£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

Well I’ll never have that amount of money because I don’t play it - I play the Health Lottery with much more modest prizes but hoping their more y’know reasonable odds of 1 in 2.1 million will serve me better! 😅

I agree that £208m is obscene but I dont think £1m is much really. Maybe £10m each instead?

I’d donate most of it but give members of my family and my children some. Although not tons.

Most likely lie awake worrying once I was down to my last £50 million. It'd make a change from fretting about being down to my last £50.

Oooohhhhh I love thinking about this. 20 mill to sort out family and friends (between 200k to 1mil depending on closeness). 8m on property- 2-3m for a new house near where i live now, 2m on a house in the country in the UK and 3m on a place in Spain, Portugal or Italy. 20m in investments to provide an income to live on, 2m aside as a dipping-into fund. Then the rest into a charitable foundation to support foster children moving into adulthood, young carers, children and young adults with ASD and families on low incomes to find and furnish secure housing. Amd id quit my job amd go back to university to just study stuff I fancied.

The first things I would do feel pretty selfish:

1. Move house. We have a baby on the way and could do with an extra bedroom - I wouldn't move far maybe one of the local villages so still near family. Hire a gardener/cleaner. All of the associated costs with this like new furniture/decoration.
2. Private school for DD.
3. Holidays - the first one I'd book would be the place we got married.
4. DH could quit his job or reduce hours. I'd still keep my current three day a week job.
5. Buy a house for DH's brother, who is struggling to get on the property ladder.

1. quit work
2. i’ll have loads of time to figure out who gets what after I quit. So ask me next week 😜

The parents of a child I used to care for at work are currently fundraising for an operation for her that could potentially mean she can learn to walk- I'd pay for that to be done before anything else.

Move to 50% working, during school hours only.

Get DD2 a tutor.

Set up educational trust funds for my children.

Donate £5m to my old uni.

Fill the coffers for the PTA and local charities a bit.

Join the David Lloyd gym

Get work done that needs doing on the house.

Get a cat.

Arrange a few holidays abroad.

I’ll come back and let you know tomorrow, if I’ve won. My task list will be MumsNet, search for mega yacht and then possibly clean my house.

Thanks for all the responses, if not me I hope one of you wins!

@Loub1987 fingers crossed!

Definitely scratch the last thing off your list, and replace with 'google local cleaners'.

I'd give my siblings and dps siblings a couple of million each. DP has no parents and I just have my dad who at 87 wouldn't want any money - so instead I'd just take on his living expenses so he doesn't have to think about what he can spend.
Our close friends would all then get a million each.
I'd buy the house in my village that's been for sale for ages that I love. It's bigger than our current house but not so much so that it couldn't be explained away by a big pay rise or good investment return.

I'd then start a business and a charity. The business would be a luxury travel agency. I work in the travel industry now for a luxury tour operator and would love my own agency where I could be picky about which customers I take 😆 Id employ a couple of industry friends to run it on better pay and conditiond than their current employers and I'd be there for the business strategy and marketing side of things.
The charity would be a cooking school to help people who are struggling financially to learn how to cook great food. I've been on the bones of my arse financially in the past and am a whizz at eating well on a budget. Anyone signing up to the classes would be kitted out with equipment and herbs, spices etc. to take home as part of the course, to help them continue with what theyve learned. I'd be very sure to be completely neutral to their circumstances and only there to show how to get the best food on a budget.
I've thought about it a lot!

This doesn’t even make any sense. What does wanting to win money have to do with TikTok? Typical boomer generation.

Take two weeks… to go on holiday somewhere amazing just me, DH and DC where we all discuss together what we want to do, without outside influence.

get financial advice on the best way to give ££ to family and close friends to set them up.

next would be private schools/larger house (not huge but several steps up from our current terrace 3 bed with one bathroom).

Then decide what to do about work. I love my profession (physio) so I would quit where I am and (possibly) open my own clinic. DH would quit I’m sure.

I’d still need to keep busy, but I’m sure I’d find a way.

