I would see little if any difference in my life... I would possibly use the money to bribe my way into getting things a little quicker... that is what money does... you never wait if you splash cash... I have 'money' but not in cash... so it would be handy for that... but then again, I'm not really waiting for anything.

 

Nacro - the people who are well-balanced and happy like he obviously is are those for whom the big wins aren't a problem. It's the mal-adjusted idiots who think the world revolves around cash that have the real problem with £2m.

There's no question that a large lump sum isn't necessary to make us happy - since my wife & I moved up here we've enjoyed the slow-down in the pace of life. Having 6 months off and spending time doing stuff like hill-walking and mountain-biking we've started to become far less materialist already. Stuff like a big car, home cinema, and all that sort of rubbish seem far less important to us than when we were in the SE rat-race. All we're really bothered about now is buying a nice house and having enough to pay the bills.

Oh, and moving to Greece/New Zealand - you don't need £2m. The way their economies are, you can move out there, buy a nice big beach-front house and still have plenty 'o cash in the bank just by selling a modest 3-bed semi in Surrey.

 

I'd be quite happy to live a normal life with £2M but without actually having to work for a living. What would I do during the day? Same as I do now, surf Scoobynet, but from the comfort of my modest 4 bed house on a nice estate somewhere.

Unlikely though, as I don't play the Lotto either.

 

yeah, with NO mortgage or car loans etc....

thats a grand a week to spuff on anything you like....
- not to shabby!!!

BB

 

id go on the **** 4 life!!!!!!

 

I don't play the "I'm bad at maths" tax either.
There are 2 reasons.

1. I don't want to get the money that way.
2. I have a job involving maths, so I can't be seen to be bad at it

I used to want to win the lottery when I was a bit younger. Not now. I'd be bored if I didn't work. I enjoy what I do (most of the time). What would the money change for the better? It would make loads of new problems for me.

That said, £50k or so to clear my mortgage & student loan would be nice. Nothing more really.

 

Million in the bank, spend a million, live off the interest generated by the million in the bank.

The million I spend would go on a nice house, plus spending totally obscene ammounts of money on a scooby and then modifying it Hell, I'd buy a 22B and totally and utterly defile it bwhahahahahaha

 

buy nice big house with obscene sized garage. £350k should do it.
buy 1967 fastback Mustang
buy TVR Tuscan Speed 12
buy P1 - supe up.
buy Nissan Skyline GTR 34. Tune the bollox off it.


oh, and buy a house in Tuscany. The roads are mint.

then live off the interest.

 

oh yeah - and have a massive party with my mates, you guys and some random people from australia off the web (coz ive never met an australian).

there would be a fountain of Carlsberg Export.

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

 

bye all the rally cars and sell some of them for more

 

Suppose I have a few ideas what to do with it now......

 

Mark, as always, does have a valid point, and giving it a rethink 2m aint that much, not when you consider how much a nice house would cost, plus fuel for the cars, taxes *shudder*

I would be most happy to get 2m and then bung it all over to Canada, as I'd be very very well off, hell, I'm in the top 2 percent of earners in toronto on my current salary, and I'm not exactly that well paid!

 

Hmm, unassorted thoughts here because I dream about it but do not count on it.

Jarvis Cocker from Pulp called his second (?) album 'hardcore'. He explained it roughly along these lines: You always think your life will be great and witout problems and you have a lot of friends and find your love when you're rich and famous. But in reality it isn't like that. Nothing really changes. And realizing this is 'hardcore'!

Fedor Dostoyewski (sp?): Money is printed freedom of will!

G. B. Shaw: Outlook on life depends on the income

????: Money is not important! The things you can do with money are important!


Still I have fantasies of spending silly amounts of money for silly things but I've had too little of it for too long that I'd really do it

 

I just want a new car, have a decent house and the wife has a new car but I want one now !

Trouble is I have to spend all my cash on sensible stuff like bills, kids and petrol, BORING BORING BORING, no money for cars, gadgets or blokey trips to track days and the like.

 

1) Pack in my current job.
2) Buy a helicopter, then learn top fly it
3) Start the business I've wanted to for a while now.
4) Buy a nice boat, sail myself loads of places.
5) Build a place where I like most, kick back and listen to my Hi Fi as loud as I like

 

I don't do the lottery as I think it would fek up your life. My life is based on goals and dreams. When we lived in a damp flat, my dream was for a dry flat - we got a dry flat.. my dream was to buy a house. We bought a house .. my dream was a big house in a nice area with a big garden and a couple of kids playing in the garden. I now own a big house in a nice area with a couple of kids who occasionally go into the garden when it is not pissing . I don't really want to move again, but I wouldn't mind buying a neighbours house and turning it into a games room.

