How would you share your lottery winnings? Tell the National Lottery - £300 voucher to be won! NOW CLOSED

[AmeliaMumsnet]

Let’s just spend a few moments dreaming about winning the lottery! How would you spend a big windfall? The National Lottery would love hear who you would share your winnings with if you scooped a life changing Lotto prize?

Here’s what The National Lottery have to say: “Amazingly there are over 4,600 National Lottery millionaires now in the UK winning £1 million or more. And what’s lovely to hear is that 95% of winners say they share their jackpot prize with family, charities and friends; with one third helping their children first.*

Real winner stories:

· Matt – I paid off Mums mortgage aged 28… it was the best feeling in the world
· Trish – I’ve set up investments so that years from now my son will be a millionaire just like me
· Natalie – before the win mum gave us so much help with the children, it was amazing to take her on a dream trip to New York to show her how much we love her and appreciated all her support.

That’s what they did, so now tell us: Who would win if you win? Who tops the list of those you would treat and why? "

…would it be giving your DH the ‘boys toy’ he has always wanted?

…or perhaps rewarding Mum & Dad for all their help and support over the years?

…how about an all-expenses paid girly holiday in the sun?

…or is there an individual or community project you’d love to support and help make their dream a reality?

…or how about you invest in a holiday house that everybody can enjoy for years to come?

Everyone who posts on this thread telling The National Lottery about who they would share their Lotto winnings and how will be entered into a prize draw to win a £300 voucher of their choice (from a list).

Thanks and good luck,

MNHQ

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*Source: Camelot UK Lotteries

Oh happy sigh... I've spent many many hours dreaming about this...

Aside from the boring stuff like paying off the mortgage/ making sure family etc were financially comfortable..

I'd take sky diving lessons to become a professional skydiver and travel the world (on private jets obvs!) to jump over the most beautiful areas on earth

I would help most of my family. Pay off their mortgage etc. Buy my BIL a house. I would set up accounts for my dsd and niece and 3 nephews. I would give a few friends enough to buy a house with a bit left over.

For us I would buy a holiday home, not sure where yet, I would give up work but still do something. I would take a big chunk of money out if the bank and just give some money to random strangers to make their day - so go to the supermarket and pay for someone's shopping or just hand it out.

I would give my work some money to do something nice for all my colleagues I would be leaving behind, to boost morale but not let it be known it is from me.

I would holiday to lots of places I have never been for decent amounts of time and travel first class everywhere.

I've thought about this a lot!

I'd love to help out my family with houses for all of us and trust funds for the children. I'd like to treat us all to a big family holiday with my siblings, parents and their children, and a nice holiday villa that we could go back to every year. I'd help out with education/setting up businesses.

I'd love to help my parents out as they've never been well off, they'd enjoy a long cruise I think! I'd donate to a lot of charities, but particularly autism charities as DD is autistic.

I'd buy a big house with separate living quarters so that our elderly parents could live comfortably with us.

I'd also donate loads to my local cat rescue because I bloody love cats

I've often thought about this ... and as well as helping out family, I would also remember all the people who have done me a good turn over the years, and make them a nice surprise cash gift. I've had some ups and downs in life, and the kindness and emotional and practical support of some special individuals has helped me through, and I've never forgotten it.

Also both my neighbours either side are single mums and both have struggled to bring up their kids on not much money. They've done a great job and the children are young adults now and all doing well. But I know how hard it's been and I would love to give them both some money to spend on themselves - a wonderful holiday or a new car, or just having the money to spend on something they both really want but never thought they would be able to afford.

Finally I would make a sizeable donation to the local Dementia charity here, who looked after my beloved mum in the last year and a half of her life. The care she had was wonderful.

Ah if only we didn't keep buying the wrong numbers!
With a smaller windfall of £250k, we'd pay off our mortgage, put a few grand in trust for each of our three nephews, pay a nutritionist and personal trainer to get the weight off at last and we'd try some IVF as we can't afford it now.

With a megabucks win, pay off our mortgage, buy both sets of parents a house, pay off my brother's mortgage and buy my DH's three adult brothers a house each. Then put a similar sum in trust for his 15yo brother. Then trusts for the three nephews.

