what would you do if you won a substancial sum on the lottery or euro millions?

[gavroche]

First I would set up my kids for life and help close family. Then I would live in sunnier climate ( southern France would do me nicely) and enjoy what is left of my life by travelling a little and doing what I want to do when I want to do it. What I wouldn't do is buy a posh car or big mansion, that's not my style.

 

[Archie_tect]

I'd do what I said I'd do the last time.... but that was a few weeks ago and I can't remember.

 

[Sandra6]

I'd buy more bikes

 

[Drago]

Buy my own Scottish island, stick my middle finger at civilisation, congestion, war and useless politicians and live out my days mountain biking and drinking Scotch. And I'd buy a Cleland.

 

[mark st1]

Stroll in to work 2 hours late load my lorry up to the gunnels and then park it up.









On my bosses desk.

 

[Marshmallow_Fluff]

Quit my job, buy a lovely house in Cornwall and visit the remaining destinations of my bucket list!

 

[MontyVeda]

retire.

Buy the house i rent a floor of, kick out 'im downstairs and 'im upstairs... restore it to it's former glory.

Buy some land with some trees on it, and ideally a small dwelling too which i can knock down and build something of my own.

if it's a euro millions more money than sense type win... it's relieve all my friends and family of the burden of rent by either paying off their mortgages or buying properties in which they can live rent free... then with the change, consider some serious philanthropy. They don't have pockets in shrouds.

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What I wouldn't do is buy a posh car or big mansion, that's not my style.

same here, although i might employ a chauffeur

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Help set up my daughters with a house each. Take me and my bike (and my Mrs with her bike) and go places for great bike rides.

 

[addictfreak]

See the family ok first. Then close friends, selected charities.

After that enjoy the rest of my life, hopefully worry free. But I expect being suddenly filthy rich may bring its own problems!

 

[rich p]

I'd buy a posh car and a big mansion and disown my kids.

 

[Arch]

Pay off sister's family mortgage, and NT's. Give up the job, help get NT's house straight, then park the rest (assuming we're talking enough to have a 'rest') somewhere to provide a little income while NT and I try and live off making cool stuff.

 

[colly]

Family and friends would be attended to naturally.
Do stuff to the house that I have always wanted to do but have never had the funds.
Do a good bit of travelling.
Cycle a lot more, esp touring abroad.
If there is enough then a place somewhere warm would be on the agenda.

If it was an embarrassing amount of money I would leave some aside for emergencies and then maybe find some ongoing revenue generating idea to raise lolly for things worth while.

Oh..............buy a new bike ......or two.

Not much really.

Edit: Learn to fly maybe.

 

[Fnaar]

Immediately: Retire/Buy a summer bike.
I'd go into work, hand in my notice, then go to the bike shop and say "I want one of those. With this, this, this and this on it. None of those on it, and two of those, with some spare ones of those. Please have it ready by next Friday, and I'll come in and ride it home."

Buy an iPad (or prob Android-pad for me) for all the family.
Move my family to a temporarily rented house and pay someone to oversee sorting our own house out from top to bottom.
Go on a superb holiday.
Buy a touring bike.
Buy a Brompton.

 

[Trickedem]

No publicity, then a gentle withdrawal from the world of work. I would then spend the next two years working on restoring my house and having some nice holidays, before making my next move. I would also pay to have national cycle route 1 resurfaced near where I live. As this is the only chance of that happening, those in the know would realise I'd won, so no begging letters please.

 

[ColinJ]

Officially retire. Within 30 seconds!

I'd invest enough to guarantee me an index-linked pension at about twice the minimum wage, help out my friends and family and then become a full-time philanthropist and forum ride organiser.

I'd think seriously about buying a large property in the Yorkshire Dales and converting it into a cycling centre from which to organise my forum rides. As long as it covered its own running costs, that would be fine.