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

[LellowYedbetter]

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)

There is also a close near me of council bungalows with OAPs in them, all the residents are lovely, but struggle on state benefits and with ill health, I'd drop and envelope of cash through each door.

I would start a cemetary/crematorium where people could rest with their pets. There are only a couple in the country that do this and I believe the rules are complicated.

Also an animal sanctuary, I wouldn't be able to run it so would let someone else use the land and help out.

Paint, draw and create.

I'd look after grandchildren.

Do a lot of traveling and then buy a cottage/small holding in a remote corner of the Scottish mountains. Off grid, with a spring to supply water.

Or...Buy a forest and spend time and money changing it's use to residential/business and make a glamping camp!

Retire, travel and finally get around to doing that PhD.

I'd live in various European cities. I'd go to fancy restaurants, take culinary courses, go to art museums, ski at the weekend, hike in the summer.

Once the kids were old enough for their schooling to really count I'd move to Switzerland and have them educated there.

Simples.

Establish a home for elderly/sick dogs.
Donate a good chunk to dog charities abroad.

Have another baby.
Hire a nanny to help!

Travel travel travel. Dd1 is in school so we'd go off for weeks at a time in every summer holiday.

Do a masters degree and maybe a phd.

Buy houses to be used as safehouses for women & children escaping domestic violence and set up / work with a charity to distribute them.

Open a book shop. It wouldn't have to make a profit, it would just need to be awesome.

Buy a large farm and use it as a base to offer holidays to disadvantaged teenagers and young people, especially those who have been caught up in crime - also give them the opportunity to stay for a long enough period of time to learn a trade so they can get their lives back on track. There are similar schemes in America which have great success with young offenders.

Also set up a scout type based campsite where children from low income families can have an adventure holiday - bit like PGL but a damn sight cheaper!

Love the idea of anonymous donations to people who are struggling.

Set up a scholarship system at our local agricultural college to allow students to go to college.

Buy several small starter farms which can be taken on a 5 year tenancy basis to allow young people who want to farm but who don't have parents with acres of land - bit like the old council farm system.

Think I need to win a huge amount!

I would make living accommodation in old office blocks for the homeless.
I always think of this when I see empty blocks, rooms and bathrooms with a kitchen and lounge area on each floor.

Separate sex floors and floors for couples.
Volunteers to help and people on the ground floor advising, helping and signposting to services that can help longterm. Drug and addiction services.
Mental health nurse on staff and a gp employed by me. All available m F 8 till 6 and some on call as needed.

I would travel and get tutors for language, science etc for home ed. More riding and music lessons.

Help out my family and friends.

Give anonymous donations to those I had researched.

Have a baby or 3.

Renovate a forever home and put in place trusts for the next generations. Probably 5 or 6 beds with outbuildings.

Space for my children to live when grown up so we can be our own community.
2/3 bed places where friends can stay or give help to families in need.

I'd have a breast reduction between 50 and 54 I'm 38 and 40 J and K depending on brand and always said I don't want to be an old lady with huge breaks. They also never go much smaller when I lose weight 5 stone loss takes me to a 34h so still too big.

Loss the 2 stone and keep it off. I go up and down within 2-4 stone overweight. So between a 16 and 20, I'd get to a 12 or 14 and maintain. I'd have personal chef cooking delicious healthy food.

I'd go on a yoga retreat with my daughters then keep up everything learned.
I'd also do healthy holidays around the world trying different activities. I'd go on a cruise.

I'd help lots of charities currently do good work and shut down the rubbish ones as they muddy the waters too much.

I'd also set up a fund to oversee research into illnesses/diseases/cures as one of the reasons I don't donate is because the same research gets duplicated in many countries and its so wasteful. It needs to be free from governmental influence and big pharma.

Is bring together all the current social housing and build and buy more. Making it more national socialhlusing and run it on the beat current principles. Some social housing is great very principled and really working hard to house people, other are stuck on an old mentality of just good enough as the people we serve are not that good. They have horrendous policies and rally penalise the people they should be helping. I'd overturn all that crap.

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Oh and a totally frivolous one, but my nephew has autism and loves the 'make it rain' fortnite dance, I'd give him a wedge of cash so he could do it for real

Hobbies and holidays, wouldn't need to do anything else.

Have another baby

Volunteer with a couple of organisations, travel

I’d donate to a refuge but I don’t have any expertise so I would not want to be running it.

I would start a construction business and employ highly skilled tradesmen. Whereby each tradesperson would have attached to them a apprentice. And the same for other parts of the company.

I would buy run down houses and renovate them and then let them out to people who really needed somewhere to live for a nominal fee. To help them get back on there feet. Once they had started earning an affordable income and were stable. I would put a clause in contract to either put up the rent (to earn a profit or they could buy property for the market value) Or they would have to leave the property so someone else who needed it.

I would open an animal sanctuary, travel the world and volunteer with animals/causes I believed in. I'd also do a nutrition course because I could afford to without worrying about it being a viable career option.

Retire. Get a personal trainer. Teach myself to cook. Learn to swim. Provide free childcare for my DGC. Be free to chauffeur my elderly parents to hospital appointments.

I'd start a horse/pony/donkey sanctuary. Specifically, I'd give a home for life to all the poor old horses and ponies who work hard until they're past their prime, at which point they're offloaded onto unscrupulous dealers, who lie about their ages and dope them up to hide health conditions, then flog them to complete novices who ride them into the ground, then discard them when they're worn out .
They can all come and live with me on my massive farm, with all the care and love they deserve until it's time for a (painless) goodbye.
Oh and dogs/cats welcome too. And goats. Pigs too. And poultry. Fuck it, everyone who needs a home.

Try to persuade my DH to have another baby.
Walk the Camino pilgrimage route to Santiago da compostela.
Restore/repair historic buildings.

If I won a HUGE amount on the Euromillions I would set up a charity foundation and just give money away to people who you read about in local papers etc, who need 5k for a wheelchair etc. Small sums that would bring life changing benefits.

Give up work.
Move to a bigger house
Travel - a lot.
Volunteer for Oxfam
Set my son up on the housing ladder
get a personal trainer

Not tell anyone.

Fix my house up.

Hire cleaner, shopper, cook.
Help family sort any ohysical and mental health problems.
Travel with DH in motorhome.
Space tourism.

Hire Ed Psychs and support staff who could troubleshoot into local nurseries and schools and give kids what they need as young as possible, and not wait until people are desperate.

Have a city farm for schoolkids and horses and donkeys for them to groom and ride if they hate PE.

Drama and music and art specialists in school.

Trees and flowers everywhere.

I would start a cat rescue. This has been my lottery plan since I was about 16 and old enough to do it!