If you won the lottery

[saundra]

Frank stop it
The first thing you would do is go first class to new Zealand
Is your daughter enjoying it

[Kaz]

I like yours Ton

[AliasAggers]

I'd never win it, because I never buy a ticket.

But if I did, and did win, I'd seek out the best legal advice in the land, with a view to
bringing charges against Blair for taking us to war with lies.

[JoM]

Aggers, I really think you should buy a ticket!

[meriad]

If I won, I'd buy myself a bigger house, sort out my mom and my siblings, some money to charities and then the rest in a locked down account that I can't touch for a year so I can come to terms with the new wealth and be sensible about it.

I most certainly would not go public

but same as most on here - should buy a ticket

[jenniren]

Buy Miss Osc a house, set up trust funds for Michael and Kellie, money to charity, and I would always go first class on a plane!

The same as you Osc, houses for the children trust funds for all the grandchildren, money to charity and definitely more travel, all first class!

Of course, it would help if we actually bought a ticket

[saundra]

We all seem to say the same thing look after our families
And none of us buy a ticket

[cromwell]

I buy tickets but don't win much!

Buy the children houses, buy a Ford Mustang (can't be sensible all your life) and clear off to somewhere in the sun for our winter months. Move some of the cash abroad to prevent HMG getting their mitts on 40% of it!

[Suff]

Assuming it was a big win, tens of millions.

Engage a solicitor to ensure that it stayed 100% private with dire consequences for the Lottery if it came out in any way from them.

Take a very small amount to live on for the next year. Put the rest into a variety of investments, 1/3 each. 1/3 in high return moderate risk, 1/3 in low risk moderate return and 1/3 in 0 risk low return.

Spend the next 3 months in a health farm getting rid of the overweight, then spend the rest of that year pottering around as if I was looking for work whilst doing stuff in the home.

After the year I would own up to the family that we had made a very small, modest win, on the Lottery, some time in the last year and that we would parcel out some sums of money to each of the children as a one time gift.

Then stop pretending to do work stuff and slowly spend increasing amounts on the houses in France. Also buy a home back in Scotland. Modest and comfortable. Explain the purchases in terms of good investments which have brought high return.

I would then spend increasing sums of money both travelling and enjoying life. Good wine and champagne cellars. It would be expected of someone who has won a reasonable sum on the Lottery and invested it well; without raising questions about just exactly how much was won.

Mrs S and I have spent a reasonable amount of time on thinking this through because of the size of our family. This is why I know we won’t win…..

[JoM]

Cromwell, a Mustang is the car I'd have to buy for Joe