Only then would it be the round the world trip for us! And quit my job, obviously....! I'd love to retrain to be a nurse, so I could afford to do that.

And if I really had enough to be massively spoiled, I'd love to set up student bursaries at my old university or pay off a few random students loans etc.

It all depends on how much I win!

£1million I would buy a bigger house, and use the interest to pay my new mortgage. I wouldn't have much free money to spend, so I would pay off my MILs small mortgage, and pay for a big family holiday. With them all in a separate villa to me though!

Lots of millions I would give lots to children's charities and Diabetes charities. And fly first class on lots of holidays, whilst the outlaws travel in Premium economy.

I'd give some to the dog rescue I foster with so they don't need to worry about vet bills anymore. I'd also pay for a local bike circuit/track and buy adaptive bikes so I can run sessions for children and adults with disabilities and let local kids cycle safely.

Ok, so if we're thinking one of the astronomical Euromillions jackpots:

• 10% to charity, plus buy a specialised piece of equipment a charity I support is trying to fundraise for;

• pay for my mum to have her house decorated and furnished exactly the way she would like it. She and my dad are happily married and own their lovely home outright but he isn't very interested in aesthetics, whereas my mum is.

• buy my dad a small plane of his choice, private pilot's licence and pay for hangar/fuel/insurance etc. fees and membership at some interesting places so he could fly off and have a good nose around all the hangars (aeroplane spotter);

• give my parents enough money so that they could retire if they chose to do so and send them off on a lovely holiday;

• give my brother and soon-to-be SIL enough money to buy a house and pay for the wedding of their choice;

• set up ethical investment funds to secure my DCs' futures;

• buy a house on the same road as my DCs' schools so that they could walk there safely when they're older;

• send my lovely boyfriend off with great tickets, accommodation etc. to all the Formula 1 races close enough to get to over the weekend for a season with a friend;

• give my best friend enough money to buy a house she's been saving a deposit for;

• as I'd be moving house anyway, do up my current house to a very high standard and then give it mortgage-free to my super-nice next-door neighbours;

• buy a house in the location they're looking for, do it up well and install solar/thermal energy to keep running costs low and give it anonymously to a family I know who are really struggling (I may have picked out the exact house already It overlooks a gorgeous playground so would be perfect for their boys).

Not that I have thought about this at all!

I would buy a house then donate most of the money to two charities: medical detection dogs and DogAID as they are chronically underfunded and provide a literal life saving service.

This is my favourite day dream!

Once I'd bought a house for myself and DH and our DS, I would pay off my parent's mortgage so mum can stop working. Then I'd give my younger brother a big deposit for a house.

Then I'd book a massive holiday for all of us to Disney World!

I'd pay off my mortgage then get the house decorated and do all those jobs I keep putting off. We'd go on a family holiday - possibly Disneyland.

I'd book a big holiday for my parents, pay off my sister's mortgage and I'd also put money in trust for my nieces.

I'd donate to some charities - would depend how much I won, how many I'd be able to donate to.

This is my anti-insomnia strategy. So I have it all planned, bar the actually buying a ticket part.

The Post Win Plan

1- Establish the big fat lie that I have been contracted to produce EFL materials for a huge Asia chain of publishers/online school thing that operates as a franchise. Lay out that I get a set (large) amount each month. Plus bonuses when the materials attract new franchises.

2- Slowly let family get used to higher standard of living. Bit by bit. Up to about 4 grand a month tops.

3- Use ".accrued bonus" to buy big ticket items.

4- Set up "accrued bonus" fund so my sister can take care of my estranged mother.

5- Buy small property portfolio in the U.K. Pay BIL a stocking salary to run it. Let exclusively to parents and kids who have been unceremoniously crapped on by departing other parent who wants to roll in fresh new grass. Sneakily provide "some vague charity thing I set up anonymously" (still working out the kinks on that one) for their legal help and feed their rent back to them as kids' needs require. Including therapy. BTDT with an abandoning father. Softening the blow and help picking up the pieces would be like retrospectively parenting the ghost of the girl Inused to be. Just as long as I meet none of them. Cos I fall to bits and runin the whole edifice of carefully constructed lies about how it is all being down.

So ta tah!

