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If you won the lottery, what would you DO (not buy!)

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LellowYedbetter · 03/04/2019 07:51

AIBU to think of you won millions, you’d still need a purpose in life to sustain mental health?

I’ve thought about it a lot, I think a year of mad spending and then I’d need to actually “do” something.

I think I’d start a dog rescue centre (ran from my massive country house!).

I’ve also thought about property development and perhaps renting out houses to struggling people to help them turn things around (teen parents, homeless etc)

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Warmhandscoldheart · 03/04/2019 11:05

After making sure my family were financially stable, I'd donate to the dog rescue where my DDog came from to improve their facilities.

1shotcappuccino · 03/04/2019 11:08

Number one - move mum to lovely bungalow with a garden .
Tell dh to leave his stressfull job and do what he's always wanted to do, buy and renovate properties . Then help family with bills etc. Enrol ds on some coaching for his favourite sport (£30 hour) and travel with Ds, he's never been abroad

WTFIsAGleepGlorp · 03/04/2019 11:16

Resign.

Work on improving myself physically, mentally and academically.

Plant trees on wasteland.

Pay for new walls and a litter clean up down a particular alleyway nearby.

Donate money to Vancouver Rape Relief.

Donate money to mental health causes around here.

Give money to family.

FrozenMargarita17 · 03/04/2019 11:37

I would paint and sell art and do some travelling and voluntary work.

RoseMartha · 03/04/2019 11:38

Open a adventure park with sensory areas and adapted equipment alongside normal equipment and a small self catering holiday park for kids/adults with disabilities and their families.

Also help for women who are fleeing abusive marriages/ relationships

rosydreams · 03/04/2019 11:41

it would mean i finally had the money to gamble on a education.I always wanted to go to university but never could poor education,poor literacy,poverty and cerebral palsy meant i could not.It was always a high gamble that could leave me horribly in debt.

I could spend money improving my own daughters education and exploring the world with her and my partner.Yes i would eventually settle but after i have the skills to do actually good in the world.

IJustLostTheGame · 03/04/2019 11:49

Fund our local food banks
Set up a lot of activities for children and teenagers in poverty
Help womens refuges
Donate to domestic violence charities
Have some sort of childcare charity or fund for single mothers, including groups and meetups and weekends away.
I would have something set up to provide free sanitary protection to schools.
I would like to help refugees in our country somehow too. Furniture, food, maybe some sort of future bursary for university.
Actually I'd like to have a scholarship fund for anyone who cant afford it to go to uni
I should like a load of allotment type areas as community gardens and the produce to go to food banks.
I would have direct debits to centrepoint and small individual charities for many good causes.

DownAndUnder · 03/04/2019 11:54

I daydream about this a lot. I’d buy a huge hotel and make it a homeless shelter that could accommodate their dogs. That and all the dogs I’d accumulate would keep me busy.

mumofamenagerie · 03/04/2019 12:00

I'd set up a farm animal rescue/sanctuary and arrange visits for children and people with SEN or other disabilities. I plan to eventually do this anyway (when I've earnt enough so probably when I retire!) although it would be on a much smaller scale than if I won the lottery.

PicsInRed · 03/04/2019 12:01

A lot of people get divorced.

Because now they can afford to. 😂

buzzbobbly · 03/04/2019 12:02

I would kit out a massive mobile vet RV and drive it round a place in the Far East I go to which has horrendous stray animal levels.

I would feed, treat, spay, neuter, and even PTS animals in need all day long. I'd also offer low-cost welfare for working animal owners.

CanILeavenowplease · 03/04/2019 12:03

I'd start my own charity. It is all planned out. I would need the routine and challenge but it would be amazing to do something I was passionate about rather than settling for a job to pay the bills.

winterinmadeira · 03/04/2019 12:07

I’d travel loads and then do a PhD in some aspect of womens history or politics

buzzbobbly · 03/04/2019 12:07

wonderingsoul to Sexnotgender

Do woman only get rapped then?

No, men do too, so I am scanning the thread for your post where you are planning to set up a separate service that caters for the specific and very different needs of male victims of rape...

Why can't a woman decide to set up services that, overwhelmingly and globally, massively affect other women without needing to worry what the men are doing? We already had to do it once...

popcorndiva · 03/04/2019 12:10

I would continue to do property development and btl. I would probably hire a PA though to do the admin for it.

