If You Won The Lottery

Bambi985

I would buy ALL TEH HOUSESES.

1m wouldn't go very far in London in fairness so I'd prob set myself up with a relatively modest apartment in west London, a few treats for everyone, quit work and go full-time on my MBA, invest the rest.

100m would be a big fcuk-off house in Chiswick west London, big fcuk off house in Galway and south Dublin, penthouse apartment near Central Park, beach house in LA and maybe the same in south of France because why not. Sort out all the family and close friends, invest heavily in stocks and bonds, get an Ivy League degree, give loads to charity and get involved in some causes close to my heart.

jonon9

If I won the 1 million I buy a nice house and still work.

If I won 100 million il take the money and move to a tax haven country and buy a few houses all over the world so I can hop between them.
I would also open up a state of the art animal clinic and hire vets that just dont deal with cows.

jonon9

jonon9 wrote: »

If I won the 1 million I buy a nice house and still work.

If I won 100 million il take the money and move to a tax haven country and buy a few houses all over the world so I can hop between them.
I would also open up a state of the art animal clinic and hire vets that just dont deal with cows.

That's an idea, a charity or clinic or something to help animals. Or towards a hospital. Or something
Can't imagine not working somehow tbh. Probably still finish the exams first too.

BorneTobyWilde

I could help a lot of people with 100m
Too much for me, I know quite a few people I could give 5 million to.
50m for me is plenty .

RhubarbCrumble

everlast75 wrote: »

100 mill - reminds me of a saying. "Those who say money can't buy you happiness don't know where to spend their money".

"They say money can't buy happiness, but it's nicer to cry in a BMW than on a bicycle"

I'd be over on the property porn thread too. Somewhere nice in Kerry and I'd never ever see any of the inlaws ever again

Richard Hillman

If I won 1 million I would buy a modest house in the French or Spanish countryside to live in and a house in Dublin to rent out.

The income from the rent will be for my general living expenses and the remainder rest for holidays. I wouldn't give much cash away. I probably wouldn't even tell anybody.


If I won 100 million, I definitely wouldn't tell anybody I know. I would move abroad and live a double life.

TG1

1 million I'd buy a house and go back to college to study something I actually want to work at and try and change career.

100 million I'd buy a house on 100s of acres and rescue ponies...!

Gravelly

Sonics2k wrote: »

Solid gold house and a rocket car of course. What else could you possibly want?

A monorail.

everlast75

Gravelly wrote: »

A monorail.

Monorail?

Autochange

Move to Cavan and look down on the peasants from my Ivory Tower

Gravelly

everlast75 wrote: »

Gravelly wrote: »

A monorail.

Monorail?

What's it called?

EPAndlee

frag420 wrote: »

If i won £100m...first thing I would do is buy a £1m quickpick!!

Then sort out the family...hitmen cost a small fortune these days!!

Then hookers n coke!!

If you get me the black bags and a shovel, I'll sort out the family

7 Seconds...

After giving money to charity, I would pack up and start a fresh some where else. That would make me very happy:), & I could do this with either amount. I would give my son & god children a cash gift & give myself a makeover & then start my own business. If it was the 100 million, may God, Jesus & his holy mother for forgive me but I would also do everything in my power to get the love of life to forgive me for my childishness, I wouldn't stop saying sorry till he had to forgive me & at least heard me out so I could tell him why I did what I did(I didn't cheat on him, we were actually never together, & I can't explain it but he is the love of my life), & if that failed with 100 million I could at least probably force his neighbours to sell me their house:D.

Autochange

Can I come too... wrote: »

After giving money to charity, I would pack up and start a fresh some where else. That would make me very happy:), & I could do this with either amount. I would give my son & god children a cash gift & give myself a makeover & then start my own business. If it was the 100 million, may God, Jesus & his holy mother for forgive me but I would also do everything in my power to get the love of life to forgive me for my childishness, I wouldn't stop saying sorry till he had to forgive me & at least heard me out so I could tell him why I did what I did(I didn't cheat on him, we were actually never together, & I can't explain it but he is the love of my life), & if that failed with 100 million I could at least probably force his neighbours to sell me their house:D.