My family not ruined, or changed by the weird shit that happens when huge sums of money fuck up the dynamic. Nobody knows I've won it, so all the horrible stuff that goes with that doesn't happen. Nobody in the family (i.e. DS) loses their purpose cos there is no belief it will last forever (will labour that point). Help family without contact needed in some cases, and without it being insulting handouts in the other. Help the children I used to be.

Oh yeah... and build a small passive house cos with "accrued bonus" But nothing flash cos it'll ruin the facade of "EFL suddenly got well paid". Ditto car. Normal new car.

Money should last that way and can be set up as an ongoing managed fund thingie for DS after I've gone. But not so much that he doesn't know what to do with himself cos he doesn't actually have to do anything.

It would be shared with my parents without a shadow of a doubt. They have put myself, my siblings and our children first for so long, I wish every day that I could repay them. I would buy them a lovely house and pay for a dream extended family holiday. I would probably go as far as to say I would spend more of it on them than my own family.

They unfortunately had to take out an interest only mortgage in their 50s and have no savings as a result of continuing to help us. They made sure their grandchildren were fully equipped and clothed, and they now have 9 so it's no easy feat. I know if they could've helped us out with deposits they would have. They have however offered space in their home for all of their children to move back in and save. They are so selfless and family orientated, hopefully one day we can repay their kindness.

1. Buy our house
2. Buy a house for DM
3. With the left overs buy as many properties to rent out to people on benefits. Yes, I'm aware of the benefit cap so will charge a lot less.

My parents have done so much for me and my family, they have looked after my 2 young sons while I have been really ill for the last few months, they really struggle with money so I would pay off their mortgage and buy them a lovely shiney new camper van as they have always wanted one. I would buy mine and dh dream house and a second house for my in laws to live in (rent free etc). My sons are desperate to go to Disneyland so I would take them on an amazing holiday and then set up accounts for them so they are comfortable when they are older. I love the idea of being able to treat my friends/family to a nice meal or trip out without having to worry about being able to afford it or pay for something fory children without thinking I need to cut something else out.

Well if I won, I'd be buying myself a first class ticket to Dignatas on the first available flight .. so I wouldn't really be distributing anything, I have no family that I would want to give anything to, although I'm sure my parents who abandoned me as a baby would come forward to try to claim their share, so maybe I'd stop by a solicitors office on the way to the airport to see if they could sort something out about giving the money to charity in particular those that help out kids leaving care and being left to fend for themselves

I would pay off my mum, dad and sisters mortgage and give some money to help my other sister to buy a house. I would buy my grandparents a new car suitable for their needs. I'd help my auntie buy a house and give my 3 cousins money to get them started going out and living their lives.

If I had any money left after that I would go on holidays...lots of holidays...and make a donation to a charity close to my heart

Depending on how much I'd won I'd make sure all my family members have a nice mortgage free home and I'd build two adjacent houses, one for me DH and the DC and next door for my parents.

Then I would lie to my DC and not tell them how much money it was to make sure that they still work hard at College and/or Uni! 😂😂😂

And then I'd do some research and find a couple of small charities I could really make a difference to.

The first thing I would do is convert a barn into a lovely home for my mum. She lives about 250 miles away, loves where we live but unfortunately it's way too expensive for her. I'd also love for her to be able to retire near to us.

Then I would give a lump sum to my best friend who is a single mum of two and really struggles making ends meet. I like her to be able to decorate her house, something like that.

I think I would hire a gardener or decorator to help me in our house, so I could volunteer regularly at our local cat rescue centre. I would also donate money to East Anglian Air Ambulance.

Then I would use some on completely redesigning the layout of our house, and I'd buy a roof tent for DP's truck so we could go on lots of lovely holidays!

The first thing I'd do is buy our house. We rent, but to our DC it's their home and they want to stay here forever, so I'd buy the house straight away.

Then I'd help out my DB and SIL, they rent too so I'd love to buy them a house. I'd pay off other siblings mortgages as gift family holidays.

If we had a big enough win I'd also like to help out a colleague of mine. She's a little star but doesn't have the best of luck. I'd pay the deposit on a flat for her so she could finally move out of her mums.

Mortgages paid for family, a house for my best friend, our mortgage paid off too. Loads of folk I'd want to make their lives a little better.