[Closed] Winning big on the lottery

Buy a yaught, invite friends, consume booze and play 'I'm on a boat bitch'.

buy everything on CRC and Wiggle then return it for free a week later

I'd hope party a bit but do something useful like set up and run a charity.

Are there stats on how things work out for lottery winners - don't many end up bankrupt?

100 x £1M would be way better prizes

Re-open Blobbyland in Morecambe.

Lucky bugger! Congrats to him, hope he enjoys it

The git 😆

Are there stats on how things work out for lottery winners - don't many end up bankrupt

Depression for a lot of them, they become paranoid, people only hang around them for thier bank balance, they trust no one, etc.

Hookers and blow, bikes, cars and holidays. Then probably waste the rest.

edit. replace Pastor Maldonado at lotus F1 (He paid for a drive, why can't I? im awesome at f1 on PS3.)

Me and mrs ws were on about this the other day, we were saying how we'd be generally concerned for the safety of the kids. Don't think we could let the 12 year old walk to school anymore.
Think we'd definitely stay anonymous!

Had this conversation at work once - we asked the question "how much would you give away?"

We ranged from "maybe £3m but no more - it's mine", though a Mormon who immediately had to hand over £10m before he thought about what to do with the rest, to someone who said they'd give away £90m and still live a very mice life thank you very much.

Be nice to have the choice, eh?!!

Go and see the world for a few years to start with! Probably using a large motor home.

Ironically, the more money I had the more basic and frugal a life I'd probably live. Can't say I'd have a real desire for fancy cars anymore. No interest in the champagne lifestyle. No kids so no need for massive fancy house. I would genuinely see me living a very quiet life in the countryside. I'd keep a place in Scotland and buy a place in the alps. Go travelling for a while but again I can see me doing it low key rather than 5 star luxury. Only definite luxury would be first or business class travel.

People always say I'm mental when I say if I played the lottery I'd much rather win £500,000 than £50,000,000

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And I'd order a machine from a previous employer and be a big pain in the ass of a customer.

I was thinking about this the other day. The answer is, not a lot.

I'd move house, shop for some stuff on my list, then do a lot of relaxing, biking then think about self-improvement and philanthropy.

Well for one thing I wouldn't ****in tell the world about it... talk about setting yourself up as a target for criminals & opportunists.

Give most of it away (foundations & "small" personal gifts), I don't need £100 million, though I'd like the chance to make sure.

oooh - I'd have to splash out. Maybe a nice casio watch, 2nd hand audi/Octavia/Porsche944 and a bling custom re-spray of my inbred. White probably would look good.

Maybe a new woodstore too....

Edit - I have no idea. Its a bonkers amount. Not skewing my idea of value/earnings etc would be an issue to address.

Glad that guy won it, if ever there was a passion that you need a decent amount of cash for, it's motorsport! Hope he gets to live his dream 🙂

I'd buy a plane and spend the rest of my life visiting every place I could with family and friends.

Go travelling for a while but again I can see me doing it low key rather than 5 star luxury. Only definite luxury would be first or business class travel.

Well for one thing I wouldn't **** tell the world about it... talk about setting yourself up as a target for criminals & opportunists.

Absolutely this.

I reckon one would end up losing all one's friends*.

*this is not a worry for me.

Still be overdrawn at the end of the month probably!

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I reckon one would end up losing all one's friends*.

Yep, I can't see how it can end well. I reckon it ruins most winners lives.

Go travelling for a while but again I can see me doing it low key rather than 5 star luxury.

defo would not tell a soul. Just gradually improve your life and tell people your business interests are perking up...

I don't think I'd want to win that big, especially if everyone knew. It would give me more stress than piece of mind I think.

Would be almost impossible to keep existing friends and I think it would be hard to be accepted with either 'Old Money' or successful entrepreneur people.

Only people you'd really fit with are other lottery winners.

