What would you do with a euromillions mega win?

[SoMuchOfEverything]

£201m jackpot on the Euromillions tomorrow. If you won, what is the first thing you're buying?

My favourite game!
I’d pay off our mortgage. Pay off my brother’s mortgage. Buy both my cousins a house. Buy a flat for my kids to move into when they’re old enough to move out.
Give money to various lovely people I’ve met over the years who have been struggling to make ends meet.
I’d give at least 50% to worthwhile causes. Children, animals and environment.
Then I’d buy a massive bottle of champagne and not feel guilty drinking it all in one go!

I'd buy back Cadbury's and start making proper chocolate again.
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Set up an animal sanctuary and also do something for homelessness. I’m thinking kinda combine the two as one charitable trust maybe. So maybe homeless people could have a home at the animal sanctuary and could work there to get work experience and help them integrate back into society. I’m such a dreamer I have it all planned in my head.

Amazing! Were these RAOKs to people you knew or to random strangers? Would love to be able to do something like this.

200 mil and you’d give your kids £100,000????
glad you’re not my mum!!

I'd buy a house for my mum and dad, with suitable rooms for my disabled dad and 24/7 nursing care for him, so that he didn't have to live in a care home any more. I'd also get my mum an account with a chauffeur firm so she should go wherever she liked, instead of being restricted to places she can visit on a bus.

Then I'd buy a new house for me and DP, somewhere in the country with no neighbours and a bit of land, and I'd give some money to other family and friends.

I'd also do another degree, get a dog, learn to ride and buy a pony.

I'd never stop travelling!

I love reading about what people want to do and love to fantasise occasionally when I'm walking the dog on my own round the posh part of my town. But I am happy in our little home.

Pay of the mortgage
Speak to our broker who is also a financial adviser- the great majority would go into savings
Pay off our siblings mortgage (or give them a lump sum)
Pay to put my DD into private school
Pay to upgrade my local scout hut as we need new loos, kitchen, sound proof and a fantasy project if we ever got the money- making a calm room. For young people who struggle during sessions having a lovely calm area with some soft play items.
We would eventually buy another home but we wouldn't leave the village we live in as we love it but would like a little more space than our small mid terrace and to have a annex for my mum.
Set up a charity to combine mine and my husband's passions.

I'd go to the nearest tractor dealership and buy a shiny brand new tractor there and then and drive it home 😂 would make my life so much easier!!

Yes! I think I too would sign up to classes of whatever took my fancy - a new course or skill every year 😁

Yes, good idea re: learning!

I’d do a degree in History of Art, Egyptology & Mythology.

Pay off the kids’ mortgages and give each of them a wedge of cash but not enough to stop work. Buy a London flat and a cottage in the Dales. Then think very hard about how the rest could do the most good in society generally.

A big, expensive and totally impractical car.

Pay off our mortgage obv
Probably give each of our siblings like £10m
Pay off my dad's mortgage and put aside an account for him where he can link the credit card with a few million in.
Go to Madagascar
sign my daughter up to go to a private school in future.
Probably buy a house
give about 100m to charity.
invest the rest and live off the interest (if I am left with £50m that's about £2m a year to live off).

I'd do a weekly shop and heat my home 24/7 🤣

Fund court cases. Ben Cooper KC on retainer.

House.

Car for DP, plus refresher driving lessons (and advanced ones whilst we're in the mood).

Somebody to sort out the furnishings and decoration - not an interior designer, more of a project manager.

Cleaner. Gardener/Driver for my benefit.

Weekly hydrotherapy and sports therapy. Membership of a nice gym.

Nails. Hair. Teeth. Clothes and shoes made to measure.

Couple of dogs with on tap care/walking if there's any reason I can't do it.

DD would get somewhere to live and her PhD funded if she wanted to take the money (not guaranteed).

DP would want to get both his parents somewhere to live and pay for any care they needed.

Then I'd just get on with being obscenely wealthy.

I think the most common item has been a washing machine. However, our one functions fine so would have to go for a new dryer…

I have single glazed windows and ancient storage heaters which are really expensive to run so I’d put a wedge on my electric meter and enjoy being warm all the way down into my bones. Which is something I haven’t felt in years.

Buy a nice house (or 2) book a holiday.

Then decide what I want to do with my life.

Buy a villa in Sardinia and spend as much time as possible there.

Worth remembering a ridiculous amount of people that win end up wasting it all within a decade. Paying off mortgage is a definite and a nice holiday, but then invest in wealth management advice and set up a charitable foundation. Would love to be able to give it all away in my life time but slowly that I've had enough interest to live off, but not sure if the maths works on that!

A five or six bedroom house with a little land outright. That security of always having a home for me and the family is unrivalled.

I mean the first thing I would buy is a huge Indian takeaway and several bottles of champagne. I could do that before it cleared, exotic holidays and houses would be out until I had the money 🤣

I would buy a character property with land and stables, then organise a housekeeper and a gardener. We are very much tied to this area as with have DSCs 50/50 with their mum, so I would see if I could persuade her to move somewhere nicer with the offer of a new house 😉 I’d buy a house for my parents and my sibling, and for DPs family too.

I’d quit my job (or at least drop down to very part time) and continue to pursue my interests and hobbies. I’d also do a lot of travelling, but as sustainably as possible which would be pricey.

Then I’d enrol DSCs in independent school (if they wanted to go), and put enough aside for all tuition fees etc for them. Then several million each in a trust fund for all of them.

I would also find ways to donate the vast majority of it though. Absolutely nobody needs £200m, and it could do so much good.

It’s a crazy amount isn’t it?!
You could change lots of peoples lives (for the better) with that amount.

I’d buy all my family members who don’t own a house , a house. The ones who do, I’d pay their mortgage off. Abit of money in the bank for nieces & nephews for when they’re older.
A holiday home and camper van for my folks.
Our kids would get a good amount for when they’re older. A family holiday, a new car.
We’d buy a holiday home, one in Crete, maybe Majorca. Maybe an apartment in London?

Invest in a few properties to let out to low income families, so they have a secure lifetime tenancy and low rent.

Dh & I would love to open up a really good coffee shop, so maybe I’d do that.

Give some to children’s charities.