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I know we've done this before....

.... but I always enjoy a bit of daydreaming, as well as learning what others daydream about!


So - in the light of our lucky £54321 winner this week, what would YOU do with that amount of cash as a prize?!!!!


I would firstly pay off my card which is about £3500. Then I'd pay some off my mortgage, perhaps about £10000 or so. I'd pay for a new roof, new windows and doors. Book a lovely holiday for us and the kids. Some treats for my mum and other family members. We've always dreamed of knocking through our kitchen & dining room but it would be a big job involving moving doors, windows and radiators, so hopefully there would be enough left to do all this too!!!!


What would you spend yours on?!
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  • snakepilsen
    snakepilsen Posts: 2,757 Forumite
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  • ikkle87
    ikkle87 Posts: 8,449
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    £6k to pay off our debts and become debt free
    £4k to my grandparents so they could afford a really long holiday to Oz to visit my auntie and cousins.
    £5k for a new car
    £2k on an intensive driving course for me so I wouldn't have to rely on my OH so much.
    £3k into my sons ISA.
    A first family holiday abroad and then squirrel the rest away so that life was a bit more comfortable especially come month end x
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  • independance
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    £10,000 to help with DS deposit for house
    £10,000 to Help with wedding and furniture for DD
    A great never to be forgotten holiday for DH AND ME
    and the rest squirrelled away in our retirement fund to make life easier.
  • *KatieL*
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    Would have no worries about our wedding fund! :p

    Buy fiance a new car, I would get an Audi TT. :D

    Pay off some of mortgage.

    Give some to parents so they can treat themselves :D

    Have a nice holiday & save the rest.
    *Katie*
  • sax11
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    tell my boss how much of inept !!!!! he is and walk out

    can manage on that amount while job hunting
  • Blulu
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    I'd spend a few thousand on drinking and having a good time. The rest I'd just squander :D

    Blu X

    P.s. in reality, if it happened I might open a restaurant - sigh!
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  • mclarkie
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    Pay off the mortgage.
  • CharleyYpres
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    10K off the mortgage
    10K back to the in-laws (they loaned us to get the house)
    Pay off my student loan
    And whatever is left having fun and treating people!
  • missprice
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    Pay off the mortgage and

    either extend the house ( up or out to the side)

    Or live til retirement age on that money and never work again.
    It would be tight but after mortgage paid I could do it with no hols.

    Or give my kids 10k each and still have 25k deposit for another house.
    Or same as above but a 5k hol and 20k deposit.

    And it may seem that 20/25k is a small deposit but around where I live that's half a house paid for. :D
    63 mortgage payments to go.

    Zero wins 2016 😥
  • Missy_Spud
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    think id spend 20k on paying off some of my mortgage, 1k doing up my bathroom, maybe another1-2k re-carpeting my whole house we could get the luxury stuff :D, few hundred kitting the dogs out with new beds, collars, bowls, leads etc put some in an isa for me, and isa for OH then just random stuff prob like new baking trays and pan sets lol
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