Buy a couple of houses so that I can move with the sun over the year and bike year round, put enough away to never have to work again. Some to family but the majority to charity of some form.

Dont want to be cynical but how long will that couple last, good luck to them though I hope they enjoy it. Never go public 😕

Me I would move to Finland, would spend a lot of time going to sporting events, would cycle a lot and get really fit.

Give away most of it or set up some sort of charitable foundation. Buy house somehere - Ibiza? and here. Get prospectuses (sp?) for some boarding schools :D, travel.

[i]*Funny, amusing and light answers only please[/i]

Pissing myself here 😥

defo would not tell a soul. Just gradually improve your life and tell people your business interests are perking up...

I'm sure you think that's what you'd do, but chances are, once it had sunk in that you could do whatever you liked, whenever you liked, your life would take on a whole new meaning.

I'd like to think I'd give a lot away, but reckon I'd get more pleasure from NOT giving it to some people, as giving it to worthy friends/family.

of £100m, I'd give about £2m away to family, put £4m away for the kids, keep £4m for the Mrs and I and with the remaining £90m create a Trust owned investment fund the income off which would be given to local charities etc in Worcestershire. Id have fun working on the investment fund doing projects that interest me, and the income can be put to good use.

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Play Fantasy Grand Tour for real. Reckon that's doable on 100 mill.

I like bikes and cars so I'd spend a bit of cash on them.

Would be nice to put together a collection of pristine stuff from my youth. A couple of pieces of bonkers exotica for sure too, but it would be nice to have stuff like pristine MkII Golf Gti's, Lancia Intergrales, Escort Cosworths etc. Stuff that I could work on myself with all my new free time.

Guns, ho's n' drugs. I would probably resign from my job. As a policeman.

Set up a car restoration 'business' restoring cars I buy and make myself the apprentice so I learn what to do.

I think the biggest danger is that your partners and your own dreams take you in different directions and with no money issues to stop you both following them your relationship suffers.

Yeah I think a few Russian hookers tucked away in a smart flat would be a handy diversion on winter evenings! 🙂

All mine of course! 8)

tell no one, stick in the bank for a year then give 100 charities each £1M & keep the interest earned to retire with

On the self-indulgent side, I'd spend a bit of money making miseries of the lives of some people "on the list". 🙂

fairly typical if previous responses are anything to go by;

a charity gig (trust fund paying income to local gigs)
salt away enough to live off
then a few toys, a couple of holiday homes (alps/south of france/bonnie scotland)

I'm sure my wife could think of some things to spend it on.

Still be overdrawn at the end of the month probably!

I used to say I'd pay my colleagues a years wages on the condition they leave the company for at least 6 months, simply to leave the ones I didnt like behind to deal with it/see the company go under (The original idea was my line manager's! Oh, and I don't work there anymore 😀 )

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1. Keep quiet about it.

2. Buy a nice place to live, and a few 'toys' (bikes/cars/truck/etc)

3. Try to get the balance right between keeping myself and my kids grounded, and enjoying our new found privilege and freedom.

4. Do the Dakar rally.

5. Set up a property/development business to give me something to play at, and build a long term, safe investment for the kids to inherit.

6. Quietly buy myself immortality by gifting a fair bit of it to various local charities (ie build a kids hospice, set up a foundation to help underprivileged kids, etc)

Stuff charity, they can have what's leftover when I'm dead. And before anyone gets moraly outraged, the population of the world is increacing so it'll probably help more people then than it would now, doing it now is just making you feel good. A bit like giving it to local charieites is less philanthopic than giving it to african charities.

