If you won the lottery

icanhandthemback. God bless you and your family. You are and example of how some people have to endure so many problems and yet soldier on because they love their children. I hope and pray that soon your son's family get the home and education provision they deserve and need and their traveling can somehow be made less burdensome.

When (see the optimism there ) I win, I will win huge. Massive. With lots and lots of zeros on the cheque.

Of course, it goes without saying that I will see my family are ok, with their own homes and a bit of cash to spend as they see fit.

But after that, my aim is to buy lots of properties up and down the country to let (at very reasonable rents) to victims of domestic abuse, who stay in those awful relationships because they feel they have nowhere to go.

I would then retire and foster animals from rescue homes, do volunteer dog walking for them and/or do puppy walking for the Guide Dogs for the Blind

oh, and as a personal indulgence, hire someone to put fresh, clean bedding on every day lol lol lol

Tillybelle, thank you.

When I win on Tuesday evening 98m, I am buying a huge house nearby, make sure my family all have a share of the winnings. Then I intend setting up something for homeless as does my DH. Mine's would be a housing co-op, DH not sure yet what he will do for homeless people.
I will buy myself a huge AGA range cooker, something I have covetted for decades and I would probably spend the rest of my life polishing said AGA so that it remains free of fingerprints should anyone dare to touch it.

I would pay off the kids’ mortgages, give them a lump sum and renovate our house to make it more comfortable (I have the plans in my head). Buy a small campervan and a new little motor cruiser.

Then I’d invest most of it so I could support local good causes. And I’d buy up a load of those soup can safes, put £500 in each and leave them with the food banks to put one in each bag.

I don't do the lottery apart from using Search Lotto as my search engine. They put you in a syndicate, you can have up to 4 chances a week and I have won lots of £10 wins - ok, it's only £1 but better than nothing - may still win a slightly bigger sum. But have always said I wouldn't want one of those obscene wins - just say 50 or 100K - enough to pay off my credit cards, maybe buy a small car, go on holiday etc. If I did win more, perhaps 200K, definitely a small house with a big garden - herbs, fruit and veg, maybe a few chickens, a few bee hives etc . Then I'd invest whatever was left over so I wouldn't have to worry about the proverbial "rainy day".

I can’t help but feel how much more equitable it would be for 76 different people to win a million pounds.

Lewie I quite agree. A million pounds could help a lot of people beyond measure, and who really needs £76m anyway.

A couple from Ayrshire who won euro millions set up a charitable trust to help others.
The weir charitable trust.
I think they also bought a big house and saw their family right. Good for them.

I would like to be able to give pots of money to research on diseases like MS, Motor Neurone Disease and Alzheimers.

Won £30 on last night’s lotto - that can go with the 2 x £25 premium bond win to fund Christmas dinner. I don’t normally play lotto any more since they ended the million pound raffle, just did it as a one off.

Now I normally play euromollions as they still have a million pound raffle in every draw, and keep my fingers crossed for the premium bonds.

I’d love to win the million either on premium bonds or Euromillions. I agree that prizes higher than that are wrong as nobody needs more than a million.

Someone I know, let’s call him Sean, won a large amount on the lottery. He and his father were both labourers in the building trade, and not well off at all. His father, approaching sixty, was about to go back to work after a long illness- he couldn’t afford to retire. On the Sunday morning after his big win, Sean and family went round to see his parents after church, as usual. His father showed him his new work boots, a considerable investment for him, and said they were a bit stiff.
“I know how to fix that , dad, “ said his son, “have you got any paraffin?”and took the boots down the garden, and, to his father’s horror, set them alight.
That’s how he told his father he need never work again.

After making sure myself and my family were ok, I would love to set up two charities. One for animals and one for all the small personal charities that get sidestepped by the big boys. Things like, a child needing a specialised wheelchair or an adult needing something to enable them to partake in a sport they loved, but can no longer do because of a disability.

It would all have to be done hush hush so I wasn’t inundated with ‘begging’ letters.

I'm such a procrastinator already, I'm beginning to wonder if I'd have the oomph to set up anything, if I had all that leisure time stretched out before me.
I'm such a fan of doing nothing.

I agree with Lewie wholeheartedly. I think I would panic if I won too much. However to answer the question, family first of course, then private health care, a slightly bigger house- with a lift- rather than a bungalow. Not huge or isolated. I like close neighbours. Charities of course but which ones would be a problem.

I think it was Edmund Burke who described a lottery as a tax on all fools. I should really like to see all national lotteries abolished, not least because they encourage unreasonable greed. (Or is greed unreasonable per se?)

I agree that lotteries, like all the other ways of wasting money on games of chance, have got completely out of hand. Many of the people I see buying tickets don’t look as if they can really afford it.

I stopped buying a ticket when a second ‘game’ was launched as I got too confused as to which one to get so bought one of each. So spent twice as much. Now there’s several sorts of lottery, I’d be spending a fortune!

I have premium bonds, that way I have a chance of a win and still have my stake. I get regular £25 wins. Still hoping for that million.