£208 million euro millions

[Loub1987]

1000s of discussions on Mumsnet about this but if you won what would you do?

I’d

• quit my job
• tell my best friend and give her £1mil
• tell no one else
• buy a medium - big house
• charter a mega yatch for a family holiday

Just quit my job and chill out for a year whilst I decide what to do with the rest! Would probably rent for a year in the Lake district I decide if I want to move there! Then some more tropical holidays in the grim winter! And a whole new wardrobe and hairstyle - nothing designer but would us a stylist to discover what actually suits me!

Someone to do my food shop, cook meals and tidy up. Otherwise I’m happy with what we’ve got.

if you had £200m+ you’d only give your best friend £1m?

I couldn’t enjoy the money if my nearest and dearest couldn’t too.

Buy a lovely house in Northumberland big enough for me, DH and DD and the 15 dogs I'd get.

Pay off family mortgages/ buy houses so everyone was safely housed.

Rescue lots of dogs.

Set up an education trust for the family so the kids wouldn't need to worry about costs of going to uni or other training and if they complete a degree or training it would gift a house deposit.

Have lots of dogs.

Set up a charity to provide youth clubs with access to various hobbies and mental health services.

Did I mention the dogs?

Travel, while paying for a dog sitter.

Rescue a few more dogs.

Go visit the people who have annoyed me over the years to see how they are doing and enjoy that I'm doing better. (Yes I'm a petty person).

Get more dogs.

Set up a trust for my daughter so she would be OK.

Get another few dogs just to be sure I have enough dogs.

If I won that amount, immediately I would put half aside to give to various charities and then I would decide which friends and family I would give to and how much and then consider what I was going to do with the rest.

I love daydreaming about all this.

I'd buy all my family whatever house they wanted, plus a lovely place in London for visits.
Book some amazing holidays.
Make some immediate donations to some important charities tp me.
Immediately hire a housekeeper / cook / gardener / driver to deal with my house whilst I looked for a new house
Give up my current job and instead start a foundation to manage a charitable trust, which donates to charities that supports women and girls.

Investment Bank and the money locked down and sorted out to avoid Inheritance Tax. Good enough for the King so I'll take that. I'll just live quietly somewhere warm and travel. My daughter will never work if she doesn't want to but would get a salary until she is older and inherits. A huge responsibility but the rich manage so I will. Few colleagues and long time friends would get a nice surprise.

Oh I'd also get a couple of goats too.

Crikey are you always that generous OP?

I'd get rid of a lot of it immediately because I'd be terrified that someone would know and someone close to me would be kidnapped. In fact I wouldn't actually want to win that much because what's the point?

I'd probably give all friends and family about 5 million each and buy my DS's houses. I've always wanted friends to live nearby so I might buy a big house with cottages in the grounds and force my friends to live in them :). I'd also hire a chauffeur because I hate driving and I would pay him or her a lot.

Why am I even replying when this is probably an advert?

Buy our 1st house
Buy my sister a house
That's it really. The rest we would see as we go.
I'd get a doer upper though as love a project.

I would tell a lot of people to fuck off and go live an amazing life.

Nobody except for a select few of very close family would get a penny.

Immediately quit my job and book a holiday somewhere quiet to contemplate it all.
Help friends/family members with mortgages etc. but without telling them how much I'd won.
Buy an amazing house with lots of land for rescue dogs/cats/horses, I quite fancy a farm with lots of rare livestock breeds where I can swan about like Marie Antoinette pretending to be a farmer with staff to do all the real work.
Give a lot anonymously to small local charities/community groups that manage to keep going on a shoestring budget.
Carry on with my volunteering in the hope that it keeps me relatively sane, I can't imagine not having to worry about finances ever again but in reality I think suddenly having £208 million would be quite scary and I'd find the responsibility stressful!

I would buy a slightly bigger house nearby but with a direct seaview.
I'd book a very nice holiday
I'd give at least a million to each of my nearest and dearest, set up trust for nieces etc.
I'd get a second car so we didn't have to share anymore.
I'd tell DH to buy whatever bicycle he wants.
I'd employ a personal trainer, a gardener to do all the maintenance and weeding and a cleaner.

Then I'd build a state of the art women's centre in my local town, it would have childcare provision, healthcare, mental health specialists, domestic and sexual abuse support. It would have an attached refuge and also move on accommodation, with housing support for residents and just service users. It would have educational courses, and social groups. I'd set up an outreach programme to run alongside. I would hold focus groups with some of the most vulnerable local women to ask what they wanted and needed.
I'd quit my job to run it and employ the best professionals I know (I work in criminal justice/safeguarding/social care type area) on decent salaries with good pensions that reflect the value of the work they do.

