Euromillions tomorrow is £109m.

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AIBU to fantasise about it? 😂 honestly, what would you do with that money? I wouldn’t want to live a lavish lifestyle, I’d buy a farm house with shit loads of land for my dog. That’s all I want. Then I’d give up work and concentrate on charity work, writing and dog training. I’d be just pleased not to have to work in nursing anymore.

@NaturalBlondeYeahRight

Some of you have made me smile with your wishes of paying off student loans or extensions or a new small car. That money is immense. The rough interest is 80,000 per month! I’d love to give it a go though, think I’d give a lot of it away.

That’s what I mean, when someone said the majority of lottery winners end up broke ... how on earth does that even happen??! £80k a month interest ... you could live like a millionaire on the monthly interest alone without dipping into the main money

ah, I would go private and get the medical treatment my eldest is due but has been postponed due to CV19.
Get a house with enough bedrooms for each kid to have their own, and one for my DH and me.

Then I would sort out my mum with a flat or house in a safer part of town and a car with airbags, etc.

Sort out immediate family debts, treat family, etc.

But, I would not win. Somehow it is written you are either lucky in games or in love and I have a super DH.

Buy a house with some land

Renovate current house

Holiday for a month

But I wouldn’t give up work. I’d go bonkers.

I'd never fly commercial again.

**contrmary

Quit job and pay off my colleagues' mortgages so they can quit too, really fuck up my manager.**

I like that. I like that a lot

All the usual
Buy new house, buy houses for DSCs
Help friends & family financially
Plan holidays
New cars
Give up work and re-evaluate my time.
Decide which charities to heavily support

Better get that ticket then!!

Nice house with a nice garden, neither too big or unmanageable, and off-road parking so I can keep my sentimental beloved clapped-out car but not actually have to drive it in London, which I hate. Wallpaper every room, croissants for breakfast all the time instead of just sometimes. Pay off siblings’ mortgages and SIL’s mortgage. Quit job and continue side hustle as my job, couldn’t do nothing. After setting up a savings account to have a reasonable income I’d give the bulk of the rest of it away, there’s nothing big or flash I covet to the tune of that much money and I’d feel grim about it. Also I’d get The Fear that I’d end up one of the broke lottery winners and giving it all to Women’s Aid would hopefully assuage that.

The reasonable income would need to cover two more children, some excellent childcare, my Habitat habit, and buying as many books as I wanted. Oh, and maybe a Life Admin assistant. I often say to DP I wish we were polyamorous so we could have a third grown-up to do all the boring bits – reassessing our contents insurance, taking the car for MOT, doing the meal plan, remembering to clean the dishwasher filter, calling IKEA about the broken thing, paying the nursery bill. Imagine literally outsourcing all that bollocks! I’d have so much time (to piss about on MN)!

Sort out my family
Never leave uni
I would set up a scholarship fund of some kind for parents returning to work after a career break after having kids
Donate to charities and the kids schools. And do something for the local children's hospice and the hospital. I could probably afford a some kind of scanner
Sort out university funds for the children.
Finish my house renovations

I'd buy a big house/farm with lots of land. I'd have a big area for my kids to play football/cycle (mess up and me not care) a lovely garden with beautiful flowers and as much land for my DH to be my very own Monty Don. The house would have a huge kitchen and sound proof playroom for the kids. I'd have a housekeeper, a chef, a nanny and a PT.

I'd buy my DB a house and set him and my nephew up for life. I'd buy my mum a new house and make sure she had a housekeeper too. I'd help out my good friends.

I'd volunteer at school to pass the time and never tell anyone of my wealth because I'm scared that someone would kidnap my children 😳 Not that I've thought about it of course 😁

I would help out ( financially) family and friends first then finish off my own home ( maybe hire a landscape gardener)
Then (try ) to go on holiday ( private jet!? ) with family. Uk would be good : maybe a nice hotel somewhere.
Then decide which house I'd like to buy and where. Or maybe a nice holiday home? Give money to a few local charities.
Bank the rest.
Would be manic but fun I think.
Will never happen of course, but good to dream on isn't it?

@contrmary

Quit job and pay off my colleagues' mortgages so they can quit too, really fuck up my manager.

@contrmary are you me 😂

I’d buy a sensible house because I don’t want to draw attention to myself and have my children kidnapped. I’d be very secret millionaire, I couldn’t even tell my Nan because she can’t keep anything secret, she tells everyone everything even if you have an eye test she’s on the phone to all the relatives like you’re dying.

House in Spain

Buy my closet friend a house and make sure her and her daughter were set for life.

Tummy tuck.

I have my eye (thanks right move) on a block of flats for sale, I’d like to buy a furnish this out with bunk beds etc and work with the local DV unit so this is a secure place for woman to come with their children if they are fleeing and need to go. One flat for the IDVA to live in, I’d have it secure with panic alarms, cameras etc. This would be an emergency place not long term.

