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68 Mill on the Euromillions tonight

98 replies

Januaryisthelongestyear · 17/02/2023 18:17

I feel crap with some random lurgy and I've bought myself a ticket just so I can spend the evening happily dreaming.

First thing would be a trip to Kuoni, followed by engaging a wedding planner (because all the things stopping us wouldn't matter any more) and a trip to the financial advice firm I used to work for (as a lowly admin type) to get them to 'audition' to be my advisors.

Then buy DP and DC all the things I wish I could get them, like a fancy BBQ, a huge dolls house, a real drum kit and sound recording studio and/or art studio...
I'd get a dog. Pay for private healthcare for my parents and in laws who all need an MOT and hire a PA so I don't have to try and do all my tedious and highly stressful life admin any more. A letter had me in tears earlier because it was just the straw that broke the proverbial. No more!

I might also make random anonymous gifts to people I don't know because it would be fun. I love giving and would indulge myself a lot.

Anybody want to join me and dream a little dream before they announce someone in Belgium or Austria as the winner?

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TomatoSandwiches · 17/02/2023 19:56

LimeCheesecake · 17/02/2023 19:48

The maddest bit is you won’t pay any tax on that £68m.

That's the best bit!

MissMarplesbag · 17/02/2023 20:06

I'd sort out both our families out with debt repayments, houses, healthcare and trust funds for the kids.

I'd also stick the kids in private schools so they can get a decent education & career afterwards.

I'd donate to the really small charities near me because the big ones like Macmillan get plenty.

I'd switch to a term time job as I enjoy my job so wouldn't want to quit straight away. I'd stay anonymous and just upgrade my existing house and car a little bit so as not too attract attention.

AuntieEntity · 17/02/2023 20:10

I'd buy a house for me and DD. The precarity of being a tenant in my 40s makes me utterly miserable deep down, if I'm honest, so I would sort that out straight away.

Then I'd quit my job. I'd spend a significant portion of my time researching the book I want to publish from my PhD. I'd then be free to do pick up and drop off for the little one every day - no more after school clubs and being tired, struggling to fit everything in.

I'd book us the best holiday in the sunniest, beachiest place ever, just so that I could watch DD running down some perfect white sand into a warm blue ocean.

I'd pay off my siblings' mortgages and book them all holidays - Christmas in Lapland I think.

I'd buy a couple of my friends out of work for the year; up to them if they go back afterwards. 😂

I'd endow a trust at my old uni so that people from my old school could get bursaries and grants to study the same subject I did.

I think that would keep me busy for the first year or two afterwards!

Backstreets · 17/02/2023 20:11

Ha! Had the same urge last night, figured it would be the only way I could retire to the sun (or at all).
I'd resign
I'd buy a bigger apartment, more central, do it up to my exact tastes
I'd buy one of those 1 euro houses in Sicily for my next project and do that up too. Never another snowy bastard winter
Get a borzoi dog
Spend my days writing shitty romance novels and self publish on Amazon. The dog would also be in my author photo.

MissAmbrosia · 17/02/2023 20:14

With 68 million I'd buy a small yacht and move to St Tropez.

lieselotte · 17/02/2023 20:17

If I won I'd pay for Crystal Palace sports centre (athletics, diving, swimming) to be renovated. It would apparently cost £21 million (and the rest).

I agree that 68 prizes of £1 million would be life changing, but you could do a lot of good with the big prize.

MorrisZapp · 17/02/2023 20:17

People buy more tickets the higher the jackpot goes, so while most of us say 'ooh I'd rather 68 people got a million' that isn't borne out by how they spend their money.

TwinklyShit · 17/02/2023 20:24

I could spend that very easily, and it still wouldn’t be enough. I’m obsessed with art and I long to be one of those anonymous grand benefactors who “rescues” an important artefact for the nation. There’s a painting the National Gallery need £50m for right now.

I’m also a sucker for children’s hospital charity appeals, having had a young relative suffer cancer and now be disease-free and absolutely thriving. I have a lot of charitable direct debits and I’d enjoy adding a few zeros to them.

A friend of mine is an IFA and has several lottery winners as clients. He always recommends setting up trusts and buying bonds. So joyless and boring.

Notreadytomakenice · 17/02/2023 20:24

I would be very grateful for this, if you could add a tiny bit on for a playground upgrade (CP park’s playground is terrible) that would be just perfect 👍

Notreadytomakenice · 17/02/2023 20:25

lieselotte · 17/02/2023 20:17

If I won I'd pay for Crystal Palace sports centre (athletics, diving, swimming) to be renovated. It would apparently cost £21 million (and the rest).

I agree that 68 prizes of £1 million would be life changing, but you could do a lot of good with the big prize.

I would be very grateful for this, if you could add a tiny bit on for a playground upgrade (CP park’s playground is terrible) that would be just perfect 👍

PritiPatelsMaker · 17/02/2023 20:28

I've just put "Cheshire" into Rightmove.

This is the most expensive one.

dontwaitforever · 17/02/2023 20:34

I love this game, even if I rarely buy a ticket. And I honestly don't know how anyone can say they don't know what they'd do with all that money. I have lots of ideas!

First things first, I would hand my notice in but work until the end of the school year as I teach exam classes and I couldn't just drop them.

This would give me time to get some financial advice and hire my personal assistant who I would task with putting my house on the market, looking for a suitable new property for me and one each for my dcs, researching worthy causes for me to support, and booking my upcoming luxury holiday(s).

During this time I would indulge in shopping trips to London and Paris, spa weekends, splash out on friends and family, hire a personal trainer, nutrionist/chef, cleaner, gardener etc. I may even sub-contract some of my marking 😁.