I'd do nothing, except plan in my head, for a while then when there's a winning jackpot of £10m or £20m tell family & friends I won.

If you treat people from £20m they'll be happy. No matter how much you gave them from £200m it would seem stingy.

Then treat people ongoing from "investments" that had done well.

I'd set up a fund to help families fight for what their children with SEN need. I wouldn't pay for what they need as I believe things like that can just encourage government and councils to try and dodge funding things - it's important to fight for what is right imo.
I would help fund things like one of builds to allow adaptions to buildings and the likes to help children be able to access schools and clubs to be able to be part of their community with less access issues.

I would fund a respite centre as good quality respite with properly paid carers is nigh on impossible to find.

Withdraw £10k in cash so i could throw it up in the air and roll around 😂

I would buy myself a loaf of really good sourdough bread, some of that posh French butter with salt crystals in it and a couple of nice cheeses, together with some of the bunched radishes from M&S. And I’d make myself a really nice sandwich and a cup of Yorkshire tea.

Then I would start a vocational school for kids 14+ who want to work with their hands, and train them up in carpentry, bricklaying, plumbing, conservation etc. There are too many kids who just get let down and left behind by the academic treadmill and whose self-esteem is trampled by a system that only measures their success in things they struggle with. I’d love to improve employment and career options for people who can’t find their groove in our current system.

The thing about this amount of money is that if you conservatively think in terms of a 5% annual return, you'd be earning interest (pre tax) of £10.4m a year or about £28k a day (if my arithmatic is correct)...

Sort out family and friends would probably spend around £48 million on this

Endow 3 charities with £20 million each (2 grant making charities and one pot for a local school)

with the remaining £100 million - charity. The environment, women’s causes, epilepsy and children.

I'd get experts abs shit hot teams together to assist, lobby and hopefully stop the Sen travesty in school.

Never again would a girl with autism working hard but being noisy be called a little madam and never again someone working hard but in bursts be called disruptive and rude because they cannot sit still for an hour.
I'd put an immediate end too all children having to take the phonics test and immediately introduce other reading schemes to support phonics blind children.

I'd get a team on mould and damp issues in lower rent House's and social housing. .
Then I'd go about trying to make extremely ugly areas pretty via painting murals on large ugly flats, social housing etc and adding greenery, trees planting schemes.

I'd set up many child centres to help DC from troubled backgrounds where they could go for breaks and stay.

I'd set up rest bite hotels for people struggling with disabled children

Finally I'd push for proper sex education and education on feminism taught in every school to young children so girls from all faiths and background have it drummed in that they have rights and freedoms bestowed on them at birth in the UK and western world

And that religions are all cults

I appreciate that last one would be hard.

I would also get pleasure from dropping secret money into pensioners shopping baskets esp at Xmas and set up scholarships in deprived area's.

I'd buy a house double the size of my average Three bed terrace, obviously set DC up and help some people who helped me in the past.

I'd go travelling around the world

I'd buy a bigger house and send my kids to private schools.

Id also pay off my mum and Dads mortgage and get their house done up however they want. I'd tell them to retire and look after them financially for as long as they live.
I'd also buy my brother and his wife a house and my sister and her family.
I would buy my aunt and her family a house as well.

Invest in my brother in law's business to help him grow this.

I swither on whether I would quit my job - I would possibly try part time for a while but with that money I'd probably be better to take it and start some initiative for young people that I could do some good with.
I would make sure there was plenty of money aside for my kids futures.

Brand new car and a cracking luxury holiday somewhere.

Bloody hell - 'ARITHMETIC'.

@ARichtGoodDram unfortunately that's not enough because even with an ehcp without mass education of educators it means kittle

Its an obscene amount of money, i think it should be capped and the rest shared between the lower prizes

have said that…give at least half to charity, a very generous amount to friends and extended family. Money for my children and although i would probably stay in this house I would jack in the job and travel a lot

my 22 said that with his 100 mil (pre it going up so much) would be to give us, himself and his siblings 10 mil each and give the rest to charity….he would go back to uni to study statistics 😳

I would buy a bigger house with off road parking in the town my dd goes to school in. Nothing extravagant, just a larger 3 bed or a small 4 bed to give me an office space with a driveway.

I would pay off the mortgage on my current house and sign it over to my mate. He is like a brother to me but has had an appallingly hard life. He will never afford his own home so I would give him this place for him and his son. I would also buy him a new car of his choosing.

Then I would probably set up my own business. There is very little locally to me in the way of affordable childcare especially for school holidays.

Loved your post. I'd remember your post and come back here and tell you I want to send you some money. Unfortunately you'd probably think it's a scam and not want me to send you any 😁