What would you do with a euromillions mega win?

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

I thought that ! 😂

Superyacht, houses for my kids and a charitable foundation to ease suffering worldwide

A holiday. Luxury holiday flying out first thing with DH, DCs, my folks and brother.

While there I'd plan what to do with my millions

I'd probably blow a load on Etsy

After the usual house buying/mortgage paying off I would fund research into why there is such a huge rise in autism.

New equipment for our sports team

I'm praying you win.

Hand my notice in at work. In fact, I wouldn't work my notice, just never work again.

Pay off any mortgages or debt in my family.

Buy my DH whatever off-road vehicle he chooses.

I love where I live and we're already mortgage free so I wouldn't buy a new house. Although we would have our outbuildings renovated, and buy a beautiful greenhouse.

I'd wait and my adult children would be told that I'd won a lot less, probably around £5 million so we'd have around a million each. We can get good detached housing in the catchment of good schools for around £400k. Although I'd fund my DD to have a nanny to give me time off to travel. There's lots of local charities that I'd support. I'd personally get involved in women's/girls charities across Africa, but include boys, so they can get an education rather than have to work. Also fund equipment for those interested in things like photography. I have friends and relatives who live and are from various places so could make that work. I'd travel and stay in luxury, but I wouldn't be bothered with top designer/mansion etc, so could probably live on £70k a year.

It’s our 25th wedding anniversary next year. We are not really celebration people but we had a brilliant party after we got married. I would love to celebrate with all those people again ( although a fair few are no longer with us). We’ve not had the best few years recently and would love to celebrate just still being here. Also DS was 18 last year and because he was one of the oldest in his year at school it was not practical to organise a big party ( our house is no where near big enough). So it would be lovely to throw the mother of all parties for him and his friends.
I’m already retired. I probably would carry on working a day a week, doing nothing is pretty boring.
We really don’t need the money for the lifestyle we enjoy but would be able to pay off mortgage, update the car all the usual stuff.
The rest, well, it would be nice to fund a few scholarships to DS’s old school. Sponsor some of the sports and the sports teams outside of school that have been so good for him. They have all struggled as a result of the pandemic.
I’d like to build my DSis a bungalow because she is in the early stages of a degenerative disease and it will make her and her DHs life easier as time goes by.

I don’t think I would tell anyone, I’d rather my DS doesn’t find out. I have a decent income so could probably get away with a few luxuries without raising any eyebrows.
Most of it I would try and support charities that have some significance.

Oh , and a private box at Cheltenham Festival to rub a few noses. DH is a massive National Hunt follower but after a recent stroke has lost enthusiasm. Might even stretch to a helicopter taxi from home.

Spread the word 😂

That's so much money! I think I might start a charitable trust, though I don't know yet what cause I would champion - there are so many worthy causes. I'd need a lot of help and advice as to how to do it. I know someone who has set up their own trust several years ago, so I'd probably get in touch with them and arrange a meeting in the first instance.

In addition, I would also want to make provision for my children and grandchildren, to ensure that my children have decent pensions when they retire and that my grandchildren will be able to afford to buy somewhere to live when that time comes.

I've often harboured a wish to be "the secret millionaire" who gives away large sums of money to people who are down on their luck and struggling to make ends meet. I would want to meet the person in some capacity, but the donation would have to be anonymous.

Ooh mortgage, hire my own personal driver and cook, private immunotherapy cancer treatment for my Dad, pay off siblings mortgages, book a holiday, I could think of lots more

I don’t think I would tell anyone, I’d rather my DS doesn’t find out

Why on earth not? Unless he's some kind of addict or criminal? I can't imagine not telling and sharing with my adult DC our good fortune. And it would be ours as there's no way I'd be hiding it from them or giving them teeny tiny percentages of it. Life is short. If you have the means to make it fun and not full of drudgery why wouldn't you?

Pay for my cancer surgery that keeps getting postponed. @Angrymum22 National Hunt - really? In this day and age?

Thanks, OP. I've bought a ticket! 😂

Ummm, how do I buy a ticket? Go to a corner shop and ask for. Euromillions ticket? How much are they? I have never bought one. Thank you!

Because he’s just about to start uni next year and he needs to have the ability to earn & manage money before he is given a huge chunk or access to it.
I have a few friends with children who know that they will be millionaires without having to lift a finger. It hasn’t really gone well for them. DS’s best friend has a trust fund he knows nothing about. As a result he has never considered himself better than anyone else. I would like my son to be “normal” like he is now.

pay off all my friends mortgages or buy them flats if they rent.

book a first class round the world plane ticket.

The one thing I can guarantee is that I wouldn't tell anybody.

Retirement and a full time housekeeper (who will obviously have a house in the grounds...)

After doing a little happy dance I would:

• call a lawyer and an accountant
• give 1 million to each family unit within my close circle of family and friends
• pay off our mortgage
• finishing renovating my home
• buy a holiday cottage by the Northumberland coast
• but a two bedroom flat in SW1 in London (Westminster/Victoria)
• give substantial donations to five
  charities I already support
• take my close family away on holiday next summer
• take out closest friends away this summer
• go on holiday to the States and Norway and Italy
• go back home and keep very quiet and tell no one.

I don't think there is a huge rise, just better diagnosis and awareness. When I was young, they would have been labelled 'the weird kid' and bullied unfortunately

First thing - buy a house for me & my family, but also buy a house for my exh as we share custody of our boys.

buy a nice car
plan holiday for family & friends
give family & friends some money
set up charity to pay for funerals for babies & children (I lost a child)
pay for headstones where my lo is buried for everyone who doesn’t have one

Put the heating on.