[Closed] What would your daily routine be if you won the lottery?

Wake up, Coke and Hookers. Breakfast, more Coke and Hookers, Lunch, more Coke and Hookers, etc

Probably pop out to the wooded hill I own behind my house to play on my own full-sized bike park. Obviously I'd probably need to employ someone to turf off all the cheeky hoi polloi.

In reality, my daydreams haven't got beyond the initial epic bike-buying session.

Wake up at about 2pm, whiskey for breakfast
2:15 coke
2:30 hookers
2:45 more coke
3:00 race the ferrari up and down the driveway
3:15 more coke, taken stood astride the upturned ferrari.
3:30 more hookers

repeat until death

I'd need a bit more structure, I'd quite like to study something like archaeology or similar. Maybe an OU degree. So I'm thinking something like:

* Kids to school
* Couple of hours training (running or bike)
* Study a bit
* Lunch + siesta
* Study a bit more
* Wave Mrs. mogrim off as she goes to pick kids up
* Make dinner (I like cooking, someone else can clean up after though).
etc.

I'd still be working just less hours & massive holidays 🙂 today, eating food for today's ride & I'd pay for pub tea and drinks.

My bike would have matching rims & a working reverb.

I'd also have a load of that neverwet stuff, where ever it is.

Winter's coming so I'd be whilster bound 🙂

I've often asked this question and my answers vary depending on what I'm in to at the time but I think I'd need some form of property investment/development to keep me sane so would probably get up, breakfast, head out to work/check on builders, head home, bike/gym/swim then start the evening meal.

Not sure I could have hired help, maybe a chef and a cleaner but I quite enjoy cleaning my own bike and tweaking it post ride.

3:00 race the ferrari up and down the driveway

Good call on the Ferrari.

For all those planning to hit the powder, I wonder what your paranoia will be like after a few weeks, will everyone be after your money, those hookers are going to need to e quick to get out alive?

I guess I would be like most people, a couple of nice houses dotted around the world, some nice cars and n+100 bikes.

I would probably also add in firing guns into the mix so something like, Coke, Hookers, private firing range and racing Ferraris & repeat.

Less likely to get bored that way.

0700 Gym
0900 Shower
0930 Steak breakfast
1000 tend veg patch, go fishing, yoga, potter with bikes/cars/motorcycles, swim
1300 lunch
1400 Go ride/ski
1800 Tea/chill out
1900 Social (pub/evening class/meet friends/external gym class)
2200 Bedtime with a good mix of at least 4 women

This would be in British Colombia.

For a while it'd be a laaazy morning breakfast. I don't think I'd have a cook but I'd come down to a ready-cleaned kitchen and press a few buttons on my fancy automatic coffee maker. I'd get the kids out to school, the au-pair would walk them in, and me and the Mrs would probably both disappear into the workshop/studio where we'd work on our projects. I like to think they'd be different halves of the same building but I think the large amounts of dust and noise I'd be generating would adversely affect her weaving.

I don't know how long it'd take to get bored of that, maybe I'd start studying, researching or maybe I'd take the kids out of school and travel.

This would take place in Mid Wales btw.

Always amazes me with people when faced with enough wealth they'd never have to work again say they would open a business. I get the point about staying sane though, but come on, you'd feel the need to earn yet more dosh....really?!

surf
climb
skate
ride

...you'd feel the need to earn yet more dosh....really?!

i guess the aim wouldn't be to earn more money...

there's a shop in york called 'Via Vecchi' or something.

it's not open a lot, but they sell the most amazing bread. I can't imagine how it makes a profit, but there are worse things than the smell of bread.

Something like that would be nice.

Andor do something useful, maybe foster a few kids...

Not a millionaire, lottery winner or otherwise, but had some investments that paid off linked too a pretty cheapo lifestyle meant I am able to take time out from work.

It's good for first few months, particularly to get my head sorted as I was a bit of a burn out. Lots of bike riding, climbing, holidays and reading. After 6 months got a bit bored so started doing voluntary work (bike related) for the company and structure. Then worked for a few months through an agency, more fun when you are not the boss and with an end date. Now doing an MA in politics.

