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

buglawton

Every day is a gift, even for the poor amongst us... on a big win I'd want to see if any of the money could be used to increase my & nearest's life expectancy. So 1st thing to do is emigrate to France or Scandinavia where for example you'd get useful treatment for a stroke within 40 mins instead of say, 24 hrs in the UK. No expensive private insurance in the UK will get you this. Pity the govt we voted for didn't put health care above a lottery liberalization free-for-all.

nearlyrich

I'm already happy so it would make me more secure and enable me to retire now and carry on with my plans to see the world, I have a brochure for a world cruise which would do the trick for a start.

[Deleted User]

Security for life for myself, my fiancee and my future children. Not to mention my family and extended family and friends.. who wouldn't wish for that?

I could quit work and actually find something to do I enjoyed doing without the worry of mortgage / savings to be provided for. Realistically, a win of a few million would be life-altering, £35m would be staggering.

Bring on the Aston Martin and champagne...

badger999_2

Lord_Melchie wrote: »

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?

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http://www.vladi-private-islands.de

Fran

beanybop wrote: »

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.

beanybop,

I'm sorry to hear that. I've recently been helping to care for someone with terminal cancer and I know it must be very harrowing for you. That was my thought when I saw the poll re any amount of cash not being enough, though at least you could then afford the latest treatments etc. which many cancer patients are presently denied. If he is not receiving Disability Living Allowance he would be fast-tracked as it is terminal. It's not income based but is paid for a disability.

sluggy1967 wrote: »

Absolutely, I would forgo a big lottery win for my husband to have a miracle cure from his illness. You have hit the nail on the head!

Sorry to hear about your husband's illness.

santashelper wrote: »

it probably would have ino mpact on my life as i suffer with depression and the trouble with depression is nothing seems to make it better but time.

The only thing that would be interesting would be to see how many people suddently become interested in me seeing as they have all been to busy since ive been ill.

Maybe once i am better it would be nice but i would imagine there would be a lot of problems that come with it

Maybe the cash would help you at least live a more comfortable life, you could pay someone to sort out financial stuff and other things that can get put to one side when you are not as healthy as you could be.

Caterina wrote: »

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

Voluntary?! You would be able to pay them! :rolleyes: (How are you Caterina, hope all is well.)

lumpy_bum

i would love 35 quid to call my own let alone 35 million lol

lynzpower

Im happy anyway in the main. the only thing Id be happier about would be stuff like, being able to use my mobile whenever I liked and not have to quibble over the free minutes, being able to buy the best meat and veg etc for daily use from the best organic suppliers, being able to fit those solar panels, living somewhere with a tiny eco footprint.

I would probably tour the world and dish out money to tiny charities in the under-developed world as well as closer to home.

Id love to give up work and foster children too.

To me, it would be a dream come true.

Would it make me happy? Im happy anyway, but it would certainly make me happier to have these sorts of choices.

scheming_gypsy

lynzpower wrote: »

Id love to give up work and foster children too.

you'd give up foster kids if you won the lottery?? :eek:

Queenieviolet

I think so much money could be destructive - imagine being the offspring of someone with that much money. People say they could give everything to their children, but that could ruin them. They would never have to strive for the things that we all desire. I think a smaller win would be better as it could make you financially secure but would not mean that your children have too much too soon and without any effort!

eyelinerprincess

I'd buy a house, make sure my family were alright cash-wise. Then I'd buy a motorbike cos I've always wanted one. Give up my job apart from my voluntary work and use the time to try and write.