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

Make sure the money is in my account

Then decide where we're moving to - probably British Columbia.

I'd have homes in the UK and Canada.

I would stop working 😂

Kids would have best private education

I'd go on cookery courses to Tuscany etc

I’m not interested in mansions but I would love a beautiful 4/5 bedroom Georgian type house with a large garden. I would decorate it Marina Fogle style (or get her to do it as I have no hope of emulating! I’m sure we could agree a price 😂).

Would send both my kids private.

Would make generous cash gifts to my loved ones and friends.

I would make significant donations to small charities, but also see if there was some way of using the money directly - I often read about the plights of disabled or unwell children who need money for therapies or treatment abroad, I would love to just anonymously donate and know that particular issue was just fixed for them. That kind of thing.

Lastly I would see if I could help fund or donate to some kind of respite centre for severely autistic children (the kind where the children are non verbal, don’t sleep etc). I know a couple of people whose DC are like this and to say they’re at breaking point is an understatement.

I would keep working part time as retirement in my 30s seems like a route to atrophying and alcoholism.

£150m !!

In the first week, I'd clear my mortgage and pay the last school batch of fees. I'd put £100k into a fund for ds' university. I'd order the new back door and the last two replacement windows I need for my house renovation. I'd stop work and book a holiday.

Then I'd give £500k to each of my siblings and nephews and nieces. Create a £30m trust fund for ds and his future children. I'd put £77k in a savings account for spending money for the next year. All that would cost about £36m

I'd put the remaining £114m in govt bonds, gold and shares, and then I'd relax for six months, and let things settle.

No charity? Thats baffling to me.

DM and DW private operations for better quality of life.
Sort my sister and her family for life
Move to warmer climes
Charity (cfine in particular ,they do great work in local community way more than a food bank)
And lastly for moi a Northern soul record collection to end all collections.

Sorting out family, obvs. paying off mortgages or giving them money to buy a property where they want. That kind of thing.
And helping loved friends too.
Trust funds for the kids.
Charity donations.
Book all the work needed for our house.
Airplane charters. We’re driving to pick up my mum for Christmas. I’d simply charter a plane and pilot, and get her here more quickly!
And I’d like to make small gifts to people - not in a lady bountiful way, but stuff like paying an unexpected bill, replacing a knackered car.
There would be travelling, of course. I would buy places abroad in all our favourite places and decent accommodation everywhere else.

I’m torn about whether I’d buy a pied a terre in London or join a club with rooms and stay there. I would love a mansion flat in central London but otoh would enjoy not having to do my own tidying!

I’d have Monica Galetti cook for us, including the cheese mousse she used to make at her restaurant, Mere. I miss that dish, it was the most delicious thing I have ever put in my mouth!

I would have an absolute ball!!

The situation with Russia is clearly going to make things very difficult BUT what about building a helium filled Graf Zeppelin - LZ127 not LZ130 and doing its Round The World flight again?

At the moment, I'd be upping sticks and moving to a remote area/uninhabited UK island ASAP. I'm just so annoyed with work that I wish to go far away and not have to deal with anyone in person ever again!

On a normal day, it would probably be to buy a specific detached house that is almost as close to work as my current one (I have a very short walking commute, which is handy on the days when you're running late!). It would obviously have higher running costs, because it's bigger, but I'd try to make it as eco-friendly as possible with solar panels and things. I would see about buying a bit of land around it (I don't think the current residents own it) so that I could have sheep and things. I wouldn't stop working (though part-time would be nice, but detrimental to my pension), because I'm not good enough at anything in particular to make a viable business out of my current skill set!

I would buy a more grown-up car. My little runaround is fine, but feels like i'm driving a tin can at times, and it's too low-down to see over the hedges and walls that line roadsides around here.

After that, I'm not sure, so I'd have to put the rest of it in the bank until I thought of something practical and useful to do with it!

I’d not set up a charity. I’d donate as and when but that’s it

Get a housekeeper/cleaner type person for a few hours per weekday
put money aside for kids university education and houses
Give some to BEAT the eating disorders charity, also MIND

not sure what else, need to think!

I would spend evenings with a glass of wine and browse GoFundMe pages, and make lots of people happy (anonymously of course).

Because there's such a huge choice. I'd rather rest for 6 months, let the shock pass, then apply myself to putting money where it would have most effect.

We've just had to make some people redundant, thanks to the late botched budget, so I'd make sure each of them received enough, anonymously, to tide them over.

Travel, travel and travel...