If you won.......

[Tuvra]

a) £10 - 5 Euro Millions Tickets


b) £100 - Pay for my mates stag do


c) £1000 - Buy a kitchen appliance


d) £10,000 - Buy a kitchen & kitchen appliances


e) £100,000 - All of the above, plus a GTR or R8 and pay some of the mortgage off.


f) £1,000,000 - All of the above, buy all the mortgage out. Build a new garage at our new house, fill with second hand XKRS, GTR, C63 & RR. Go On Holidays


g) 10,000,000 - Build a new house, buy lots of cars, go on holidays, see family members ok etc.

[Zwolf]

Is it realluy so highly surprising that a bunch of car enthusiasts, on a car enthusiast website, given a theoretical sizeable windfall, would choose to spend a fai rchunk of it on erm, cars?

[ilduce]

Cotty said:

ilduce said:

There's the same amount of imagination in this thread as there are real girls on PH.

Could you post your list im just curious what you would go for.

You're not curious. You'd like to attempt to ridicule me, you silly billy.


Unless you lived in a box under a tree, none of those amounts would change your life- you'd just end up with a better load of things that you'd be unhappy with after a year, when you realised they hadn't changed your life.

[bobbo89]

Wacky Racer said:

a) £10 - Stick it in my wallet, probably buy some lunch


b) £100 - Stick it in a jar and spend it on a night out


c) £1000 - Get every little bit welding done on my 65 bug


d) £10,000 - Pay off my car loan, sell the Corrado and buy a nice daily


e) £100,000 - Buy a house


f) £1,000,000 - Buy a nice house and car as well as pay off the parents and sisters mortgages


g) 10,000,000 - Split it four ways with me, my parents and and my 2 sisters all getting 2.5m each

[monamimate]

g) 10,000,000

The plans are ready in my head: build nice family house with (very) large subterranean garage, overlooked by 007-style office (= man-cave) from which I could ogle my little collection (1950's Merc 300SL, Austin Healey 3000, E-type, Beta Coupe, etc... + assorted supercars)

[GroundEffect]

a) £10 - Lunch?


b) £100 - Nice meal with the Mrs


c) £1000 - Put towards new bathroom


d) £10,000 - Holiday & put towards mortgage


e) £100,000 - As above but better!


f) £1,000,000 - New house & Ferrari F12


g) 10,000,000 - Beautiful Philipino boys

[boobles]

a) £10 = Some more lottery tickets


b) £100 = Weeks worth of food shopping


c) £1000 = His & hers clothes


d) £10,000 = Dream holidy


e) £100,000 = Shelby gt500 Eleanor


f) £1,000,000 = Dream home + holiday home


g) 10,000,000 = Nothing.... Just live of the interest.

[Zwolf]

GroundEffect said:

g) 10,000,000 - Beautiful Philipino boys

Honest, at least.

[Lord Pikey]

a) £10 - Not sure i would spend it on anything notable, probably lunch


b) £100 - Put it towards a bike trailer for the boy


c) £1000 - Buy a bike trailer for the boy.


d) £10,000 - Add tp next house depot


e) £100,000 - Use it as 2x 50k deposits on two flats


f) £1,000,000 - Convert 500k to EUR and buy a flat in Munich, the rest as deposits for flats


I am so dull its untrue. Id love to say id buy another fast car, but i spend most of the time worrying about where it is parked or what is about to go bang next. ..... actually, id treat myself to a V10 M5 touring, an old Mustang and a really ratty looking campervan if i got the top win.... plus some flat deposits


g) 10,000,000 - Nice house, flash cars, new tits for the wife. invest the rest.

[farmeryellow]

a) £10 Payment towards School fee's


b) £100 see above


c) £1000 see above


d) £10,000 see above


e) £100,000 Have enough to pay school fee's


f) £1,000,000 Buy a farm


g) 10,000,000 Buy a bigger farm

[Cotty]

ilduce said:

Unless you lived in a box under a tree, none of those amounts would change your life- you'd just end up with a better load of things that you'd be unhappy with after a year, when you realised they hadn't changed your life.

The last two amounts listed would allow me to retire. I would say never having to work again would change my life.

[722Adam]

NRS said:

Captain Muppet said:

Vocal Minority said:

GTIAlex said:

722Adam said:

HOGEPH said:

Timfy, 10 million and you'd still go to work?!

I would. I still want to enjoy my life and would easily get bored far too quickly without work.

Only a boring person with no imagination would get bored by not going to work.

Define boring. It would stop my brain rotting, keep me within the realms of society. It would also be an opportunity to do something a bit more worthy.

I'd still work if I had millions in the bank.

Of course the thing I'd do for "work" would be radically different.

I would still work, [geology] it's what I enjoy and am learning new stuff all the time...

I'd probably work only a % of the time instead of 100%, but £10 000 000 isn't that much to live on if you're going to go crazy and not work for the next (hopefully) 50+ years.

