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

Lots of lovely jewellery.

A farm, which I’d pay someone to farm part of and turn part of in to wildflower meadows with amazing hedgerows and lots of trees and habitats.

As a PP mentioned I’d give a lot of it away .

There’s a specific nhs service I’d donate too. Personally I’d buy a house in our favourite holiday spot but only if I can also buy or build two other homes to go back in to permanent local use eg secure housing association tenancy. Care at home when needed for my parents and in laws. Some nice weekends away in country house hotels.

Big house by the sea, full of books and paintings and a grand piano
Flat in London
A charitable trust to support the causes I care about
Skiing and the Caribbean every year
A private chef, personal trainer and a tummy tuck!

Agree, my thoughts exactly.

I’d become a very happy philanthropist.

Private jetting all the way, every time I go abroad. No more airport hassle. I don’t need things. I just need to not be hassled and not have to queue.

Gosh. Are you in the UK, Phoenix1Arisen? Because here you often see celebs and the super-rich just wandering around without security. I've seen Mick Jagger sitting alone having a coffee at a pavement table in London. During the Snooker World Championships in Sheffield, you can't walk down the street without seeing at least 3 millionaires....and the Duke of Devonshire (one of our wealthiest aristocrats) goes litter-picking round the country lanes in Derbyshire, and walks alone into the nearest small town to get his hair cut.

@DilemmaDelilah an atrium...❤️......I was thinking along the lines of a small medieval abbey, with a herb garden in the middle and stone cloisters. Yes, we can at least dream.

@TheeNotoriousPIG Oh, I've already sorted how to manage the actual money. My lovely financial adviser would come and work for me, making it work to either earn more or support worthwhile projects. He's a specialist in ethical investments, so we could do some great things!

@ElCorazon er, all winners are randomly picked based on their ticket numbers, that's how a lottery works. And who's to say the winner may not themselves be a deserving person?

I'd charter a yacht for a month so I can spend my time floating about working out how to spend the rest of it 😂

Is quite like to do this too.

an island

or both

Meanwhile...the original lottery game has a rollover that's worth just over 5 million of your Earth Pounds! Who's still entering that? What can you do with 5 million?
I'm planning my first weeks. I'll carry on pretending nothing happened, then when the next jackpot is won I'll say it was me. I won't have the fame as the big winner, but won't have to hide the wealth either.
Then crush my enemies.

However, I know this has been mooted many times, but - this amount of money
could make 200 £1m winners very happy, pay off mortgage, buy a new or better house/car/holiday/clothes, £200m is obscene, as is the Millbank apartment.

Apart from my personal wish list... given earlier... and of course giving some to my family, I want to set up a charity to help fund single mothers who want to return to education, especially to university. This is because I needed such help when I returned to education as a mature student and single mother - but there wasn't anything available.

I would fully fund (including uniform and extra curricular activities) a scholarship place for a chorister at our local cathedral school.

I would sponsor my niece, who is an up and coming dressage rider, trainer and breeder, so that she could purchase and afford to keep a couple of top notch horses and fulfil her potential... perhaps even at Olympic level, and actually pay for help at the yard so she didn't have to do it all herself.

And another thing for me... I would buy some beech woodland.

don’t attempt to cross the road in front of a bus will you

For those of you who want farms if/when you win, please may I put in a polite request that you get rid of all of the ragwort? It's very good for pollinators, but it's poisonous to livestock.

Also, if you have farms, it's the quickest way to see money go in one hand and out of the other! You'll also lose lots of time and patience in trying to stop your animals from escaping, despite having erected Fort Knox... and will unwittingly find yourself featuring on your local FB page with a post of, "Does anyone know who these cows/sheep belong to in X area?" Your sheep will come up with increasingly creative ways to commit suicide, the horse flies that bite your cows will feast on you, too, and your chickens will lovingly share their red mites with you. It put me off chickens for life, unless they are served up as part of a Sunday roast!

I cheerfully work on a farm, but do not own one yet 😁

I meant that more winners should be created by the unique reference number of their ticket, not by the numbers they played. That way they would make 20 people happy instead of just one.
And I stand by what I previously wrote: the game is badly designed because usually only one person wins an insane amount of money.

Appleby Castle is for sale. I’ll buy that, spend millions refurbishing it and then open it to the public.

Still pissed from years ago when I was in the town and found it closed to visitors.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/152191142

THIS!

I’ve always thought I’d do this. I’m disabled myself and just got lucky where I am but it’s a nationwide issue.

When I think about a lottery win though, I think how difficult certain members of my family would make my life thereafter. I would have to give to someone I can’t abide and I would choke on it.

Several houses !

One in Cornwall with not only sea views but that I can actually hear the waves in.
possibly
www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/158638382

One where I currently live. I have one in mind and it's just been ' reduced '
www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/158980256

One in London, somewhere nice and quiet i.e. Hampstead Garden Suburb.
and a car to keep in the garage there so I don't actually have to drive to/from London but can drive when I am there.
something like
www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/154107869

and a sizeable donation to a Animal charity, and a donation to a local small Cat rescue

Massive estate in the countryside and go wild rewilding, planting orchards, huge walled garden. Massive orangery of course. Amazing art collection

Op that place is stunning love it but dislike pools.