If You Won The Lottery...

[lethalAE86typeR]

What would you get?

I would get Every iBanez Guitar I like.
Mesa/Boogie Amps
Buy my family anything they wanted
Recording Studio
A business in music and foodservice
Land
and an Accountant.

 

[Revolution.]

I would get myself GTP Premium.
And maybe a Porsche or two.

 

[Dark Elite]

I can't help thinking, lethalAE86typeR, you'd run out of money very quickly...

You beat me to it Revolution, my first move would be to subscribe to GTPremium for life

I would buy six Skyline GT-Rs, which I believe are already set to order and look to be two R32s, two R33s and a pair of R34s.

Apart from that, I'd stick it all in the bank. The amount of interest on such an amount of money is obscene
It'd make a nice birthday present if I won it today

DE

 

[Solid Lifters]

I'd get a limo driver and make him take my kids to school and pick them up, take'm to baseball practices, and do all my erands for me.

First thing I'd tell him to do is go get me some Tums or Gaviscon, or some DiGel. My tummy hurts.

 

[Small_Fryz]

Invest it and live off the interest and not spend any of the capital. Set for life.

 

[Danny]

How much are we talking?

I'll assume 3 million (&#163 for me.

For me that's £500,000 to Cancer Research UK, a charity close to my heart.

I'd buy myself a £500,000 house.

I'd make sure my family were financially secure for the rest of their lives with the second million.

I'd buy a McMerc SLR and DB7 Zagato, and keep the last £500,000 for emergencies.
I don't think I would quit work and live on it. That would get boring really quickly.

 

[kikie]

First I would start helping out my family and friends and donate them some money. My dream is a yacht, an Atom Ariel 300 bhp, Porsche GT3 RS 997 or another dreamcar. A house outside Belgium but I don't know where.

 

[Der Alta]

First things first.

Quit my job. Then purchase a well decked out Infiniti G35 and teh have it "modified". Then travel North American meeting GTP'ers.

Maybe a trip to Europe for the same.

After that, a house, a few porsches and a really nice gaming/theater system.

Then a big barn for various cars. After that, a free flight aviary for the monsters.



and probaby a big D

 

[ExigeEvan]

How much are we talking?

I'll assume 3 million (&#163 for me.

For me that's £500,000 to Cancer Research UK, a charity close to my heart.

I'd buy myself a £500,000 house.

I'd make sure my family were financially secure for the rest of their lives with the second million.

I'd buy a McMerc SLR and DB7 Zagato, and keep the last £500,000 for emergencies.
I don't think I would quit work and live on it. That would get boring really quickly.

If I'm going to win anything, it's going to be the £120 million Euromillions Rollover-rollover-rollover-rollover-rollover jackpot.

And yes, I have planned this numerous times when extremely bored.

oBuy my parents a new house, of their design. Probably withing a few miles of where we live now, and hopefully within the village we live in now.
oGive my parents enough money so they wouldn't have to work again. ochuck enough money into a bank account so that my siblings could leave Uni with no debt.
o Live off interest. And probably not buy an elise/exige as a first car. I'd be too devastated (and possibly dead) as and when I wreck it.

 

[Touring Mars]

I'd buy Lakshmi Mittal's London mansion... formerly owned by F1 supremo, Bernie Eccelstone... Eccelstone bought it as a gift for his wife, but she never liked it and rarely (if ever) stayed there Mittal paid a cool £70 million ($120 million) for it...

 

[nitro_2005]

If i won the lottery i would:

1) put at least 2 million in the bank for interest
2) buy myself a big house with a MASSIVE plot of land, then build my own personal race track on it with drift track just alongside it
3) fill the pit garages with my favourite cars:

Audi Quattro Rally Car
a few Ford Sierra RS500 Grp. A touring cars
2 Nissan Skyline GT-Rs (R32) - 1 road and one touring car
a BMW M3 Grp. A touring car
some tuner cars (rx-7, supra, s15 silvia etc.) which i could tune myself and setup for drifting
and.....a Toyota Aygo! yes it's a bit strange buying a car like that but it what i'd do to it that's the good thing:

- First, replace the original engine with an mr2 or celica engine and then whack a big supercharger in it.
- Convert it to 4WD
- widen the wheelbase for better stability and handling which would also be an excuse to fit a custom racing wide arch body kit
- Upgrade the suspension, brakes, tranny, etc.
- then fit Japanese 6 spoke white rims
- finish it off in the corolla rally car colours

4) Setup a huge gaming room with loads of arcade machines (sega rally, etc.)
5) maybe buy a huge warehouse and convert to a drifting nightclub called Drifters and DJs, where people could hang out and drift while listening to some bangin' tunes

 

[Dave A]

I'd buy £2,000,000 maybe £3,000,000 worth of Lloyds TSB shares and be secure with an annual dividend in the region of £190,000 or £285,000, which is more than any bank interest will net you. And then I'd have whatever I had over the 2 or 3,000,000 to spend on a nice car, bigger house perhaps and so on. There's really too many variables I'd have to consider to be able to say I'd buy this, this and this. And if I spent it all on myself, Charlotte would kill me.