Saw a couple of news stories on BBC during lockdown and would really like to reach out and help them out with housing.

few more people I’d help out that I know personally or have seen their stories and think I could offer some help to.

I’d pretty much just carry on as normal.

Oh I’d also give money to my DD senior school for books etc help with uniform grants etc.

I think a lot of lottery winners go broke because they buy yachts and massive estates which take a lot of upkeep and are expensive to run. Also, dodgy investments and buying businesses to try and earn even more money. A lot of them seem to come unstuck because of weird tax stuff.

If I ever won a few million, I'd go off travelling and probably never come home. Kids could have private tutors and see the world. Lots of the cash would go to friends, family and charities. Other than funding the family travels, I probably wouldn't spend a whole lot of it on myself.

@YourObedientServant

OP if you work for the lottery, well done. I've just bought a ticket

Me too

Hmm. What would I do?
I'd give MIL & FIL £1.5mil to see them through retirement and have the care they require as they age
I'd give my father a little less. Probably £500k. Weve never been particularly close and he didnt care for me throughout my childhood.
I'd send my nan 500k. We haven't spoken in years but she always helped me when I was a teenager.
I'd give a friend £260k, hoping she would buy herself a small home, and a new car so life would be easier for her.
I'd give another friend a similar amount so her and her husband could finally buy a house, they work very hard but like us, just one thing after another gets in the way.
I would give a friend who I'm not very close with anymore £20k for if she ever decides to leave her abusive husband. A runaway fund if youd like.
I'd give an old employer of mine £300k hoping it would make his life easier. He was good to me when I worked for him.
I would give my daughters school £2 million. They're an amazing school that does so much for their students.
I'd give £2million to DDs old school because they're also amazing (they give a %of their pupil premium to the families about halfway through the school year so families can buy bits of school uniform etc)
I'd give £500k to the local homeless charity
£500k to the local addiction outreach programme
And £500k to the local charity that arranges warm food for the homeless and in poverty in our area.
£500k to the local food bank.

Then I'd keep £6million for myself and my husband. We would stay in the UK until DD finishes school then move to Florida so I could spend as much time at Disney as I'd like!

I'd want to set DD up with £4million to start her life and hopefully never see a money problem as an adult.

After all that, I'd like to organise some projects to work on affordable housing.

I’d wait a few weeks then tell people I had won a much smaller (but significant) sum, more like the standard UK lottery amount.

I’d help everyone out, pay off mortgages etc, but then live a great but not ridiculous lifestyle without everyone expecting me to give them millions (I’d use the excess millions to help smaller charities etc).

I’d quit my job (solicitor) and do something useful - maybe set up a service providing low cost/free legal advice to those denied legal aid by Tory cuts, subsidised by my millions meaning I didn’t need to earn.

We took the dog out for a walk yesterday, we have the cars and the houses sorted. 😂

I just entered, then had a little moment about what if i actually won.

It is just too much money. I would buy a big beautiful house in my dream location (not a mansion, maybe a 5 bed with large garden and a small paddock), pay off my siblings' mortgages, keep a little pot to one side for DD and treats, then give the rest away.

With that amount I would probably start my own charity to ensure it wasnt wasted by the likes of Oxfam, or split it between very small organisations with worthy causes.

I would keep working because otherwise my MH would go down the shitter although I have always wanted to open my own tea shop or florist.

Start a charitable foundation
Make gifts to loved ones for their future financial security
Build an eco house and get an electric car
See private specialist doctors
Visit relatives overseas
Travel the world inviting different friends to join me on different legs of the trip
Come home and buy some pets

I’ve been thinking about this all afternoon. More frivolous things I would like after houses, cars and holidays had been taken care of would be -

A chef
Someone to put fresh bedding on my bed every day
Laser eye surgery
A boob job

DH has just said he’d buy a yacht and just keep it on the marina. I can see we’re going to have issues 😂 practically started arguing about him wasting our fortune and him saying I was tight fisted ... until we remembered that we haven’t actually won the lottery so the argument is unnecessary 😂

I wonder what the divorce rate is amongst lottery winners 😳

Oh I’d also hire my own private sports massager for twice weekly massages.

Id stay where I am. I love it. Id build a garage, tarmac the drive, new-ish car, get a landscape gardener in, new kitchen, bathroom, flooring throughout. Just enjoy life.

And not tell a bloody soul

Something like this: www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-82259647.html
It's more than big enough.
And employ a gardener and a cleaner.

I wouldn't tell anyone either ( well .. family would have to know)
The neighbours might ask why we're moving , but just have to tell them a little white lie I suppose! I don't have many people I'd keep in touch with around here, although they are all ok!
I think the envy would be the hard thing to deal with as it's bound to cause problems having so much money! Plus how much is enough to give away to people?
It is a mind blowing amount of money.

OP if you work for the lottery, well done. I've just bought a ticket