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

nicki_2

Okay, thinking about it properly this is what I would do if I had the money / won £5mil :

• Pay off our debts - £15k MAX
• Put money into DD's savings account and possibly open up another one for her to max out.
• Pay off my parents debts, including mortgage & extend their house & give mum a new and better planned kitchen - £100k ish I would think
• Pay off my sisters debts & her boyfriends debts, including his mortgage, so they could keep the house they're living in and rent it back to them at £1 a month - Then pay for them to move to another temporary rented house while theirs was gutted - £100k I would hope :eek:
• Put money into an account for my brother - not accessable until he is 21 - £50k ish but it would depend on the account etc
• Pay off my IL's debts, including their mortgage - £100k?
• Buy my SIL & her fiance a house (let them "rent" it for £1 a month which would go into a savings account for DD ) then give it to them as a wedding pressie :rotfl: - £100k ish...houses on the island they live on start around £85k for a small 2 bed terrace
• Buy my other SIL a house if she wanted, if not then put HALF of what I paid out for the other SIL/Fiance's house into a savings account for her - £50-100K
• Buy a house for us in the same town as OH works - probably in the region of £100-200,000 although there is one on the market at just under £300k which is lovely Plus redecorate it.
• Pay for "crash" course driving lessons for me and then buy a new to us car

If there was any money left I would invest some of it in savings accounts

taplady

I'd like my DH to be able to give up work as he's not got the best of health - heart condition and back problem and then I wouldn't have to worry about him every time he goes to work!

penniesmakepounds_2

Oooh if only........... :dance:

In order of priority .........-

I would give up my job IMMEDIATELY so I can look after my dear old mam n dad in their grand old age.

Pay off debts

Buy a new wardrobe full of clothes

Share some of my winnings with brothers/sisters

Give some to charity

start looking for a new house

Buy a new car

Go on holiday to reflect on my winnings

Set up trust funds for my kids future/Buy property for them.

Buy a holiday home in a hot country

Buy a luxury pad in central London

and finally LIVE LIFE TO THE FULL!!! :j

dlb

I would pay of debts, then buy the house and extended up into the loft, have a conservatory put on and garden landscaped.
Open trust funds for the kids and give their schools some money.
Then buy a holiday home in Florida and Spain.
New cars for both me and Dh.
And pay for the whole family to go on holiday to Fiji.
And throw one huge party!!

debtfreehopeful_2

first off 1m would go to my parents and 1m to my in laws.

the rest would go on a comfortable 4/5 bed house near family, hubby wants to be an officer in the raf so well be moving around and bil is in the raf, having a house near family for all of us to use would be fab.

the rest would go in a high interest bank account and we would live on the interest.

as for os or not, we would have a cleaner as i hate it, ironing the works im afraid! i would continue to cook and bake and hopefully do more of it as i would be able to afford better ingredients.

it would also enable me to home ed my children right through their childhood rather than a few years each as it looks like it will be at the moment.

I would try to get as enviro friendly a car as possible but i would have a car.

i would also hire a doula and independant mw for my next birth as i struggle to trust the maternity department in this area!
Sue

Penelope_Penguin

Hi, if we won £5m, we'd be even more Old Style! We'd buy the smallholding in the hills that we're planning for when DH retires, and go there now and keep hens, sheep and a pair of pigs!

OS is a way of life. For us it's more about using resources well, than saving money.

Penny. x

JillD_2

I'd give up work to look after my children
I was going to say I'd geta cleaner but if I wasn't working I wouldn't need one
I still wouldn;t use the tumble drier for environmental reasons
I'd probably buy bread again and use BM to make more exciting things thatn basic bread
I'd buy less value brands and more named brands to be hionest. I do worry about value brands being not as healthy as branded goods. There must be a reaosn why they are SO cheap.
I don't think we'd change cars as I couldn't be bothered with the faff of choosing a new one
We'd definitely go for fancier holidays (holidays at all wold be a good start!) and stay in lovely flash accommodation with a separate bedroom for the kids!
I would buy nicer clothes
I'd still try and switch the lights off and not chuck stuff out

Would love the chance to find out

Mics_chick

needmoney wrote:

maybe get me a good ol' style cook:D

I agree with this idea - keep old style ways just employ someone else to do some of the work so I can cook when I want but not every day!

Peem

Well

I'd still be OS - but indirectly.

I'd hire Thriftlady to cook and shop for me

Queenie to sort my life out

Lynzpower and Penelope Penguin (& TNG) to "fly" for me

Nelski could do my non food shopping

Pigpen could babysit (she'd not notice two more little ones!)

and the rest of you could be my friends (ahh!)

Then I think I'd be skint within the year cos you lot would charge so much and I'd be back to where I started.:rotfl:

Oh - and I'd go and holiday with Aussielass.

And of course Martin :money: would be my financial advisor (probably couldn't afford him though, even with 5 mil in the bank)

And Taplady could you teach me to dance?

superdog_3

Penelope_Penguin wrote:

Hi, if we won £5m, we'd be even more Old Style! We'd buy the smallholding in the hills that we're planning for when DH retires, and go there now and keep hens, sheep and a pair of pigs!

OS is a way of life. For us it's more about using resources well, than saving money.

Penny. x

This would be my dream too except that I would be able to become much more environmentally friendly as I would be able to afford solar panels, wind turbine and enough land to be able to be able to grow food. The most annoying thing about the BBC2 prog 'Its not easy being green' was the way it WAS so easy given the amount of money they had to start with!