If you won £1,000,000 Friday
Discussion
Trommel said:
WorAl said:
If you can't live happy on £2000+ per month to blow how you like there's something wrong or you're greedy
Household and other bills, food, insurance and running the cars alone is going to make a hefty hole in that without even thinking about how much you'll "blow how you like" to occupy your days. And that's assuming you're single and childless.
Buy the powerchair I need/want rather than the one the NHS can give me.
Engage the services of a really really good travel agent and go to New Zealand for a month or two. Given that I can't sit upright for more than 6 or so hours on average (much less on a bad day), I've already figured out that I'd basically have to travel in the pricey seats so that I can recline back or lie down when needed. Do lots of whale watching, revisit all the beautiful places I went as a kid, visit surviving family members who live there. Add in tickets for a couple of personal care assistants - one'd have to be a nurse, I don't think foreign countries district nursing are much interested in looking after visitors - and such and that'd take a fair bite out of the £1m.
Move mate out of too-small housing association flat into one which is big enough and can safely contain her autistic kid.
Give my van the engine it deserves.
Many many gadgets for house to improve day-to-day life - tracking hoist to ALL rooms (think personal monorail) for freedom of movement and ability to accommodate mates, get rid of vile 'hospital-style' bed and replace with one that does the same stuff but without looking like I've nicked it from a 1960s long-stay ward, state-of-the art environmental control system to do stuff like open and close curtains and windows (I have a bit of kit like this but you're only deemed to need to open the curtains in your bedroom...). Get profoundly disabled mate out of nursing home and move her in as housemate, so whatever gadgetry she needs too.
Small 2-bed flat near my parents in Haringey, kitted out appropriately for visits.
The rest into carefully set-up trust fund to pay for quality-of-life enhancing things for self and close friends for the rest of my days, the remainder to go into trust for mate's autistic kid when I cark it.
Engage the services of a really really good travel agent and go to New Zealand for a month or two. Given that I can't sit upright for more than 6 or so hours on average (much less on a bad day), I've already figured out that I'd basically have to travel in the pricey seats so that I can recline back or lie down when needed. Do lots of whale watching, revisit all the beautiful places I went as a kid, visit surviving family members who live there. Add in tickets for a couple of personal care assistants - one'd have to be a nurse, I don't think foreign countries district nursing are much interested in looking after visitors - and such and that'd take a fair bite out of the £1m.
Move mate out of too-small housing association flat into one which is big enough and can safely contain her autistic kid.
Give my van the engine it deserves.
Many many gadgets for house to improve day-to-day life - tracking hoist to ALL rooms (think personal monorail) for freedom of movement and ability to accommodate mates, get rid of vile 'hospital-style' bed and replace with one that does the same stuff but without looking like I've nicked it from a 1960s long-stay ward, state-of-the art environmental control system to do stuff like open and close curtains and windows (I have a bit of kit like this but you're only deemed to need to open the curtains in your bedroom...). Get profoundly disabled mate out of nursing home and move her in as housemate, so whatever gadgetry she needs too.
Small 2-bed flat near my parents in Haringey, kitted out appropriately for visits.
The rest into carefully set-up trust fund to pay for quality-of-life enhancing things for self and close friends for the rest of my days, the remainder to go into trust for mate's autistic kid when I cark it.
£600k on two F40s for the Le Mans trip.
£200k on the tables in Monte Carlo.
£100k for the Mrs to go shopping (distraction while I nip into said casinos).
£50,000 on Murray to win Wimbledon.
£49,999 on Raonic to win Wimbledon.
£1 (or cost of lottery ticket) back in my pocket.
A bit of bravery on as few hands as possible at the casino should see it all back. If not, two appreciating classics (one to drive, one to driver harder) and my original lottery stake will do just fine.
£200k on the tables in Monte Carlo.
£100k for the Mrs to go shopping (distraction while I nip into said casinos).
£50,000 on Murray to win Wimbledon.
£49,999 on Raonic to win Wimbledon.
£1 (or cost of lottery ticket) back in my pocket.
A bit of bravery on as few hands as possible at the casino should see it all back. If not, two appreciating classics (one to drive, one to driver harder) and my original lottery stake will do just fine.
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