Poll Results: Would a £35m lottery win make you happy?

grade15

they missed one out.. Make a political party and take on the government cos the rest of the party are not up to it!!

Caterina

Id start a voluntary doula service for women who do not have birth and postnatal support!

Also would pay the mortgage, fix front and back garden, buy my kids a house each and then enjoy the holiday of a lifetime (train and boat to Japan and back)

Caterina

stingyscot

The thing all that money can't do is guarantee your happiness - you can't buy good health for yourself nor for your dearest ones, nor can you save yourself or them from accidents. Though at least you wouldn't be at the mercy of the NHS and NICE!

Mark_Beech

Having enough to feel secure would be wonderful ...... BUT ...... there is a downside. When I was 16 my best mates parents won about £250k on the Football Pools. This was in 1971 so I guess the modern day equivalent would be about £5million. In those heady days I was used to going round to his place (or vice versa) pretty much every night of the week.
I distinctly remember the day after the amount of the win was confirmed thinking to myself "should I go round as usual ..... or will they think that I'm sponging?"
Long lost distant relatives appeared a sif from nowhere ... and they received literally sackfulls of 'begging' letters.
They were lucky in more ways than one ... in that they were (are) very down to earth people who didn't let the money ruin their life.
I'm still very close to the family but the experience certainly taught me that winning a large amount of money certainly doesn't come with a built in sliver lining.
And after all is said and done you can only drive one car at once ..... and live in one house ..... and eat one meal at a time etc.
Oh ... and whatever you do DO NOT elect to go public. My advice would be to stay as low key as possible.

Keep buying the tickets though ... you've gotta be in it to win it!

Good luck!! :cool:

newcook

No matter how much money you have it cant stop the inevitable happening - ill health, death etc nor can it stop the things that may happen such as relationships breaking down.
£35m would make me happier - I would be able to make sure that my family and OH's family never went without and that my children (that I dont have yet) would never go without and neither would their children.

I would be able to help charities/buy equipment for hospitals...

I think I would still penny-pinch though - even if its only to teach my future children the value of money!

ilovegreatdanes

money cant buy happiness....but you can be sad in more upmarket places!!!

cnoelj

Having money is great, but then for those of us who aren't used to it there is the task of learning how to use it effectively. Statistics show that people who come into money almost always lose it again after a short amount of time. People who are able to make and keep money are those who have become financially savvy and have a good emotional attitude towards money.

beanybop

Here is a depressing one.

I would want to buy a new pancreas for the husband, and the best surgeon in the world to do the transplant. But even 35million is probably not enough to save him from the teminal pancreatic cancer that he was diagnosed with last year!!

So £35 million would just mean that I was alone and rich, and make it more meaningless that it could not buy me the one thing that I really want.

Having said that, I would be able to do anything else that I wanted, but it would not be so much fun by myself.

I would make sure that family was well provided for, and set up a scolarship for my old school, and set up a charity to help people not so well off and with problems, etc.

DKLS

I would invite all the people in my life to a big party, I would buy a box of straws and 1 pint, and tell them to enjoy.:D

The ones I really care about would be looked after.
I would not OS at all, I wouldnt work, and I would be off this poky island like a shot to somewhere with a better climate.

l33tsp33k

Money cannot make you happy - what makes me happy (and probably you too) is family, friends, doing enjoyable things. As the saying goes, the best things in life are free...

If you won 35m quid you wouldn't have to worry about paying the mortgage any more, you would however have to worry about

a. are my investments that keep my income rolling in doing well enough?
b. should I give money to my family and friends or will they think I am being patronising? Will they resent me if I don't give them anything?
c. do my friends want to know me because of who I am or because of what I've got?
d. Will I always have to watch out for begging letters, scammers and con-artists?
e. scraping the bumper on your 200 grand Bentley or losing your million pound diamond ring...

Unfortunately if you look back over previous lottery winners, it has generally been a curse on their lives, yes they have what is often an unimaginable amount of money, but the immediate and sudden change in circumstances leads to relationship breakups, falling out with friends, loss of identity (you can't identify with your original community, but the monied community you try and join don't accept you because you are 'nouveau riche')... etc etc.

In some ways the best way of surviving a lottery win is to be rich already. That way it's just a bit more in the bank, your lifestyle doesn't change much, you're just a bit better off.

M