You've won the lotto, what would you do?

[HotStuff]

Mortgage already paid off, but if I had a sizeable win would sell this place and buy something bigger and detached (my current house is a semi), with a bigger garden and a much bigger greenhouse (can a greenhouse ever be big enough?).

[sewer rat]

Sell the house and buy somewhere out in the sticks. Buy 20 acres of good land alongside it and enough machinery to work it properly and grow loads and loads more fruit and veg.

[willowstar]

fund my own patient centered research cos no other bugger is funding much in it at the moment, buy us a house with a big garden and make sure mum is alright. thats about it I reckon if it was only a million...

[jackie j]

Pay off the mortgage and move to a bigger house and garden. But first I would buy a gravestone for my mum and dads grave. Dad died in 1961 and he was buried in the cemetry mum was wise enough to buy a double plot so she could join him, and had a nice gravestone put around it. When mum died in 1994 she joined dad and the gravestone was badly damaged because of age and what is was made of so we decided to have a new one, but none of us can afford it so there is nothing around their grave and it upsets me. Now my sister has joined them a bit further up the hill she also needs one.
Then I would make sure my 5 children could buy a house instead of them paying over £650 a month in rent for very small flats or houses.
Dream on girl. !!!

[kentvegplot]

Pay off the mortgage (and brother and sister in law), get Mum's garden completely made over so she can still enjoy it as she's getting on (80 this year). It's too big (and needs too much work) for me to do it all myself, but I could project manage while strong young men did it for me :-)

[Eyren]

Hmm - since we don't currently live in my ideal home, one million sadly isn't quite enough for early retirement, especially not in today's economic climate. We'd have to weigh up the pros and cons of staying here and spending a large chunk of it on somewhere with a bigger garden, or moving somewhere cheaper but having to find new jobs. Either way it couldn't be anywhere too remote, as I don't drive.

However as long as I had a garden big enough for my veg plot and chickens, and a comfortable house with no mortgage, I'd be quite content

[StephenH]

1. Give up work.
2. Give some donations to various charities and to my family.
3. Put some in a high-interest, non-instant-access savings account.
4. Buy:
Complete scythe kit from the scythe shop for doing the lawn;
Complete set of high-quality, stainless steel garden tools (spade, fork, hoe, trowel, hand fork, etc)
Two or three new bikes and trikes, including a Burrows 'Ratcatcher' recumbent and a Christiania transport trike;
An acre of land somewhere near my house for extra growing space;
My house (it's a council house).

[petal]

to actually be able to buy a house would be nice.

[janeyo]

OH tells me a million is not enough these days for him to give up work.
I would send the children to private school as our local comps are rubbish.
And make sure my nan was ok and had her hip done.
And get my mum some carpets that don't make me feel giddy.
And hire an ironing lady.

[tootles]

I'm not sure really. We don't have a mortgage, I suppose I would like to be able to live completely 'off grid' so a good wind turbine and solar system would be on the list. And I have seen a particularly fab hand plough thingy...............



(ooh yes - and a really groovy swimming pool)

[Oleander]

give up work and study for a degree - exactly what I'm planning for when I retire in 6 years, just bring it forward.

If only..........

[StephenH]

Come to think of it, I probably wouldn't give up work just yet - I'd wait 2 1/2 years until I'm 60, which is the earliest I can retire and get a (reduced) pension. I'm actually hoping to stay on until I'm 65 and get the full pension, but a million would make that unnecessary.

[nerobot]

Funny you should mention that. I've got an email saying that I have won something on the lottery (I buy online using direct debit). Problem is, the website is down, and I have no idea what my numbers are! So I might have won £10 or £1,000,000 and have no way of finding out. Either way I'm happy

Oh, and if I have won the jackpot, I'd buy a house. I'm currently looking for a house, so would be very nice

Steven

[SlugLobber]

I would buy a farm for the horses and his lorries/tractors. I would give up paid work, but I'd do more volunteering, splitting my time between animals and people. Simple really, but I think I'd need to buy a ticket to be in with a chance, eh?

[newbieveggie]

Ooooh the times Ive had a conversation like that with my husband. We would pay off the mortgage and actually be able to extend the house so each of my three boys would have their own room. I would prob give up work but would def get a team of builders in to concrete my paths, and then spend blissful hours gardening. Oh and I would get a purple eglu and some chooks. How wonderful