What would you do with £85 Million?

[tech_guy]

I see there's a new Tuesday EuroMillions draw starting tonight and the prize is a staggering £85 million. If you won it what would you do with it all?

 

I'd buy a new pair of slippers and Cyprus.

[sparkeh]

Have a ball in Poundland.

[chazzy2501]

I'd buy 2000 old cars and use EVERY parking spot in town as a big FU to everyone:)

[MK-2]

fill up my car with diesel, then buy a loaf of bread with whats left

[Hightower]

I'd get inked from neck to toe

[pshuttle]

I would carry on working here as I love my jo...... No wait, I would work my notice, get my PPL and then fly all over the world for pleasure.

[MK-2]

I'd get inked from neck to toe

 

Your squid fetish still quite strong then?

[jamesreedersmith]

Pay off the mortgage, enjoy life for a while and then start one of the many mad cap business ideas i have!

[tech_guy]

Your squid fetish still quite strong then?

 

Yes, I guess it is £85 Million Squid.....

[Falshire]

Easy give 5 Million to my 3 sisters.

My father who is in his mid 80s,will hire a nurse for life,for whatever time he has left and give him 5 million.

 

My other relatives...hmm well guess they would crawl out of the woodwork.

Goodbye to them.

 

I have 64+ million left.

Retire from work...

Buy a big cottage in cornwall.Furnish it as simply as possible.

Get the fastest internet connection possiblle,spend as much as possible on the best desktop i can buy ...hmmm Alienware,buy the best laptop i can get.

Hire a maid/cleaner and a cook.

Have a decent holiday every year.

Marry someone who looks like Jennife Anniston.

[tech_guy]

With £64 million you could marry JA!

[dhicks]

I could put down a deposit on a flat a bit nearer work.

[mac_shinobi]

1. Get a great house and do it up with all the tech stuff I want, tellys, projectors / mac stuff

2. Get a few pickup trucks, one dodge ram, one hilux, one nissan navara

3. Get the quad bikes I want from can am / maybe honda

 

List goes on lol

[pete]

Retire, design and build the fiendishly geeky house I've been pondering for years, complete with Tony Stark style workshop/office and motorbike garage.

 

That and do a lot of diving.

[sted]

buy 85 million lottery tickets lol

 

house

car(s)

holidays

 

probably easier to list what you couldnt do

[HarryMonkey]

Make sure that my family are all sorted, Buy a nice house by the coast, buy a nice boat, learn to sail. Buy a flat in London for when my other half has to have her treatment each week. Do lots of diving. Emply someone to drive me to Leicester each week for the footy.

 

Oh yes, nealry forgot ... buy a Ferrari.

 

 

... and maybe a rebreather.

[localzuk]

I'd put most of it into a charitable trust of some form, give some to my parents and brother (the prior would save it, the latter would go mad and spend it), and some of my friends.

 

I'd not actually want a huge amount of money myself. I'd want to have a house which I didn't have to pay mortgage on, learn to drive, and get a car (probably a smart car or maybe a fiesta). Probably spend a couple of years travelling the world, then settle down somewhere and get a job.

 

The rest would be invested half in high risk investments and half in a very low risk account, so I could dip into it to buy things like new computers and the like.

 

Not that I've thought about it at all...

 

Oh, and a boat. I'd want a boat.

[KWestos]

I'd use it to pay for my superinjunctions that would be racking up as I selfishly spent my millions on 'ladies of the night'! ha ha

[mac_shinobi]

I'd put most of it into a charitable trust of some form, give some to my parents and brother (the prior would save it, the latter would go mad and spend it), and some of my friends.

 

I'd not actually want a huge amount of money myself. I'd want to have a house which I didn't have to pay mortgage on, learn to drive, and get a car (probably a smart car or maybe a fiesta). Probably spend a couple of years travelling the world, then settle down somewhere and get a job.

 

The rest would be invested half in high risk investments and half in a very low risk account, so I could dip into it to buy things like new computers and the like.

 

Not that I've thought about it at all...

 

Oh, and a boat. I'd want a boat.

 

so if you do win

[sparkeh]

Fund a student through university?

[localzuk]

Fund a student through university?

 

Would it be enough??

[maniac]

Get some very good financial advice, that's what I'd do.

 

You'd think that it'd be easy to survive for the rest of your life with that sort of money, but handled wrongly and you'll be surprised. Yes you'll be OK for the first 10-20 years, but as soon as inflation catches up with you, if you've not invested at least some of it wisely you can quickly find yourself running short of money to sustain your new lifestyle.

[mac_shinobi]

Get some very good financial advice, that's what I'd do.

 

You'd think that it'd be easy to survive for the rest of your life with that sort of money, but handled wrongly and you'll be surprised. Yes you'll be OK for the first 10-20 years, but as soon as inflation catches up with you, if you've not invested at least some of it wisely you can quickly find yourself running short of money to sustain your new lifestyle.

 

Money in some ISA's, buy some houses to let / rent and that sort of thing ?

[LosOjos]

First thing I'd do is buy a few houses and flats/apartments, nothing too fancy, but rent-able. Then I'd buy myself a moderately sized house (by moderate I mean by lottery winner standards, we're still talking way bigger than I'll ever afford in my lifetime!) in England, a remote cottage in Scotland and a villa somewhere near the coast in Spain.

 

I'd pack in my job, but still "work" on things I'm actually interested in (photography, web design etc.). Not that I'm any good at them, but I enjoy them and would not have to worry about failing, it'd be purely for my own pleasure

[36Degrees]

Help some of my family to varying degrees

Help some of my friends to varying degrees

Support several local & national charities, not just with money but also time and effort

Visit the various friends I have worldwide or even better pay for us all to meet up somewhere in a 5 star hotel!

Buy a nice house with enough space to store the car collection I plan to start

Get a dog (or ten if my wife has her way!)