Probably take up yacht racing, $100million for an Auld Mug campaign and the change on a lifetime raceing in the VOR?

with the remaining £90m create a Trust owned investment fund the income off which would be given to local charities etc in Worcestershire. Id have fun working on the investment fund doing projects that interest me, and the income can be put to good use

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On of the things I often day dream about is having Mark Zuckerberg type wealth and just keeping a cool billion in the bank to fund future business oportunities...then blowing the other $27.5 billion on whatever you can build to help people desperately in need of it. Very similar to your idea, but no where near as financially prudent 😉

I can't even begin to imagine how that would feel. After we'd closed a 24 month deal for a mental health facility a while back, the guys who worked on it were offered the opportunity to help the long term residents move their stuff from the old facility to the new one. I spent most of the day bubbling away, as did most of my colleagues, I honestly have no idea how it must feel to truly change a load of lives in a positive way.

I'm very boring.

£1m equity in each of the FTSE 100 companies (and leave it alone), nice property in a decent ski and bike area of the Alps (near a good airport of course), pay off a few mortgages, keep working (but possibly school term time only), and relax knowing that money isn't an issue (learning how to jump doubles properly might be).

£1m equity in each of the FTSE 100 companies

£1m in each of the FTSE[b]100[/b] might not leave you much change out of £100m to buy the rest of the stuff you want 😉

£1m in each of the FTSE100 might not leave you much change out of £100m to buy the rest of the stuff you want

the key to happiness is to only want what you can get / afford....

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"£1m equity in each of the FTSE 100 companies"
£1m in each of the FTSE100 might not leave you much change out of £100m to buy the rest of the stuff you want

The guy won £108m didn't he? £8m would be enough, more than enough.

buy a pencil, write someone an FRO note.. then keep my family as best i could.

Set up my family and friends with a few bob.
Buy a nice spot in Wiltshire.
Buy another in SW1.
Buy another in Serre Che.
Buy four or five nice cars.
Buy four or five nice bikes.
Stock my cellar and library to a fine degree.
Sit back and enjoy life.

First things first:
Travel, but luxury travel. None of that larking around in 5* hysterics they call “Premier Hotels” for me... nooooo bloody way. I want secret uber s****y hideouts in far out places.
Then vehicles: A Bug Veyron, a Campervan, a 2CV, an Audi Q5S then get my TT tarted back up the “new” spec and a Smart Fortwo CDI Convertable.
Then some flipflops.
Then Home: It would be mighty difficult then to identify exactly, item by item, the stuff I’d buy but suffice to say it would include a house/apartment in La Rochelle in the old town, then a place in Stockholm, then I’d by a place back in Ironbridge on the hill overlooking the Church.
Then a boat: It would be a Swan 70ft sloop, something thats reasonably fast at cruising, easy to moor up and it must have a hot shower and some creature comforts to make some longer passage cruising “bearable” 😆
Then bikes: You know what, I have all I need.

amongst other things I'd buy land and make it more accessible to mountain bikers (and probably to other outdoor users), some id keep as natural trails, some id develop into trail centres, but with a proper range of trails

The guy won £108m didn't he? £8m would be enough, more than enough.

What would you do* with £100m?

I was just trying to make a funny 🙁

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This, basically. I'd probably buy a campsite or something somewhere nice and run it as a hobby. I couldn't do 'nothing'.

I'd buy a mountain, open a café with a few b&b rooms on said mountain (none of your trail centre crap, I'm talking a proper café Rene style boozery) that would sell awesome cake and beers. I'd also have cars. Lots of cars, but I'd limit myself to one of each engine size (ie one V6, one V8, one V10).
If the win was big enough I'd be tempted to hollow out the mountain and consider world domination but I think the temptation for Vin rouge would be too much.

It's nice to dream isnt it?

A few nice houses in good skiing/riding spots. French, Austrian, Swiss alps, Whistler, maybe somewhere warm. Some nice bikes. Sort out a few family and friends, but not a huge amount, dont want them becoming reliant on me giving them cash all the time 😉

Some away to charity.

Would take a chunk of it to fund a start up idea or two and use those companies as the day job.

I'd pay my mate to be my lifelong cycling companion, then we'd go bicycle shopping & then bicycle riding.

They say the money magnifies your weaknesses.

