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.

Quit my job.
Buy a decent sized house in a nice area, nothing too grand, just classic and with a garden big enough for the dog to run around in.
Buy a flat in London.
And a holiday home by the sea.
Sort out friends and family.
Get another dog...or two.
I would still predominantly live in the same area and have my girls stay at the same schools.
I would help their schools out as much as possible and be a silent benefactor of parents who don't have enough money to buy uniforms/enough food etc.
I would donate large amounts of food/goods to food banks.
I would like to set up a refuge for abused women and children and help them get back on their feet. And help out with legal costs as too many abusers continue to abuse their ex spouses through the court system.

Really could do so much good with that money.

But I will be buying a ticket at midnight tonight when I get paid 🤣 only got £1.10 to my name right now.

Nobody in reality actually needs £100 million to live comfortably!

Agreed. If I won it, I'd give most of it away to (what I consider) worthwhile causes.

Bugger all this do-gooder bollocks .

I would retire and buy myself a massive collection of environmentally unfriendly toys. Supercars, a yacht, an aircraft, a helicopter, a jet ski etc etc. Fun time!

I'd do it on the sly as well. I would say I"d been headhunted to consult on the issue of {boring stuff that I do for a modest wage} and then I'd move to a nicer house, but not anything that would make people doubt my story. I love the idea of paying all the colleagues' mortgages as well!

I think I would go back to my old job and offer them all 50k to walk out the door and never return. I'd love to see that beeeeeee AD person figure it all out.

I'd buy a new house that isnt broken like mine is now
Give a few friends a million
Build a screen printing studio, and give up my cleaning jobs
Give to animal rescue charities and PETA

I’m in London (as are all my family and friends) so I could easily spend a massive chunk of that by buying my immediate family and close friends nice London houses so they’d never have to worry about a mortgage.

I’d give a chunk to my work colleagues - I work for a small organisation and would treat them all to either a cash gift or something like holiday vouchers (maybe not the best idea in the current situation though).

I’d support a few charities that I already have some involvement in and are quite small so would massively benefit.

I’d take time off and travel and then try and set up some sort of business but with a social/environment slant - something that would give me work to do but others would benefit from. Not sure what though!

I'd get my kitchen and bathrooms done and a log burner. New bike. Pay off some family mortgages and buy new houses if required. And then the fun stuff.....
Set up at least two family members with farms, pay for a couple of major developments at work (NHS), I'll give them the money on condition of anonymity but with a very specific brief for what is to be done and when by. Buy some land in a particular holiday location and build affordable housing for the locals as well as a dream holiday pad for us :)

None of us play, but I had a vivid dream that I shared with my teaching colleagues and we all agreed straight after that we would pay each other’s mortgages off. I also told the head about it and said that I gave the school a large sum and he said something about waving goodbye as I flew over on my way somewhere sunny and swore at me (friendly swears, so that was fine). I’d sort out money for a range of family - there’s a lot; buy a nice house and a convertible beetle - unless someone tells me they’re rubbish. I’d also give a lot to charity and buy a house in or near Tavira in Portugal. Kids would have no debts; bil would have a fund to pay for regular transatlantic travel...is that it all spent. I would be a free tutor for disadvantaged kids,. That would keep me sane.

I would actually really like a new hoover. That’d do.

I'd set aside a lump sum to buy a larger house than our current one, and then I'd have a giddy meeting with my fund manager.
I'd take quarterly drawings of roughly 2/3 of the after tax income, and pretend the capital didn't exist.
I'm one of those boring people who wouldn't go broke in three years

Give up work then set up an organisation that helped individuals that were in need, they'd have to prove they need the money for whatever. I'd also give to and support lots of local charities.
Homelessness is a big one for me, I can't stand to see people on the streets!

I've travelled quite a lot and always found it sickening the amount of stray dogs in Asia. I always said if I won the lottery I'd open some sort of shelter, not sure how easy that would be and you can't help every animal, but I'd like to try with my 100 million.

I'd spend winter abroad in my own villa and summer in the uk in my mansion and holiday in my luxurious caravan.

I think I’d give 2 million to each set of parents, siblings and best friends. 1 million to each niece and nephew and bffs children.

