What would you do with a lottery win?

[HighPeakFox]

I can get no further than a) buying somewhere nice to live b) taking a holiday c) keeping my current car.

[Bellend Sebastian]

I'd buy some properties in nice places where I'd like to live, but I'd also buy a few other properties in that place, sell them to local folk for a price affordable to them with a restrictive covenant on them that they can only be sold on in the same way.

 

The last thing these places need is another rich w?*ker coming in and making it harder for people that live there to continue doing so.

 

I'd also buy a massive aquarium and pay someone else to look after it

[Ginger_Filbert]

If I won that much I’d make all my immediate family and best friends millionaires, lesser friends I’d pay off their mortgages.
That’s too much money for one person/couple, you could make 84 people millionaires and still have £100m left it really is too much to comprehend. 
 

Then of the £100m left id live off 50% of the interest with the other 50% going to charity. 

[FoxesDeb]

I'd pay off @Izzymortgage so he could retire and buy him the retirement villa in Spain he's been dreaming of, and look after a few other friends on here too. I'm happy where I live, but I'd love a classic Alfa Romeo spider, so the rest would probably go to charity once all my friends and family are looked after and I knew how much I'd need to be comfortable for the rest of my life, travelling the world in style. 

[VLC86]

1 hour ago, Daggers said:

I would say the donkey has the most mullet hairstyle of the animal kingdom tbh. Although I agree, they have more teeth than Mr Exotic. 
 

So your plan is to have people come and get their picture taken with ferocious baby donkeys - and then kill said donkeys to replace them with more baby donkeys?

 

That is mental. 

Ok more teeth, less mullets/murdering.

 

hope this clarifies.

[RoboFox]

Can’t believe these divs have gone public. As I understand it you get the full amount if you go public, or instalments if you don’t. Instalments of £184m would still be insane money regardless. There’s no need.

 

Look online at any AMA from public lottery winners and many will say that their lives weren’t necessarily changed for the better. Inundated by begging requests. You become paranoid. Lose trust in friends and family constantly thinking everyone’s after a favour. Seems like a very lonely existence.
 

I’m ok being poor, thanks.

 

Edited 22 May 2022 by RoboFox

[Durnerz]

I think I’d buy a load of car parks in city centres. Easy money and no real hardship to run.

[LiberalFox]

I'd take over Foxes Talk and ban Asha and The Horses's Mouth from the F1 thread. 

[st albans fox]

56 minutes ago, RoboFox said:

Can’t believe these divs have gone public. As I understand it you get the full amount if you go public, or instalments if you don’t. Instalments of £184m would still be insane money regardless. There’s no need.

 

Look online at any AMA from public lottery winners and many will say that their lives weren’t necessarily changed for the better. Inundated by begging requests. You become paranoid. Lose trust in friends and family constantly thinking everyone’s after a favour. Seems like a very lonely existence.
 

I’m ok being poor, thanks.

 

I can’t believe that is true.  It would need to have been widely publicised after all these years …… and btw, no way would I go public. I’d carry on my ‘normal life’ for a few months  and then tell all my acquaintances and family that I’d won a million quid on the lottery. that’s not enough to change the way they relate to you.  After a while it would be obvious that you were spending too much relative to that amount but would be simple to say that you’d got v lucky with some investments you’d made post win. After all, money makes money ……

[RoboFox]

11 minutes ago, st albans fox said:

I can’t believe that is true.  It would need to have been widely publicised after all these years …… and btw, no way would I go public. I’d carry on my ‘normal life’ for a few months  and then tell all my acquaintances and family that I’d won a million quid on the lottery. that’s not enough to change the way they relate to you.  After a while it would be obvious that you were spending too much relative to that amount but would be simple to say that you’d got v lucky with some investments you’d made post win. After all, money makes money ……

Pretty sure it’s the way it works man. They need an incentive to get people to go public, or else why would anyone? Publicity = sales.