So thats cars and Rum for me then.

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Bring back the Sinclair C5

Friends are genuinely rich enough to never ever worry about work again.
They bank at Coutes and the contract will not allow them to be stupid!
One thing they both agree on is that to not worry - really not worry and live on the interest you need at LEAST £12-15M.
Less than that and you can easily outspend the income.

Make a few friends and family members happy, buy a nice house not to big but with a large chunk of land and a couple of cars I like and a few bikes. Wouldn't bother with property abroad rather move around and stay in hotels and chalets.

Buy 108 million lottery tickets and see if I won again.

Can you buy friends?

I'd buy friends 😆

You guys really aren’t think big enough

£108m @ 5% return (and with that kind of money you should really be getting better)… give you 100k a week to spend just from the earnings

So I’d

Buy Spurs a decent striker

and a left back

and a holding mid fielder

and a creative mid fielder

and a manager

Hmmm... there still may not be enough left to do what I'd really like.

A charity for disaffected kids... educational/vocational with lots of fun outdoors type stuff

I would retire from my current bureaucratic shite job to start my own small cafe to pass time.

Right. I’ve had a chance to think / day dream about it.

Some money to family and friends to clear their debts with some on top to set them up for early retirement. Not too much that it destroys them.

Buy the house that I mentioned in my OP, one in Cornwall, one in the Dolomites and one on Lake Garda. Run the spare houses as a business, but with guaranteed availability for me as when required.

Set up a bike / outdoor pursuits business in or near Kirkby to keep me busy. Sales, service, café, bunk barn and guided rides / training. Employ enough staff that I’m not kept too busy 😉

Some toys to fill one of my two barns: Bikes, home cinema, home gym, spa, pool table, massive Scalextric (obviously) and so on.

Convert the other barn for guest accommodation.

Flash sports car (DBS). Family car. 4x4 and people carrier.

Invest the rest to pay an income to me and charities. But lock a good chunk of the capital away so that I don’t go mad and blow the lot snorting coke out of the ass cracks of actresses.

New tyre for rear of bike - front is OK for now. Probably get Mojo to look at my rear shock also.

Don’t need a boat, helicopter, plane or coke dusted actress*.

*Would be willing to reconsider this if it was Eva Green.

What would you do* with £100m?

*Funny, amusing and light answers only please.

After the boring " new house, make sure my family is looked after " type stuff ....

the Mighty Whites would get a new chairman 😆 MOT

Then bikes: You know what, I have all I need.

a rigid singlespeed? you could probably get quite a nice one for £108mil.

Donate at least half of it to various charities, 25 mil. to family and friends and live off the interest of the rest.
And fit a RS6 running gear to my van while leaving it looking completely stock 😀

I think I'd split half of it amongst family and friends then spend some on new houses/bikes/cars and invest in some business ventures to keep me busy in between all the riding and holidaying.

It's a huge sum of money to have access too, I hope he enjoys it!

I genuinely hope I would draw up a list of family and friends and split the lot equally . To be fair I don't have a big family or a wide circle of friend so I would still be loaded.

Make sure immediate family are sorted.

Buy a couple of houses here and there with suitably sized garages to store bikes/surfboards/homebrew equipment.

Maybe set up a self-letting business.

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House in the italian lakes, ski chalet somewhere nice, and quite a few cars.

I'd also really like to open a restaurant.

Maybe set up a self-letting business.

With that much money, you'd still go on the game? 😉

Buy a yaught, invite friends, consume booze and play 'I'm on a boat bitch'.

I think we need to be best friends because that was my first reaction too! Only I had the song "I'm on a Boat" from SNL stuck in my head...

I'd like to be able to enjoy my wealth but with my same group of mates, so why not share it around - give a few mates a big chunk then you could all enjoy travelling / biking / skiing together 🙂 Would be a nice feeling not telling a soul and then dropping a few million into each of their bank accounts 😉