To be a bit frustrated with lottery winners lack of imagination?

[angelos02]

To the couple that just won £33 million saying they'd pay for their daughter to fly first class back from Australia. Get a private jet ffs. Buy a yacht & the staff you'd need. Bring back that 'spend spend spend' woman!

[VulcanWoman]

Spend spend spend, learnt nothing from Viv Nicholson then.

[dilbert19912]

Cont..... And he said he would buy a giant metal monopoly piece and leave it on the drive for everyone to see.

[dilbert19912]

Me and dp had a conversation last night about winning euro millions, earlier in the day he had won monopoly and was being a smug fuck

[Fourormore]

Looks like the winner of the other £33m might have washed the ticket in a pair of jeans:
£33m ticket 'washed in jeans', says potential jackpot winner in Worcester
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-35391419

[CerseiHeartsJaime4ever]

I know not going public doesn't mean you have to live in secret, billsykes but I still would because my mum would either tell everyone I should give her half or be doing a sad face in the daily mail after 3 months under the headline "Lottery winners mother sends them bankrupt after spending 33mill on FB selling sites"

[BillSykesDog]

If you don't go public that doesn't mean you can't tell anyone or have to keep it a secret. It just means that the lottery can't release your name or publicise you've won and the press can't name you.

It's a stupid thing to do.

£33 million is not private jet rich either. It would cost about £190,000 to fly from Sydney to London. Personally I think that's a waste of money which could be better used paying off a friend's mortgage. If you start spending money like that you'd be broke in no time.

[Goldenhandshake]

I think there'd be conflict if we were to win, DH is adamant that he wouldn't give anyone cash of any kind, and if he bought houses for anyone it'd stay in our/the kids names and they could live there rent free.

Whereas I have a select number of family members who i'd want to buy property for or if it were a lower value win, lump sums to serve as helpful deposits etc.

As for us, I'd buy a house a footballers wife would be jealous off, along with a cleaner and a person specifically to do my ironing

Make a few investments (with advice of course)

Then I would book lovely holidays multiple times a year, and generally enjoy not having to worry about money.

[Boogers]

A pair of brogues and matching (functional) handbag would probably be up there on my first shopping trip. Oooh, what I'd do with £33m. Has the second winner come forward yet?

[toffeeboffin]

Fuck going public, no way. I'd only tell close family and friends.

Me and DH often discuss what we'd do and anew pair of brogues would not be the first time on my mind.

I'd :

Head to the Caribbean with family
for month to process everything.

Then I'd start organising all the important stuff, financial advice, how to make the most in interest etc.

I'd buy a property in the UK and probably Canada. Then I'd travel the world, rent luxurious apartments for a year in New York, Paris, Hong Kong, Sydney etc and visit all the places I wanted.

Would spend my days in museums, fancy restaurants, shopping and sightseeing. Hiking, skiing, etc.

I'd try and have more kids too. Once DS reached school age, we'd have to settle, either UK or the US.

Sigh.

[DeoGratias]

Hedge funds and other funds. However you would normally divide your fortune into bits - some bit ou would take no risk on at all, another bit you'd have at some risk, another bit in property. it is what your pension funds all day. Some funds were up 15% last year, some down 15%. Risky business but no one with millions to invest will just have their savings on deposit which is why I thought 3% a conservative estimate.

[specialsubject]

I'd love to know where you can get 3% interest on more than about 50k. Not that I have £13m!!

[DeoGratias]

£10m at 3% generates about £300k a year before tax (about what a good few London lawyers, bankers and private doctors earn on here and some mumsnet posters). So about 3x that is about £1m a year before the state steals half in tax which again is what the top solicitors, barristers, doctors and many a business owner earn in London. It is however a lot of money to get a once and you may be able to grow it better than 3% a year or live off the capital by spending the capital.

[MaidOfStars]

£6m to have the millionaire lifestyle from two generations ago.

£110m to live like the Beckhams.

[MitzyLeFrouf]

Definitely don't go pubic in front of the press Cerseit. It would be most unseemly.

[CerseiHeartsJaime4ever]

I certainly wouldn't go pubic but i would go in to hiding. People would be like "wheres Cersei? Her house is abandoned and up for sale"

Seriously though, I wouldn't tell my mum, she'd have it spent in about 2 days in fags and eBay purchases and new cars for herself. I'd buy a flat in each of the cities I loved, a few holiday homes by the sea in secluded places, take a year long holiday seeing everything I ever wanted to see, and buy the kids a proper education. I might even live in the same town (London) I do now but just upgrade to keep up the lie that I wasn't filthy "Scrooge McDuck" style RICH!!!

I would find a way to sneakily pay my families mortgages in secret so I never had to blab it was me. They'd have the money off me in a shot if they knew!

[ComposHatComesBack]

Oooh that's a bit enigmatic glue!

I'm puzzled how it could be super yacht money. Steve Jobs's super yacht (far from the biggest or most expensive) cost in excess of $100m and Abromovich's much more. That's before ongoing fuel, mooring and crewing costs. I can't see how you could do that off the back of a £30m win.

[glueandstick]

It can be superyacht money if you want it to be. Trust me on that one.

[MaidOfStars]

Ii sometimes think that people over estimate what sort of money a lottery win will offer you. 33m isn't intercontinental private jet or super yacht money
Agree. There must be a figure for how much a 'millionaire's lifestyle' actually costs?

[Monty27]

The winning other half hasn't come out yet?

[kipperssippers]

donajimena thats what i would do as well lol

[ComposHatComesBack]

Ii sometimes think that people over estimate what sort of money a lottery win will offer you. 33m isn't intercontinental private jet or super yacht money. Likewise this [http://money.aol.co.uk/2013/03/18/lottery-winner-blows-1-8m-unlucky-or-stupid/ this silly prat]] who won 1.8m and his equally gormless wife who quit their jobs in their mid 30s and spent big on luxury cars, holidays, handbags and generally spunked it up the wall. It doesn't take a genius to work out that once they're bought a house for the thick end of 700k that 1.2m won't let the pair of you live the life of Reilly for the next 40 odd years.

[ComposHatComesBack]

Is £33m really private jet territory

Not for one that'd fly you to/from Australia.

[travellinglighter]

I wouldn’t go public. I’d clear a few mortgages for friends and family and then I would travel the world as a middle aged backpacker. Of course, the flights would be first class and occasionally I’d book into the presidential suite of the local 5 star hotel. When I got bored of that I would come home and build solar parks, invest in wind and battery storage technology so I could suck more carbon out of the atmosphere than I put in to the atmosphere due to my big car, flights to ski resorts/beaches/sporting events etc would be beyond carbon neutral.

[Okiedokiefanokie]

I don't know how you'd manage to keep that amount of money quiet without making yourself miserable and paranoid, so yes I would go public. It would disappear from the news pretty quickly. I couldn't tell you the name of a single UK lottery winner.

[pennypots]

I wouldn't go public, even if I knew it would be leaked. But there's a difference between posing for pictures and leaks to the press.

I'd definitely want to share the money with close family and so I'd tell them. We live in London though and there's not so much of a small village gossip feel here. We don't even know our neighbours' names, they wouldn't question it if we quietly moved one day. If we won just a few million, I think we'd be able to get away with claiming it was an inheritance. It would only pay for a slightly bigger/better area home upgrade where we are!