Thats a bit scary

northgirl

Move somewhere with a nice warm climate. Modest lodgings with room for guests. Might work depending on amount. Would definitely volunteer and have at least 2 doggos

7 Seconds...

Autochange wrote: »

Thats a bit scary

I'm lovely really:D!

mohawk

1 million - buy a house, new car, holiday, quit my current job and go back to college so I can change career. Whatever left goes into pension. Once there was no mortgage/rent I would be able to have cool holidays every year.

100 million - Again need to sort out the house, car, probably buy a house for my son he could have when he is older. Think I would still go back to college and do something like speech and language therapy or occupational therapy. Everyone works so you need something to fill in the day . Then I could set up my own charity and hire therapists so that Autistic kids in Ireland would actually be able to get the intervention they need and not just the kids who parents could afford it.
If I was running my own charity/business I would hire a manager so I could take the summer off and see the world with my son .

Might need to start doing the lotto

Sam Kade

seamus wrote: »

Big difference between 1 mill and 100 mill tbh.

1 mill I'd buy a nice big house on a decent piece of land outright, stick 200k in a pension scheme, then work a relatively easy going job with short/easy hours, just enough to keep things ticking over. €30-40k or so a year should be more than enough when you've no mortgage to service.

100 mill obviously I'd have no need to work. Throw a decent wedge of cash at all the siblings and parents, stick 1 million in a pension scheme for myself. Then I'd probably set up a charity and run that myself in order to oversee the rest of the cash spent the way I want it to be spent.

If you had 100 million the interest would be better than any pension scheme and why the fcuk would you even want a pension?

suicide_circus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm4EdHTqLhQ

the_pen_turner

1 million
. I would tell everyone I won about 400,000 . basically set myself up with a modest house etc and start a good business.
I would help out some family and friends with maybe 50,000 divided up. maybe pay a few of their bills or put some breathing space on the mortgage
keep the rest for future

100million
tell everyone I won about 15million
buy good house, car, really good businesses etc
help out friends and family with paying off mortgages and giving them maybe 100k to each family
have a big party and celebrate
give some money to local charities that deserve it. non of the Vincent de paul carry on
make the business really profitable and use them to explain the rest of the money in the future.
stick 50 million in a high return bank account and live off the intrest and the profit from businesses

Four Phucs Ache

1 mill would clear the mortgage, a few nice things and help out family etc

100 mill I would go find techno viking and travel the world.

seamus

Sam Kade wrote: »

If you had 100 million the interest would be better than any pension scheme and why the fcuk would you even want a pension?

Because I would expect to have given most of it away by the time I reach retirement age. The pension pot is to keep me comfortable when I run out of the 100 mill.

1 million - decent house, decent car (but at least 2 years old), 100,000 between family, reserve for things like possible future wedding expenses, and hopefully about 100 to 200,000 left over. Would give a lot of breathing space early on in life to have a million euro but its definitely not forever money

100 million:
- 15 million to family
- 80 million invested at low risk to keep pace with inflation and hopefully pay me 500,000 net per year, increasing my income as years pass in accordance with inflation and letting any surplus income build up.
- 2 million for charity, paid over multiple years as I research where it can be best put to use
- 1.5 million maybe to buy a brilliant home
- 700,000 to spend on one brilliant car for pleasure use, one decent car for everyday use and a splurge on stuff like watches, clothes, antique stuff at auctions, a few holidays, top of the range bike, drone camera, one of those bendy high definition tvs that look amazing .. just blowing my beans in terms of spending to hopefully get it out of my system!
- 800,000 to let sit in my account while I wait for my ten grand a week to start piling up and I am busy figuring out what to actually *make* of myself now that money can realistically no longer motivate me.

khaldrogo

1million
Pay off mortgage. Set up pensions. New cars and bikes. Put money away for the kids. Numerous cruises

100million
Design my own house on a plot of land. Learn to fly. Many, many bikes and cars. Personal trainer and personal chef. Money family obviously. House in USA, house in OZ. Lots of holidsys

Bebopclown

I'd buy boards.ie and drive the mods insane as their new leader.

