What would you do with a big lottery win?

spend it :D

I think if I won many millions, it'd worry me: where should I invest it? how much should/can I give away? to whom? etc. etc. Perhaps that's why I think there should be a cap on an individual prize - no-one could possibly need more than £3, 4, or 5m. I don't know why they can't devise games that spread prizes more.
In answer to your question, once I'd set my kids up for life, I'd buy a property with big outbuildings to take all the Minis I'd then buy. Other than that, I'd be generous to charities/friends - my wants/needs are few (apart from Minis that is!).

R.

Buy my mum and dad a nice place with Land, get me and Barry our first home with plenty of room for mini's! Buy more mini's, get all of Luna's rusty bits sorted out. Maybe think about the wedding of my dreams (best not tell Barry that one!  :P )
The list could go on....

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Perhaps that's why I think there should be a cap on an individual prize - no-one could possibly need more than £3, 4, or 5m. I don't know why they can't devise games that spread prizes more.
In answer to your question, once I'd set my kids up for life, I'd buy a property with big outbuildings to take all the Minis I'd then buy. Other than that, I'd be generous to charities/friends - my wants/needs are few (apart from Minis that is!).

My thoughts as well Richard, why carnt they cap the total at say 3 million and make the second prizes 1 million and say 3rd prizes 500,000, all would change peoples lives a little.

If I won a big prize I would buy the company and sack the fat cat directors for a change  ;)

Quoted from richardjackson99

I think there should be a cap on an individual prize - no-one could possibly need more than £3, 4, or 5m.

I'm in a syndicate of 20; we only enter when there's a prize over about £20M. So if we'd won £56M that would have been a handy £2.8M each.

If there was a cap of say £5M it would be "only" £250,000 each but even that would pay the mortgage off and set us up nicely.

i wouldnt know what to do with the money so i dont play it. it would most likely ruin me.
sounds odd but i like not earning much.

Joel and I think has had our lotto luck - we got 5 numbers, sadly it was a week that many people also won (our numbers are all related to the 2 of us and we play wed and sat direct debit online) it was able to pay off our credit card for our honeymoon, brought joel a new surfboard and me a very posh coat!!!

But when we win big big im going to buy a plot of land and joely and i can design and build a nice house, im going to ring up channel four and go on grand designs :) that is my aim in life to meet Kevin McCloud mmmmmmmmmmmmm :) Joely would prob go into surfboard shaping as a hobby to keep busy and I'd carry on teaching couldnt give that up, oh and we'd have a pig, couple of sheep and an alpaca :) and i would nominate myself to hunt down puppy farms and close them down!!!!

We'd like a reasonable size house with lots of land to build a huge place to house all the cars we dream of, including lots of minis naturally. Maybe a decent workshop to build minis to sell, rather than the old piggery we currently have. Set up father in law with nice place, have a holiday place in the sun, make sure all the other relations that deserve it get some financial help, donate vast sums to chosen charities, buy and get customised my Kenworth big rig.........um what else what else........ We often talk about setting up a mini parts business round cambridge, probably with a workshop too. But as we dont buy tickets, they will stay dreams eh.

PS when I get my big rig can I bring it to the NDGT  :D

Quoted from missysmummy

when I get my big rig can I bring it to the NDGT  :D

Might be interesting down the Valley of the Rocks.

well I didn't win the euromillions tonight. Maybe I'll win the lottery tomorrow or wednesday!

and then again pigs might fly!  :D

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We'd pay off the mortgage, do our extension, furnish it and finish the minis with 'proper' engines from MED and professional spray job.  Matt'd give up work and carry on the with minis.  ME i'd have to work, i'm not doing my foundation degree for nothing!?!  Oh yeah and i'd send my eldest to music school (he's a dyslexic drummer and hates normal school)

Quoted from LunaMini

well I didn't win the euromillions tonight. Maybe I'll win the lottery tomorrow or wednesday!

and then again pigs might fly!  :D

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There's always hope - haven't you heard of swine flu :D