How would you spend the euro millions jackpot?

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Obviously nobody is winning it because the £150 million is mine, but how would everyone else spend it? I love dreaming up things like this, I have a full blown plan

Become a philanthropist
Buy a beautiful house with views of the mountains or Snowdonia or the sea
Have someone else to do housework, driving, gardening etc
Have more rescue dogs, a big garden and lots of places to walk.
If only……..🙏

I would open a space for women: women associations and charities in the upper floors at reduced or no rent, a shop selling products made by women on the ground floor

I would buy a house in our nearest town. I really want to live there but only work part time (I am disabled) and will never be able to buy a house. I would hire someone to help me and my mum on holidays. I am disabled and we don't have anyone to come on holidays with us to help my mum with me. I dream of just even going to London. I would also hire a cleaner, cook etc. I would set up a trust for my niece and her sibling (yet to be born) for when they are 25. I would give my best friend, Mum and brothers money too. Money left when I die would go to charities.

This is where my daydream ends because I get stuck....

Who are my closest friends?
How much should I give?
How can I give money to my irresponsible nephew, would I need a trust?
Where would I live if I could live anywhere?
Etc
Etc

Honestly I'd be better off with 100k to make my current life nice and comfortable.

A Nice house, my DCs set up for life.
Then I’d spend much time investing some of that money in meaningful ways. Like micro loans but lots of them. Supporting green companies, Giving it setting up charities to help the most vulnerable in our society. Lots of raising awareness. Money to researchers working on ME and LC
So not on myself as such (being housebound, I can’t anyway) but ensuring that money goes to help people in meaningful ways

Buy a luxury flat in London and a seaside place in Italy. Also a country pile in Northumberland.
Have an indoor pool.
Cats.
Have household staff so I don't have to cook or clean. Personal trainer and get seriously fit. Chauffeur driven car.
Give lots away to family and friends, charities etc.
Go back to university and write a book.
Buy a grand piano and get much better at playing.
Take DH to Porto (his favourite place)
Be a film extra.
Help my dd set up a video game company.

Have a great time.

I can see it being massively controversial in my family and perhaps causing a lot of trouble

I’m …

… buying a Gym and setting my dh up working as a PT
… investing in solar panels (might buy a small solar panel business and set it up as a non-profit to help upgrade homes for people who don’t have good energy security)
… putting both kids in private school
… buying my neighbour’s property with an absurd amount of money so I can have their garden in addition to my own 😄

I end up thinking of the income tax and inheritance tax implications.
Nice problems to have I suppose.

Not that it'll evet happen but....
Private health care for parents and get dad fully checked out and hopefully sorted out so he can have a better quality of life, Iron Maiden tockets and Def Leppard (in Dubai), money for best/ oldest friends, money for friends i Canada so her husband can finally get his visa to be with her and kids, house by the sea for parents, property for brother, donations to charities I support, property overseas... where....tbc ... new phone as mine is dying, a month in a detox/ keep fit place in Thailand etc etc etc

That's not far off my dream.

I would buy a huge van and round up all the abandoned B&M and Morrisons shopping trollies that people no longer return as they've scrapped the £1 deposits and I spend my life reporting. Then I would drive to the relevant CEO homes and lock all their trollies to their fancy homes gates and flounce off.
I'd have more than enough money for the legal team when they try to do me for criminal damage. I could probably plead insanity as the supermarkets refuse to deal with their own mess. (Then I'd have a sunny holiday to calm down).

I've given this some thought...
I'd put c.£100m to one side to work with an engineering department of a British university to develop the world's fastest steam locomotive. (Mallard holds the record from 1938 - there have been a lot of technological advances since then.)
I'd also put 500k into the local church in order to get the organ fully rebuilt/restored and relocated into a better position in the church.
And yes - quit the job and move house 🤣

There are so many things I'd like to do, so I wouldn't know where to start.

First off would be to jack my job in, but there's no point in doing that as I'm handing my notice in at the end of this week anyway.😂

I’d open a social enterprise or foundation with the aim to increase access to housing, energy and amenities in my county.