1 million, buy a good 2 bed apartment in Dublin centre and stow the rest. Have a job I like and decent pension, but I'd look into a good degree in something interesting but not career related. With no rent/mortgage to pay or worry about I'd live a very nice life without needing to dip into rainy day fund I think.

Nobody would need to know I'd won the million.


100 million:

I'd do nothing for three months. Stay working, claim it or whatever but don't go near it. Engineer a decent amount of leave from work, probably a career break or a move abroad for a few years, easy enough done.

Take six months out to cruise or travel spending only day-to-day, like a king but committing no major infrastructural decisions. Get used to the new realities and plan accordingly. Probably get a medical done!

Then it'd be a flurry something along the lines of: siblings set up with mortgages and annuities, purchase main property south of France, apartment in Manhattan, hotels everywhere else, and endless travel when I'm not studying at the most fabulous universities I can find. A comfortable luxury vehicle with an excellent sound system on each continent. A yacht big enough for the cook not to feel cramped.

Aim to die the best read, fed, travelled and dressed multi-instrumentalist archaeologist astronomist imaginable. Spend a few years translating the kama sutra into gaeilge because Connemara gals need love too. That kind of thing.

brokenarms

I dream about this question every week.
I never get past the first week though.

I would just love to spend it all on my wife and kids.

5 percent to direct family.

AllForIt

I'd buy an iPhone 8, outright, no contract.

Sparks43

1 million: Nice house and invest

100 Million: Buy a block of houses and work with the council to help homeless people get back on their feet.

dancingqueen

_Roz_ wrote: »

Never been there, but OH's parents retired to there so I suspect I'll be going there someday. He has notions of retiring to there, but as I hate heat and summer, he'll be retiring there alone! :P

I too would likely go back to full time education.

It is a wonderful place - maybe go in winter when it's less warm the coastline is just amazing.

Full time education would be the dream for me now when my brain could handle it :pac:

Ush1

I'm not greedy, as long as I have my solid gold house, rocket car and millions of dollars I'm happy.

But yeah, I'd buy a pub I think and get sloshed all day and then try and do stand up comedy. If I had enough left over I'd travel around America and write a book.

aidan24326

Gravelly wrote: »

I don't do the lotto, so the question is moot, but if I did do it and won, I certainly wouldn't give up work for €1 million. In fact I doubt it would change my life to any real extent. €100 million would be a different proposition. I would have to seriously think about work - I enjoy my job, and I'd imagine that, no matter how many holidays I took, I'd end up being bored out of my mind. I think I'd go part-time, and invest a lot of the money to protect my family inter-generationally - i.e, ensure that my grandkids and great-grandkids had the best possible start. I'm not sure I'd buy an awful lot, as there isn't really anything I can think of off the top of my head that I really want that I couldn't buy now if my wife would only let me!

Damn, I'm boring!

Even if 1 Million isn't really enough to retire on, you'd have to be pretty well off for it not to change your life at all! I don't mean just with buying material things like flash cars and so on, but even 1 Mill would give you a certain level of security.

No mortgage any more, or the opportunity to now buy a nice place if you've been renting. Any outstanding debts cleared, a nice little nest egg for retirement etc

100 Million is a different world altogether and a lot of people who have had that sort of money fall into their lap haven't fared too well with it. I'd probably take my chances but that sort of money brings with it a new set of problems.

BrokenArrows

Id give up work. Not because i hate my job, but because i cant image i could motivate myself to work/perform for a few thousand when ive got millions in the bank and i would just end up getting fired.
Also i cant image any employer would be happy with me taking constant holidays and unpaid leave when i decide i want to go and do something with my money.

Id put a lot into my pension fund so that when i retire id have millions saved away.

