Estate agent wins £56m

chucky

JonnyBravo wrote: »

Yeah I reckon lots of people would say that but very few would. Not having a pop, just it's easy to say and hard to do I reckon.
I have to admit I don't think I would. Sure £10-20m to friends, family and charity but I think I'd keep most.
I'm sure that disgusts plenty of the righteous but I'm just being honest. I can think of plenty of stuff I'd like to do/buy and £6m ain't gonna last long.

but the thing is if you do give £10-£20m where do you stop - you'll always be seen as never giving enough and there will always be friends and family that will miss out or even get less than they expected.

not sure why they decided to go public - it's going to make things a bit more uncomfortable for them.

Graham_Devon

JonnyBravo wrote: »

Yeah I reckon lots of people would say that but very few would. Not having a pop, just it's easy to say and hard to do I reckon.
I have to admit I don't think I would. Sure £10-20m to friends, family and charity but I think I'd keep most.
I'm sure that disgusts plenty of the righteous but I'm just being honest. I can think of plenty of stuff I'd like to do/buy and £6m ain't gonna last long when you set your sights as high as the stuff you can consider with £56m

Nah, I definately would (well I think I would, unless I could do something better with the money instead of just giving it, i.e, lock it away, use the interest to do something good with over a longer period etc).

Theres a couple who live nearby who won £2m on the lottery. Apparently (this is just the usual word of mouth stuff) even 4 years later, they still get people talking about their hardship purposely in front of them etc.

I couldn't be bothered with all that.

If pretty much no one knew the figure I had won, it would be a different kettle of fish, as it's not like I owuld look richer having £10m in the bank or £200m in the bank. But 56m, I dunno, think you could get a lot of hatred for that. I'd rather give away 40+ million of it and get some respect than have that uncomfortable feeling all the time with the way people look and act around you.

daniel_owen_uk

I love the whole "it would be nice to have a 5,6 bedroom with a pool and space" etc. then they say "but we would like to stay round here".

YOU JUST WON 56 MILLION

Buy a few houses, knock em down, get one built, job done.

before_hollywood

what would an estate agent do with £56m?
probably be just about able to pay their own fees

lostinrates

Graham_Devon wrote: »

What would you do with that sum of money though?

I'd probably give £46m of it away pretty quickly, in terms of good causes.

Couldn't handle all that just being given to me.

I'd help out the Wilsons.


DH and I were talking about exactley what we'd do with it, and we thought we'd:
a: buy a house everywhere there is any chance we could live.
b: start an education foundation
c. a research fund for the things we have most interest in (selfish huh?)
d: create (vie purchase) allotments/co-operative local farms in areas we have lived in
e: probably start a eco friendly housing association
f:create family friendly employment in managing the schemes.

eta: I hope they are very happy and enjoy it, spend it well, and do some good with it. I wish I had been so lucky, but hurrah for them.

1984ReturnsForReal_2

How much acid can you get for a couple of million quid?

If I ever won that sort of money I might want to hook up No.10s water supply with a continuous drip.

peterg1965

Good luck to them both. I genuinely hope it brings them lasting happiness.

before_hollywood

1984ReturnsForReal wrote: »

How much acid can you get for a couple of million quid?

If I ever won that sort of money I might want to hook up No.10s water supply with a continuous drip.

number 10 already has a continuous drip

we call him gordon

1984ReturnsForReal_2

before_hollywood wrote: »

number 10 already has a continuous drip

we call him gordon

I would argue that that is better than Cameron on speed.

Mr.Brown_4

JonnyBravo wrote: »

I thought lots of people on this board would enjoy sharing this couples good fortune!

I'd enjoy sharing it.