 

[viperpilot]

I would buy six Skyline GT-Rs, which I believe are already set to order and look to be two R32s, two R33s and a pair of R34s.

i know who will get them.........

viper

 

[Swift]

Let my parents retire

Pay off the churches mortgage(or part of it).

Get a reasonable house

Invest wisely

a BMW 3 series(335i for me and a 330xi for the wife)

Do some kind of low stress work, non-profit or something.

Travel as much as I want.

 

[Jedi2016]

Buy a house
Buy at least one fancy car (Ferrari F430 or something)
Pay off my parents' condo
Invest half of the remainder
Leave the other half in the bank
Live off the interest

 

[Lee]

If it was the £120Mill Evan talked about earlier then I would:

Give my parents a good 20Mill, let them finally enjoy a more peaceful live.

Put 30 Mill in the bank, intrest heaven!

Use 20 mill to form a professional racing team.

The rest I'll use to fill a swimming pool up with, I've always wanted to swim in cash...

 

[GM]

Lets say I won the Euro Millions 125,000,000 (&#163 Jackpot which was a few weeks back.....


I'd buy a huge house with 6 Spare Bedrooms. (~£1,500,000)
I'd buy an 8 Car Garage (~£300,000)
Buy the best security system possible for my house (£Dunno)
£50,000,000 In the bank for mega intrest.
£20,000,000 To my parents (£10,000,000 Each)
5,000,000 To my brother and two my two sisters (£15,000,000 Overall)
Get a BMW M5 (old kind) BMW M5 (new kind) and a BMW M6.

Smash down some walls in my house and make a huge gaming room, each games system is hooked up to a 72 Inch flat screen TV. There will also be a luxury 'chill' in the gaming room, with the best sofas out there, drinks machines etc.

XBOX 360
Playstation 3 (From Ebay)
Nintendo Wii (I'll pay a few grand to get it before the realese date)

And the consoles all have loads of games each.



And, last but not least, maybe I'll upgrade my 30GB IPod Video to 80GB

 

[Danny]

And, last but not least, maybe I'll upgrade my 30GB IPod Video to 80GB

Are you kidding George? A new iPod would wipe out your £125 Million!

 

[Car-less]

First off, I don't play the lottery so am unlikely to win...

but if I won a million on the premium bonds then I'd just carry on as I do now, but on a bigger scale. Six figure investments would become seven figure, and my income from this would likely quadruple. Not wanting to be too flash with the cash, I'd let the remaining interest accumulate thus increasing future income potential. I'd likely purchase a few electrical goods; HDTV, PS3, PVR etc, and rectify my car-less status with something practical yet fun. Say a hot Focus or Mazda RX8. When the oportunity arose, I'd buy a small house with potential for extending should I need more room in the future. I'd remain unemployed, yet continue to bail out my family whenever they found themselves in dire straits.

Should the impossible happen and I somehow win the euro-100-millions, things would be different. The small house would be a country estate, the hot Focus would be a collection of vehicles, some classic (69 Camaro, E-Type Jag, Fenderless '34 Vicky), some practical (Grand Espace, Jaguar XJ, Ford Focus), some fun (Caterham, TVR, M-Coupe), and whatever else took my fancy.
I'd run the estate as a sort of combined B&B and convention centre/meeting hall. A dozen or so rooms available on a nightly rate, and an open plan barn-sized hall with comfy seats, display tables, and power on tap. I'd run weekend Lan parties, Model shows, craft clubs, whatever, with everything on site. I'd also help to run a charity for Faultless Accident Victims where there was no insurance to claim from, as I wouldn't be where I am now if it wasn't for the compensation I recieved after an accident ten years ago.
My parents would be able to retire, and my brothers would have the startup capital they needed to start their own businesses - they wouldn't want to retire as they both get bored easily. My circle of friends would likely increase as people found they could benefit from my wealth, and my enemies would multiply as people found out I was loaded.

But as I said at the top, I don't play the lottery, so its highly unlikely.

 

[Dave A]

Well if we're talking stupid jackpots like the euro millions I'd put at least 20 million in Lloyds TSB shares, that's about £1.9 million a year in dividends. I'd but a holliday home abroad, I'd have a nice car collection including a Bugatti Veyron and an Aston Martin DB9 and a more sensible car for daily use. I'd likely never work again, rather I'd lear more about cars and probably spend time building a few kit cars and maybe take on a custom project like turning a road car into a track car at some point. I wouldn't go stupid with cars though, other than the stupid price for the Veyron, I'd only put a small ammount of cash (relatively speaking) aside for cars and car projects ect. I'd sort out my family financially and I'd probably spend a lot of time abroad.

Oh and my DVD collection would be expanded beyond beliefe .

 

[STLbarcelona5]

I'd get a Canon EOS 5D camera, a Wacom Intuos tablet, an Arcam FMJ A32 amp, and then put the rest in a savings account until I'm out of my dorm, and actually need a: car, television/dvd player/game system.

But photography and music, I'll always need that.

