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

wensmcg

I am already happy so it would simply make me more financially secure. I am lucky enough to have found my soulmate and the things that make me happy are not things you can buy - health and love, for example

Somebody asked me the other week if I would continue to work if I won the lottery. Being a nurse they felt that they had worked so hard to get where they are they would want to carry on. I said no. I enjoy my job, but when all said and done I do it for the money. if i didn't need to earn money i wouldn't work at what I do now. I might do voluntary work in something else though.

If I had enough money so my husband and I could give up work we would have no trouble getting our days filled. My family would be looked after and those who aren't already in my life would be left out of it. I could set up a staged trust fund for my step kids and my godson and not worry about paying for university / weddings etc. Then I could do what I want to do, rather than what I have to do to earn money. I could read, paint, do crafts, travel, eat in good restaurants and have a house with a bit more space and some land to allow my crazy dog to run around, and perhaps another dog as a friend for her. I would go to classes to learn other things, maybe other languages, expand my mind so to speak.

I would prefer no publicity however (can you still ask for no publicity if you win?) and I wouldn't be silly with the money - as someone said you can only drive one car and live in one house. But I might have a newish car to play out in( I wouldn't buy new as you lose money straight away) and I would still buy things on offer, and look for a bargin. That's how you keep your money!

Kimberley

It would be nice to not have to worry about how much something costs in a shop and just pick it up and buy it.

It would be nice to not have to worry about your next bill coming through.

It would be nice to help others who needed money.

It would be nice to give something back to your parents who have bought you up in hardship.

Buy a house and a car.

Go on your first proper family holiday.

Emigrate to Australia

Give an equal amount to siblings and charities and live in comfort.

Irv_the_Swerve

Lots of you must be barmy to want to spend any of it!
At current interest rates you can get £2,000,000, yes £2 Million income before tax (& with your money you can afford to get the best lawyer to pay hardly any tax)
Then go and spend & spend the income if that's your thing or give it away if you want but rich people keep their capital intact & stay rich this way.

tesuhoha

beanybop wrote: »

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.

I was thinking earlier that I would give everyone in the family a million each if I won that kind of money. Youve hit the nail on the head because without the people most precious to you the money means nothing.

whitewing

If I felt financially secure, then I would feel happier than I am at the moment. It wouldn't take anywhere near that much to make me feel secure. If I won that much I'd be straight in contact with Martin to work out how we are going to teach the children of Britain about money so they don't have to stumble across this site accidentally when they're already out of control. I would be much, much better at managing it now than if I had won it a few years ago. I'd rather win less and appreciate it with my MSE attitude than have won it and wasted it. I have great fundamental goals in my life now and the money wouldn't change my actual goals particularly, although it would transform my life.

Coveredinbees!!!!

I would still be a miserable b*stard but a rich miserable b*stard

notadamsmith_3

Hi coveredinbees, Just want to say how I agree about vegetarians and environmentalists.

Lord_Melchie

I saw on GMTV you could buy a tropical island like Richard Branson did, for £7m. My 13 year old son Finn said with £35m he would buy a volcano island & build an underground complex with glass walls inhabited by giant African land snails... he didn't elaborate on his megalomaniacal plans beyond that, but now you know how Bond villains start out. Has anyone else got any strange plans to spend their lottery win?

danthemoneysavingman

Just a thought, but reckon the result would be somewhat different if the responses were ordered differently...

scheming_gypsy

Irv_the_Swerve wrote: »

Lots of you must be barmy to want to spend any of it!
At current interest rates you can get £2,000,000, yes £2 Million income before tax (& with your money you can afford to get the best lawyer to pay hardly any tax)
Then go and spend & spend the income if that's your thing or give it away if you want but rich people keep their capital intact & stay rich this way.

what a good idea! invest it and earn loads more money that you still won't be able to spend in your lifetime.

and you called us barmy.