 

Edited 22 May 2022 by RoboFox

[deejdeej]

I'd buy a huge farm and give a home to plenty of old rescue dogs that would be unlikely to get adopted. Soft but true!

[st albans fox]

17 minutes ago, RoboFox said:

Pretty sure it’s the way it works man. They need an incentive to get people to go public, or else why would anyone? Publicity = sales.

 

Most people can’t resist going public …. They just don’t appreciate how badly going public could affect they friendships etc 

 

obviously Camelot encourage going public 

[Steve_Guppy_Left_Foot]

You can't get all the money at once if you don't go public? Seems a bit daft. Take a chunk then x million every year thereafter would make a lot of sense. 

[Jattdogg]

I would make sure my siblings  and some family/friends are taken care of. Obviously,  some donations to good causes/charities is a must.

 

That kind of money is not meant for us regular folk (all of a sudden) so i would need to sit on it for awhile and talk to multiple financial advisors so that i don't get scammed. As part of my gifting family/friends i also would make them talk with financial advisors as well to set them up for success.

 

Would definitely get a season ticket and be over there more often

 

 

 

 

[Jattdogg]

25 minutes ago, Steve_Guppy_Left_Foot said:

You can't get all the money at once if you don't go public? Seems a bit daft. Take a chunk then x million every year thereafter would make a lot of sense. 

Over here in Canada they have to identify you. So if  win 70 mill on tuesday then everyone will come after me "can you lend me 10k, 1 mil" or some foreign  scam would perhaps try to target me.

 

I would first "fall off the grid" and erase my digital trails,  sell my house and relocate to a temporary accomodation. Delete linkedin (only social media I have) and scrub jattdogg from foxestalk by bribing the mods with some clappers. 

 

Then, after a few months claim my prize. You get 1 year to claim before it expires over here.

[nnfox]

A mate of mine had to do some work in Manchester a few years ago.  He had to visit a couple who lived in one of the poorer parts of the city.  In their house, stuffed behind the sofa, was a giant cheque for 100k.  They were given it after going public with the lottery when they won 100k on a scratch card. 

 

The couple said it was the worst thing they ever did.  The very evening the news broke, they had people they didn't know knocking on the door asking for money.  Their tyres were slashed and various threats were made to them and their close relatives and it went on for weeks.

 

 

[Big Dave]

£1M+ - quit work and invest it all in properties.  Job would be to manage them (very little work to do) and live off the income.

That sort of win, certainly wouldn’t pay off any mortgages - invest the money and let the investment pay off a mortgage over time.

Regular small payments to good causes.

 

Win a shit load and probably do something similar, but bigger scale, but employing someone to manage.

Give regular larger payments to good causes.

 

May even join the prawn sandwich brigade at the KP.

Edited 22 May 2022 by Big Dave

[HighPeakFox]

d) I'd get my teeth sorted out 

[tom27111]

10 hours ago, FoxesDeb said:

I'd pay off @Izzymortgage so he could retire and buy him the retirement villa in Spain he's been dreaming of, and look after a few other friends on here too. I'm happy where I live, but I'd love a classic Alfa Romeo spider, so the rest would probably go to charity once all my friends and family are looked after and I knew how much I'd need to be comfortable for the rest of my life, travelling the world in style. 

I'm almost hoping you win it instead of me Deb. As long as @Izzy asks me out twice a year to play golf.

 

I've also got contacts to get you a decent deal on the Alfa and you can pay for me and the family to come over to Spain at Xmas, purely so I could make the red cabbage for your Xmas dinner 

[tom27111]

If we're talking £184m, I'm blowing at least 5 mill on the most incredible house. I'm talking cinema room, pool, bar,12 bedrooms, 9 hole golf course in the garden...

 

Then I'm buying a fleet of cars. Probably at least 10. Ranging from a 60's split screen VW camper van to a  brand new Aston Martin.

 

I'd still have £178m left, so I'm going to buy a League 2 team, like Northampton Town or Swindon Town.

