You've just won £20 000 000

[LittleRedRidingHoodie1]

Imagine the scenario however you like but the crux is- you've just won twenty million pounds. AIBU to ask you what you would spend the money on or do?

Let's indulge ourselves on this dreary Sunday!

By the way I haven't won even a penny, just fantasising!

After paying off bits and pieces I'd like to move house somewhere more rural and set up a dog shelter. It would need to be rural because of all the barking.

Also I'd have a personal gym. And maybe study something for pleasure.

Now you!

Pay off debt inc mortgage

Do everything we want to do up our house then sell it.

Buy a house with a bigger garden.

Buy a house/pay mortgage for brothers.

Save for DSs education.

Go back to uni and study art/illustration, have my own studio at home...sigh

Travel!!

Make regular donations to charities - sponsor a child, volunteer

I'm in a council house atm, and while I could buy it, it wouldn't seem fair.

Just had a lovely day dream about getting my neighbour to tip me off when the new occupant is moving in, likely someone with kids as it's a 2 bedroom. And when they do, leaving a bottle of champagne and an envelope with a £1000 in it, on the doorstop, and wait in car outside to see their reaction. Then the day dream turned into someone doing this for me, sigh

I would buy my gran and grandads old farm (it's currently up for sale) so many memories.

I'd make sure that DD and DSD had enough to keep them comfortable (although would let them touch it until 21 and instill a good working ethic in em too!)

I'd help my dad pay off his debts so that he doesn't have to live with his evil, controlling bitch of a partner who holds the purse strings.

I have a friend with money problems and I would definitely help her out too.

Buy a new house with three distinct living areas (and a large garden) - one for my DPs, one for the PILs and ours with guest rooms. Employ a housekeeper, carers and assistants so everyone can be looked after as necessary.

Give at least £5m to charity - probably animal and elderly ones.

Anonymously help out friends and family with paying off mortgages, gifts etc.

Go on a few round the world trips.

Support and fund some political campaign groups - assisted dying etc.

Invest it all in bonds that pay out a % every year, and set it up so that our family earns £40,000/year from it. Use everything else we earn to go on more holidays.

Do same for my sister who struggles to make ends meet. Invest in my brother's business. Do a fair chunk of work in my mother's house and ours using the income. That's about it.

Things I would not do with the money: give any of it to my children while they're still building their work ethic (DS in particular). I might bung them a couple of hundred pounds a month while they're at university but zippo zilch once they've left.

Oh and YY to full-time housekeeper and gardener. Looking forward to never having to do any housework ever again.

Our house is currently on the market and not selling. I'd drop the price and get rid of it.
Then we'd buy the house we have our eye on. Or widen our search by a couple of hundred grand
I'd help out SIL, her dp and ds who'd like to move but can't because only one of them can get a job. I'd give them enough to buy a nice place where the pressure would be off job hunting.
I'd book a holiday for our entire family. A chateau in France. I'd hire a nanny and housekeeper/cook.
I'd give up my job and start studying (looked into it this year but haven't enough time till dd starts school next year)
I'd go and see a private doctor to sort out my thyroid problems and everything related to that including the massive weight issue that I haven't the energy to face when I'm so tired.
I'd take all my girlfriends to New York and buy us all something pretty from Tiffany.
I'd donate a big chunk to charity/ies.
And I'd help out various friends/family to pay off debt etc.
I'd put most in the bank/invest it for ds and dd to pay for university and deposit for first home but the rest not available till they are at least mid 20's. And I wouldn't tell them it was there.

I would give 5000000 to family and friends.
I would invest 5000000 for future income and for the DC's future.
I would use 5000000 to buy a house in both of our home countries and in the country we currently live in.
I would use 100000 to just spend and splurge on things like diamonds, cars, holidays, what ever takes our fancy and to live off so DH can take some time off and decide what he wants to do.
The rest I would use to help others who are in need.

I would buy all the flats that my childhood Victorian house was turned into after my parents sold it, and turn it back into a house.
I would buy a little house in a mews in central London.
I would buy a house in Auckland, and probably live there, but would use the mews house too.
I would endow a chair at my old Uni.

I would rent a castle with staff and invite my family to stay whilst we decided how to spend it, although first on the agenda would be more dogs, a huge house in the north west highlands at a beach with plenty of land for the dogs, a gorgeous flat in glasgow for my daughter who is at uni there, a flat in rome for weekends away.
I would give our current house to someone who needed it, can't think of anymore at the moment.