Sitting on sofa with cat, not doing an essay at this precise moment

Just my experience

Btw +1 for Vancouver as a place to live, unfortunately -2 for me because it's too far away 🙁

I doubt I would have a routine to be honest

There would be loads of travelling to do though. I'd like to spend a couple of months in Thailand at a Muay Thai school, learn a bit about Bhuddism. Spend a few months in a US boxing gym, getting properly good and a few more skydiving in the desert. I'd have a place in Italy for sun and trails. Spend a few months in an RV exploring Canada.

One of my relatives lives on £100k savings. No mortgage, kids have left home just him and his mrs

Lives a normal life nothing ostentatious has a decent motor plays golf and has [i]loads [/i]of holidays

I don't know how long it'd take to get bored of that, maybe I'd start studying, researching or maybe I'd take the kids out of school and travel.

In reality I think studying would probably be my path, I would like to study philosophy, so the best philosophy uni going that is also close to mountains, oceans and sunshine (and also with decent supply of coke and hookers).

Get up
Nice breakfast
Walk dogs on beach
Lunch
Mess around in garage
Dinner
Bed

We've employed quite a few millionaires who've all made enough to retire from share options in previous companies and then retired, got bored and gone back to work. They tend to be either very senior sales people or CFOs.

One of the worked for us for about 5 years in Sales and never once claimed expenses. Not that he needed to, he was always buying the latest Ferrari, Porsche or other super car....

you'd feel the need to earn yet more dosh....really?!

I wouldn't do it for the dosh. I'd do it just out of interest. I've got lots of ideas, I could make someone else do the hard graft and I'd cream off some of the profit.

ooh great question.

Get kids to school (no change there other than the school they attend!)
Do some volunteer work (I reckon a bit of trail maintenance or some dry-stone walling) or help in the local school/bike shop/ski shop)
OR
Ride road bike/mountain bike/walk/ski depending on time of year. Might even take up rock climbing again
Pick kids up
The late afternoon/evening will then be the same routine of feeding kids, homework, bath and bed.
Evening? Get the babysitters in and enjoy some time with my lovely wife doing all those things we used to do in the evening before kids came along. (note to self...find some babysitters)

Basically, the routine wouldn't change much, I'd just have more opportunity to do something fulfilling with my time and I'd be living somewhere dreamy surrounded by mountains.

Spend all day crying and masturbating probably - just like normal.

Might have to add restoring a classic car or motorbike to the list of things I'd do. I'd need to take welding classes too, which is something I've always wanted to do.

I could do the restoring in the big fancy garage my big fancy lottery-bought house would have 🙂

I'd spend much of the whole first year, scouring for properties in nice places...

then spend the remaining years flitting between them all.

Eat. Sleep. Rave. Repeat.

- Maybe not though - getting a bit old for that now.
I Guess term-time it'll be something like -

7.00 - get kids up, quick family breakfast then walk them to school.
9.00 - go out for a ride.
12.00 - shower, then lunch with the missus.
13.30 - bit of voluntary work/charity stuff (either out doing practical stuff, or planning stuff from home office)
17.00 - cook dinner + family time.

I'd spend every school holiday out of the country - a mix of good experiences/holidays with the kids, or charity stuff.

Ride road bike/mountain bike/walk/ski depending on time of year.

I wouldn't road bike for winter, cos I'd have a belt drive Rohloff ready set up for mud plugging. Possibly fat, not sure.

I think that if I had £30m to play with, I'd try very hard *not* to have a routine...

Every day should be different - making sure to experience everything that can be experienced.

Rachel

I wouldn't road bike for winter, cos I'd have a belt drive Rohloff ready set up for mud plugging. Possibly fat, not sure.

Presumably one fat, one not?

I wouldn't have a routine at all!

Once I've sorted family & friends out... Lots of travelling, learn to fly, scuba dive, get back into skydiving and then try out stuff like this
https://www.gozerog.com/
http://www.thundercity.com/

Also, I'd probably build my own indoor skydiving rig (like those AirKix ones). And I'd do a lot of waterskiing on my private lake too.

Shoddy that the OP can't get a better beer than Peroni. The reason it's served ice-cold is so you cant taste it. I think I would buy a small Belgian abbey and get them to make beer for me.

I think be boring, live up a little, nicer food and furniture, bigger house, a car with decent economy. I'd spend a big chunk on buying up houses for rent so my kids would have a steady income without ever having to worry about money like their parents!

