I wish...£2.18 million (What would you do if you won the lottery?)

Member Name: leverton86

Product:	What would you do if you won the lottery?
Date:	06/12/08 (45 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Lots of money

Disadvantages: Too much money? Perhaps?

Right...this could be fun! :-)

For the purposes of this review, I'm gonna pretend I'm going to win £2,180,000 as that is what the jackpot was on Wednesday just gone.

Firstly, get a high interest savings account and whack it all in there. Start getting the interest soon as possible. Then have a look around at some houses - there are a couple of locations here in Cornwall that I would love to live - one on the Helford river will do me - check price - hmmm, around about £800,000 for that then, including some money for redocoration etc.

Then onto the car - BMW Z4, 2.5 litre, price quoted at £28,445. Then a car for the girlfriend, a Porsche 911 GT2 at around £75,000. I'd get my mum a car too, anything she'd wanted - she'd love to have a new car for a change. Let's say £30,000. I'd pay my mum's mortgage off, around £40,000, and clear all her other debt, around £15,000. My debt stands at £10,000.

I'd give my mum a good £100,000 to have, save, do what she wants with. I'd give my partners parents a good chunk, around the same, £100,000. Where am I so far? Got £981,555 left.

I'd split £100,000 up between various charities, and share a bit around my close friends. That's all i can really think of, I guess I'd just use the rest to live on, and perhaps still work - but as a volunteer, helping people, or perhaps politically - Wouldn't want a paid job though, but wouldn't want to give up work all together.

The money left would set me up to start a family and have a fabulous wedding and honeymoon...But let's be realistic, it's not going to happen is it lol!

Summary: Winning the lottery - everyone's dream, spending it all would be quite hard though.