If you won £14,000, on the lottery, aside from the obvious new house & cars, what special something would you buy?
Mind you some peoples lives are ruined by winning the lottery!!! :shock:
I'd end up paying off family mortgages, debt etc. A lot as Libra says I'd give away.
If i had that money i would :
pay off my mum's debts and buy her a brand new spanking house
Give my best mate a new house and stick him in a drugs rehabitlation clinic
Give england it's first playboy house ...you get me :happy:
I would back to the USA buy a new RV and continue my travels I only managed 46 states last time and my lust for the open road is still hounding me.
Well theres the obvious such as holidays and making sure family and friends have a secure future.
Then somethiing id love to do is create a job for myself whereby i anonymously go around and listening to people and radio, reading magazines, watching TV etc, id buy the medical equipment, home help, new cars, new equipment etc that are needed by the homeless, down on luck, oap homes, hospitals, schools etc.
Id get so much pleasure out of that.
I'd do the same as others, pay off debts (mine and families) give to charity, then have a holiday and think about what to do next.
Some would be put away for my kids so they never had to worry about anything.
I'd definately have a hot tub but not even sure that I'd buy a new house cos I love my little place. Think I'd buy the land beside my house which would at least stop them building on it.
I'm really soft when it comes to animals so I'd probably open a refuge for the unwanted and ill treated and spend my days wearing my wellies and pottering about (nothing new there)
Oh I'd like a 4x4 too as my little car isn't really built for driving along farm tracks etc and I keep killing it!
I would put it all away somewhere safe, well that rules out banks!
Have a large amount to hand and travel the world for a year or two to decide where I want to spend the rest of my days.
Then I'de settle down in an area with the biggest concentration of swingers per head of population.
As others have said, sort out friends and family, new houses etc.
Then for me house, stables, horse refuge , and potter around in my wellingtons, employ a manager to look after it, so I can potter around some more.
Sort out local charities etc and those in need, and maybe travel
I could do with a new corkscrew.
Strangely, this is one of those things that I think long and seriously about.
I wouldn't give any money to charity. With that much money, I would want to have control over how it was spent, and set up my own charity.
The purpose of the charity would be to create a skills exchange for those on low income or unemployed. The theory behind it being: it is easier to live cheaper than to earn more.
Not for the big things, for the little things, healthy eating, minor repairs or improvements to house, garden, car, hairdressing, holidays, even information.
Not trying to give people additional skills or income - just how to make the best use of what you have got.
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Kat
All the usual things like paying off mortgages for friends and family, but with that much I could do the one thing I've always wanted, open a restaurant, very exclusive, in Manhattan, west side, I think, but convenient for the park. There is a real shortage of restaurants in NY with Michelin Stars, so that would be something to aim for.
WW