£202 million euromillions tonight.

[EarlofShrewsbury]

It's an obscene amount of money.

Apart from the usual house, car, holiday, helping friends and family and charity, what would you do with it?

Scratch that, I'm doing what @somanythingssolittletime suggested!

I might hire someone to take care of a few world leaders 🤔

Would want to support lots in the local community.
especially providing the finances for all the different junior sports teams, so sport can be more accessible for all. No matter what the sport is.

Some people say it's too much money but the interest the Govt paid on the national debt last year was 8.3 billion. 8000,000,000 in interest!!! Now that is obscene. Fixes a lot schools and libraries that kind of money

Buy DD, Dear Neice and Dear Nephew a regular sized house each. They still have to wheel and deal to get bigger ones. Give my brother enough money to go on a decent holiday with his partner, and to get an upgrade on his current house. My parents are ok, but I might hire a housekeeper/driver for them. I’ll buy a decent sized house for myself, a little Fiat 500 and a motor home for holidays. I will also get a dog from a rescue, and donate generously to the rescue. I will also donate to many women’s charities.

Save the library in my village.
Buy a nice cafe and get it staffed.
Houses to all those I consider my friends.
Go to the airport and go...

I’d give my Dsis a bunch of money for private IVF, and a million to our sibs for starters. Buy a place for my mum to downsize to, and a bungalow for my PIL.

DH probably wouldn’t want to give his DB anything but his Dsis I’d want to also give a chunk to.

Book a lovely holiday to relax to figure out what we want to do. Schooling for the DC would be a challenge- move them or keep them where they are?

I’m so ready to have these conversations 😆

I don't think it would make any difference to your chance of winning. The odds on matching all the numbers won't change.

Your odds on having to share it increase though. 😉

I’d keep every penny. I’d buy a massive house with land and enjoy every minute of it

Travel, sort out mortgages for the family, set up family members with enough cash to start whatever businesses they'd like to, whether it was a restaurant or a pottery studio, have a university or get started fund for the youngsters, found scholarships, set up foundations for those who've experienced domestic violence, arts scholarships for bright kids who wouldn't otherwise stand a chance, set up an esoteric library with healthcare rooms and craft rooms and a vintage dress shop and a cat rescue attached, work with literacy and educational charities....

We joke in our house that this is why we'll never, ever win the Euromillions jackpot as we wouldn't just squander the money, we'd do our level best to help as many people as possible. And also money goes to money, and we're dirt poor. Lovely dream though.

On discussing with DH to see what his ideas are, he has decided to retire and become a lollipop man - our primary can’t recruit and it would give him something to get up for in the mornings and feel useful. We’re also going to get a transfer at the airport when we go on holiday rather than the bus.

We’re struggling to spend the first million on ourselves.

No.

Well if any of you win please can I have a couple of million. Thanks. x

Can’t wait for harry styles to feed me cheese on my yacht while I decide. No need for him to make it, what a waste of his time.

My close family and friends would also be millionaires. And a friend who has disappeared from my life but I still care very much about. She won’t be forgotten even if we are done

This is why we need the advice. What can I do to keep as much as possible. If I have to live abroad so be it but can I set up a charity from my interest that may well be offshore? Overseas companies that buy houses that you don't own, you own the company. If the King is not paying inheritance tax I'm going to minimise the chances of my family having to pay it. Do I have to own anything? Can I not be a Company that rents houses or boats to me and I pay the Company which is me.

When is the draw? Enjoying likely winning nothing but I did by two tickets because of this thread.

You’re better off giving it to @MargaretThursdaythan your invisible “friend”

Oooooh, this is a favourite pastime of mine - contemplating what to spend multiple millions of pounds on.

Apart from the clearly obvious of setting my family up for life, I have always said that I'd buy up homes all over the country, and let them out for peppercorn rents to people who need to escape abusive relationships, but are trapped because they have nowhere to go, or who don't want to leave their pets behind. They could decorate and furnish to their own tastes and the children would be given vouchers go go and buy/replace whatever toys they needed to make the house feel like their home.

I'd buy myself a smallholding, which I would employ someone to run (I'm neither fit enough no young enough to do it myself) and I would keep some Highland Coos, some Valais Blacknose sheep 😍, and some goats, for starters, just because it would make me warm and happy just looking at them.

I'd drop large sums of money to small charities, where it would really make a difference, rather than the likes of the big charities like RSPCA etc

It's a dream. But a fun dream to while away the hours whilst I'm trying to drop off to sleep each night 🙄

Take £100m and launch Project Billion - an average 7% growth a year and after 35 years I’ll leave a billion pound fortune behind when I die. Awesome.

Live off the rest. Move somewhere sunny, with a friendlier tax regime than the U.K. Would rather give large sums of money to charities than pay it to the government in tax.

You'd pay tax on the interest but not on the prize itself.

I'd build a multi-purpose sports hall at our local secondary. I've already planned it in my head.

If you give the money to charity it’s tax deductible. So say you make 20 million in interest and give it all away to a charity, neither you or the charity pay tax on it.

I know. But that wouldn’t change the cold, rainy UK weather.

And tax would be the enemy of Project Billion. It can’t be avoided entirely but you wouldn’t choose the U.K. to live in from a tax perspective.

You haven’t read this properly.

The poster was referring to the suggestion that 202 people get 1 million each.

but £1m doesn’t go far in London property market and you’d have to afford to run it!

Unaccountably I don’t have a single number right. All my plans in ruins.