If you won the lottery...

Gavin Scott · Mon 13 Jun, 2005 21.42

I won 5 numbers plus the bonus in the first year of the lottery. I got a paltry £2,500 but was in a syndicate of 5 so it averaged at 500 notes each.

£4M (according to financial advisors) is enough to live in an element of luxury without working for the rest of your life. £5M would therefore be fab.

I'd have a flat, lots of nice things. Not a car cos I don't drive, but I could afford a contract merc and driver as and when required.

It would just be nice to buy things when I wanted.

I wouldn't stay working. Frankly the type of people who win big then do that just make my blood boil.

I work to live, not the other way around.

Chris Turnbull · Mon 13 Jun, 2005 22.03

Hymagumba wrote:I would spend all of it on removing Chris Turnbull's face from view.

Send the money my way and i'll see what i can do!

Jamez · Tue 14 Jun, 2005 00.41

nodnirG kraM wrote:
Jamez wrote: Cosmetic surgery (£10,000)
Ignoring the fact that you've missed the donation to the nodnirG kraM Benevolence Fund, what would you have done?

Nose & teeth mainly.

tillyoshea · Tue 14 Jun, 2005 13.02

I'd invest the vast majority of it in safe funds at around 5%, giving me an annual income from interest of £250,000. That way, I'd never need to worry about money again. Nor work again, unless I especially wanted to.

Gavin Scott · Tue 14 Jun, 2005 13.12

tillyoshea wrote:Nor work again, unless I especially wanted to.

With 5 Million in the bank, wouldn't it be a bit distasteful to take a job somebody else could do?

Unless its volunteering of course.

tillyoshea · Tue 14 Jun, 2005 13.25

Gavin Scott wrote:
tillyoshea wrote:Nor work again, unless I especially wanted to.
With 5 Million in the bank, wouldn't it be a bit distasteful to take a job somebody else could do?

Unless its volunteering of course.

That's the kind of 'work' I meant - going overseas and helping in aid efforts, and the like. The problem being that I would feel really guilty doing that kind of thing, and probably end up giving most of the money away.

Dr Lobster* · Tue 14 Jun, 2005 13.53

i wouldn't bother with charities either, the amount of money some of them spend on marketing is horrifying.

anyway, i'd give my mum and dad a great big lump sum so they could both retire and i'd keep the rest for myself and g/f (pay of mortagage, car loan etc etc) and run my own business fulltime.

Spencer For Hire · Tue 14 Jun, 2005 15.14

Dr Lobster* wrote:i wouldn't bother with charities either, the amount of money some of them spend on marketing is horrifying.

So give some to a charity which doesn't spend loads on marketing - perhaps a local charity. You wouldn't want people thinking you're just coming up with excuses for being selfish now would you?

jay · Tue 14 Jun, 2005 15.31

Although a ridiculous idea, couldn't you just blow the lot on 5 million lottery tickets?

Surely you'd win something, even if it doesn't cover the cost of the tickets you bought!

Spencer For Hire · Tue 14 Jun, 2005 15.59

There have been cases in other countries of people trying to buy every combination of numbers to guarantee winning the jackpot when it's been worth more than the cost of the tickets.

I think this has been when the jackpot has been a guaranteed amount for any winning ticket holder. In this country you'd run the risk of having to share the jackpot, plus logistically it's very difficult to buy 14 million tickets.

Cheese Head · Tue 14 Jun, 2005 17.23

id build my dream home... give some to family of course - cos im nice.

Id go down to london for a month and go for a spree, and id buy a flat whilst im there. ooo, this is fun...

Then tour Europe for say... *makes random time*... two months. Goto all the major cities. Fuck it, id also buy an uber expensive SLR camera with more film then you could poke a blunt stick at.