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Ok. Its a £10 million jackpot tonight. What would you do if you won?

52 replies

JacknDiane · 25/04/2026 17:55

I'll start. I think my shoulders would finally go down. Id know my kids had a brilliant start in life. Although I would only give them a million each so they kept working hard and trying. Id want to give them the lot but I dont think this would be good for them.
Anyway, I'd help out my friends. I dont have family im close to, I wouldn't even tell them. We are estranged.
And we'd both travel. Everywhere. Staying in lovely hotels that aren't airbnb or travelodges. And meals out instead of chippies and a bench.
Id get a newer house and maybe a couple of flats in places I love.
Id donate loads to charity and id help as many people as I could.
And id have top level private health insurance and hopefully kick health anxiety out the door forever.

So what would you do?

(P.S. ....i don't have a ticket...oh well...)

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Dexternight · 25/04/2026 19:13

Holidays.
Sort children out financially
Help family out financially
Help friends financially
Support charity
Do up house
Have a cleaner
Gardner
Cook
New car

IAxolotlQuestions · 25/04/2026 19:15

Quit, get landscape gardeners in to do all the jobs I want done including a large greenhouse, and join a gym.

Darker · 25/04/2026 19:17

Leave my job. Have a modest holiday - just time away to think things through.

Then probably find a better home for me and my partner. A chunk to each of the kids to see them housed and debt free. A few sizeable donations to expedite projects I’m involved in, or care about.

Maybe £5mil left over to live off… I’d get advice re inheritance planning. And I’d like to use it to do some real good.

Blossoms217 · 25/04/2026 19:18

Move out of Bradford somewhere more rural
Save half 2.5 million for both of my children
Give them an amazing childhood (maybe have another)
Travel
Invest in their education
Set up some sort of charity to get people out of financial difficulties

ArtesianWater · 25/04/2026 19:19

I'd quit my current job immediately and seek a more fulfilling occupation. Buy a beautiful big house in the countryside with separate houses or annexes for my ageing parents to live if they want to in future. Sort out my siblings' mortgages and pensions and invest enough to generate income. A couple of cars and a good holiday.

ShiftySquirrel · 25/04/2026 19:21

If I won tonight it would be as part of a syndicate, we'd get about £450k each. Enough for some solar panels, a newish car, £200k in my pension and a £100k house deposit each for the kids.

If DH won, it would just be his ticket, in which case he'd retire, I'd do until the end of term, we'd set the teens up, no uni debt, house each eventually, driving lessons and a car each. DH would give me a slice of the pie, with that I'd help out a few friends teen kids and a friend who's husband left her recently.
After that I'd fill my days with charity stuff. DH would have a massive greenhouse and be in the garden permanently.

I'm feeling very philanthropic tonight in the hope the lottery goes smile favourably on me!

Connachtfive · 25/04/2026 19:25

I’d become a secret philanthropist 🤞🏻

DelilahBucket · 25/04/2026 19:26

Move away from my knob head neighbours immediately. Beyond that, step back from work a bit to look after myself. I'm self employed and wouldn't give up my job but I do need a break.

jay55 · 25/04/2026 19:28

Quit my job. Find somewhere to live. Take a holiday to contemplate the rest.
Book a personal trainer and maybe a chef to come and do meal prep. And start using a laundry service. Hmmm maybe I need to hire an assistant to sort all this out….

MyBraveFace · 25/04/2026 19:28

1 Draft my resignation from work
2 Buy absolutely everything that I've had my eye on but can't justify the cost
3 Give my sister some money
4 Start the search for my dream house

ComfyKnickers · 25/04/2026 19:29

Give up work.

lostinmagic · 25/04/2026 19:32

I'd buy the dream house, a new car and book a no expense spared holiday.
I'd put 1m in each of my children's savings, they are both very little so that will accrue some nice interest by the time they can access it.
I'd pay off my sisters and SIL's mortgages.
i would buy my mum a house then give her 1m so she can retire early then go live her life without worry, she bloody deserves it.
as for the rest I'd save it for now, could perhaps encourage DH to retire early although he loves his job so I doubt he would.
id be a lady of leisure for the rest of my days.

