Two Brit Tickets win Euromillions - £45.5 million each!!!

[Rollcage]

Two British tickets scooped the giant Euromillions jackpot last night, winning £45,570,835.50 each.

So ,its your ticket and you are not in a syndicate - how would you cope? Winning such a huge amount is bound to take some getting used to - do you start spending straight away, or have a holiday while planning a life of luxury for the rest of your years?

And of course now that you can afford most things - what do you spend it on, but also how do you invest it so that it continues to grow? What sort of return would a balanced portfolio of say £30 million achieve? Could you expect to double your pot every 10 years, after tax and costs ?

Oh, and also - lucky bds!

[paul.deitch]

handmade shoes, butler, cook, maid, secretary, driver. the rest I'll play by ear.

[ThunderSpook]

You had my hopes up there for a minute! But mine only came in at £5.80

[Munter]

Well the Mrs is rubbish. Not even £5.80.

Typical.

Still had we won I'd not splurge on daft stuff. Pay off the mortgage's in the family, put some aside for the kids education, make sure theres some aside to look after the parents, and myself when I'm older.

Then see whats left. Then go racing. Britcar or something.

[HereBeMonsters]

I couldn't go on a holiday straight away, I'd be too keen to get spending.

Firstly I'd buy the house next to my flat, and stop it being turned into flats itself. Then I'd walk up the road to the Jag dealer, drive off in a brand new XJR (or possibly ask the spanner monkey who owns a beautiful Mini Clubman 1275GT how much he wants for it) towards a Porsche dealer. Then drive Porsche to a Lotus dealer and get the missus in an Elise.
Both cars up to the parents' new place, and take my Dad out to get his DB9. Sagaris for my Uncle who lives nearby, then a classic VW van for my brother to put all his surf gear in.
Back down south to buy up 15-20 different cars I've always liked the look of, then hire out a decent racetrack for the day, invite all my friends, and let them take home what they want.

First holiday would be to see my best mate in the Cayman Islands. I'd buy most of the stock from his jewellery and watch store, put us up in the Ritz and import an Elise for him.

Second holiday would be West Coast US. New Dodge Charger from some mental tuning house, drive down from Seattle to San Diego. Back up to Vegas, suite at the Hard Rock. Get into some serious blackjack.

Home to move into house once solicitors have sorted it. Furnish it with proper antiques, but do it all myself (bar the heavy lifting). Improve on the garage block out the back to have my 5 car dream garage, and look at buying an estate with some land in the New Forest area.

Incidentally 5 car dream garage:

Peugeot 205 GTI
Porsche 993 Turbo
Aston Martin Vantage (the 90s one. The beast)
Mk1 2dr Range Rover, Camel Trophy style.
Radical SR8 or Ariel Atom (would need to drive each first to decide).

The barn at the place in the New Forest would contain:

Peugeot 205 T16 (road car)
Peugeot 405 T16 (either a Raid or Pikes Peak version)
Peugeot 504 Convertible
Peugeot 505 V6 saloon
Porsche 911
Porsche 930 Turbo (whale tail)
Porsche 964 Carrera 4
Porsche 993 GT2
Porsche 996 GT3
Porsche 997 Carrera 2
Porsche 928
Porsche 968 ClubSport
Ferrari F40
Ford RS200
Audi Sport Quattro
Austin Healey 3000
DeLorean
Lotus Elan Sprint
Lotus Elise S1
Lotus Elise S2 (Toyota engine)
Lotus Exige SC
Mazda MX-5 with an RX-7 rotary engine
Chevy Impala with a mental engine
Nissan Bluebird ZX Turbo
Nissan Skyline R32 GT-R
Nissan Skyline R34 GT-R
Nissan March SuperTurbo
VW Golf GTI Mk1
VW Golf R32 Mk5
VW Karmann Ghia (rat look)
Mk1 Mini Cooper S
Mini Clubman 1275GT
Bike engined Mini
Fiat Cinquecento with a Punto Turbo engine

That's all I can think of for now...I'm sure there will be more I remember later on!

[HereBeMonsters]

Munter said:

Then go racing.

Ah yes, good plan. Probably an historic series for me. Perhaps something that would let me race a Peugeot 905?

[sday12]

HereBeMonsters said:

Weird child like fantasy st

[pits]

Wrong forum, either way a nice lump of cash,

[Ken Sington]

I'd drink a lot of Coca-cola and buy a few small rugby players. That is the PH way isn't it?

[sday12]

Ken Sington said:

I'd drink a lot of Coca-cola and buy a few small rugby players. That is the PH way isn't it?

Nah, hookers and coke.

[rsv gone!]

sday12 said:

Ken Sington said:

I'd drink a lot of Coca-cola and buy a few small rugby players. That is the PH way isn't it?

Nah, hookers and coke.

And then waste the rest?

[rsv gone!]

I'd be in no hurry to spend, once the mortgage had been settled.

A monster, first class holiday for me.

[shakotan]

sday12 said:

Ken Sington said:

I'd drink a lot of Coca-cola and buy a few small rugby players. That is the PH way isn't it?

