you have a £5 million lottery win, now how Old Style are you?

geordie_joe

BADPENNY wrote: »

and maybe start own bussiness as i don't think that i could never work again and i would have lots of babies.

One other thing I remember about winning the lottery is not to use the money to start a business.

Most people would like to HAVE their own business, but RUNNING your own business is a completely different thing.

As the man said (a financial advisor, I think), "If you had what it takes to run your own business you would be doing it now. Winning the lottery will not give you the drive, determination and ambition to run a business. It will give you the money to buy the things you need to run a business, but not the personal attributes you need to run a business".

I guess what he meant was that running a business was hard work. If you didn't have the drive to do it before, you won't have the drive to do it once you have enough money to allow you to live a nice life without working.

Think about it, you said you would maybe start your own business because you think you never work again, and would have lots of babies.

Would you go into business with some who didn't think they could work again and planned on having lots of babies?

If you do win the lottery, keep two of your dreams but don't bother with the one.

PS. I wasn't putting you down, just pointing out to all that running a business is hard work and you need a lot of dedication and skills. If you do come into money don't start a business just because you have always dreamed of it.

chika

If I won loads of money I would sponsor my local football team, simply so their shirts would say my name all over them. Buy the biggest in your face house that I could find and emply a house keeper, cleaner, cook, etc so I didn't have to bother with any house running tasks. I like to cook occasionally but I would much rather be out having fun.

deb68_2

I would take family on holiday 1st to the zion animal park and meet the lion man and pet one of the lions,then would buy a house not massive but big enough would love an on suit,the house would have to have a lot of accres,as i would open an Animal rescue,
also on the land i would have a few acres for kids to be able to go bike riding,motor crossing, would have an adventure part on it a building that kids could go play snooker,play footie,watch tv etc,
and i would go over to africa an help do some building, well not me coz id be crap at it but you no what i mean
i wold give to charity but family houses and put money away for our lads
and i would have loads o dogs

Penelope_Penguin

mouseymousey99 wrote: »

I'm sure this must have been asked before - so forgive me if I am going over old ground. Would you still follow all the OS ways if you won the lottery tonight? I think I would, albeit I would love to live in the middle of London (with a blue Aga of course)!! I'd still want to cook properly and after all these years penny pinching I can't see myself in designer clothes - if you saw me you'd know why I think the idea is funny.

We'd become more Old Style and buy the smallholding we're planning, a few years early Though it ain't going to happen, as we don't do the lottery.

You're right, this has been asked before, so I'll merge the threads.

Penny. x

ceridwen

Give up my job literally that second obviously:D That - of itself - would be a huge blessing and improve my life enormously.

Then I'm pretty sure that I would be out househunting - but for a fairly similar size house to the one I have at present. The difference would be that I would get one with a decent kitchen (unlike the carp one I have at present) and I'd be insistent on a decent garden (maybe even a small patch of land). I'd like ideally to have say about 20 acres of land - and a stream suitably-located that I wouldnt worry it might "expand" and flood the place would be great. So - I'd say ideally: a fair-size garden just for me and that bit of land (which I think I might have some carefully chosen tenants on at a very low price - perhaps a sorta community allotment - come to think of it I think my definition of a "very low price" would probably be that I got a "share" for myself of the produce - good food at no effort to myself:D ). The house would be in a different area to my current one - ie more rural - as I dislike the noise/pollution/rubbish I am surrounded by in my current area.

Holidays have been very rare - due to the poor salary and single person level of expenses I have always had - so would do a bit of travelling round (NOT by plane obviously:cool: ) to see countries that I particularly want to see. I'm not looking to go to the more "exotic" countries - but I havent yet seen some of the other European ones for instance:embarasse :huh: - like France, Spain and Portugal. So - it would be Tuscany/Umbria, Andalucia, Provence and the Dordogne here I come - by train/ferry of course.

So - yep - I guess the answer is that I would be pretty Old-Style - probably more so - as I'd have more time. Goes off with visions of growing own food, more community-style living orientation, making own cosmetics, I'd probably rarely set foot in a supermarket ever again (as I'd be mainly getting what I wanted from homegrown produce and more interesting "alternative" type shops).

I dont want a McMansion. I still wouldnt want a car - it would only be downright necessity which would ever cause me to get one - if then. In fact - thats given me an idea - I might well think along the lines of ensuring there was a community-style bus service if that didnt exist yet.

Personally - I would enjoy the idea of providing a combination of "seed corn" money and general administrative ideas/visioning for worthwhile community projects - errr....which would alternate in my mind obviously with ensuring that no-one ever found out where this "seed corn" money was coming from and hoping that no-one ever traced that the common denominator between these projects was that ceridwen seemed pretty well-informed about/interested in them all....(I've often thought that one of my first tasks would be to find a good solicitor - to channel this "seed corn" money through and generally protect my privacy - but I already have a good solicitor - heh!...). This sounds like its thinking along similar lines to me:

http://download.southwestrda.org.uk/regeneration/market-coastal-towns/communities-introduction.pdf

(thats not me "in disguise" - honest!)

Nearly forgot the "personal" element - buy a place more suitable for my parents to see out their "old age" in...though I'd retain the legal "ownership" of it.....to protect the money tied up in it from anyone other than them trying to claim it.

wigglebeena

I'd sit around and read all the time. Can't remember the last time I had an hour to read purely for pleasure. Not a bloopin' minute to call my own, esp. being self-employed.

Free time is the best thing money can bring you.

(I would of course be lying around reading on a lilo in my Olympic indoor heated pool with a cocktail in hand).

rachbc

For me I'd be able to go very OS and have my dream of having a small holding - pigs, chickens, grow my own veg and not having to work so i had the time to do all those things.

A newer car would be nice.

Hubby would still do all the diy as he's an obsessive perfectionist who doesn't think anyone would do a good enough job!

wigglebeena

geordie_joe wrote: »

Think about it, you said you would maybe start your own business because you think you never work again, and would have lots of babies.

Would you go into business with some who didn't think they could work again and planned on having lots of babies?
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Didn't she say she felt she couldn't NEVER work again, i.e. she would want to continue working in some capacity? Or am I missing the point?

wigglebeena

I would spend a lot more on food and probably develop expensive tastes in wine (as opposed to the cheap plonk that serves me perfectly well now). My bills would also go up as I would have a big house where I could invite friends and family on a regular basis and feed and water 'em.

I'd buy a lot of land as well and grow tons of food. I'd have an orchard. Picking your own blueberries! (I know they're from bushes not trees, don't leap in).

I would have more than one nice car.

I would still cook for myself (and clean). I hate the idea of having 'staff', it's horrid. Nasty chavvy habit of the upper classes, getting other people to pick up their s***. If you can't cope (as a couple/family, not alone) with your own housework, your house is too big for your needs.

betterlife

good question,
first i`d pay all debts, then i`d put some away for kids when they where older.
i`d buy a small holding which would be then converted so it was as eco/green as poss.
i`d rear my own animals for meat freerange, i`d grow all my own fruit, veg etc and it would be great to have a litle farm shop that sold my home baking etc.
i`d buy my mum and dad inlaw a bungulow, pay my sis inlaws morgage as she is in debt and give her some £ for her business.
i`d help out the rest of the family.
all my thriftyness, homecooking etc etc would stay the same.
i`d buy i new wardrobe of clothes as i never spend on myself its always the kids. wouldnt it be great not to ever have to worry about money again and to help so many people.