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If you won the lottery, what would be the first thing you would do?

152 replies

babyboy520 · 17/09/2025 04:46

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If I won the lottery... I'd finally find a balance between work and kids!
Okay, imagine this: I win the lottery today. What’s the first thing I’d do? No, it’s not splurging on a holiday or buying a mansion (although, sure, that sounds nice too). The first thing I’d do is hire help to take the pressure off balancing work and childcare.
Honestly, it's such a struggle trying to juggle both—working from home with a toddler (or even just having them around when you’re trying to focus) is impossible. I feel like I’m always half-trying to work and half-worried about whether they’re getting the attention they need. If I had the freedom to step back and really focus on one thing at a time, I’d be a much better worker and a much better mum.
I’d get a cleaner, a nanny, maybe even a personal assistant (why not dream big?). Then, I’d finally be able to enjoy both my work and my time with my kids without feeling guilty or overwhelmed.
Anyone else daydream about what they’d do with a little extra help or time? What’s your “first thing” if you won the lottery?

OP posts:
Thisisntme1 · 17/09/2025 05:16

Well I wouldn’t be working, I know that much!

notatinydancer · 17/09/2025 05:18

Phone work and say I’m never coming back.

Lafufufu · 17/09/2025 05:22

Quit work.

Get an amazing FT housekeeper.
Ideally she'd be called Mrs featherbottom or similar orrr let me pay her extra to call her Mrs featherbottom.

Buy every random annual pass I can think of for me and the kids

TheReformedSlob · 17/09/2025 05:24

Book a holiday to New England to see the leaves turn. First class flights.

StrictlyAFemaleFemale · 17/09/2025 05:28

I'd pay people to come in and do the renovations dh and pils are doing.

Get a Gardner.

I'd give some to the local girl Guides.

MrJollyLivesNextDoor · 17/09/2025 05:28

How much money are we talking about?

ok let’s say £1m

Give up work
pay off mortgage
travel
enjoy

FindingMeno · 17/09/2025 05:28

See a financial advisor.
Boring, I know.

WatchingTheDetective · 17/09/2025 05:30

Are you having to work while the toddler is in the house? How are you managing to do that if so?

Billybagpuss · 17/09/2025 05:30

Tonight’s jackpot is £2m

I’d invest £1m to ensure I had a solid income for life, change DH car as he keeps whinging he needs a new one - he doesn’t I’d probably keep his current one. Pay off dc mortgages and pay to get the house decorated and have a nice holiday. The rest would cover a decent retirement home for mum.

Ohwhatfuckeryitistoride · 17/09/2025 05:32

Get me teeth done.

WTDress · 17/09/2025 05:33

Quit work
Move house

Then all the usual stuff like holidays, pay off debts, get home help etc.

WolfingtonBear · 17/09/2025 05:35

I’d give all my clients two weeks notice - self employed so only fair.

Tell my kids to pack anything that’s important to them and move immediately to a gorgeous hotel where we would stay while we looked for a house & decided what the rest of our life was going to look like - our current house far too small but can’t upgrade.

Batteriesoptional · 17/09/2025 05:36

Resign. Start a passion project and do some voluntary work.

Forgetaboutme · 17/09/2025 05:41

First thing I'd do is book a holiday for a months time. I'd do my months notice at work pretending i had a new job starting and enjoy a month of no worries and just enjoying my colleagues company without feeling stressed. Then a holiday to look forward to.

thinklagoon · 17/09/2025 05:48

Quit work, obviously. Why would I keep trying to juggle work and life if I won the lottery? More to the point, why are you working from home while looking after a toddler? Can’t be done.

Kurokurosuke · 17/09/2025 05:49

Quit work.
Then I could have time to think about the rest of the list!

SoSoPredictable · 17/09/2025 05:51

Finish divorcing my STBXH and then quietly disappear without mentioning it to anyone...

Floranan · 17/09/2025 06:08

I’ve done wfh with a toddler it’s a nightmare. Found the best way was to work at night when she was asleep but I ended up shattered. Found a child minder in the end

i would pay off all my children’s debts and buy them a house each maybe a matching car ! Look into my GC education I know my DS/DIL would love to move them from their current school so maybe I could help there.

i love my new house but I could get someone in to decorate and add the conservatory on the back and do the extension on the front now instead of next year

talk to my finical advisor and invest for the children/granchildrens futures

make a few carefully selected charity donations

the list is endless.

I would have my cleaner come in 3 mornings a week instead of 1.

lots are saying they would give up work, being the old fart I am I would suggest against that, I certainly wouldn’t encourage my children todo that. Maybe go part time or something but you need to be stimulated and have the outside human contact to balance out life

Jobwelldone · 17/09/2025 06:09

Retire as would dh
Then buy the dc’s a house each
Then have lots of holidays.

WasherWoman25 · 17/09/2025 06:14

Can you actually give up work with £1m? By the time you’ve bought a property (assuming you don’t already have one)?

I’d probably hand in my notice, book a holiday to think about the next steps and then likely look into a home with a small business to keep us busy and some income ticking over.

MiseryIn · 17/09/2025 07:02

If it’s 2 million. I would

pay off mortgage and mothers mortgage - £200k
new car for me and DD - £50k
uni for DD - £50k
house (while keeping current flat as income and for DD) - £1 million
deposits and payments to friends and family - £500k
holidays and general spends - THE REST!

Iamthemoom · 17/09/2025 07:07

Pay off mortgage. Get new kitchen. Get new windows. Fund a work passion project. Pay off younger family members mortgages. Take DD on holiday to Japan. Make a big donation to a charity close to my heart. Invest the rest! I’d need more than 2 million to do all that! If it was crazy Euromillions jackpot I’d hire a housekeeper/chef. To have incredible healthy meals any time of day without the shopping/cooking/cleaning would be bliss!

nannyrosy · 17/09/2025 07:27

Book a hotel for a month - teeth and financial advisor.

billandtedsexcellentadventure · 17/09/2025 07:30

I’d quit work. Look for new house to live in. Get that done up how I wanted. Go on holiday

TheChosenTwo · 17/09/2025 07:36

I don’t know that I’d quit my job, I like it and find routine something that’s beneficial to me overall. I’ve had long periods of not working (out of choice) and I didn’t fare too well.
Maybe I’d look at going part time though. And if that didn’t work out I’d find a part time job. Dh would never give up work, he runs his own business and loves it, he’s a doer.
We want to move house but right now it just doesn’t make sense for us to do it as we want to move a bit more remotely and neither of us want to be driving ds to school and back every day. Money wouldn’t change that.
we’d pay off the mortgage and probably have more holidays for the time being. Wild 😂😂