Massive Euromillions jackpot. What would you buy?

[Bikergran]

So the next Euromillions jackpot is apparently going to be over 200 million pounds. Apart from the predictably boring stuff like making all your family financially secure, and charitable donations, what utterly mad thing would you buy if you won? I quite fancy this little "flat in town" - with staff, obviously. https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/157474112#/?channel=RES_BUY

Oooooh, share the link, I love snooping Rightmove and Zoopla. There's a semi-derelict architectural dream of an artist's studio in the Scottish Borders I daydream about.

Private medical treatment for my DH who just seems to get more and more unwell and no one takes it seriously.

Dental treatment for me, new hearing aids also for me. Then a haircut, maybe or pedicure but definitely a spa day.

I could probably manage it all on 150k so happy to share the jackpot with anyone in a similar position.

No, no, you have to get into the spirit of the lifestyle, that's either up to the live-in nanny to control, or you send them away to boarding school until they reach a civilised age...🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Sick amount of money for just 1 individual/family. I hope that either nobody wins it, or the winner is a charitable person who gives at least 50% of it away to good causes and truly deserving people.
It is a badly designed game. £200 million should be divided between 20 winners who are randomly picked based on their individual ticket number code thingy.

For a start, I wouldn't tell anybody that I had won! (Mind you, it would be a miracle as I've never put the Euromillions on).

I would pay off everything, to start with, but that would barely make a dent in £200 million+.

I would finally upgrade my car from the sporty student-esque one that I've had since I passed my driving test. It is now old and I am dreading what will be found on its upcoming MOT.

I would buy a detached house in the middle of a field (no direct neighbours with barky dogs would be bliss!), or buy some land and build a house. It would need space for a library, and have solar panels and eco-things. Then I would set up a smallholding, though I'd have to employ a gardener as I hate weeding! I would employ a cleaner, because I still wouldn't have sufficient time or motivation to do it after work. It would be nice, but impossible, to cut down my hours at work, and I like it most of the time. As a side-line, I would set up the business that my friend and I jokingly planned at college, and miraculously make it work.

It would be nice to have children, so donor conception would be a start. If that worked, and given my working hours, I'd need a nanny.

I'd carry on with doing everything that interested me, but after all of that, I'm not sure what I'd do with whatever I had left. I'd probably leave it in high-interest savings accounts until I came up with some other brilliant ideas.

With that level of money, you would be compelled to buy huge levels of security and protection for the rest of your life.

I'd give most of it away, have only a nice not lavish home, and be pleased I was no longer on any nutter's kidnap list.

Op says “aside from all predictable stuff…”
1st post lists all the predictable stuff.

Lovely house with an indoor pool and space for a therapy room, where I could have massages/facials/my hair done - all at least weekly if not more frequently.
We would need no more than 2 floors, probably 5 bedrooms in the main house and at least 1 x 3 bedroomed guest house so that we could have ALL the family to stay at the same time. I would like to design this house myself, with an architect obviously, along the lines of a Roman house with an atrium in the centre, which would be a covered winter garden with a fish pond and fountain in it. I want there to be sufficient rooms for me to have a room for my dolls houses, and 1 for crafts, and 1 for DH to do whatever he wants in. We would need an office, a library, a dining room and 2 living rooms.

I would like a full time gardener and housekeeper, with additional cleaning and gardening staff if required. I want us to be able to eat fresh fruit and vegetables out of our own garden.
We might also need some staff accommodation, if they want to live in. I'm toying with the idea of a Personal Assistant, to do the boring admin jobs.

I would also like a small cottage right on the beach, and a flat in the city (not London) for theatre trips, shopping etc.

I want soft cotton or linen sheets, changed daily and ironed.

I would like fresh flowers delivered weekly, also newspapers daily and magazines monthly, and to be able to order books whenever I wanted.

I would like to have my clothes and shoes made for me.

I want to have a professional type stock check system for my kitchen stores, that automatically registers when something is used and makes a shopping list of things required.

I would like to have SOOOOO much money that I never have to wear the same pair of knickers more than once. I would, obviously, as I care about the planet.

I want a small fleet of cars, mostly electric where that is practical. A fun runabout, a small 'around town' car, a comfortable car for long journeys, a van and a pick up for use by the staff. And whatever DH wants as well, obviously.

I would like an account with a luxury taxi service so that if we wanted to go somewhere and didn't want to drive we could just arrange for them to do that.

I want to have as much in the way of renewable energy resources built into my home as possible. Solar panels. Wind turbine. Hydroelectric. Ground source heating etc., as well as a HUGE bank of batteries.

I want to be able to have fresh meat, bread, vegetables etc. sourced locally and delivered to me, by the type of supplier who rings up our housekeeper to ascertain what we would like on a regular basis.

Can you tell that this is something I have already thought about?

I’d set up a community interest company/non profit to improve access to housing and amenity in my county and other difficult areas, then I would buy all the impossible empty sites round my area that havent sold for years and are eyesores, and spend the money to bring them back into use. Theres an old flat-roofed pub that is slowly collapsing near me, I think it might have asbestos or something, It could be a really nice pocket park, or a beautiful small clutch of housing that is carbon neutral. Then there’s a terrible old brick house sitting between a Travelodge and the dump, which has theoretically been empty and for sale for at least a decade. But in fact it’s also very close to a park and a primary school and a shop, and with the right builder and someone to fight the planning permission through and an infeasible amount of money, it could be a family home.