It ovbiously needs another 0 after the 20 - check out the houses on this link - you couldn't afford any of them on 20m. www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/find.html?searchType=SALE&locationIdentifier=REGION%5E91989&insId=1&radius=0.0&minPrice=&maxPrice=&minBedrooms=&maxBedrooms=&displayPropertyType=&maxDaysSinceAdded=&_includeSSTC=on&sortByPriceDescending=&primaryDisplayPropertyType=&secondaryDisplayPropertyType=&oldDisplayPropertyType=&oldPrimaryDisplayPropertyType=&newHome=&auction=false

75m pounds for a 5 bedroom flat lol

I would buy a nice little house with a few acres round here and two ponies.
A pied a terre in London, preferably the flat below my godmother's place.
A house or whatever they need for my friends who are struggling.
I like hooked's idea of social landlord, that would be v satisfying
Large donation to eg 'the Smile Train' or some such charity

1. Buy a house big enough for me and my family

1. Finish my driving lessons, get my other half driving and buy us both modest cars (probably both get a Golf!!)

1. Sort close friends and family with a significant windfall.

1. Quit my job and become a philanthropist. I'd have a charitable trust and make my family members, something to pass through to next generations.

1. Certainly travel!

1. Aim to NEVER forget where I came from and remember that though money makes certain things easier, it doesn't bring happiness. And I'd probably only keep a fraction of the winnings for myself, no-one needs millions in the bank.

1. Produce cheeses

I would buy a house in a different area, it wouldn't have to be huge but a swimming pool and bigger rooms would be nice.
I would hire a gardener and a cook.

I would give my sons £5 ml each.

The main thing would be having enough to live on so my husband could retire.

Any remainder would be shared between my sisters and a handful of good friends.

Would also like to give to some good causes too.

If I had been asked this same question last year before being diagnosed with cancer there would be a bigger list of family to give to.

Move to North Yorkshire and buy a nice home with lots of grounds (so I never have to visit a park again). It would need a disabled (ok I can build that) annex for dmother. The DC can have their own park in the grounds and the rundown barn will be rebuilt and converted to a soft play area (so I never have to visit one again). The DC can also have a large playroom.
I would do an art course, learn to ride a horse and waft about giving ill wanted advice to DH about his business.
The DC would be put in private school.
I would use the remainder to set up trust funds and an investment portfolio.

" waft about "

hell yeh there would be lots and lots of wafting

I'd be straight off to the airport taking children out of school to sit somewhere sunny for a week or two to let it sink in.

Buy a bigger house, probably nearby as I like it here & dc are happy at school assuming they have them back And a holiday home near the sea.

Hand in my notice at work, (actually no, just not bother going back, shoddy employer). I'd figure out how much we'd need to live comfortably & go on really good holidays and then spend the rest of my time giving it away. Tragically have spent a lot of time imagining this, more than is probably healthy, but came to conclusion that we don't really need 'that much' to get by comfortably and could probably do some good with the rest.

Id buy my first house so i can move out of our rent trap, pay my sister morgage off, pay for my parents to go to Venice. After that any spare money would go to pay off other extended family and friends morgages and whats left to the hospice but i would do that anon. I might also treat us to a new skoda as mine is over 10 years now. Its my dh and i fav discussion so know exactly what we would do.

Loving the responses and how much people want to help other people/ charities. Imagine how much good could be done if everyone on this thread really did get £20 000 000.

Buy land, build a house with studio and enough cupboards to hide all the crap, hire a cleaner, get chickens, a dog and a cat, plant some veggies, go on a few holidays, invest some, donate some. Live a slower life.

Oh and I wouldn't tell a soul that I had won.

Buy a house so we can escape the pigsty we currently live in.

Put a million in trust for DGD.
Give a million each to DDs and DS.
Give a million to charity.
Set up a business buying houses to then rent at no profit to disabled, ex soldiers, etc etc
Pay a hitman to get rid of Cameron and IDS
Enjoy having money for the first time ever - to be able to shop whenever we like rather than having to wait for disability benefit payday

I'd find the best surgeon in the world to fix my spine.
I'd move back to my county of origin, buy a house in the city for dd, a house in the country for ds, and set him up in the photography business he'd love. Dh and I would go on wonderful holidays.
I'd have a cook, a cleaner and a gardener come in daily.
I'd fund Freegle so they could build their own platform for reuse groups
(there - that's me outed)
Any spare cash I'd donate to ME research
I'd probably buy a new pair of jeans, too!

Mine would go so easily. I'd divide a couple of million between family and close friends, give a million or so to my work (it's a charity, they need a massive redevelopment which would cost about £8m but I don't think I'd give them the lot, sorry work!)????I'd buy a super house in Highgate or somewhere, focus all my energies in trying to achieve the one thing I can't buy - a successful pregnancy. ????I guess a million each in trust for DS and imaginary DC2 and money aside for their upbringing.????I've always wanted a Porsche so maybe that plus a family car. ????I'd totally employ a housekeeper to keep everything organised and pay them well. ????Depending on how the baby plan worked out, I'd either return to work or start my own business. ????I'm sure I could spunk loads on just living nicely, having my hair and nails done regularly, stuff I'd never be able to do now.