Nah, hookers and coke.

er....

Whoosh?

[Tiggsy]

HereBeMonsters said:

I couldn't go on a holiday straight away, I'd be too keen to get spending.

Firstly I'd buy the house next to my flat, and stop it being turned into flats itself. Then I'd walk up the road to the Jag dealer, drive off in a brand new XJR (or possibly ask the spanner monkey who owns a beautiful Mini Clubman 1275GT how much he wants for it) towards a Porsche dealer. Then drive Porsche to a Lotus dealer and get the missus in an Elise.
Both cars up to the parents' new place, and take my Dad out to get his DB9. Sagaris for my Uncle who lives nearby, then a classic VW van for my brother to put all his surf gear in.
Back down south to buy up 15-20 different cars I've always liked the look of, then hire out a decent racetrack for the day, invite all my friends, and let them take home what they want.

First holiday would be to see my best mate in the Cayman Islands. I'd buy most of the stock from his jewellery and watch store, put us up in the Ritz and import an Elise for him.

Second holiday would be West Coast US. New Dodge Charger from some mental tuning house, drive down from Seattle to San Diego. Back up to Vegas, suite at the Hard Rock. Get into some serious blackjack.

Home to move into house once solicitors have sorted it. Furnish it with proper antiques, but do it all myself (bar the heavy lifting). Improve on the garage block out the back to have my 5 car dream garage, and look at buying an estate with some land in the New Forest area.

Incidentally 5 car dream garage:

Peugeot 205 GTI
Porsche 993 Turbo
Aston Martin Vantage (the 90s one. The beast)
Mk1 2dr Range Rover, Camel Trophy style.
Radical SR8 or Ariel Atom (would need to drive each first to decide).

The barn at the place in the New Forest would contain:

Peugeot 205 T16 (road car)
Peugeot 405 T16 (either a Raid or Pikes Peak version)
Peugeot 504 Convertible
Peugeot 505 V6 saloon
Porsche 911
Porsche 930 Turbo (whale tail)
Porsche 964 Carrera 4
Porsche 993 GT2
Porsche 996 GT3
Porsche 997 Carrera 2
Porsche 928
Porsche 968 ClubSport
Ferrari F40
Ford RS200
Audi Sport Quattro
Austin Healey 3000
DeLorean
Lotus Elan Sprint
Lotus Elise S1
Lotus Elise S2 (Toyota engine)
Lotus Exige SC
Mazda MX-5 with an RX-7 rotary engine
Chevy Impala with a mental engine
Nissan Bluebird ZX Turbo
Nissan Skyline R32 GT-R
Nissan Skyline R34 GT-R
Nissan March SuperTurbo
VW Golf GTI Mk1
VW Golf R32 Mk5
VW Karmann Ghia (rat look)
Mk1 Mini Cooper S
Mini Clubman 1275GT
Bike engined Mini
Fiat Cinquecento with a Punto Turbo engine

That's all I can think of for now...I'm sure there will be more I remember later on!

and thats why yoy see so many broke lotto winners.....branson would shoot himself if he was worth just £45m - yet do you see him behave like that?

[AndrewW-G]

Tiggsy said:

and thats why yoy see so many broke lotto winners.....branson would shoot himself if he was worth just £45m - yet do you see him behave like that?

In all fairness that list of cars is "only" around £800-900k, most people wouldnt have blinked if somebody said they were going to buy a VW Veyron if they won £45,000,000.00

[ewenm]

Tiggsy said:

HereBeMonsters said:

Spend it all

and thats why yoy see so many broke lotto winners.....branson would shoot himself if he was worth just £45m - yet do you see him behave like that?

I was wondering how he'd then maintain all those assets having spent so much cash.

[dcb]

Tiggsy said:

and thats why yoy see so many broke lotto winners.....branson would shoot himself if he was worth just £45m - yet do you see him behave like that?

Quite - the minute they get their hands on the money, it's immediately
spent on toys.

Me, I'd live life as normal for a year, except I'd spend the interest
on the £45 million. So that would be about £2 million to spend in the
first year. A nicer house for us, end the mortgages of our nearest
and dearest and possibly a nice chariot or two.

After a year, I'd have a pretty good idea what I'd want to do with
the rest.

[jas xjr]

i think i would have to buy an island

[Halb]

Rollcage said:

Two British tickets scooped the giant Euromillions jackpot last night, winning £45,570,835.50 each.

So ,its your ticket and you are not in a syndicate - how would you cope? Winning such a huge amount is bound to take some getting used to - do you start spending straight away, or have a holiday while planning a life of luxury for the rest of your years?

And of course now that you can afford most things - what do you spend it on, but also how do you invest it so that it continues to grow? What sort of return would a balanced portfolio of say £30 million achieve? Could you expect to double your pot every 10 years, after tax and costs ?

Oh, and also - lucky bds!

I would fund a political party...seriously. On a platform of electoral change, complete transparency, decentralisation...al the big compound stuff...

[jamoor]

£45 million?
I would invest it into growing my business to hopefully make more money and laugh at my competitors.