I'd do nothing for 6 months to give me time to adjust to the idea. Then I'd want to gift money to friends and family to allow them to be mortgage-free and enjoy life! I’d quit my job and make my new ‘job’ making sure a good chunk of the money went to good causes. I think that would be so rewarding and enjoyable. I'd buy a bigger house and give away my current house to a family who would need and appreciate it (paid off of course!). My main extravagance for myself and my family would 100% be travel! I would LOVE to be able to take my children all around the world and experience different places and cultures! We'd go away every school holiday!

You could buy TikTok and make preachy videos

For me:-
house with land and no neighbours
city car, weekend car, 4x4
holiday
weekly massages
get my hair done
get a personal trainer

for family
group family holiday
a set amount each

a set amount to close friends

i would secretly donate to people in need. In my line of work and where I live I see so many struggling through no fault of their own. I would love to put smiles on their faces - this would be worth me than any designer item.

if it was doable I would fund a no more knives/ gangs charity to educate parents and children on the signs of being groomed (I’ve seen too many sucked in and can’t get out)

that’s it really. Never been into designer things

After the initial shock I would get financial advice. I'd donate a sum off money to charity in thanks. I'd then look to pay off our mortgage so we could carry on living here whilst looking for a plot of land to build on or moving to a bigger home in an area which better schools. I'd donate a sum to their current school in the hope they would offer the kids more enrichment activities such as school trips which are few and far between. I'd donate to our local community centre so that can put on more events for local people. I'd buy dh a new car (current car is over 10 years old but does the job).

Afterwards I'd look to ringfence money for the kids, give lump sums to siblings and parents. I'd like to live a relatively normal life and have a yearly holiday. The aim would be to support a number of charities or set up our own foundation and I would love to be able to develop a bursary scheme at my old uni for kids who have caring responsibilities like I did.

Whenever I read these threads I always wonder why you never, ever see some feel good stories like the ones here after someone wins. Not even on here or other forums do I see “I actually won and I did all the things I wanted to” or charities being set up out of a win. I wonder if the dream is really just a dream and the actual reality of winning that much makes these things so much more difficult or it simply changes you and you change your mind. What I DO see are stories about people who won and blew it all only to end up bankrupt though!

As for what I would do it mirrors much of the same. Sort out my immediate family, buy a home, buy three flats for the kids in the city so they have a base when they grow out of home. Set up various charity community initiatives that help people at the point of care, rather than a big one that ends up huge and unable to actually help like most appear to be.

Oh, and our first big fuck off family holiday, maybe even take the kids travelling.

I would not tell anyone other than my OH. I'm not sure I'd tell them the amount (they know this).

Security would be a massive issue for me. I would start a charitable foundation.

I would take a career break and see if I could make early retirement work.

I would not make any quick decisions. We would go on holiday and think. Then come home and try to find the best financial advice.

I’m currently homeless and live in a homeless hostel with my 5 year old son.

I’d buy a house for myself and son. Somewhere by the seaside I think but not huge enough for me to be anxious there on my own haha

I’d love to have my own vegetable patch and lovely garden. I think I’d have to hire a gardener with that as I’m positively useless!

I’d buy a car!

Buy my mum and sister a house and car. Give them enough money to never worry again.

I’d put enough aside so my son would never go without ever again and ensure that his future family (and my nephew) would never go without.

I’d probably put him into private school too.

I’d take some interest in hobbies again and not be in survival mode.

I’d donate to charities that have helped me: Reguge, Women’s aid, my local churches, I’d always donate to my local food bank who saved my son and I multiple times. I’d also donate to my son’s current school.

I’d give money to every single friend who’s helped me over these last 3 years, buy them all houses and cars just to let them know how much I appreciate their help during the worst times.

I’d travel and take my son to Disney World.

1. A home

2.sort out my family, parents, nephews etc

1. Education. For myself, aside for all the kids & Nephews.
2. Invest a chunk and draw income from interest
3. The rest aside till I know what route I want to go. (Probably once I'm more knowledgeable about sectors/investments/charities through the education i can afford 😂)

I’d buy a house for me and DC which has more than one bathroom, a dining room and more space. With a double garage so that my camper van and the kids bikes can be stored safely. I’d put enough away in savings and pensions for myself and DC.
I would help friends and family, schools and charities.
I would keep my nursing registration and study more so that when the DC are grown up, I can join MSF as a nurse and help people overseas.

Me too 😂

Wishing us both good luck 👍