Euro Millions - Help Me Spend My Winnings!

Pross

I don't believe it - after all this someone from my village scooped £45.5m! I bet they were behind my wife in the Spar on Saturday and bought the lucky dip ticket I meant to ask her to get! :shock:

pedylan

Pross wrote:

I don't believe it - after all this someone from my village scooped £45.5m! I bet they were behind my wife in the Spar on Saturday and bought the lucky dip ticket I meant to ask her to get! :shock:

And the syndicate consists of 7 IT workers. There's no justice, what are IT workers going to spend £6m on, everybody knows they've no imagination. Maybe one of them also bikes a bit....

Any IT workers in the house:?

Pross

They'll all have lovely new PCs I expect

pneumatic

Ok, with that kind of money you can buy anything you want, but if you could just help yourself from the toyshop, would you want it any more?

Or you could pay to have yourself "perfected": cosmetic surgery, PhD, cook, dance, sing, play the guitar. but for what?

chances are, these poor souls will find themselves released of every worry the rest of us have except the big one: "Who am I and what is the point of it all?"

You can't buy the answer to that one.

Pross

I'll take that worry on board for them if they hand over the cash!

Maybe they'll have the time and resources to be who they are though?

Harry B

an indoor velodrome in the back garden

Crapaud

pneumatic wrote:

... chances are, these poor souls will find themselves released of every worry the rest of us have except the big one: "Who am I and what is the point of it all?"

You can't buy the answer to that one.

I know someone who's relatives won 3 mill. They bought a big pile in the country and spend every day in it drinking themselves to death thinking 'this is the life'. :roll: Apparently the money hasn't made them happy.

I've never seen the point in buying a huge mansion, I'd be more inclined to get a series of decent sized appartments / normal sized houses in various countries - probably in cycling related locations.

I've never been very materialistic, so I'd likely chase experiences, like indulge myself in frivolous stuff like total eclipse's of the sun and stuff. Ironically, I'd probably buy a tourer and the best of camping gear and do a lot of travelling (while the interest mounted up).

For me any good lottery win would be more about what it would enable me to do rather that what it would enable me to buy.

Pross

I'd have the big house in the country as :-

a) would be fairly tied to one place for a few years because of the kids schooling.
b) would have a load of horses and riding facilities
c) would build myself 2 large fishing lakes, one for trout and the other for course
d) I love the countryside
e) no need to worry about having ar$eholes for neighbours.

Would also have a smaller place in Cornwall overlooking the sea and maybe something in a warmer climate.

jweston

I'd get one of those 'go absolutely anywhere' Russian trucks converted into a motor home, and set off around the world with my climbing gear and my bikes. I'd probably learn to paraglide, ski, wind surf, dive, mush (dog sled), surf, cave, kayak, sail, and just about everything else I could think of.

symo

Errr

1- VW sportline Transporter Van kombi
2- Colnago EPS with Zipp and Dura Ace
3- House with a garden big enough for a mini ramp in the lake district and a garden big enough to grow my own veg.
4- Chalet in the alps with enough garden for food.
5- Monthly Coaching sessions.

Thats it. I like a simple life.

Lazarus

Pross with that kind of money you could always pay to have the velodrome renamed in your honour

Pross

Would have my own - don't want anything in Newport named after me!