HI
Given there is some big money on offer i wonder what people would do?
Would you tell anyone?
cambourne7
Retire, get a nice house with a whopping great garden, invest enough to live comfortably, and use the rest to start my own charity, for grassroots projects and schools in Sierra Leone.
nice !
Where would the house be?
Would you keep the lotty?
move to the usa to be by my sister and buy us both a house next door to each other and live happley ever after :)
As I don't even buy a ticket this is very fanciful....
I would buy or have built a proper walled garden... with a huge glasshouse on the south facing wall.... think NT houses.... and pay a couple of helpers, even I couldn't work a full one!!!
8)
if your not in it you will not win it!
I have a box at my desk, if i want to buy chocolate i put the money in it and at the end of the month i buy some tickets instead.
I very rarely buy a ticket, only when pure greed gets the better of me. This week in work we've started a syndicate to increase our chances and to walk out all at once should we win.
If I won, I would buy out the upstairs flat so I could use the whole of the back garden and could let my daughter have the upstairs when she walks out on the unsuitable other half (my thoughts not hers).
and it would depend how much whether i would tell or not !
;D
hmm, I'd like to get a boat and sail around the world, but then what would happen to my lottie ...
Would I spill the beans...it is impossible to say until you are in that situation. However, in my wildest fantasies I would buy a lovely big house with a good few acres so we could start our little smallholding, but it would need to be close to the sea, in North Devon of course so I can have my Hockings Icecream daily! I would invest carefully so the children would never have to worry financially. I would want to give mum money....but she would never move, and she loves her job, so I would give her some to 'play' with. I would also make sure my sis and her boys had some. I would donate a wedge to St Thomas's hossy in London where dad died, Cardiac care and our local hospice, Farleigh. Cor, I could go on and on as I imagine we all could......would be lovely huh! My dad started a syndicate at work when the lotto first started. There are 11 of us in it and you won't believe it, finally, after all these years we are going to get a payout! £100 each will empty the account! PAH!! Mum is treasurer and she isn't going to give me and my sis the cash, she is going to buy us £100 premium bonds each - probably a wiser investment than doing the lottery!
it would be on the top deck !
;D
With regards winning the lottery I can speak from experience and say it isn't all its cracked up to be.My family member didnt win millions but won a life changing amount.I have benefited from it and so have other members of my family but some didnt get as much as they wanted and its caused abit of trouble.
We didnt and still haven't told anyone outside the immediate family although I know afew people know about it.Its been said in conversation that the person that won it wished they never had!!!
I can't agree as its changed our lives.I even went to camelots offices with the winner to pick up the cheque and cashed it that day.The look on the counter clerks face when we opened a new account was priceless and we soon had all the staff running round like lap dogs!!!!!!!
I don't stand a cat in hells chance of winning it as I don't do it, :P I used to when they first launched it as I used to get quite a few £10 wins with just a couple of quid investment per week, but then like all fruit machines they tweak em when they get the interest and the tenners start to disappear ::) wonder why that was :-\ ;D
So I reverted back to putting my spare cash back into Ernie (Electronic Random Number Indicator Equipment) better known as "Premium Bonds" moneys safe, no interest but you don't lose your stake money. 8)
I have not got rich on it (Yet) but have had a good return on my investment, probably matching some of the high street banks offers, so my £2 per week that was poured into the lottery is saved and put into Premium Bonds every Christmas 8)
I did it the first week, and won a tenner, did it the second and won £100 ... and I haven't done it since.
I figured that was likely to be my lot ... so quit whilst I was ahead.
I'd set up a charitable trust and give money to local charities and groups working to improve the lot of people with problems.
Silly me, wasn't that what the lottery was supposed to be about any way.
( would also by modest house with HUGE garden & loads of space for OH's engine collection - tell no one and live normally)
Hi
Not that i won last night ( or even believe i will win ) But i would tell people i had won but not the amount.
If i won more than a million i would tell people i only won a million and hid the rest in a swiss bank account. Money changes people and i want to know i have a nest egg.
With the money left i would pay off the house, redecorate etc.
I would pay off debts from myself and family and rip there CCs up.
I would give them all a little bit of money and put some more in long term savings accounts so they could not touch it.
I would pay someone to come into the allotment and build a 2 story shed ) half burried underground as a winter veg store. And put a greenhouse in.
I would set up a savings account, where the intrest would top up my husbands and my private pension to the max allowed by the government.
I would take the whole family to NZ for a month!
And i would happily walk out of my job!
Cambourne7
A house with big rooms, my bungalow is small. Would have to have some land. ( I can here the eldest daughter asking if she can put their horse there!!). Then after taking advice would help my children and grandchildren. I have always said that I wouldn't just give a large sum of money to a charity (cancer near to my heart) but would go to Addenbrookes Hospital and ask what piece of machinery/equipment I could buy.
In the meantime I am happy with my life so a little dreaming is O.K.
Lorna.
I want a smallholding - one that I could keep a few livestock, as well as grow veg to my heart's content.
Donations - there would be some to selected charities. I found out an internet friend has cancer (somewhere in the bowel) and has recently had two emergency operations :'(
I don't agree with the charities that send out massses and massses of begging adverts. My mum received one which enclosed a small sum of money (21p?).
Ernie was nice to me - £500 which I think I used for Open University course fees.
After looking after family and friends, we'd bugger off! ;D
A house in south-west France with around 5 acres of land (1 dedicated to fruit and veg); a house somewhere in the Canadian Rockies (spend all winter skiing) and a small place in the Maldives to go and rot in when we get fed up with counting how much we've got left!
