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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2017 7:43:38 GMT
This happy dilemma filled my mind as soon as I awoke, so I thought it would make a good thread topic. As the normal lotto prizes isn't that massive these days, let's make it a £130 million Euromillions jackpot. Me? I think I'd buy a place in the USA and another in Australia. I'd live between them so as to avoid Winter completely. I'd collect American Hifi whilst in the USA and hit the beaches whilst in Oz. I would definitely have a boat of some kind. Nothing too massive as I wouldn't want any crew. I like my space  im a bit embarrassed to admit it, but I'd probably have some cosmetic surgery. Nothing massive, just a bit of age reversal I would set up a charitable trust and enjoy trying to make it grow. When I go, all my assets would go to my favourite charities. What would you all do? |
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Post by jandl100 on Jan 6, 2017 8:03:31 GMT
Says it all, really ...  .... well, I'd at least get an audition! And a nicely situated house for it to happily live in. I reckon I'd stay in the UK. Cornish Riviera maybe. I doubt my lifestyle would change much beyond that, I'm happy as I am. I'd expand my charity work, I guess. Mind you, I'd have to start buying lottery tickets first! |
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Post by MartinT on Jan 6, 2017 10:37:46 GMT
Since we already have our dream house, we would put a lot of money into making it the best we possibly can. I would buy an 18-19' deck boat, something fast that I can tow. A Regal with inboard Mercruiser V6 would be lovely. Or would I go mad and buy a Hunton XRS37 with 2 x 430hp Mercruiser 8.2l? A 4WD vehicle for towing would then be needed. Car - I'd give it some thought, try a few. An Aston would be good to have but is it good to drive? After that, some travelling but always returning to the one home. Elsewhere is what hotels are for. As for the hi-fi system, slow upgrades where necessary but starting with what I have. There is nothing that immediately needs upgrading. Music - sponsor an orchestra as a patron. Also buy more music and storage! Payback - make a contribution to Basingstoke Hospital for all they have done for me. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2017 11:31:43 GMT
Would anyone do a Walt Disney and be cryogenically frozen in the hope of a future resurrection? Dunno why the thought even came to me, but y'know I just might!
Also, would anyone NOT want 130 Million smackers?
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Post by stanleyb on Jan 6, 2017 12:16:10 GMT
And a nicely situated house for it to happily live in. I reckon I'd stay in the UK. Cornish Riviera maybe. So you would move from one posh French sounding area to another posh French sounding one  ? |
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Post by jandl100 on Jan 6, 2017 12:19:29 GMT
I can't think why not! Sounds good to me. |
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Post by MikeMusic on Jan 6, 2017 15:14:40 GMT
Buy some land, not sure where, surrounded by lots of countryside and superb views.
Build a Code 6 bungalow with a huge basement and some sort of tower to look over a lot of land. Is that still a bungalow ?
Listening room specially built starting with the kit I have and have a listen to more expensive
No boat, I drink water, keep the rest of it as far away as I can
Might get a better car, not that fussed really.
Try out and buy an expensive racing bike for a few thousand.
Investigate expensive clothes that are super comfortable.
Do something to make the world better donate or other
Make sure the kids were set up right without handing over a fortune
Have a computer setup that really works all the time or has built in redundancy
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Post by Tim on Jan 6, 2017 16:26:58 GMT
If I won 130 Million I would keep a million or less for myself, enough to buy a small house in the Yorkshire Dales and a land rover. I would then invest the remaining £129,000,000 and give the interest away to worthy causes, mostly wildlife conservation as there are far too many people on the planet already!
Amassing materialistic objects would be very low on my list of priorities.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2017 17:51:56 GMT
Small cottage in a remote ish area, Not too remote as the wife has to rattle to someone 24/7 so mush have few friends near by.. Not having to work any more & obviously no money worries. Other than that i would not change anything. still buy old things, still walk around dressed like a tramp.
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Post by ChrisB on Jan 6, 2017 18:01:47 GMT
What a great question.
And also the 2nd one Andrew asked.
Well, I think 130 million is way too much for anybody, so like Tim, I'd be finding ways to use a lot of it for the benefit of others.
The bit that I'd keep for myself though....
I'd buy some land. Some would be forested and some not. There are all sorts of silvicultural experiments I'd like to try, so a lot of the open land would be planted with more forest. This activity would take place in several different countries!
There'd be a nice, but modest house or two at each site. No flash cars thanks.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2017 20:43:44 GMT
Thats Right Chris why on earth would you want that much money. At 50 year old, Living on two million is more than ample, if your not silly with it anyway.
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Post by julesd68 on Jan 6, 2017 23:16:32 GMT
The first thing I would do is pay off my mortgage.
I would then give cash gifts to family and a few select friends. I would also give a lot of money to Parkinson's UK charity.
I would then buy an estate in Scotland and hide away, surfacing only to attend concerts, here or abroad.
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Post by Greg on Jan 7, 2017 0:20:09 GMT
I don't do it. All gambling in whatever form is a mugs game with punters mostly throwing away their money. It's an ethical dilemma. On one hand you have people who buy who can't afford to do it and inevitably are losers yet their contribution funds the success of our Olympic team, thus boosting all our national pride. I get that because it affects my sensitivities on wanting Britain to be independently great. However, I don't like that a lot of people have been coned in order to raise that money. Maybe they are are not coned and they happily sign ups to the lottery prize nonsense. Whatever, in my view, the national lottery is basically a dishonest scam. Yes it's all legal, What a disappointment.
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Post by ChrisB on Jan 7, 2017 0:28:53 GMT
Well, yes. My post comes with the caveat that I have never bought a lottery ticket. Ever.
Gambling, if you must do it, should only be for fun. I've been to Las Vegas, and the nearest I got to gambling there was to play a game of Whack-a-Rat with my daughter. It takes about three seconds in Vegas for anyone with more than a dozen brain cells to see that to be a serious punter is a very, very foolish pastime indeed!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2017 8:20:57 GMT
Actually I haven't put my Lotto numbers on since leaving the UK. I did check them on a "what if" basis though: 8 payouts in the last 6 months! Only 3 numbers but I probably had a total of 8 payouts in the last 25 years! Got me thinking though..........
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Post by MartinT on Jan 7, 2017 10:35:59 GMT
I don't see anything wrong with buying a lottery ticket. I can afford the £2, no-one is going starving in my household. It is NOT comparable to people going into betting shops or casinos and frittering their money away due to a compulsive disorder.
As to what it funds, I am mostly ok with it. I do wish it would fund opera a little less and other strands of music a little more.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2017 12:28:40 GMT
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Post by MikeMusic on Jan 7, 2017 15:21:29 GMT
More importantly it funds UK cycling ! (and athletics)
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Post by jandl100 on Jan 7, 2017 19:07:16 GMT
I've never bought a lottery ticket and never will.
Something like 25% goes to the 'good causes', the rest goes to greed.
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Post by davidf on Jan 7, 2017 23:29:46 GMT
I'd like to outbid these greedy individuals and companies who are buying quality property and turning them into flats/apartments etc purely for excessive profits. I hate seeing longstanding public houses with decent architecture being bought up, pulled down, and replaced with an Aldi or Lidl. I'd buy them and offer them out for rent at prices to cover my costs, but far cheaper than the money grabbing businessmen would, and give someone a chance to get a business up and running to feed their family.
Start a speaker company offering speakers designed to work against walls for U.K. homes, as very few companies seem bothered to.
And give anonymously to charities.
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