I would give up my part time job though. Get my husband to start his own business as that is what he has always wanted to do.
Def go on a couple of luxury holidays a year including Australia where our friends live

BiddyPop · 03/04/2019 12:10

Go sailing - around the world, very slowly. Having bought a large enough boat that I could bring craft materials with me and actually make time to do some. Potentially selling them online (by posting when I get to port).

Then go home, get a small holding and work incredibly hard physically by day, enjoy crafting to make some "pin money" by night, and actually enjoying life. Of course, running a smallholding means bringing produce to farmers markets or other outlets to sell, and getting involved with the community there.

I'd probably devote more time to Scouts and developing young people. And to going on long hikes, even during the week when others are at work - oh bliss!

That said, I probably wouldn't actually give up work at all as I quite enjoy it!

Lifeover · 03/04/2019 12:12

Move away from urbanisation, where I could see the countryside and coast.

point out that backstabbing is not nice in my leaving speech from work

Do a round the world cruise

run an animal rescue

sponsor mindfulness sessions in local schools

Do IVF

Minecraftfan · 03/04/2019 12:16

I would pay for DH and my 3 DS's to be assessed for ASD/ADHD.
I would pay for my DD to have therapy for her mental health issues and her asd.
I would donate some money anonymously to my DC s primary and secondary schools
I would learn falconry
I would take my family on holidays to places we have always wanted to visit.
I would pay for my husband to do any university course he wanted.
I would set up a charity for children with school phobia to offer them and thier families therapy and a support service.

MidsomerBurgers · 03/04/2019 12:16

Buy or hire one of those massive motorhomes and travel across America for a few months. Travel to the Far East. Go on a cruise. Help friends, family and work. Have some plastic surgery.

After getting it all out of my system, I would have to either work part time or volunteer or I'd end up wasting a lot of time on doing nothing. Maybe go back to Uni and do something like history or archaeology.

mummyhaschangedhername · 03/04/2019 12:31

I would make sure all my friends and family were taken care of to the best of my ability, including supporting my kids school in anyway I could. I would donate to a lot fo starter companies struggling to get off the group and I would donate to a lot of gofundme style causes. Depending on the amount of money I would create a charity to give grants to causes which struggle and support for smaller charities. For example we have a tiny charity locally who really struggle with lack fo resources etc and just a small cash boost and maybe the running and cost of a van would make a massive difference to them and would help so many people in the wider community. I would sponsor a food bank too. Just lots of little things, all anonymously to help as many people as I could. I would put money in envelopes and drop through letter boxes for people who need a boost, perhaps create some jobs to give people a chance and help employment.

Lots of little things that can make a bigger impact. All the things I wish I could afford to support now I guess.

I would put some money away for my children too, so I know they are ok, and make sure they rest is spent doing good, otherwise what's the point? I obviously would enjoy the money too, but I would make sure people around me were looked after.

I would hire a tip top lawyer and campaign against injustices and create a union type organisation which actually worked for the people are were knowledgeable enough to make a difference.

Lifeover · 03/04/2019 12:34

oh yes and go back to uni for more degrees, history, politics, psychology to start with - that would keep me going a good few years

magoria · 03/04/2019 12:37

I would buy (I know) a fully set up garage. I would then get old cars, morris minors, minis, beetles etc strip them back fully to the frameworks and restore/rebuild them.

HavelockVetinari · 03/04/2019 12:38

Carry on working but do 3 days a week. Take a few months off to travel the world en famille. Get a daily personal trainer. Once DC are older, take a career break and move to DH's home country for a year or two.

Lllot5 · 03/04/2019 12:38

Set up some sort of charity that teaches kids to read, so many adults are semi literate.

BlooperReel · 03/04/2019 12:43

I'd have another baby, refurb a hospice that's very close to my heart and arrange some sort of treat for the lovely nurses who work there.

I would also look into planting more trees/greenery and arrange one of those 'living walls' for my kids school to help with air quality.

If we were talking euromillions money, I would also want to open and help run a children's home, so many kids who cannot be adopted, I had friends who grew up in care and I've always dreamed of a children's home that is genuinely like a family home. I'd rope my mum in too as I know she feels the same. Somewhere they can genuinely be supported, feel safe etc until they reach adulthood, with an ongoing support service for those who need it.