The Lottery

[phunkyphantom22]

Always an interesting topic!

What would you do if you won the jackpot i.e. something like £5,000,000?!

Would you do regarding your job - work your notice or just quit and leave? Would you quit at all or maybe work part time?

What would you do with the money?

If I won 5 million, I would hand in my notice straight away but definitely work it - you don't want to burn your bridges!

I would also only tell my immediate family, partner and very close friends about it!

The first thing I would do is put a few million in a high interest savings account! He he!

I'd then go travelling around the world with my boyfriend - but flying first class and staying in the best 5* resorts! That would probably take a few years anyway!

Then I'd return to the UK, buy us a lovely house in the country and a trendy flat in London, then invest some of it in several other 2 bed apartments and rent them out. I'd also get us both new cars and buy my parents a car each and a nice new house wherever they wanted. I'd put money by for my sister when she is older too.

I'd also donate some to cancer research and local charities.

Last but not least, I'd use some for our wedding!

Ah well, back to reality..... :-)

[Baggybooks]

Sounds like you've done the hard bit - winning will be a doddle!

:lol:

[phunkyphantom22]

He he! :-)

I reckon I could spend it all in a month if I really tried, ha ha!

Ooh I forgot, if I wanted to work again, I'd probably be a party planner! :lol:

[Gem7321]

I would hand my notice in. I would tell my immediate family but I would lie about the amount because they would want half! Then they'd tell the rest of my family (which is huge) and they'd all want some and I'd be too nice to say no :(

I would then buy a house in Spain or Greece, as well as a family home in the country and buy lots of horses and dogs. I would probably buy a horse for my brother too :roll:

To work I would buy a restaurant :D My lifetime ambition!

Then I would put the rest in high interest accounts and live off the interest and donate some to NSPCC and Cancer Research.

Then I'd have lots of babies!

If anyone does win the lottery and wants some info on savings accounts do come to me :lol:

Gem

If I won the Euromillions jackpot on a 7 time rollover making the jackpot £80,000,000 the first thing I would do would have a minute's silence for myself and calmly think about what I could buy.

I would fake a phone call from my boss and tell my fiancee I needed to go to London and stay overnight to give some training.

I would head down there on train and spend the night living it up in luxury whilst my cheque is being issued, once the money hits the bank the morning after, I would go to the nearest sports car retailer and buy the biggest most extravegant car and fill the thing with High Octane Fuel.

I'd phone the missus on my new Touch Screen Apple Inc Mobile Phone (prototype of course) and say i'm on my way home and I have been given a pay rise.

I would set off driving home to manchester, then pull up outside the quasi-semi and get out of the car donning a versace fitted suit and D&G sunglasses.

I'd swagger down the walkway and open the door, the missus would gasp in delight at my new image and would look out at the car and say "Who's is that?"

"Yours" I'd say - then I would drive her to the local supermarket and walk her to the ATM - I would warn her not to get too carried away and that the ATM screen should be a little wider.

I hand her the card and she enters the PIN > Check Balance > "On screen babe or on receipt" she would ask..... "better on screen love, the apper may be too small" > balance on screen.

She would look at it, rub her eyes, look at it again - turn to me and scream.

Everyone would think I was mugging her and would run over to save her - they would then see the amount on screen and demand they were my friend.

I would then tell my missus not to tell anybody in mine or her family and we would go and secretly buy the nicest house we could, I would hand in my notice and work it - treating all my colleagues to a massive party and for the ones I really like a nice pressie.
I would expect my missus to quit on the spot.

We would move our things secretly into our new nig mansion and go and buy loads of new plasma tv's etc... and a lot of other decorative things, it would be a brand spanking new looking house with top of the range technologies.

I would then phone my mum and fiancee's mum and say - are you coming round, we have some exciting news to tell you - they would think we were having another child and so would rush round to see us.

They would go to our old house and expect us to be there and when no one answers the door they will phone me and say where are you - I'd give them the new address, which would be Jamie Street ( I would buy the street name) and tell them where to go.

They would arrive and I will show them the winning lottery ticket, I would give them each £100 each and tell them not to spend it all at once, we would host massive parties and mingle with the high society and I would create thousands of Hot Accountant Calendars.

We would live happily ever after - and I would divide a portion of the fortune between the members of the family who could be trusted (IE, the ones I know wouldn't waste the money and come looking for more)!

That's it really... not much

[Bryony]

You've thought hard about this...!

I would do the high interest savings account thing too... I would get me a house. A nice one. Without mice or landlords.

I would also pay for our wedding. I would go on holiday, because I genuinely can't remeber the last time I had one. I would go on a cruise up the coast of Norway. And I would go walking in the Galapagos, and I would take which ever train it is that crosses America.

I would work part time, but might look into starting my own charity, which is my way of being boss wihout having to climb the career ladder. The beneficiaries would be foxes, hedge hogs and cheetahs. And hedgerows and meadows and woodland.

[blobbyh]

If I won five million, I think I'd have everyone eliminated who's annoyed me throughout my life at a pound a pop.

Then once that's cleared up, I'd use the remaining quid to buy myself a lucky dip!

One of my favourite quotes; "If I tried to kill everyone who hated me, it wouldn't be murder, it'd be genocide"

Robert

[Baggybooks]

I decided to carry on with my life, keep my friends and rise to new challenges - hence my studying for AAT.

:lol: