You win a £1,000,000...

[TheFaQQer]

Stop working in IT, pay off the mortgage, travel for a while.

Invest money, live off the interest, work with a charity / in a library / something like that to feel like I'm doing some good. Maybe even help out at school, or look at working at a university.

[al_cam]

Come into work, do a large turd on the server managers desk*, hand in my immediate notice and then retire to spend the rest of my life bringing up the kids and generally pottering around.



* it's been a bad couple of weeks.

[Cooperinliverp00l]

...on the lottery or premium bonds.

What happens next?

Where would you go, what would you do, what would you buy, etc?

Depends how many more zero's are on that £1,000,000...... Don't think you can give up work now if you only win a million. I would pay off morgage, buy a new car, go on a holiday and then return to work cause i do it for the love of my job not the money !!!!

however if that was 1 billion cause you missed off a few more zero's then i would retire, buy a big house, nice car, go on a holiday, buy a drink for all my fellow CUK colleagues, buy Liverpool FC off America and then relax while a cook and maid take care of the house.

[realityhack]

Laugh uncontrollably for half an hour, then tell the fiancée we'll be alright for the wedding plans - upgrade the honeymoon somewhat, see this contract through and have a long break in spring while reskilling in the fine arts for the next few years. Oh, and buy my flat outright - kit out my studio properly, and buy a small car, and a boat, and I've probably spent it all after that.

[Moscow Mule]

Buy a fab house in Oxforshire, holiday often, dine out often, and fart around doing piddle-all until I died.

You would buy a moderately priced house in Oxfordshire.

[DBA_bloke]

Laugh uncontrollably for half an hour, then tell the fiancée we'll be alright for the wedding plans - upgrade the honeymoon somewhat, see this contract through and have a long break in spring while reskilling in the fine arts for the next few years. Oh, and buy my flat outright - kit out my studio properly, and buy a small car, and a boat, and I've probably spent it all after that.

Fine arts: Tell all. Paint, sculpture, etc. What do you do? Any good at it?

[PRC1964]

I'd buy loads of buy-to-lets and wait for them to go up in value.

This time next year I'll be a billionaire.

[Jog On]

Put as much as I can into assets that generate passive income to live off, buy a few nice things and go on a long trip. Would probably divide it up as:

10% index tracker/good funds – don’t touch until retirement age

40% property with lots of leverage to get as many as possible

20% individual shares with DRIP

10% speculating/options trading/crazy stuff – Vegas baby!!

10% towards nice house, car, long trip, plasma TV’s and ‘stuff’, would keep mortgage

10% in the bank as available for property deals, investing in businesses, shares whatever.

I wouldn’t give a lump sum to charity I’d tithe from my income/cashflow which would grow quite large and end up as a substantial amount over time – far more than a 1 off lump sum from a million.

I’d still do what I’m doing now but without the contracting 9-5 bit which is really getting in the way of building up my business….

[realityhack]

Fine arts: Tell all. Paint, sculpture, etc. What do you do? Any good at it?

Erm - anyone worth their salt will tell you they're nowhere near as good as they want to be - I'm always finding fault and trying harder next time, and I hope I'm better each time.

Oils, charcoal, ink, chalks, good-old-fashioned sketching and painting.
Portraiture, the occasional half-abstract/verging on impressionist landscape - past the amateur stage but a long way to go - quite good at likenesses, pleased to see I've naturally developed my own style.

[DBA_bloke]

You would buy a moderately priced house in Oxfordshire.

No. I already have lots of lovely equity!