I think about this a lot

A very discreet chauffeur

Buy a nice house with massive garden in Central London - I guess that would be it, I will have nothing left over!

Oh yes I’d also fund putting solar panel ‘roofs’ on all the park and ride car parks around my city, there are four of them and between them it should be a big chunk of wattage. And would put EV charging points all over them too.

I’ve just remembered that DH and I also said we would donate money for all the potholes in our town to be fixed properly. They seem to so rarely patch them up now and when they do it’s back to a pothole not long afterwards. It would save the locals a lot of money on burst tyres probably.

Oh I have an endless fantasy list of nonsense things I'd use the money for.

Personal trainer to get me into shape, then I'd hire one of the Strictly Come Dancing pros to teach me how to dance.

I'd like to learn how to pole vault. I have no athletic ability whatsoever but I just think it would be such a fun and ridiculous hobby to have.

I'd get voice acting lessons and try and use my money to influence someone to 'hire' me to narrate audiobooks.

I'd fund archeological digs, so long as I was allowed to help out.

Before any of that, I'd be booking a space flight and never stop banging on about it to anyone who would listen.

Wouldn’t it be so much better if 20 people won £10m or 200 £1m. At £200 I would give a lot away to small charities.

DH would want an arable farm…tractors, combines, balers, ploughs, discing attachments, trailers, sheds, etc.

DDs would both want horses and more dogs.

I would want to send DD1 to a specialist ASD school without having to go to court. I would like an Audi R8. I would like a townhouse in The New Town. I would like to return to The Maldives on holiday.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/163312562#/?channel=RES_BUY

A couple of houses, office space and warehouse (Go and look at the photos - it looks so useful!) Quite modern and 22 acres.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/165642470#/?channel=RES_BUY
This is a Jacobean Grade-I listed, 9-bedroom Ludstone Hall, a 2-bedroom Lodge, Estate Offices, extensive, Grade-II listed grounds, and a modern leisure complex with indoor pool. Incredible heritage and modern luxury in a picturesque corner of rural, yet well-connected, Shropshire

Complete opposites really.

I'd want my own swimming pool and tennis court and probably enough room for family and friends to visit.

Obviously a superb house by the coast for me and houses for my kids wherever they want.
A campervan, high spec, to go exploring.
Look into providing parenting programmes in deprived areas (open to all though) and children’s groups aimed specifically at empowering girls and teaching boys to treat girls and women respectfully. Also that violence is not the answer to their problems and neither are drugs.
I don’t hate boys and men but we definitely have a problem with macho men role modelling for boys.

No it wouldn't. Stop giving away my money.
😂

More money, more problems im afraid!

I think I'd make sure loved ones were comfortable, buy a small but central London property (two/three beds somewhere like Marylebone would be fine), put a little aside to make retirement and future travel easier and then give away the rest.

I'd give it mostly to charities like Water Aid and MSF, but some to smaller local charities as well. Hopefully there's someone to advise on the best way to give to give large sums over?

To do all the above for myself I'd need a teeny proportion of that kind of prize, and it's an obscene amount of money to hold when it could do so much good in the world.

Unless they've changed things, you get offered the services of one of the big old 'old money' banks (Coutts I think) who don't really bat an eyelid when someone starts talking about donating millions rather than hundreds and can advise on things like endowments or restricted donations where you want to be able to specify how the money can/can't be spent.

Disclaimer - I've never won the lottery 🤣 I've just worked in places where we've been beneficiaries of people who have come into money.

Buy a potential top-class event horse and send it to a professional.

I event myself, but obviously will never get to Badminton or the Olympics - I'd love to have a really good horse with a really good rider, like Harry Meade or Ros Canter or the Prices, and enjoy following them round the big events.

Once the shock had worn off, I'd be finding out how I can move to Japan permanently! I've spent a fair bit of time there and actually have a few friends there, so it's not an outrageous idea. I believe there's certain visas you can get for investing in businesses there, employing Japanese people etc. So I'd spend whatever I needed to, to make it happen. I know adult DS would want to live there too. DD not so sure but I'd set her up wherever she did want to be and she could fly over whenever she wanted, and I would visit her.

Once I'd settled in, that's when I'd think about what I want to do with the rest of the money. Tbh I think the majority of the charitable donations would be upon my death. Because the less that's in the bank, the less interest you get. So I think it makes more sense financially to wait. I'm not particularly young, mid 50s, so I don't have that much time left!

Obviously I'd make sure DC were set up for life but there's no one else I'd actually want to give money to! The only other people I care about are close to 80 years old! So of course they could have some if they wanted, but not sure they'd even want it.

I'd travel and fly first class, stay in top hotels etc. I'd probably employ some sort of housekeeper, cook, cleaner etc so I didn't need to bother with the mundane things! I think I could get used to it very quickly.

I'd buy a small estate in the countryside. There are a few, around about £6 million, I have my eye on. Nice house but not over large - think 8 or 9 bedrooms - and some land around. I would employ a cleaner and a couple of estate workers and get on with pursuing the country life. Buy some chickens and goats, that sort of thing.

Maybe a small flat in London so I can avail myself of the theatres etc.

A property for each of my children.

A Porshe for my dh.

Get my teeth fixed.

Invest the rest. I would have no worries about managing my investments. That is what a financial advisor is for!