What would you do with 35 million?!!

[LucyJones]

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Save the post office?

TBH, I wouldn't know if it made me happier and I'll never find out.

I don't play EuroMillions.

Thanks MOM, will check for that when I get home

maybe just a large order of ice-cream?

and a pizza ;)

PMSl

Make sure family are set-up for life, buy a lovely house for us....

Would also want to do some good too..

The woman who won is separated from her husband - I wonder if she'll give him any of her winnnings?

set up trust funds for dc
organise payment of education fees for them.
divorce dh
sort oout sibilngs finances.
find some charities i am happy to spend on.
spend a fortune on lawyers fighting off dh and his family.
do volunteer work.
spend money on more charities.

Making your marriage work is worth more than any amount of money in the world.

rt, my marriage died a long time ago. it wont end legally because i am too much of a wimp at facing the world without a roof over my head. and i refuse to commit adultery just to get at him.
so yes, a lottery win would be a way out of financial dependance on him

Give at least half of it away. Then buy an E-type Jag, 1960s vintage. I've wanted one since I was a kid. Bit too old now, though. So maybe big house in the country, outdoor swimming-pool, hunky blokes stripped to the waist, feeding me grapes and fanning me as I sunbathe...

Help purchase the Cuillins for the John Muir Trust to make into a park for everyone to enjoy.

Help British farmers and food producers.

Dream on, me.

I would be passing on substantial sums to family and certain friends, to help make their futures more secure and that of their children.

Also would be making donations to charieies that were important to me and DH.

And then whatever was left would be invested in such a way as to ensure my family's future was secure and financially worry free.

"Help purchase the Cuillins for the John Muir Trust to make into a park for everyone to enjoy."

You are a treasure expat - this along with all your other suggestions on the thread make me think you should be Chancellor of the Exchequer at least

I would keep £2-3m for family and friends and give the rest away. Probably to fund scholarships for people from low income families to go into further or higher education and stay debt free.

Buy a new house with a big back garden in a nice area.

A new car
pay off mortgage for all my friends and family.
give money to farmers and any other deserving causes I notice.
Randomly donate to people and charities.
Buy a dog, goat and donkey!

Bulldoze Tescos.

I want a little bit of land in Scotland, a house, some chickens, a pig, a goat, a darkroom, a nice digital slr, a new bike for dh, a typewriter and a unicycle.

Then I'd help out friends, families and various charities. MN would definitely get some of it as it has been such a lifesaver, maybe a pot for future lawsuits and there are a few people on here that would suddenly find themselves much better off.

And singing lessons. And a potters wheel.

That'll do me I think.

It would drive me NUTS to not work. Waiting to start my PGCE at the moment and finished my nanny job last Friday; do loads during the day but still really bored! I don't think I could spend that much money. I'd buy a bigger house, make sure my family were ok, set up trust funds for my yet unborn children, start a buy-to-let empire for my pension, buy property in france, put loads in savings, and give the rest away. To be honest, if you kept 10% of it, you'd be able to live your dreams off the flippin' interest!

bet the ex-hubby is GUTTED!

good for her sounds like she is decent and would do some good with it.

we are what we do...

My mum said she'd set up some sort of trust to pay for prescriptions for Alzheimer sufferers who can't get the drugs they need to suspend/control their condition .

I'd have to think about it but I'd be reluctant to give donations to HE institutions unless it was really hedged about with restrictions what it could be spent on (my first choice would be financially helping students) - my first uni had a million pounds bequeathed to it which they spent on a new centre for the staff . I wonder how the person would have rather the money was spent?

i would concentrate on the charities/issues i was passionate about

a) mother and child health/welfare
b) targeted enviromental projects
c) books, libraries and free galleries/institutions

i know these are mainly gov areas, but mother and child rescue centres/rape victims/childline are the type of things i would target my money at.

feminsim all the way!

I think I'd like to go everywhere in this country first. I'm lucky enough to have been abroad for holidays since I was a child, so I haven't seen much of this country. I'd do the whole touristy thing round London too. I've lived here for 40 years and there's loads I haven't been to. I'd just like the oppotunity to say 'Yes, I'd love to' instead of, 'well if we don't have this, then we could do that!' If I won that much, I would also make sure that I made sizable donations to local things, not necessarily charitiable things, but businesses that I think deserve help.

die of shock & haunt my awful sister-in-law

on the subject of charitable donations...I once went to a gallery in Cornwall (Truro maybe) where a womans bequest, intended to go towards childrens education had been spent by the council concerned on some (fairly mundane) paintings - bet she would have been thrilled, but I'm sure it taught the children something useful.

I would go on a very long and expensive holiday and have a very long think, after giving an amount to some worthy causes and charities to avoid the guilt!

I would find a nice big well decorated house with lots of room for ds and i to run around.

Hire a gardener to said house

Get chicken even though i dont eat eggs.

Get ds financailly secure for the rest of his life.

Buy x partner a nice house to live in.

Travel with my son and take my family and friends on a really big all inclusive holiday and hire the whole resort.

Have a child.