The team would identify long-empty buildings that are clearly problematic and unprofitable for developers in some way (asbestos? Flood risk? Legal tangles?), buy and convert them into housing for families and individuals to rent long term, rents pegged to social housing levels. We’d group them into clusters of households run as a cooperative by the people living in them, with profits going back into maintaining and improving the buildings. We’d spend more on capital building quality to reduce the cost of running the households.

I’d also get solar panel ‘roofs’ and EV chargers built throughout the four huge park and ride car parks around my city.

I’d also buy my local NHS Trust out of its PPI contract which costs multiple millions a year.

I would invest for my children’s future.
Donate to local charities that benefit the community.
Plan to take early retirement.
Help friends and family.

I don’t want a flashy house or cars, but I would upgrade our cars and buy a house in the same area but a little bigger (from 3 beds to 4/5 with a decent garden and parking).

Having sounded all virtuous, I would definitely invest in a London bolthole, travel, clothes and more time with my PT. Oh and buying my gym gear from Lululemon/ Sweaty Betty and not Tescos!

I would buy my football club and get them on a secure financial footing. Pay for the ground improvements and employ really good and competent staff to run it. And when it was all sorted I'd give it to the fans to run as a consortium.

I'd then get all the home improvements done that ive dreamed of, help out my friends and donate to my favourite charities. Id give a big sum to Niall Harbison who saves all the dogs in Thailand.

Sort my kids for life but not tell them (they are only little)

Give a lot to charity

Holidays wherever we want.

I love our house, I wouldn't move.

If DH chose to continue to work id get him a driver

But the first thing id do is book a suite at a London hotel for us as a four for the weekend, then drive to he next town which has an amazing jeweller and buy anything I wanted.

Move to America, get an amazing ranch with heaps of land, travel to all sorts of beautiful holidays around the world. just being able to get the best healthcare money can buy, sort out all my issues. I’m going to go to every west end, broadway show, boxing matches, football matches, concerts etc I want to with the most amazing seats and boxes

Invest a good amount

Ensure close friends and family are sorted: mortgages paid or new houses etc. Fancy cars for partner

Ensure nieces/nephews and god kids have access to some for uni/housing/car etc.

Buy a good house locally. Redecorated while we travel. A gym and games room.
Crash pad in NYC
Somewhere in Oz or NZ

Charities close to my heart.

Then live life with no work or money worries.

i’d wanna keep it quiet but how!??

Surely once you go over 1mil you can afford accountants and an offshore account to hide it all.

Give closest family and oldest friends enough to give them a comfortable life if they are sensible. Then sit down and make investment plans so I have enough to live on for the rest of my life.

Probably buy a house (social housing atm) and do some travelling. Never work again, at least in things just to pay the bills.

In reality it would take a bit of thinking about as I’ve spent my life on the lowest income bracket.

Give a chunk to charity so that I can go on holiday somewhere secluded, maybe a hotel room on the sea, and think about the details of what I’d do next. Sort out the people I love, and plan a huge extended family holiday where people can come and go however/whenever they like over about 3 months. I’d pay for few people I know to have private healthcare because they are currently being failed by the NHS. All the schools I’ve been connected to somehow (apart from my own) would get money for whatever they need, and every teacher would get a class/subject budget. I’d buy an apartment in my favourite holiday destination, one in London, and would rent a mansion to see what it’s like living in one while my own house was being renovated. And I would do a lot of internet shopping on sites I only ever look at.

My fantasy is to buy a fairly regular, but just one step up house near where I live now. I don’t want to worry about selling my current house or packing it up. I want to hire an interior designer and someone who specializes in organization for neuro-diversity to design a home layout that will work for us. There will be tons of storage and ridiculous amounts of labeling of where things belong. Then I will slowly move over things or purchase things to perfectly fit out the new house. Once we are all set up in the new house that was designed with care and no time pressure, I will hire someone to dispose of everything left behind at the old house, deep clean it, and sell it.

in other words, I want a massive reset on my living space and I want to hire people to make it happen.

once that is done, I will spend my days making art and not having to work to earn money anymore.

I would just love the possibility to buy whatever you fancied in any shop, be it clothes, household or food. New carpets needed ✅ new bathroom ✅ new car ✅
you know, just never ever having to worry about money.