Same progression with cars. My first car was £80.00 and I was almost sick with excitement when I went to collect it. Now 20k for a car seems average

My theory is that if someone hands me 2 million quid, I will get a massive house, flash cars etc etc. After a year or two I will want bigger, flasher etc. I will have no way of generating more than the 2 million so I can achieve new dreams, so by that stage I will have to admit that that is 'as good as it gets.' How depressing would that be if you knew you had already reched the high point of your life?

 

Don't do it, but gotta laugh at the "2m ain't that much"

Come on guys, stick £1m in a guaranteed income bond, spend £1m on houses/cars/toys/clearing debt, etc and live of the income.

You're aiming too high - think a 10 bed house will make you happier than a 5 bed one?

Doubt it...

Be realistic and you could have a nice house, couple of nice cars (and a daft one) and you'd be set for life.

Get greedy, and you'd be back at work (our of necessity) in three years

D

ps - most of this thread sums up why lottery winners should be IQ tested before payout

 

Sorry Diablo but it'd be very hard to have a million quid in the bank and just live off the interest. Think about it, you'd be a millionaire but think you'd be content to live on 'just' £1,000,000 * 3.75% * 70% = £26k? Not sure if I could....thats assuming you blew the other mill on houses, cars, bling bling etc.
Cman

 

Diablo - I can just see it now

[Lottery presentation mode on]

Last week..... our lucky punter Diablo won 20 million quid. Tonight he has to answer 1 simple question to get the money.

1. Suppose a newly-born pair of rabbits, one male, one female, are put in a field. Rabbits are able to mate at the age of one month so that at the end of its second month a female can produce another pair of rabbits. Suppose that our rabbits never die and that the female always produces one new pair (one male, one female) every month from the second month on. How many rabbits will there be after 12 months.

You have 10 seonds
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1

Unlucky - Diablo is too dumb (sorry m8 - nothing personal) to have 20 million quid - have a fiver for your BFH

[end presentation mode]

 

btw - old fart - you should be able to get 6 or 7%, so you are looking at about 1k a week with no mortgage, car loans, etc etc. 1k a week for fun money is quite a lot

 

This has got me thinking:

£2 million

Put 1 mill in the bank

Stay in same house
Buy loads of new gear for house
Buy very good alarm system for house
Do a bundle on making my STi4 as mutts nuts as possible.
Buy second house in nearby town with different STD code.
Tell my Mrs I had new job.
Use house as fake office and do what the **** I want all day with fully spammed up pad.
As I travel a heck of a lot with work normally, go on holiday every other week for a few days.

Not tell my Mrs or friends or family I had won anything. I didn't tell anyone I had won £XX grand with 5 and the bonus so why would I with this. No one ( well apart from you guy's ) now to this day and that was 3 years ago.
I got such a twisted sense of pleasure from it then, and it would be that multiplied by £2 million.
Oh the joy. And you keep your friends and family life as it is now, but without any money hassles.

 

How do you get 6 or 7% with no risk? I trade fixed income and currency derivatives and if I could guarantee that return with no risk I'd have retired a long time ago.
C

 

and id build a drag strip and a race track.

 

the interest on a million would be in addition to my income....no way in hell would i give up my job.
Hell, id probably buy the club i jock at.

 

I'd have a majikhouse filled with crestron goodies.

 

I only want the car, no debts, house paid for but just want a few quid for a daft car !

 

i wouldnt be living in the UK, thats for sure! There is a big world out there and you can get much more for your money outside this overpriced, overtaxed country.

 

bigsinky - have I got the car for you



Porsche ‘GT3’ Clubsport with TTP engine conversion - 600 bhp . Turbo Technik Pietz AG are the chaps who do a lot of the engine work for Gemballa

Details here. Some very nice cars on this site. A snip at 80 grand

Chris

[Edited by Chris L - 5/23/2003 8:35:15 PM]

 

John - Totally agree with the comments about not being in the UK if you won the lottery, as said before, I'd be here in Canada, giving it very large

Chris - oooh, 80k? nice! I WANT ONE!!

 

Not bad is it?

According to the dealer site, the mods cost £45K (on top of the list price)

Chris