Then id be free to live a crazy rich guys life, blowing money on expensive hotels, cars, holidays while ensuring that i will always have a large pension fund to fall back on.

King George VI

€1 million, I'd buy about 909090 cans of coke and build a house with them

€100 million, probably buy a castle, a personal assistant and the rest in penny jellies.

BrokenArrows

Deleted User wrote: »

1 million, buy a good 2 bed apartment in Dublin centre and stow the rest. Have a job I like and decent pension, but I'd look into a good degree in something interesting but not career related. With no rent/mortgage to pay or worry about I'd live a very nice life without needing to dip into rainy day fund I think.

Nobody would need to know I'd won the million.


100 million:

I'd do nothing for three months. Stay working, claim it or whatever but don't go near it. Engineer a decent amount of leave from work, probably a career break or a move abroad for a few years, easy enough done.

Take six months out to cruise or travel spending only day-to-day, like a king but committing no major infrastructural decisions. Get used to the new realities and plan accordingly. Probably get a medical done!

Then it'd be a flurry something along the lines of: siblings set up with mortgages and annuities, purchase main property south of France, apartment in Manhattan, hotels everywhere else, and endless travel when I'm not studying at the most fabulous universities I can find. A comfortable luxury vehicle with an excellent sound system on each continent. A yacht big enough for the cook not to feel cramped.

Aim to die the best read, fed, travelled and dressed multi-instrumentalist archaeologist astronomist imaginable. Spend a few years translating the kama sutra into gaeilge because Connemara gals need love too. That kind of thing.

Im impressed that you want to spend your freedom developing your knowledge.

MSVforever

€100m. Easy...Never ever work again...

Buying a nice house in Redondo Beach CA and a weekend / holiday home in San Francisco.

Nice family car and a convertible. Plenty of motorcyclesðŸ️ðŸ️ðŸ️

Also setting up a homeless shelter.

suicide_circus

AllForIt wrote: »

I'd buy an iPhone 8, outright, no contract.

valoren

Sonics2k wrote: »

Solid gold house and a rocket car of course. What else could you possibly want?

Liver and Onions *sllllllllurrrrp*

backspin.

I wouldn't want 100 million, it could attract some dodgy people and id worry about kidnapping or extortion. At the very least you'd attract a load of hangers on.

5 million would be loads. Buy a nice house, new car and split a million among the family and then have a nice retirement. Maybe work part time at something i'm interested in to keep me from getting bored.

Gravelly

backspin. wrote: »

I wouldn't want 100 million, it could attract some dodgy people and id worry about kidnapping or extortion. At the very least you'd attract a load of hangers on.

5 million would be loads. Buy a nice house, new car and split a million among the family and then have a nice retirement. Maybe work part time at something i'm interested in to keep me from getting bored.

You could hire quite a few hitmen for €100 million to sort those kind of problems out.

The Backwards Man

I'd buy an Apache attack helicopter.

Gravelly

The Backwards Man wrote: »

I'd buy an Apache attack helicopter.

What did the Apaches ever do to you?

_Kaiser_

The Backwards Man wrote: »

I'd buy an Apache attack helicopter.

Nah, always preferred the Russian one from Rambo



It's a flying tank!

backspin.

backspin. wrote: »

I wouldn't want 100 million, it could attract some dodgy people and id worry about kidnapping or extortion. At the very least you'd attract a load of hangers on.

5 million would be loads. Buy a nice house, new car and split a million among the family and then have a nice retirement. Maybe work part time at something i'm interested in to keep me from getting bored.

I'd far rather 100 million to 5 million. 5 million makes you wealthy but 100 million puts you into a different world altogether, a world I would like to inhabit.

If you aren't stupid enough to go public on the win and give it time before starting to spend money on big ticket luxury items and giving up work etc then the big win will be forgotten about, especially if you are not living in Dublin etc. People worry far too much about kidnapping etc in these scenarios. How many property developers etc worth in the 100's of millions do you hear about getting kidnapped or extorted. None in Ireland anyway and they don't hide their wealth.