HotGazpacho · 25/04/2026 20:15

Even £500k would change my life beyond recognition. But if it was the full shebang:

• House for me and DC - we currently rent and it’s unlikely I’ll ever be on the property ladder.
• Brand new car.
• Paddleboards.
• Camper van.
• Create an educational bursary at my old uni to assist people who share a similar background.
• Holiday to Japan.
• Thereafter, I’d properly throw myself into the career I’d really like to do, rather than the one I’m doing just to pay the bills.
• Oh, and have my jowls lifted!

MsGreying · 25/04/2026 20:50

I would move house. Not far. Bigger garden. And give up my allotment.

Fallulah · 25/04/2026 20:53

If they split that down into smaller packages they could benefit so many people - nobody needs £10m.

Woth 500,000 we could pay off our mortgage, build an extension and do a couple of rounds of IVF.

Darker · 25/04/2026 21:11

Fallulah · 25/04/2026 20:53

If they split that down into smaller packages they could benefit so many people - nobody needs £10m.

Woth 500,000 we could pay off our mortgage, build an extension and do a couple of rounds of IVF.

Totally agree. £100k would be a fantastic boost to almost anyone. 100 X more people would benefit.

maymie · 25/04/2026 22:10

couple of mill in DS account. First thing is buy a car. Pay off mortgage for mediate (sp?) family and give some money to my two best friends. Go into central London for a seriously posh dinner. Move out of my rented shoe box and get a larger house but still local, near my mum and the school. Take DS to euro Disney immediately. Buy my brother a small house (he currently rents a room in someone else’s house)

TheKittenswithMittens · 25/04/2026 22:37

I would certainly gift something to my niblings and niblets. I would love to own a VW camper, a boat, and a Porsche and a Harley.

Morepositivemum · 25/04/2026 22:44

I’d get a good accountant and financial planner to organise savings for the family, pay all my sister’s and mil’s bills, change the bathroom, fix guttering, get a plumber in for plumbing crap we haven’t been able to sort, get a larger washing machine that properly works and a ridiculously large tumble dryer that also actually works and quit my job after treating everyone in work to something!

TheKittenswithMittens · 25/04/2026 22:47

I would love a tiny apartment in Paris.

KeeleyJ · 25/04/2026 22:51

I would move, I love Yorkshire and would hopefully move down there. Hopefully being Scottish would mean I wouldn't be treated as too much of an outsider!

I would then donate my house to the local council + huge maintenance fund with a condition that it is to be used to house homeless people. 1. It would be a nice thing to do. 2. Hopefully the people using the property would have barking dogs, blast music, smoke fags in the garden and generally be very anti social and make my arsehole neighbours life a misery....

DilemmaDelilah · 26/04/2026 08:58

Give some to each of our children.
Look for a house with a swimming pool.
Buy a 2 bed flat in each of the cities where our children live
Buy a new car
Increase the hours that our cleaner and gardener come (currently 2 hours per fortnight, would like at least 4 hours per week)
Have a proper roof put on the conservatory
Get a wood or solid fuel burner for our conservatory
If possible, get a wind electricity generator (already have solar) and lots more battery storage
Buy some really good clothes and shoes - maybe made to measure
Invest the rest so I never had to worry about money ever again

Natsku · 26/04/2026 09:40

First I would buy myself a really really fancy cake.

I'd pay for renovations for my parents' house and a garden sauna for them. I'd give some money to my brothers. I'd put money into savings for my children. I'd buy DD a flat in the city for her to live in while she goes to high school there with a spare room for me to stay in when I visit her. I would get much needed work done on my house (ventilation system needs updating, outside painting, new roof, new bathroom and sauna, new heating and air conditioning system throughout. I'd buy a summer house by a lake with its own beach and boat jetty.

I'd drop to part time hours at work - would not want to stop working altogether as I'd get bored and I'd miss the social side of work.

I would get private health insurance, get my teeth sorted out properly.

Would travel a bit.

I've bought a ticket for the Euro Jackpot on Tuesday, its 34 million euros!

SpiceGirlsNeedAComeBack · 26/04/2026 09:44

Buy a large plot of land, build 2 houses & two annexes and some chickens and live happy.
oh and a ride on lawn mower. Grin

ComfyKnickers · 26/04/2026 10:16

You're all a lot kinder than me.

I would give up work, my DH would take early retirement.

New car each, lots of nice trips away staying in the nicest hotels or holiday houses. A whole new wardrobe.

Maybe a flat in London for weekend visits.