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

[BigonaBianchi]

Buy the world a coke?

 

[Andrew_Culture]

Buy the world a coke?

I'd rather close Coke.

 

[Saluki]

I see you say "instead of working for a living". That's important. After doing my share (35 years) I'm not in lottery winner territory but I have enough pension for all my normal needs plus the odd indulgence. I have found it important to keep doing some work, to give a bit of discipline to my weeks and to stop my brain turning to porridge, the difference being that it's now work that I choose to do.
A few of my friends have downed tools completely and soon found that going off cycling/travelling/whatever all the time isn't really as much fun if you have nothing to contrast it with. They seem to spend a lot of their time moping. It would be much worse if they were still in their 30s or 40s.

I figure that if I was rescuing terriers and greyhounds and getting them into forever homes, I would probably be keeping pretty busy. Dog runs don't muck themselves out you know.
So what I meant to say was that I would not work at my job as I would have an income to pay the bills as a lottery winner. I would however be doing something else dear to my heart but I would be still busy and have a routine to my day, plus I would do more cycling, while our Mark minds the store (so to speak).

I would go bonkers if I did nothing!! God preserve me from being bored!

 

[Marshmallow_Fluff]

Any chance I can have that AND the Bianchi?

 

[Salad Dodger]

I would like to set my daughter up in a home of her own. And I would like to pack up work.

As a keen guitarist and folk club attendee, I would love to get an acoustic guitar that was made in the year I was born.

The best place to go for something like that would probably be USA, so a road trip whilst trying to track down the right guitar would be good.

Then a bigger camper van, and a l-o-n-g lazy tour around Europe in it, please....

 

[ASC1951]

So what I meant to say was that I would not work at my job as I would have an income to pay the bills as a lottery winner. I would however be doing something else dear to my heart but I would be still busy and have a routine to my day, plus I would do more cycling, while our Mark minds the store (so to speak).

I would go bonkers if I did nothing!! God preserve me from being bored!

Yes, that is what I thought you meant - still doing stuff, just not your previous job. I don't go for the whole Protestant work ethic, but there is no doubt that constant leisure is bad for body and soul.

 

[Archie_tect]

If I won that much money, I'd give up, just long enough to unwind.

 

[wobbler]

If it was an lorra lorra money then
Iceland to see the rift in the Earth, while I'm up that way a visit to The Hermitage Museum in Russia.
Then a trip on the Trans- Siberian railway. Over to Alaska to see the Northern Lights. Pop down to Canada to see my cousin and have a shower.
Have a go on one of those huge prairie tractors or combine harvesters. Niagara Falls, fly over the Great Lakes not too far from the shore though in case the plane crashes. That would be just my luck. Have a go at a cattle round up. Hoover Dam and Grand Canyon. try my luck in Las Vegas. Le brea tar pits and 9/11 memorial. Argentina for some Tango dance lessons. Falkland Islands just to see the place. A boat ride across the Southern Ocean purely for the gut wrenching thrill of it. Hop over to Africa for the Great Rift Valley and Victoria Falls. Charter a plane for a flight round coastline of the British Isles so I can pick out a nice quiet place by the seaside to settle down, oh and a beach hut

 

[Risex4]

Vegas baby!

 

[BigonaBianchi]

I would buy.out Microsoft and replace all computers with.ones with.a simple on/off button...and then I would spend the change hunting down those who pollute cyberspace with.virus malware and stick them up against the wall.