The guys I used to work for sold their company last year and got £10M's. Boringly it hasn't changed them at all. Slightly nicer cars, a few new houses and still very good folks. Like I say kinda boring. The main issue for them both is now to find something to do for the rest of their lives. Both of them are starting voluntary work/non profits/working with charities.

Presumably one fat, one not?

Well I'd buy a fattie to see if it was good in mud, then if not I'd keep it to use in snow. No point selling anything on if you are a lottery winner 🙂

First thing take my daughter to School ( I would love to be able to do this ) Mention recent lottery win to the yummiest looking Mummy's there !
Come home and cook some combination involving bacon and eggs
Out on the bike with the dog
Back to clean it off then fiddle around in my luxury man cave for a bit
Play with various new motorised toys
Pick daughter up from school
Do something fun until tea time !

Back to clean it off then fiddle around in my luxury man cave for a bit

Boarding school for the kids 🙂

Daily routine at which house and which season?

The house near Bourg in winter, wake up, breakfast, drive to resort with the best conditions, ski till my legs fall off, go home, sauna, eat & drink good wine, repeat. In the summer replace ski with bike and sauna with jacuzzi, and I might mix up some boating and climbing.

Spring and autumn would be spent in Scotland biking, sea kayaking or WW kayaking depending on the prevailing conditions.

I don't think I would like to [u]suddenly[/u] stop working at all, and I like the people I work with, so I would still get up, have a big dump, a shower and then drive to work. Although I would drive there in my Maserati, wearing much more dapper threads than I do now, and give a gallic shrug or flick the Vs at any boss who said something I didn't like. That would do to start with.

I reckon anyone that says they'd ride every day is kidding themselves 🙂

Most normal people would be bored within say, a year, and then be looking for stuff to do. The human brain is not wired to be idle (in the main anyway!) - I honestly don't think you'd be able to live a life where you didn't "do" anything, and just having the ability to go wherever you pleased or do whatever you liked wouldn't be enough to fulfil you. That's my 2 pennorth anyway 🙂

Boarding school for the kids

Genius - I'd not thought of that!

Suddenly a whole new world of opportunity opens up 🙂

I honestly don't think you'd be able to live a life where you didn't "do" anything, and just having the ability to go wherever you pleased or do whatever you liked wouldn't be enough to fulfil you

I'll have a bloody good go though. This thread isn't about reality 😈

Initally i'd be doing sweet f-a,riding in all the places i'd like to(Alps/pyrenees/cobbles of northern Europe etc.) holidaying all over the world, but after a while i think i'd like to do something to put some good back into society and the world in general, but only part time mind still want to have plenty of time for me and the family.

Woo sister in law.

Buy a Mercedes G Wagon

Buy a Lotus Elise.

Wrapped round a tree by Friday.

Think I would have a big house with workshops and restore 70s and 80s motorbikes .
Also grow lots of food. That should keep us busy in the week.
Then with a 3 day weekend go to a posh hotel somewhere in The Med eat gorgeous food, snorkel and ride my bike.

Woo sister in law.

I like to think that rather than just bum around holidaying/riding/watching tv (which obviously I would do to some extent) I'd be working a lot harder than I am at the moment, maybe charity work or putting a team together to create the awesome computer game that's been in my head for the last 10 years, etc.

Don't think I'd need £30M though, I reckon £500k would be enough for me to see out my days very comfortably without having to work again!

Yes I would. Maybe its best I dont win 8)

I would be woken by the singing of a mermaid where upon my wallah would present my warmed slippers and smoking jacket. The governess would then bring the children for inspection and I would scold them for being improperly turned out, even if they were not. Asquith, my butler, would then hand me my gilded blunderbuss and we would head in to the hunderd acre orangery (that's like a big conservatory to you, wretch) to shoot a unicorn for breakfast (which would be cooked using lasers).

Once replete I would take the air in the garden with that days mrs stabiliser and I would have a poet cascade sililoquies upon her whilst i decided which otter to have for lunch. Once said otter had been jugged and consumed I would take to my bicycle and ride the trails in the drawing room for a few hours, applauded upon my deft skills by an appreciative host of flunkies. I would have grown tired now and so i would retire to the spa to recieve invigorating treatments at the nimble hands of a number of masseuses.

