£166m Euromillions Win - What would you do with it?

Gillyx

We've bought a few tickets, I really don't know what I'd do, probably die of shock.

- I'd buy a nice 4 bedroom detached in the suburbs
- buy my parents and OH's parents new houses.
- Donate about 20million to British Heart Foundation

That's it, I would be over the moon that I'd be able to be a stay at home mum, that's my dream

clairibel

If i won a big amount like that i would love to buy a smallholding and take in dogs, horses etc that need rescue. Spend my life looking after them...not sure hubby and son would agree though

ceridwen

Well - I bought my first ticket ever for this - just on the theory that The Universe might prefer to give the money to someone who would give darn nearly all of it away to good causes.

I wouldnt keep much for myself. I'd swop BH (aka "Blinkin' House" - the one I currently have) for a better one obviously. I have been debating with myself whether I would stick to buying one of a Forever Home type (ie up to £300,000) or maybe get a bit of a Dream Home type (ie up to £500,000). Still not expensive - as I live in a dear part of the country - so even £500k doesnt buy anything "out of the ordinary".

I might get the house together more expensively than my Current Plan for Better Home - ie have a bespoke kitchen and nice wood floors throughout the house. I might have a "natural" type swimming pool and loads of trees in the garden - rather than my current plan of "grow as much food as possible". The house might be in a slightly more remote location than currently planned - as I would be able to afford paying out for transport costs.

Food-wise - I'd eat pretty much as I do now. Just swop from freerange eggs to freerange organic eggs and I wouldnt eat up leftovers or a food that had gone a bit "old". Clothes-wise - I might "up a brand" to Jaegar/Country Casuals level of clothing (not sure).

My life style wouldnt be at all "extraordinary" - just that of someone who was reasonably comfortably off - no more than that. I might even keep doing my job (though I dislike it....) until retirement - in order not to "give a clue" to anyone that I had plenty of money.

I would ask my parents if they would like me to buy an easier to manage place for themselves and pay someone to come in and do the housework - dont know whether this would be accepted or no. I would positively insist that my best friend went out and chose a different house to live in - as I know that both she and I worry about her living in the one she has at present (ie the location of it). I know her well enough to know that this wouldnt take me that much money - as she would still pick a very "standard level" house for herself and there would be all sorts of protests before she let me spend out even for that for her (my first few weeks of being rich would consist of a lot of "persuasion" that..yes...I really was going to buy her a better house anyway...so she might as well get on and choose the one she wants for herself - or I might inadvertently get one that wasnt quite as she would choose LOL).

Another task for the first few weeks would be choosing some very trustworthy firm to "hide behind" to distribute my money anonymously without a peep ever getting out as to who it was that was handing out such large sums of money..

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As for what I would give it away to:
- I would buy every bit of land that ever came up for sale in my area (apart from those antisocial peeps who sell part of their garden to developers). I would certainly buy every other "green space" that comes up - in order to make sure that someone owned it who would protect it from development (ie me:D). It would be good to know that the only way any developer/person who wanted to build a road or anything else could get their hands on it would be compulsory purchase (ie from the thousands of people I would promptly give the land to in little parcels:D).

All the rest of my money would go towards protecting/enhancing the environment in one way or another.

Eric_Pisch

so much unimagination, a big win would be wasted on soooo many people

ceridwen

Not so much a case of lack of imagination - but, if many of the above posts are to be believed (and I expect they are...:(), then its thoroughly disheartening to see what huge amounts of the money most people would keep to give themselves personally a "life of luxury".

I think you can understand - from this - why I would prefer my money to go to the environment, rather than people. Thats not to say that no "people" would get it - but they would be very carefully studied to see if they really needed it and were "worthy" of it.:cool:

SailorSam

I wouldn't tell anyone.
But i think i'd have a lot of trouble spending it 'cos i can't think of anything i want, or at least anything that i want that money can buy.
I think i'd get a lot of pleasure out of giving it away annonomously whenever i read about someone who needed help, could be anything from a local hospice who wanted £1m for a new piece of eqipment; a child who needed £100k to go to America for an operation; to £500 to a little old lady who had her handbag snatched with her life savings in.
And if i died with nothing left at least i could look back and think i'd made a difference to the lives of lots of people.

TwistedPsycho

Welll someone in the UK did win it (£161million in the end).....

Batchy

Personally speaking I dont play the lottery as im pretty comfortable and not a dreamer. If you want something so bad you'd do anything to get it, then you can work hard to achieve it, so do something, rather than spend money so you have a dream.

My little sister and her fella dont get much money (benefits) but they spend a large proportion of what they do get on the lottery. Its a disgrace IMO, that money should not be dreamer money, it should be for essentials and food. He needs to get a job and she needs to stop giving her money to him to spend on the DREAMERS lottery.

Why oh why... the chances of winning are there, but its so so so so much of a long shot, 20m people probably play the lottery each week/twice a week, yet there are sometimes only 1 winner of the euro millions. Why is it £2 a go, why not £1 a go... Why is 1m not enough, its it really necessary to roll over... should there not always be a winner, and WHY twice a week.

Imo IF YOU WANT A CHANCE, but dont want to waste... buy premium bonds, you could still get lucky and it wont ruin your life!... 1m would be more than enough to make a massive difference that you could actually manage. 166m would destroy many people ... money doesnt buy you happyness! but it certainly stops the worrying.

jaqui59

I would buy as large a property as possible and foster as many children as I was allowed to have.

Also, I love dogs, and I would open up many rescue centres in parts of the world where they have a really raw deal in life.

Also, (this is just a dream) ... I would love to hire my own private fleet of traffic police to catch all those people who talk on mobile phones whilst they are driving, and they would all get an instant 1 year driving ban! ... :T

smk77

Markphilpot wrote: »

How much would it cost to buy the government? I'm guessing more than 166 million

Murdoch has been doing that for years and I bet it didn't cost that much!