As for what would I buy aside from the obvious things like build a serious house, buy supercars and luxury 4x4s etc I'd either buy a business which I would work in to pass the time (that could include buying a significant amount of investment property and running the business of managing it myself). In fact I'd get involved in buying up some businesses first and make it look like that's where my money was coming from for houses, cars etc. I'd also buy a significant amount of farm land.

Back to the fun items I'd also without doubt take out a lease on a corporate suite in croke park and host all my friends and family for big days in croker.

_Kaiser_

Talon Tasteless Game wrote: »

I'd far rather 100 million to 5 million. 5 million makes you wealthy but 100 million puts you into a different world altogether, a world I would like to inhabit.

If you aren't stupid enough to go public on the win and give it time before starting to spend money on big ticket luxury items and giving up work etc then the big win will be forgotten about, especially if you are not living in Dublin etc. People worry far too much about kidnapping etc in these scenarios.

Indeed... with time, planning, and thought about who you tell and how much you tell them, there's no reason that 100 mil couldn't be enjoyed.

I would do lots of college things. A masters and a Phd.
I would write a book and read all of the books I could get my hands on and have a library.
Sell Wexford strawberries on the side of the road on sunny days, and only on sunny days.
Go all around the world to all of the museums etc., staying in nice hotels.
Have a garden and a greenhouse, and live near the sea.

GavRedKing

1 million would be perfect, house paid for out around west Cork, continue to work and put away about 100k, without a mortgage to worry about, life would be easy.

100 million is insane money really and I'd probably end up building a house here on its own land, a house in New Zealand on a nice plot by the sea and a place in New York or London.

I'd really have to stop myself from spending it all on cars though, that would be my bggest weakness, but if I could limit myself to a 3 car garage I'd be happy, maybe become a trader of classic or exotic cars to keep the mind busy during the year.

Sort out the immediate family, parents get a new house and they can rent out our current one for income, houses for the 2 sisters and nephew and niece. I'd offer friends money but it wouldnt be anything mad, to try and keep everyone happy and not worrying about cutting other people. I'd probably buy a corporate box at Chelsea and the Aviva too for games if I'm in the country and give to friends and family too. use also.

I do like the idea of setting up a charity too and if I did, I'd probably try to help homeless families through the interest of the money and I'd setup an dog shelter/sanctuary.

Dramatik

I'd buy a big plot of land and hold giant raves there every month, pissing off everybody in the area.

I'd also hire a private detective to find out where my 3rd class teacher lived now and wake her up by revving my Pagani Zonda in her driveway at 4am on a Monday morning. I'd also have the horn of the Zonda customized to play an audio clip of Nelson from the Simpsons shouting ''ha....ha!'' every time I pressed the car horn.

carltonleon

1m - pretty much the same as everyone else here.

100m - ah now that is different ...
Spend the year travelling from sporting event to sporting event.... Champs League Final, World Cup, Superbowl, Wimbledon, Ryder Cup, World Cup Skiing, French Open Tennis, The Ashes in Australia, Olympics, FA Cup Final, Box at The Emirates, Us Open Tennis, Cheltenham, The Masters, Formula One around the World (especially Monaco), Rugby World Cup, Grand National, baseball World Series, NBA, Stanley Cup, Tour de France, Giro D'Italia, Americas Cup, Melbourne Cup, El Classico, Polo in Palermo, Surf championships in Hawaii, The Open Golf etc etc etc etc...

Bored ???? No time for that

Gravelly

Dramatik wrote: »

I'd buy a big plot of land and hold giant raves there every month, pissing off everybody in the area.

I'd also hire a private detective to find out where my 3rd class teacher lived now and wake her up by revving my Pagani Zonda in her driveway at 4am on a Monday morning. I'd also have the horn of the Zonda customized to play an audio clip of Nelson from the Simpsons shouting ''ha....ha!'' every time I pressed the car horn.

Nice touch - might steal that idea.