Lotto

timgraham · Wed 08 Jul, 2009 12.23

Gavin Scott wrote: I know them well - I've read them!

I got the first from my 90-year-old grandmother but I hadn't heard of the others. She's quite a fan, so much so that she disconnects the phone for half an hour.

Gavin Scott · Wed 08 Jul, 2009 12.36

I've been known to stay up til 4am to watch her on CBS on the internet.

Now that's commitment.

davidmcg · Thu 09 Jul, 2009 10.39

If I won the Lotto:

1. Make sure myself, and my family are financially secure in the future.
2. Take everyone I know, all my mates and well anyone in my university on a massive session.... for a week
3. Massive cosmetic surgery
4. Mini Cooper
5. Buy a pub
6. Get a proper set up for my Playstation 3 (kid at heart).
7. Donation to the Prostate Cancer Foundation and Cancer Research
8. Finally go on a proper holiday

Think thats about it, €5 million should do nicely.

rob · Thu 09 Jul, 2009 10.49

Up until yesterday, I would have spent the money on investing in my favourite football team, but now the Swiss have stolen my idea, I'd use it to buy a pub.

Ronnie Rowlands · Thu 09 Jul, 2009 11.43

A lot of people seem to want to go on holiday. Never understood that.

I suppose I would pay off any debts my family may have, by myself a comfortable but not-too-pricey flat and just use the money normally, with the exception of treats, which I'll buy more regularly.

Cache · Thu 09 Jul, 2009 11.54

I would buy myself a flat in London, and one in Edinburgh. Then buy £30,000 of Premium Bonds (because it's safer than a bank and you win prizes..) and shove the rest in a high interest account.
I'd also buy my mum a house wherever she wanted and give her a tidy allowance each month to spend on lavish clothes

Sput · Thu 09 Jul, 2009 11.56

Whores. I'd spend it all on whores.

Cache · Thu 09 Jul, 2009 11.57

Sput wrote:Whores. I'd spend it all on whores.

Now that's a plan.

Gavin Scott · Thu 09 Jul, 2009 12.17

There's no such thing as a high interest account these days. They're all a bit rubbish.

A unit trust investment is a good move if you're not seeking access to your capital for a few years. The market is undervalued, so this is the moment to buy those units cheap. Plus you could have a stocks and shares and a cash ISA, but that only totals £7,200 a year - but its a tax free environment.

God, finance is dull *sobs*.

Fuck it, whores seems more fun.

Cache · Thu 09 Jul, 2009 12.24

Finance talk turns me on.

Baha, how on God's Earth could you spend about £5 million on whores, unless you had a different one daily until you were about 120?

Gavin Scott · Thu 09 Jul, 2009 12.39

math-yoooo wrote:Finance talk turns me on.

Baha, how on God's Earth could you spend about £5 million on whores, unless you had a different one daily until you were about 120?

One a day?

You have much to learn, young padawan.