Dinner would be an informal affair with a few heads of state and captains of industry to whom i would refer as bell ends throughout. The evenings entertainment would consist of music from Berlin Symphonic, a series of amusing tableaus by the RSC follwed by strippers. And then to bed.

I honestly don't think you'd be able to live a life where you didn't "do" anything, and just having the ability to go wherever you pleased or do whatever you liked wouldn't be enough to fulfil you.

A life where you didn't "do" anything is a different life from one where you can go wherever you please and do whatever you liked. I'm very confident I could make the latter extremely fulfilling 🙂 The problem is too many of us spend too much of our life doing jobs that aren't all that fulfilling. Having enough money to remove that problem is a very nice dream.

Anyway, back to fantasy land...

Dinner would be an informal affair with a few heads of state and captains of industry to whom i would refer as bell ends throughout

That is the best thing I've read this week! Genius!

**** you lot I'd be off somewhere warm but not too hot (Hawaii?) where I could ride all day every day if I wanted.

I've always wished I had more time to do touring. Just very relaxed riding about on a bike, stop when I'm tire. No schedule, no deadlines.

So that.

get up, leisurely breakfast somewhere in the world, ride my bike for a bit, dinner, ride my bike for a bit more, tea, stay somewhere else.
I'd try and follow the summer but having a break every now and again to go skiing

I'd wake up in New Zealand or Perth WA, open my veranda to the sound of crashing waves, grab my 75ltr board, rig a 4mtr up then chuck it in back of my pickup and head the 40mtrs to the beach then go play in the waves. Come home, shower, lunch, crash out in the garden, get ready to head north/south into the vast wilderness mountains, jump on my bike and go play near my mountain retreat, crash there for the evening (or two) then head back to the beach at some point to do some more windsurfing.
Might chuck some sails in the Swan 70footer and head around some islands, but that would mean a bit of preparation and at the moment I don't think I can be all that bothered 😆

Sign up for tinder. Immediately.

Finally find out if the trails really do come alive.

(And report back scathingly if this is false)

As a regular lottery player I have thought about this from time to time.

It would depend where I am as with a lottery win I'd have multiple homes around the world, UK in Surrey Hills, Switzerland in the Alps, something on the coast / lake somewhere with great sailing.

Awake not too early, breakfast and catch up on the news.
Walk/hike, cycle, ski or sail at sometime during the day, perhaps all day
Do some research for my next great holiday / extended vacation, discuss with my adult kids to see if they'd like to join.
Get in touch with my "family office" who'd be managing the money, run through a few investment ideas
Look at a few potential "toy" purchases, enjoy the ones I've got

Probably start a car restoration business, something that would just about be economicaly viable, fun to dip in and out of but wouldn't require managing too closely if I fancied going traveling for a few months.

This business has side benefits of also requiring stuff like a test track to be built, a 3D replica of Monaco, but with run-off areas 🙂

I won last week. I cashed in my £3.20 and went on my merry way with an extra £3.20 in my pocket. It's still there building interest.

Yacht. Spend the rest of my life seeing the world.

I'll wake up in my Bodega and olive grove in Northern(ish) Spain, not too far from the mountains or Barcelona (such a thing may not exist so I'll build it)just to keep my mind ticking over with producing fine wine and olive oil.
head out in one of those huge camper trucks with internal bike store to park up in the mountains .
Then ride my bikes while I wait for the coke and hookers to be delivered. 😀

I guess like others that don't have family commitments my morning routine would likely involve trying to get over a hangover and picking crusty white stuff from my nose. Other than that I wouldn't want a routine, I'd be doing a mix of travelling and enjoying various rich guy toys, the amount of which would depend on the size of the win. I could seeing it getting a bit tiresome after a few months though and wanting some project to work on (work in a very loose sense of the word), assuming I survived that long.

I'd use some of the money to attain Roman Abramovich levels of wealth, I want to be able to laugh at Simon Cowel for having a smaller boat than me.

On a more serious note, I'd carry on studying and I'd buy myself a big library 🙂 I'd also invest a lot of my money in philanthropic endeavors..

