fine, my bills are paid and I'm happy. Probably would invest some, buy some property so I had a choice of homes for the weekend, and spend a lot of time in a huge bubble bath quaffing pink champagne.

Give it away. Anonymously.
I already have my list of organisations and charities inc Womens Aid, Mental Health charities, bereavement support and helping homeless people get a permanent home.

Oh and I'd probably hire hitmen to get rid of the arsehole neighbours next door, buy the property and flatten it so no one else can move in mwahaha. Make it a wildflower habititat.

I would keep quiet and maybe share with close family that I had won but not necessarily say how much.
I would give some to each of my siblings and my closest friends so they would never have to worry about money again.
I would put some money in trust for DCs when they are older, maybe 25 as I don't think 18 is a good idea to get a lot of money.
I would leave my job and go on some really nice holidays to have a think about what to do next.

Charity donations mainly mental health and poverty prevention in the uk.
Travel
Buy a flat in London and volunteer or work doing the job I do now. It’s a bit difficult volunteering as they need you to be staff but I could donate back.

Find therapy for myself adult ASD social skills. Not sure they actually exist but I’m confined to England at the moment would be able to look wider.

I don't know. I have/do nice things anyway. It is too much money to have to worry about. Nobody needs to win that much money in one go. They should change the rules so that several people win a few million each.

Give two dog rescues close to our heart a million each. Buy houses for family and pay for my Dad's care.
Buy the semi next door and knock through. Rescue a bigger dog as I'd have the garden space and DH could have a double sized workshop. Get another family member proper support for lifelong Ill health. Then I'd paint all day - landscapes.

Oh and I'd also have my current house done up and donate it to a family who need it.

keep applying for jobs in crappy places so I can quit and cause shit with micro managers or pushy colleagues knowing I can quit and don’t need the money. Work in front line job with customers and tell them what I think if they start.
also pay off debt and buy houses, cars, and go on holidays.

I would quit my current job immediately.

I’d buy a lovely secluded house on the outskirts of the city (but with dark skies (obviously those things are incompatible!). With a mature garden with plenty of shade (hate the sun), and trees strong enough to hang hammocks, and a treehouse. A stream running through the garden would be the cherry on the cake.

I would like to find a way to be self sufficient, growing fruit and veg, keep hens, ksolar energy etc.

I would spend my days craffting, knitting, willow weaving. Also running free crafft sessions for children.

I’d live off the interest.

I’d have two dogs as I’d be home much of the time, and not have to feel guilty leaving them to go to work as I do currently.

Ahhh I do love a good daydream!

Back in the early days of the National Lottery, my now ex-partner worked for them in Winner's Liaison. It was his job to stay with the jackpot winner from the moment their ticket was validated - usually within a few hours of the draw -to the time they received their big cheque.four or five days later.

     He said the biggest problem winners inflicted upon themselves, or rather the people they wanted to reward,  was to rashly promise big pay-outs and extravagant gifts like cars and even houses  to friends and family, because the winners rarely understood that the recipients are liable to be taxed on them. 

     The best advice he could give them was to consult a specialist financial adviser to set up a customised scheme to minimise the liability to HMRC. 

       The other problem was the begging letters, often with heart-rending stories - even the winners who opted for no publicity would be inundated as word got round, which it always did and still does, apparently.    His advice was:  dont read them, dont even open them.;  use a secretarial service to send out standard replies saying sorry to hear of your circumstances but we are unable to help.

I'd buy so many houses everywhere!
South of France... Greece

I'd save some obviously

And live like a queen flitting about here there and everywhere 😀😀

Oh I have plans....
Firstly I'd sort out amazing residential care for my mum who has Alzheimer's- with all the physio and attention she needs

Then I'd keep my job but get rid of my clients.... I'm an architect and there are loads of projects I'd love to do like deep retrofits & passivhaus & community projects that I never get the clients for - so I'd love to become the client and do all of those and I'd love to be able to afford to train and employ somebody to work with me.

And I want a giant giraffe statue to put in my back hedge of our garden to surprise people walking down the footpath

Open a dog rescue centre for all the old and poorly dogs that no one wants to rehome. They would all live with me happily ever after. I would also take in any and all other animals that would like to live with me. I dream of this all the time.

