What would you do if you won Euromillions?

[Larowe]

I’d buy a stone cottage in the Cotswolds with a natural swimming pond and a flat in Notting Hill for when i got bored.

I would rescue 3/4 dogs (would be a gradual process as my current dog shepherds away dogs I show affection to)

Buy siblings and parents a house.

And probably foster. My job would come in the form of investing in female education in my grandparents’ home country. And something to do with the elderly here.

I’m a homebody so apart from a first class trip to Sydney I probably wouldn’t live too much a jet setter lifestyle.

There will be some very happy donkey and dog rescue charities if I win.

You can tell I've thought about this quite deeply eventhough I've never bought a ticket in my life.

To throw people off the scent, I'd host a large birthday party and invite friends & family then I'd spend a year travelling.

1. First thing I would do is quit my stressful low paying job.
2. I would buy lots of land and build my own property, albeit that is a long process, I'd start immediately.
3. I'd give both mine and my DH families money or pay their mortgages
4. I'd help a very few close friends to get into the property ladder.
5. I'd buy a luxury camper van and travel Europe with my DH and our doggy.
6. Buy my Lamborghini Urus. Dream car
7. Have a private chef and PT

God wouldn't it be be wonderful???

I would spend another year in my job, which is stress but extremely rewarding knowing I can say fuck it and ride off into the sunset in my Porsche convertible.

Then I'd spend a year just bopping off to everywhere I'd ever wanted to go.

Trust funds for all my amazing Godchildren.

Pay off all my best friends mortgages.

Then I'd knuckle down to, in some way, trying to improve the outcomes of the children in the Trust I've worked for that has given me so many reasons to get up every day in the last five years.

Buy the house next door to me, knock it down and build a lovely house for my younger son and his family.
Buy one of the houses across the river that have moorings.
Buy a nice boat.
Pay for my grandchildren’s private education and extracurricular activities.
Buy a house for my older son and his family.
Engage housekeepers for my home and those of my boys.
Engage a personal trainer.
Obtain weight loss jabs. 😬
Buy a property in Gibraltar and pay my tax there.
Buy new cars for my family.
Buy driving lessons for the DIL who doesn’t drive.
Take my family on a fabulous holiday, annually.
choose charity to support.
Hire a private detective to find my brother.

Give a million to everyone I know and love.

I had a quick think about this and think it could quickly mess up all your friendships and relationships with family!

In theory really nice but in practice I reckon it would create a lot of weirdness!!

Plug the gap in housing for ex military personnel who should be given priority. Affordable rents with an option to buy.

I wouldn’t tell a sole that I’d won though. DH included.

I would buy land and plant a forest. Then a lot of it I would invest in supporting small environmental charities. Do as much rewilding as possible and anything which can help the environment.
There really is nothing material I want.

I'd buy all the abandoned buildings near where I live and bring them back into use.

I hate my car so I'd buy another one.

Lots of charity donations.

I'd bribe politicians. 😜

Make sure my family were sorted with everything they need.

Buy some properties and rent them out at genuine affordable rent

take the kids out of school and go on an epic world schooling adventure

buy some land in the countryside and build our dream home with stables/pool/gym

Quit teaching immediately.
Buy a house - not a huge mansion, just a humble home.
Go on holiday.
Pay for private education for my child.

Buy a house or two. Buy houses for family. Give excessively to my children's state schools and put money in trust to pay for additional school staff forever. Put some in trust for every family member. Go on holiday. Give the rest away.

I wouldn't tell anyone but:

I'd buy houses for my parents and each of my children and set them up with pensions although they would have to work.

Gift 250k to a few close friends.

Have someone to do my hair every single day as it's always been wild.

Do my house up with all the things I've wanted to do but couldn't afford, then sell it and buy something by the sea too.

Set up bursaries/trusts at mine and my children's former schools.

Donate to as many women's charities as I could, both here and abroad.

This may be a bit ranty, on a light hearted post but I'll start by being grabby!
I'd buy the house I have my eye on (but no money for😁), buy a house in France, fill my pension, sort out my DC and family THEN
I'd set up a charity / CIC specifically to teach every child but predominantly kids from the Global Majority/BAME and their mums how to swim. I'm so fucking furious about how many kids we lose in the UK every year to accidental drowning. Mums take kids swimming and if they can't because of privacy/ opportunity/knowledge then we need to set up Women only sessions. I live on the North West Coast, we've lost so many young men and women this year.

I prefer the idea of really helping even one person over giving to charity. I would donate to Cats Protection though, as they are not able to take new patients for hospital at the moment, which is sad

I often think about this and my answer changes all the time. I'm not a huge "things" person but I've always wanted a house with an indoor pool that has a retractable roof. No excuse not to exercise then.

I'd buy DD a nice London house. Nothing fancy, just in a nice area with a tube station nearby.

I'd get myself a camper van or caravan but I'd need to learn to drive first.

I'd put some money in trust for my brother's kids. They can get at it when they are 30.

I'd go on lots of holidays including ones with the camper van.

Then I'd be a philanthropist because £125m is an obscene amount of money and heaven knows plenty of people are much more deserving of help than I am.

So many holidays.
Disney at least annually

holiday houses in Cotswolds and Norfolk
Housekeepers plural 😍
A chef

set up all our loved ones financially

set up and run a charity for girls around critical thinking / decision making, self esteem and health

I'd keep very quiet and move away, with no forwarding address and change my phone number and email address.

Immediately buy a house somewhere, anywhere, so I don't have to live next door to my shitty neighbours one moment longer. Get my mum a nice bungalow, car, and cleaner. Give to mine and DH's siblings and parents. Set up a fund for DS for when he's older. Travel. Expand my business just to see if I could make it with a cash injection. If nothing else it would provide employment to the area and keep me busy.
I'd also donate loads to various local charities, particularly the places that help with injured birds and hedgehogs as they are really struggling.

I would cut everyone off, disappear and create a new identity for myself.

Buy a small cottage with some land for a smallholding and be known as the weird woman who lives on the hill.
I can imagine it now.

Buy a gorgeous dream house that is actually big enough for my family.

Offer to buy PILs a new house (they’d probably say no) or do something else wonderful for them.

Get everything done to my old, dinged-to-shit car so it is as good as new.

Enrol DC in the lovely local private school.

Take some fucking amazing holidays.

Set up an incredible women’s shelter where they are really safe and looked after.

Donate enough money to pay all the wages of the amazing staff who work at the hospice where my Dad stayed before he died, every year. The year he died they were working over Christmas for free because there wasn’t enough money to pay them.

Get a hospitality ticket to Glastonbury every year.

That’s just for starters…

After sorting out immediate family I’d give maybe £10k each to my colleagues on my current team & the one I worked in until 3 years ago (but still have daily contact with). I’d also get give £10k each to the staff at my local small Co-Op as I haven’t forgotten their professional & patient approach during the days of queues, limited stock, threatening customers etc in the chaotic lockdowns.
Then I’d arrange a housekeeper & chef for each home that I’d buy so that I would never have to plan meals or food shop again. I’d help the chef with the actual cooking (i.e. I’d be an annoying spoony fucker).

For goodness sake, how adorable is that?!

What breed of dog do you have?

Move house and not tell anyone my new address