I would also be visiting the properties selected by my PA, who would take care of the move from A to Z when the time came. I would like a five bed character property with a well-established garden in the New Forest, within walking distance of at least one good pub.

Then, come July, I would be off on the first of many holidays on my list before coming back to settle into my new house (which my PA would also have had decorated according to my instructions). And I would finally get a dog or two.

I would then spend my time walking, gardening, reading, listening to music, eating out and generally enjoying a quiet country life, with regular trips to London for the theatre and museums, the odd week in Europe and then one or two longer far-flung holidays per year. My "work" would be keeping up with how my worthy causes are doing, and seeing how I could further help.

I would of course make sure my elderly relatives were getting the best care available, set up trust funds for my dc with the condition that they have to gainfully employed or involved in charity work to benefit from it, and help out dear friends to make life easier.

So, I think I would very much like the full 68 million!

RosaMoline · 17/02/2023 20:35

Aside from massively changing close friend’s and my family’s life…

More would come later, but my priorities would be…

Give immediate notice at work (wouldn’t have to think twice to be honest)

Spend about 4 million on a lovely London house or Victorian red brick garden flat (min 3 bedrooms) with huge windows, high ceilings, Gothic details and high ceilings with ornate mouldings. Somewhere like Hampstead. Maybe an a self contained annexe that my autistic DS (26) could live in with a carer.

My cats would hate it, but I’d get a Persian kitten.

A lovely little villa in Mijas Pueblo with a swimming pool

A tit reduction (my double J cups are the bane of my life)

A luxury Spa stay for me, my closest GFs and DD. All the treatments we want

Cleaners/Ironers

Never fly economy again….

If I lived in London I’d probably not bother with a car.

That’s for starters!

themuminator · 17/02/2023 20:51

I'm buying this one tonight after I've won: found this property on the Rightmove Android app and wanted you to see it: www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/120949073 Heath Drive Rightmove

I've had my eye on it for a while, so nobody put an offer in please until I've won.

PritiPatelsMaker · 17/02/2023 20:56

themuminator · 17/02/2023 20:51

I'm buying this one tonight after I've won: found this property on the Rightmove Android app and wanted you to see it: www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/120949073 Heath Drive Rightmove

I've had my eye on it for a while, so nobody put an offer in please until I've won.

No chance of me buying it, I can't get the link to work Grin

TwinklyShit · 17/02/2023 21:03

My IFA friend told me lotto winners and other people who make big money very suddenly (such as after the sale of a business) should never move to a bigger, fancier house or suddenly put their kids into private schools as it so often leads to ostracism from family, friends and neighbours, and attracts scammers.

He said far better to buy a spectacular holiday house which you can visit as often as you like but keep a secret, and invite only your most loyal and trusted friends and family to.

Pay for your kids to have tutoring or expensive hobbies and then send them to private school at 11 or 13 when all the other kids are also new, and you can claim your kid was awarded a musical or academic scholarship to put any jealous friends or family off the scent. Setting up a family trust which pays for the education of all the kids in the family, not just yours, is also smart as it means your kids don’t become distanced from their cousins.

There is a whole industry of people who cater to ultra high net worth families and £68m would only really put you into their “entry level” file. My friend actually arranges mortgages and bank loans for people worth this kind of money, as it’s often illiquid and sometimes not enough for their ambitious plans.

BeautifulDayintheneighbourhood · 17/02/2023 21:05

TomatoSandwiches · 17/02/2023 18:28

A nice stone cottage in the countryside with a deep copper bath, a well managed vegetable patch, Berry bushes and an affectionate whippet I would call Bunny.

Oh God that sounds good! I have never played the euro millions. How do I play?

dontwaitforever · 17/02/2023 21:05

@themuminator
That floor!!!😍😍😍
I want to lie face down and swish my arms and legs like a starfish all over it!

themuminator · 17/02/2023 21:08

PritiPatelsMaker · 17/02/2023 20:56

No chance of me buying it, I can't get the link to work Grin

Oh lord, I'm an idiot! Maybe this will work
Rightmove

themuminator · 17/02/2023 21:09

dontwaitforever · 17/02/2023 21:05

@themuminator
That floor!!!😍😍😍
I want to lie face down and swish my arms and legs like a starfish all over it!

I know!

Oh and a fancy robot hoover for keeping it clean so all guests can starfish as soon as they step through the door.

dontwaitforever · 17/02/2023 21:12

Sounds like an excellent plan. I'm sure your guests will love you for it!

Nowdontmakeamess · 17/02/2023 21:17

Love this game, I think about it if I’m having trouble falling asleep.

First would be renovate our house and new cars. Then houses for all our close family. Would book some luxury holidays to replace our camping trips for this year. Rest would be invested so we could live off the interest (~£1million/year after tax!!).

The best part would be all the time I could buy. Having a cleaner, housekeeper, gardener, PA, chef etc would mean I could spend more time with my children and doing all the things I enjoy.

Finally I would set up a charity to support autistic children in mainstream schools. They would have access to forest school, gardening, animal care, play therapy and all the professional support they needed. I’d start with local schools then try to scale it up if successful.

Dymaxion · 17/02/2023 21:33

I would buy somewhere like this

www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/131456531#/floorplan?activePlan=1&channel=RES_BUY

Chuck the dog and kids in the car and spend every spare minute there and let all my friends and family use it in between.

Deathraystare · 17/02/2023 22:23

@EineReiseDurchDieZeit
Does nothing for me. The hallway looks shite and I hate beams of which there are many.

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