10 million into some kind of trust fund for each Dc.

Pay some debts off for some friends.

Pay off debts, buy a house and a car each for DH and I.

I work for the NHS and I’m certain I would continue to work, but would donate a million or two to my department for much needed equipment and training.

Some to charity. A shopping spree And a lovely once in a lifetime holiday.

Give plenty to our parents and siblings in whichever way the tax man says we can!
Buy a house with land.
My husband would have a new Defender with everything on it - plus a few other cars!
House in the south of France, learn to sail.
I would train as a private chef, husband would work as a tutor for underprivileged kids and anything we earn would be given to charities that help said kids.
Plus we would see the world at our leisure, get super fit with a PT and have a debenture at Wimbledon as well as going to every other big event we fancy.
And a personal masseuse, make up artist and hairdresser would be nice!!

• goodness how could I forget!

Op talking about being a silent beneficiary in schools.

I would get a team of sen experts and lobby the gov to demand proper SEN spotting young in dc and lobby for a proper pick up program to help assess the dc and access support early.
. I'd pay for the few experts I know to roll out their helpful hints to support dc.. I'd pay for every school to have one or two basic visual learning aids and I'd campaign for each school to have SENCO but only one qualified to a specific level. Non of this extra cash with no actual knowledge or role!!

Hopefully this would help to pick up dc not massively behind but enough to affect them.
I'd also lobby to increase flexibility in schools to include flashcard in teaching reading and remind schools that not every child will get phonics.

I'd then set up schools with emphasis on maths but the basics and more loan, investment type stuff... And the arts.... Dancing, moving..

• I'd also campaign to bring more grammars back and lots more variety of education.

I would send the wonderful Takis a lovely sum of money for.all the amazing work he does with rescuing Crete's abused and abandoned dogs. I love this man!!!

To the people saying big lottery winners and up poor and miserable, there are groups specifically for lottery winners to talk about how to handle the money, feelings around it etc. Theres great support as it's an absolutely wonderful but also daunting/stress inducing scenario to find yourself in

I would probably run away 🤣

I would buy my partner a nice house down the road from my amazing new house which I would buy, give him a lump sum of money and finally get a separation without feeling guilty. Buying my freedom would be my best purchase.

I’d buy the house I’ve adored for years. It’s in the next village along from us and I’ve been gazing at it every time I drive past. It was for sale about18m ago. Unusually the interior was perfect for our family too. Like I had designed it for us. Having looked at the listing so often, a year after it was removed I could still draw you a floor plan complete with furniture locations! It’s not for sale but I’d offer the owners a huge disproportionate sum for it £1m over what they paid.

@lookatallthosechickens

All of this sounds lovely but the majority of big lottery winners are broke, addicted, miserable, and estranged from friends and family within a couple of years. No thanks.

But isn't this just the ones that go public - and the fact that they go public shows that they are probably a bit unstable anyway?

I’d buy a disused mill renovate it into artists studios and let it to a whole host of amazing people at life time guaranteed low rent. It would be amazing, I’d not tell a soul it was me and I’d just have one if the studios and we’d all have a brilliant time

Move to New Zealand. Always loved it there 😊

Book a set of counselling sessions for dh and I to diffuse things when his family aren’t happy with however much we give them...

All of this sounds lovely but the majority of big lottery winners are broke, addicted, miserable, and estranged from friends and family within a couple of years. No thanks.

I think the real trick is to not go crazy and buy a mansion, you need to stay in the area where your friends or family are. By all means, upgrade your house, but not outside of your community otherwise you’re just rich and lonely and buying shit until the money runs out or you get divorced.

I’ve thought about this a lot and would set up a business that invests the money to keep it coming in and recruit all my friends to work at finding charities that need/deserve money. They would check them out to make sure it was all above board. They could work part time, have lots of benefits including a housekeeper to help with keeping the house tidy and a meal cooked. With the aim that they could still challenge themselves to do something good in life but without being stressed.
Family-i’d pay off mortgages and try and get housekeepers. Enough to make life comfortable and they could choose a job they enjoyed.

Also, is playing with puppies a job? I’d definitely do that, I’d need something to make me get out of bed in the morning.