What would you do if you were given £50k?

[MsGiGi]

I’ve been daydreaming about winning the lottery and wondered what you would do with £50k? It obviously isn’t enough to retire on, so what would you do with it?

I think I would deposit a chunk into my S&S ISA, put some into my SIPP. Then, I’d top up my Emergency Fund and book some once in a lifetime trips.

Have an Heated Indoor Swimming Pool built with water jets and a jacuzzi built just for me and nobody else.

Pay off debt and put rest to house deposit

Donate to people in the north as they need it more than me

Pay off my credit card, put 20k in savings and then squander the rest entering marathons in capital cities around the world.

DH and I are retiring next year at 55. It would go in the savings pot for that and then get spent, probably on holidays.

Hopefully it would come after my divorce is finalised.

Take the dc on a holiday abroad, sonewhere warm that they'd love.

Do some work to the house.

Save the rest for DC uni fund.

I would spend it on a bespoke kitchen with a new range cooker, dishwasher and fridge freezer. Plus underfloor heating.

Probably pass the £50k to my kids somehow. Every year my dad gives me about £14k and I don't know how to spend that, either.

Premium bonds.

Olive oil? That’s sad

Pay someone to come and pack the house up for us, then get them to redecorate and make the house saleable. Put what’s left towards deposit / mortgage on new house in a nicer street in the same area.

OR

blow the whole lot on a trip to Australia or Japan for me, my 2 best friends, and husbands and kids.

New pair of PJs, a course of weekly massages , a brilliant holiday to Asia and the rest in savings / pension.

Everyone is much more sensible than me.

I'd spend £10K getting my boobs done (have always hated them). Another £10-15K on the snazzy new kitchen from my Pinterest board. £5K on a lovely villa for next summer for me, DH and DD. With a private pool. Then I'll be sensible with the other half and invest it for DDs future house deposit or similar!

I would take £750 a month, every month, and reduce the hours I work. It would just about see me through to getting my state pension.

10k to my son's house deposit fund

10 k for a trip to Zimbabwe so he can meet birth family

Carry on working for 18 months, 2 years max, then split the rest as income over 2 - 3 years until I can take the rest of my pension

Buy a musical instrument for each of my children ( they play expensive ones) and donate to some of the trusts who have enabled them to have lovely instruments on loan or helped us buy. Then other children can benefit from the kindness we've had. Visit a friend on the other side of the world. Get my parents a gardener/ cleaner. Buy some nice leather boots.

We are moving next year, so it would go towards that and giving us a bigger deposit for a better loan to value ratio. Probably keep 5k back for a holiday.

Sort out the bits that need fixing in my flat to be able to sell it. And then put it towards a new place. And maybe have fun with some to take my kids to Disneyland Paris.

Add it to my "move to a bungalow" fund. It might be enough to enable me to stay in the town where I currently live, where bungalows are few and far between and consequently expensive compared to other towns in the area.

That's given me the idea to buy a really good cello then spend the rest on instruments I'd have loved to learn like a bassoon, cor anglais and baritone saxophone.

Buy @Worriedalltheday a sense of humour. #priceless

Book a holiday to Canada and visit Anne of Green Gables on Prince Edward Island.
Put the balance into higher interest account and use to enhance our lives.

Try find a way to give it to pay it off my sisters mortgage without her knowing. She's & her DH are hardworking, degree educated key workers in full time jobs, they just are not fucking paid enough.

I'm fortunate enough not to 'need' it, so I'd give 15k to each of my three adult sons, then spend the remaining 5k on a fabulous holiday for me and DH.

Have a good cry, pay off CC and use the rest for a deposit + moving into the new house.