 

[speed_demon]

unless you win over about 20 million you cant realy retire from work but if i won say £10 million then i would buy a 1million pound house a porsche turbo (997) and set up the house with my own home cinema games room and each room would have a nice 40 inch lcd flatscreen and i would buy myself a kingsize bed and buy each member of my family a house worth around £500,000 and give them another half a million the rest would then go into the bank and charity

 

[Danny]

unless you win over about 20 million you cant realy retire from work but if i won say £10 million then i would buy a 1million pound house a porsche turbo (997) and set up the house with my own home cinema games room and each room would have a nice 40 inch lcd flatscreen and i would buy myself a kingsize bed and buy each member of my family a house worth around £500,000 and give them another half a million the rest would then go into the bank and charity

You could live off £2,000,000 for 40 years if you spend less than £1000 a day.

 

[Matt R]

Land.
Houses.
Stock.
Clothes.
Car.

I'm easy to get along with.

 

[Lee]

You could live off £2,000,000 for 40 years if you spend less than £1000 a day.

Hmmm what could get me 2Mill..

Off to the sperm bank I go!

 

[Dave A]

unless you win over about 20 million you cant realy retire from work but if i won say £10 million then i would buy a 1million pound house a porsche turbo (997) and set up the house with my own home cinema games room and each room would have a nice 40 inch lcd flatscreen and i would buy myself a kingsize bed and buy each member of my family a house worth around £500,000 and give them another half a million the rest would then go into the bank and charity

You what? The average person in the UK earns less than £1,000,000 in their entire life, total. You then have to count in tax and such. You could live off half a million if you were clever with your cash, hell with the right investment you could retire from work on £200,000 and live off the dividends comfortably enough, earning above the aveage wage. How the hell can you think you need that much money to live off. I'm not totally fussed about cash at the moment, you know why, because I have a house that I'm inheriting in the not too distant future. You know what the sale of that house will mean for me and the missues, a hell of a lot. A hell of a lot. It's not a special house, it's not worth half a million infact, but it'll probably make the rest of our lives comfortable. I won't be cruising in my private yatch and spending 6 months of the year living in Monaco, but I will be comfortable.

Infact I've worked out that with around £150,000 you could spend the rest of your life earning around the average wage each year, every year, tax free, right up until you die. then your kids inherit the same thing, national wage each and every year. Well at least that's by todays economics. You do not need ridiculous money to live, or even to live comfotably. I realised this and I stopped striving after stupid money because the effort I was putting into it wa having massive negative effects on my life, my relationship and it was sending me downhill physically. Ofcourse having millions would be nice, but you don't need it to be comfey and set for life.

 

[speed_demon]

You could live off £2,000,000 for 40 years if you spend less than £1000 a day.

this isnt true because as soon as you buy anything you then have less money and have to pay bills on things such as food car insurance house insurance electricity bill gas bill etc. And also you always see it on the television where people have won say 5 million on the lottery and have tried to retire when there 40 and they had to see a money advisor(cant remember what their called) and they where told that they couldnt live on only 5 million(&#163 and that they had to go and get jobs again

 

[Silverzone]

Huge House with a studio.
an OC Drum Set.
A few Fender Basses, A couple Of gibson Guitars.
Mesa amps for guitar, and Ampeg amps for bass.
A Mustang GT.
I'd put the rest away and start a rad band.

 

[Dave A]

this isnt true because as soon as you buy anything you then have less money and have to pay bills on things such as food car insurance house insurance electricity bill gas bill etc. And also you always see it on the television where people have won say 5 million on the lottery and have tried to retire when there 40 and they had to see a money advisor(cant remember what their called) and they where told that they couldnt live on only 5 million(&#163 and that they had to go and get jobs again

Look mate, you can live your full life with less than half a million, it's not a question of have you got enough, it's a question of what you do with it. Ofcourse if someone gives you 5 million and you spend it all your going to need to make more money. Peope that do that are stupid imo. People get ther hands on large ammounts of money and all of a sudden they retire and they start trying to live like wealthy people, well at that time they are wealthy,but thier living above thier means if they think they can live like that the rest of their lives. If you gave me half a million pounds, I would live comfortably for the rest of my life on a 40 to 50 grand a year dividend. Let me ask you this, can someone live off 40 grand a year? Can someone live of 20 grand a year? If you answer anything but yes to thoes questions your being daft. Giving someone £2,000,000 pounds is effectively giving that person a 50 grand a year wage for 40 years or a 25 grand a year wage for 80 years, both of which are enough to live on. If you live within thoes limits you will not run out of money. If you go off and spend nearly a million on a nice house, buy a holliday home ect, then ofcourse you will run out.

 

[Danny]

this isnt true because as soon as you buy anything you then have less money and have to pay bills on things such as food car insurance house insurance electricity bill gas bill etc. And also you always see it on the television where people have won say 5 million on the lottery and have tried to retire when there 40 and they had to see a money advisor(cant remember what their called) and they where told that they couldnt live on only 5 million(£) and that they had to go and get jobs again

Ah, you never mentioned buying anything.

Okay, let's say you spend £2,000,000 buying whatever your heart desires.

18,000,000/40=£450,000 a year
450,000/12= £37500 a month
37500/30= £1250 a day

Even with bills considered, no-one reasonable spends £1250 a day.