So, obviously, it wouldn't change us one jot ;)
unsurprisingly our syndicate won sod all and we're all going back for a second bite of the cherry.
i'll almost be grateful when some other person wins it, so we can stop it again.
Eric, we have been doing the lottery for the last 3yrs and we have not won a bean.
So i think your theory could be well on target, we used to win a tenner on a regular basis but not anymore Mmmmmm!!.
::) Well one of the theories is that you have more chance of being hit by a meteorite than winning the lottery, how many peeps do you know that have had that experience? ??? ::)
With a 54million pound jackpot even more peeps will part with their hard earned cash which will up the stakes even more, so you will probs have more chance of shaking Elvis Presley's hand than winning the lottery ;D
P.S. Who's Eric? is it Ernie's pal ??? ;D
It always amazes me how many more people buy a ticket when it's a rollover week. As if winning between 2-4 million wouldn't be enough, they only want to play it with a chance of winning double or triple that >:(
I play my lottery online. I do five weeks at a time and I get emailed if I win. So far only had one email, LOL!
I'd see my family right, build a children's home with staff to run it then b**ger off to Canada with my husband and son ;D
Someone has to win and one day that someone could be me :)
I would love to be able to pay off my elder sons student loan, and to buy son no2 a good work van. Barrie and I would have a camper van and travel. :) :)
well, WHEN I win this weekend, I'll buy you all a drink! You can count on it.
;D
Cheers! ;) ;) ;)
Yes I was wondering how Eric had crept in there????????
Oh what a worry that would be to have all that powerful money. I work in a fairly lowly job. This week have had a few people look down their little noses at me it would be worth winning just to see that change in their attitude. Not that they worry me folks cos you just have to feel sorry for folk like that.
I don't know who I would tell but am sure I would have to blurb to some one. Don't think I would admit to a huge win. Just make out I had won enough to treat a few people and may be give a lot away to good causes. How much would you miss the lottie doing solitary gardening, how would I know when to do anything without our Triple By Pass John giving needy advice. Etc. All that social life from work.
They recon its going to be £135million tonight thats just sick
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6135562.stm
If its not won this week it will be shared out amonst everyone next week!
half a million would do me, good to see you can rise above the petty twerps who sneer at others :)
Save your money, I have just got a ticket. This is really my lucky day. Just think I will be able to be a full time alcoholic.
I never buy lottery tickets. I'm the saddo with the premium bonds :-[ Pete lives dangerously with the lottery. ;)
If he won I'd retire and then do some thinking about how to use all that money. Probably start with helping the kids ditch their uni debt. Invest enough so we could be comfortable then think about how we could make a difference in the Third World. Plant a forest? Clean water? The possibilities are endless...
Heard on the radio on the way home tonight, that you should buy your ticket after 6 30, because if you buy it before then, you have more chance of being killed than winning! Great odds huh?
Still havenot bought a ticket... so with all the years they have been running I must be quids in by now!
::)
i think thats a lot of money, possibly to much.
It is the love of money, not the money itself, which is the root of all evil. You can't have too much cash if you have the heart to give it to a good cause.
But I still won't be buying a ticket.
thats it, the euro lottery cant roll over again!
if it was £1m
quit work, keep quiet, buy a house in our current town with lots of rooms, good location, big garden.
Hire a manager/marketeer for the deli and go on holiday for a few months.
invest very, very wisely.
if it was £135m
walk out of work and tell them my solicitor's are bigger than theirs so s*d off.
go on holiday world travelling for about 3 years.
Option A: give up the allotment, buy a big house with an even bigger garden, have a massive, old-fashioned victorian greenhouse, a walled garden and hire a gardener to teach me!
Option B: keep the allotment, build an architecturally astute house within the boundaries of our current town with a dining table to fit 20 with ease (we hold big dinner parties and have to roate friends at the moment!) so most of the living space will probably be dining room.
dish out some to rellies, some friends, charities.
invest the majority and try to live off the interest only once all expenditures have been met.
We'd also have a jolly good, drug-laden try at having children!
Quote from: bennettsleg on November 12, 2006, 09:54:36
We'd also have a jolly good, drug-laden try at having children!
If that was successful, they would get through your £135m fortune in no time.....! ;D
If I did win..unlikely as I don't play but... I would cash the cheque then push it as far as I could at work, as nobody has ever been sacked I would like to see what I could get away with! I would start gently working up and up!!
Sad that I think these things!
Of course I would also make sure family were looked after and then I would by a nice small holding and "live the dream"
Regards
Matt
Quote from: grawrc on November 10, 2006, 18:37:15
I never buy lottery tickets. I'm the saddo with the premium bonds :-[ Pete lives dangerously with the lottery. ;)
If he won I'd retire and then do some thinking about how to use all that money.
ATTA GIRL!!! 8) ;D ;D ;D
Quote from: MattyJC on November 12, 2006, 15:08:01
If I did win..unlikely as I don't play but... I would cash the cheque then push it as far as I could at work, as nobody has ever been sacked I would like to see what I could get away with! I would start gently working up and up!!
Sad that I think these things!
Of course I would also make sure family were looked after and then I would by a nice small holding and "live the dream"
Regards
Matt
Great idea, although i would not tell the family or friends!
Our work syndicate won £38.28 !!! woooohooooo.
Between 12.
where are you going to celebrate ?, :)
We have just agreed to compound our folly by entering the same numbers again this week.
If I'm not around for a while after next weekend, you'll know I've told work where to go and they've removed my broadband.
( and I'll have to DHL their laptop back from Hawaii)