This is kind of what I had in mind. I'm still studying and haven't even started my career, be a shame to put all that education to waste

[soad]

a) £10 - Dirty Takeaway


b) £100 - As above, but many more!


c) £1000 - MacBook Pro


d) £10,000 - TVR Chimaera


e) £100,000 - Travel the world for a few years


f) £1,000,000 - Property, cars, bikes


g) £10,000,000 - Book a MiG and Virgin Galactic flights. Become a layabout and chase the shirt.

[rob0r]

a) £10 - Pack of Drpepper and £5 down the driving range


b) £100 - Car parts/Video games


c) £1000 - Respray for my BMW E23 730


d) £10,000 - Pay / put money towards a kitchen


e) £100,000 - £70K off mortgage, £10K to do up my BMW E3 3.0si, £20K house pimping


f) £1,000,000 - Buy multiple buy to lets, awesome holidays, make a self sufficient business I enjoy. Probably get something like an AMG estate for daily duties.


g) 10,000,000 - have a blast, buy a big (not huge) house with multiple garages and a huge heated workshop, spend my time/money on doing my rubbish BMWs up when I'm not on holiday, more buy to lets/investments.

I'm not too worried about having ferraris etc, I'd rather make what I've already got amazing!

[tleefox]

Wacky Racer said:

The following amounts, how would you spend it?

(Don't just think of the first thing that comes into your head,choose carefully)...

a) £10
Put it in my pocket.

b) £100
Put it in daughter's savings account for when she's 18.

c) £1000
As above.

d) £10,000
£2.5k (ish) - new bathroom.
£2.5k (ish) - rainy day fund.
£5k (ish) - overpayments on mortgage

e) £100,000
£50k into overpayments on mortgage.
£50k into either a buy to let deposit, or as a fund to buy a house, do up and sell on, and repeat.

f) £1,000,000
£50k into a buy to let property for my sisters.
£50k into a buy to let property for my brother in law.
£50k to my parents.
£50k to her parents.
£250k into a buy to let in my daughter's name.
Probably £50k on holidays for family and friends.
£300k to pay off mortgage / move house.
£100k into property to allow me to stop work, in the common sense of the word at least.
£100k pool of cars.

g) 10,000,000
£250k into a buy to let property for my sisters.
£250k into a buy to let property for my brother in law.
£250k to my parents.
£250k to her parents.
£500k into property in my daughter's name.
Probably £100k on holidays for family and friends.
£2,000,000 to build / buy forever home. (Keep current house and rent out).
£1,000,000 pool of cars.
Probably £500k on a holiday home abroad somewhere.
Probably spend £100k on coke and hookers for the boys.
£2,000,000 invested into property as a revenue generator.
Bank the rest.

ETA - Am I really the first person to say hookers?

Edited by tleefox on Tuesday 30th September 12:41

[axgizmo]

a) £10 Probably have take out tonight

b) £100 Buy the S1 Rallye inlet Manifold I need

c) £1000 Book a holiday for next year

d) £10,000 Pay off my debt(almost)

e) £100,000 Pay off Debt & Put a big deposit down on a nice house

f) £1,000,000 Pay off Debt & buy a nice big house, pay off brother & parents Mortgages

g) £10,000,000 As above, give 1,000,000 to St John's Hospice in Lancaster & enjoy life

[NRS]

722Adam said:

NRS said:

Captain Muppet said:

Vocal Minority said:

GTIAlex said:

722Adam said:

HOGEPH said:

Timfy, 10 million and you'd still go to work?!

I would. I still want to enjoy my life and would easily get bored far too quickly without work.

Only a boring person with no imagination would get bored by not going to work.

Define boring. It would stop my brain rotting, keep me within the realms of society. It would also be an opportunity to do something a bit more worthy.

I'd still work if I had millions in the bank.

Of course the thing I'd do for "work" would be radically different.

I would still work, [geology] it's what I enjoy and am learning new stuff all the time...

I'd probably work only a % of the time instead of 100%, but £10 000 000 isn't that much to live on if you're going to go crazy and not work for the next (hopefully) 50+ years.

This is kind of what I had in mind. I'm still studying and haven't even started my career, be a shame to put all that education to waste

In the same way it could be said that only very boring people would continue to work it could be said that they're the ones actually working with something they actually like and that develops them each day. Therefore it's not just about working to make money. I'd prefer a smaller salary and actually enjoy what I'm doing, since (I spend 37 hours or so a week doing it. And like you, it depends at which point in life you are at if you can live off £10M never working again. It would be possible, but as someone studying it wouldn't exactly be rock and roll craziness!

[ilduce]

Cotty said:

ilduce said:

Unless you lived in a box under a tree, none of those amounts would change your life- you'd just end up with a better load of things that you'd be unhappy with after a year, when you realised they hadn't changed your life.

The last two amounts listed would allow me to retire. I would say never having to work again would change my life.

Not really, you'd still be unimaginative, but you'd have more time to do it.

[bertie]

a) £10 - Nothing


b) £100 - Nothing


c) £1000 - Nothing


d) £10,000 - Nothing


e) £100,000 - Maybe an E-type or a 911 GT3 (997 series)

f) £1,000,000 - Ferrari 275


g) £10,000,000 - All the above.

[Cotty]

ilduce said:

Not really, you'd still be unimaginative, but you'd have more time to do it.

Not really