I would fund dog poo wardens to patrol everywhere and shame the non-picker-uppers, the stick and flickers, and the ones who leave the poo bag dangling on a tree. On the spot fines but also a public berating. I’d spend the entire £54m.

Move to somewhere like Bridport where we can have a nice house with a good size garden so that DD can have chickens and rabbits but DS can still walk to shops as country life is not for him! I don’t want a mansion - I’d like 4 bedrooms, and a utility room, boot room and pantry!

Arrange for private ASD/ADHD assessments for all of us!

DD would continue to be home edded but we could pay for any activities she wanted and some tutoring. Private school for DS.

DD can have more riding lessons and go out hacking regularly.

I would give up work and have a PT but no cleaners etc as we are very private.

Find a reliable pet sitter and travel - DD is studying Nepal and is desperate to go.

Buy a campervan or small motor home.

Money to the family, close friends and in trust for the children. Invest money.

Research charities and Donate money, small charities focusing on poverty, children, DV and animal welfare.

I have also given this a lot of thought. However, as I don’t play the lottery it seems unlikely!

Leave my job, and spend as much time as I can with my DC. Travel with thdm, take them to all the places they'd love to go.

Buy my siblings a house each. And my parents the retirement property they can't quite afford.

I'd give sums of money to several good friends.

Buy a house, in the same area I am now (dc love their small village prinary) . New car. Send DC to the local decent fee paying school when they get to that age.

Get a cleaner and a personal trainer.

Give up work
Buy a house. Don't need anywhere huge, just a nice detached 4 bedder with a bit of land would be perfect. We would stay local to where we are now.
Buy both adult DC a flat each and set up a trust for both of them so they don't ever have to worry about money.
Buy a bolt hole in southern Europe as somewhere to escape to.
Pay off DB's mortgage.
Buy DM an elderly friendly flat.
Donate some to charity.
Give some to some selected friends.
Buy a new car and a brand new campervan.

I’d buy a small holding in west Wales, somewhere near the coast so you could see the sea. I’d have our perfect home built, complete with a swimming pool and lazy river, a walled vegetable garden, formal gardens with all sorts of architectural salvage and benches scattered behind hedges, and a duck pond. We’d have alpacas, pigs, donkeys and chickens, a small orchard and a bluebell wood. We’d build a couple of homes for family and I’d have the best stocked haberdashery you’ve ever seen. I’d have a full time cleaner, a full time gardener and someone to do the dirty work of looking after the animals and I’d spend my time swanning about like Lady Muck.

Buy a London townhouse right next door to a big park. Regents Park maybe, or the bottom right hand corner of Hyde Park. Highgate looks nice but it's a bit too far north for me.

I shall buy a ticket tomorrow with as little expectation of winning as ever. It will take me weeks to check whether I have won.

If I have won, I shall buy a lovely two or three bed flat in Holland Park, in my DC's name. I shall give my family and DH's family each enough to buy a nice home, appropriate to their current life stage. My friends are all in their 60s and most of us have enough. A lovely rolling holiday in a glam villa with a changing range of friends somewhere for a few weeks would be nice. A tiny portion sectioned off for our declining years, and I think I would fund scholarships with the rest. Find the clever people early and make sure they have the opportunity to fulfil their potential, yet also impose clauses that tie them in to onward funding. So, if I have funded you and you make a million, 10% needs to go back into the next round of new ideas.

Buy a castle

adopt a lot of kids and cats

buy them each very nice houses

start an animal rescue centre

I’d buy Mumsnet and instantly ban about 80% of the posters.

I'd buy a house so I can trump my husband and stop his games of not moving out (because I can't and this is his way of retaining control of me).

I'd have a house with a garden for my kids and a cat garden for my cat. And I'd get another cat.

And I'd have a house with bigger bedrooms for my kids.

And I'd commission a fuck ton of research into the impact of different sorts of emotional abuse in intimate partner relationships. I'd break down all the different types of abuse and have it quantitatively and qualitatively researched. Then I'd then fund multiple national campaigns to teach everybody what it is and what it actually does to victims. So while we maybe can't prosecute the fuckers who do it, their tactics become public knowledge, victim blaming stops and prep blaming starts. And it get it translated into multiple languages.

And I'd pay for Andrew Tate to be bleached from the internet.