 

I'd be a better owner than Top, so the fans love me. But only so once automatic promotion is secured, I'd play the last game of the season 

[Steve_Guppy_Left_Foot]

Maybe I'm super reckless but the idea of only blasting 2-10m quid of 184 million is just madness to me. I'd go absolutely mental with 84m and then consolidate the 100 million quid. It's 100 million quid, what a crazy amount of money to be sat on, and after having the luxury of going absolutely mental for a few years with no brake pedal. Best of both worlds. 

[Steve_Guppy_Left_Foot]

And even if you Boris beckered it as long as you had a roof over your head and didn't need to work who cares. 

[Bellend Sebastian]

If you won crazy money I think we'd all go out and by a load of mad stuff, but how long would it take for the novelty to wear off?

 

I reckon not that long. You go and buy a McLaren supercar, a Rolex or whatever, then what? As soon as you've got this stuff it just becomes your normality

[Julian Joachim Jr Shabadoo]

If I won £184m (or any ridiculous sum), I reckon I'd get one of those super luxurious RVs and tour the US for a few months, buy a nice house in my favourite area, and a massive house somewhere around Charnwood that would still be my regular home. Set up a recording studio. Get a Rolls Royce Phantom, the mintest MK II Scirocco available anywhere (as a daily runabout) and a garage full of motorbikes. The house would have a bowling alley in it. I'd also have a full size replica of Edward Hopper's Nighthawks cafe (and surrounding buildings) built somewhere for my own amusement, it would have live jazz in it at all times, and I'd turn away anyone going in who didn't get the reference and didn't respect the vibe

 

I'd give all my friends and family stupid money, give a shitload to charity and buy a few properties and employ some people to cover the day-to-day running of all that so I've got a steady stream of income without having to even consider working. My days would purely consist of drumming, bowling, eating, socialising and walking the dog, and I would never tire of that routine.

 

I'd also employ someone full time solely to pick up my dog's shit and mow the lawn.

 

 

If we're talking a more modest lottery win (say, £2m), then it'd be buy a £500k-ish house outright, £100k to get it exactly how I like and add a modest music studio, give away a chunk to friends and family, get a decent car, buy 1 or 2 houses to rent out and live off the income of that. Go on some nice holidays, but I probably wouldn't be able to justify employing someone to pick up dogshit.

[tom27111]

15 minutes ago, Julian Joachim Jr Shabadoo said:

If I won £184m (or any ridiculous sum), I reckon I'd get one of those super luxurious RVs and tour the US for a few months, buy a nice house in my favourite area, and a massive house somewhere around Charnwood that would still be my regular home. Set up a recording studio. Get a Rolls Royce Phantom, the mintest MK II Scirocco available anywhere (as a daily runabout) and a garage full of motorbikes. The house would have a bowling alley in it. I'd also have a full size replica of Edward Hopper's Nighthawks cafe (and surrounding buildings) built somewhere for my own amusement, it would have live jazz in it at all times, and I'd turn away anyone going in who didn't get the reference and didn't respect the vibe

 

I'd give all my friends and family stupid money, give a shitload to charity and buy a few properties and employ some people to cover the day-to-day running of all that so I've got a steady stream of income without having to even consider working. My days would purely consist of drumming, bowling, eating, socialising and walking the dog, and I would never tire of that routine.

 

I'd also employ someone full time solely to pick up my dog's shit and mow the lawn.

 

 

If we're talking a more modest lottery win (say, £2m), then it'd be buy a £500k-ish house outright, £100k to get it exactly how I like and add a modest music studio, give away a chunk to friends and family, get a decent car, buy 1 or 2 houses to rent out and live off the income of that. Go on some nice holidays, but I probably wouldn't be able to justify employing someone to pick up dogshit.

I've PM'd you my CV, highlighting my dog shit pick up and lawn mowing skills 

 

References available upon request.