A few unbelievably incredible houses in nice places - one being near where I live, close to friends/daughters friends

Lots of holidays

Lots of bikes

Lots of fast cars

Lots of animals

Lots of fine whisky

Lots of fine coke

Lots of fine food

Personal gym

Amazing stereo/entertainment system

Games rooms

Fantastic clothes

Absolutely no routine whatsoever - I hate routine

Absolutely no work - if I chose to do something resembling work, it wouldn't be work, because I would be doing it for a hobby

Do good stuff for people less fortunate than me

Do good stuff for animals

No such thing as a daily routine for me with millions in the bank.

Some of the things I would get up to:

Riding bikes
Snowboarding
Surfing
Travelling (somewhere hot in winter, whistler in summer)
Eating out a lot
Viagra and hookers (don't do coke anymore)
Driving fast cars
Drinking fine wines and whisky, in my library surrounded by old books.

I'd be a bit like Hugh Hefner and Travis pastrana crossed together.

simple really, Id just start every day thinking... what would michael carroll do?

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actually Id quite like to do an archaeology degree
and buy a bikepark

Actually yes, my business might well be a bike park in some rural area. Generate some wealth for the local economy, and have my own bike park 🙂

Would you have a bike policy for your bike park that would allow you to eject ner do wells on BSOs?

Drop down to a 4 day working week. Buy holiday place in Northern Italy, travel a bit.

And as part of helping the community I'd buy On-One / Planet-X and shut them down immediately, thus, saving people from mistakenly buying their shoddy cr*p ever again.

And as part of helping the community I'd buy On-One / Planet-X and shut them down immediately, thus, saving people from mistakenly buying their shoddy cr*p ever again.

Hmm, we seem to have issues here....

I wonder if I could buy snowdon off hopkins and turn it into a bonkers DH park 🙂

Would you have a bike policy for your bike park that would allow you to eject ner do wells on BSOs?

Nope, they are welcome to show MAMOOFs (Middle Aged Man on Orange Five) that it's not about the bike 🙂

Although I did think of a way of getting them to eject themselves. Long fast descent with a water splash into a 180 degree berm, right infront of the permieter fence. BSO kid comes hurtling down the hill, through the water splash, crappy brakes don't stop him, hits the berm straight, takes off and clears the fence out of the park. Possibly having him land in a foam filled pit that the police can come and clear out every evening and arrest them for being ne'er do wells on BSOs.

There's a direct relationship between how much I'm enjoying my job and how much time I spend daydreaming about the lottery win - at the minute, I'm thinking about it a lot. 🙂 So -

During the week, I'll be at my coastal residence, up early and a quick half hour in the underground swimming pool, breakfast with the news then out for the day doing either;
- a nice road ride
- a day at a trail centre
- a track day in the Caterham
- a track day on the Ducati
- a day on the trail bike
- a day in the garage restoring something old, etc etc
I'd be quite happy to have a stab at cleaning an maintaining the kit, on the proviso that there's a local mechanic I can call to finish what I've either got bored halfway trhough or broken to a point beyond my ability to fix. After tea, I think I spend an hour or two in study, for an OU degree or a language or a musical instrument, before a walk on the beach for sunset and a glass of wine by a roaring fire with a good book from my vast and expansive library. That's during the week - for the weekends Mrs Pondo and I would hop into the Beechcraft and fly to our city town house where we'd spend a couple of days in idle revellry. Once or twice a year, we'd get out the atlas, pick a country and go spend a month there looking about.

Yeah - that'd about do. 🙂

I fancied buying some really dull bog standard 20 year old car, like one of my previous Passats, and restoring it to showroom condition. As a sort of ironic joke 🙂

I'd woo hora's sister-in-law....

Big House, with a horse shoe shaped garage were all the doors open at once, so I can peruse which inappropriate car to go out in. Have a huge workshop for 'projects'(Busa engined mk1 mini, rally cars, crossers)
I'd open a not for profit outdoor education centre, put a manager in to run it and then 'work there' when I wanted.
Buy houses in Colorado, Alps, New Zealand, Monaco, London, and travel between them in my own plane/helicopter. Then in a 'Count of Monte Cristo' way screw a few people over, with a cunning plan.

Travel

Learn to drive, nice car

Make sure family was ok for cash

Flat in San Francisco, make sure I had enough money to live on comfortably, give the rest away

I think I'd invest it and give the proceeds away, rather than giving away the cash. That could wait til I die.

How much would you have to win to make sure you could live off the interest? Do you have to pay tax like when you have a job?