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Duke Thrust

1,680 posts

238 months

Tuesday 30th September 2014
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Cotty said:
Not really
Go on then, elaborate.


Muzzer79

9,806 posts

186 months

Tuesday 30th September 2014
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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.
I think £10m would change your life.

Anyhow, I don't want my life changed to it's core. I like it.




smithyithy

7,192 posts

117 months

Tuesday 30th September 2014
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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 - Takeaway


b) £100 - Nothing really, just bank it..


c) £1000 - As above, pay off the credit cards a bit quicker lol


d) £10,000 - Take my family to New York for a couple weeks, pay off bills, bank the change..


e) £100,000 - As above so call it ~£90k.. Then I'd spend 6 months or so just travelling the world, living life, going a bit crazy.. If I ended up with around half of it left, it'd go towards a mortgage.


f) £1,000,000 - As above but with more freedom really. I'd buy my parents their retirement villa, build myself a cool little house in the country, decent car collection ala the £100k garage threads, and hopefully have 2-300k leftover to invest or be sensible with..


g) £10,000,000 - As above once more, I'd probably allow £2m to do the above, go a bit further with those plans. Then I really don't know.. I could have £8m left, to pay myself £160k/year for 50 years (I'm 24 now) but obviously adjusting for inflation.. I'd still work, but I'd have lifelong freedom and comfortable living forever, hopefully.


It's weird, we always dream about winning money - well I do anyway - but if it actually suddenly appeared I'd be at a loss of what to do with it!

Cotty

39,389 posts

283 months

Tuesday 30th September 2014
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Duke Thrust said:
Go on then, elaborate.
I have posted my response. Im waiting for ilduce to post his.

Studio117

4,250 posts

190 months

Tuesday 30th September 2014
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As many naughty forties and my wang could handle.

Duke Thrust

1,680 posts

238 months

Tuesday 30th September 2014
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Cotty said:
I have posted my response. Im waiting for ilduce to post his.
You said you hadn't a clue.

Incidentally, for what you want to spend with £1m, you couldn't afford to retire.


qube_TA

8,402 posts

244 months

Tuesday 30th September 2014
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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

lunch for the next 3 days.


b) £100

Nothing, would just bank it.


c) £1000

Nothing, would just bank it.


d) £10,000

would either pay off the credit card, but probably put it towards replacing the conservatory.


e) £100,000

Replace the conservatory and have a loft conversion, a treat or too with any change.


f) £1,000,000

Move house, pay off existing mortgage, invest in property a bit.


g) 10,000,000

Retire.

monamimate

838 posts

141 months

Tuesday 30th September 2014
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NRS said:
... 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.
How crazy would one have to go if £17,000 per month for the next 50 years wasn't enough (and that's just based on the capital)?

Seems plenty enough for nice toys, travel, home and beer money...


Cotty

39,389 posts

283 months

Tuesday 30th September 2014
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Duke Thrust said:
You said you hadn't a clue.

Incidentally, for what you want to spend with £1m, you couldn't afford to retire.
Im pretty close to being able to retire now, so that would be £1,000,000 on top.

Foliage

3,861 posts

121 months

Tuesday 30th September 2014
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a) £10 - Spend it on sundries


b) £100 - Probably just stick in the bank for christmas presents


c) £1000 - A watch perhaps or something with value that will last.


d) £10,000 - A once in a life time holiday, motorbike license.


e) £100,000 - All of the above plus small house to live in, would probably have to get a mortgage as well though.


f) £1,000,000 - E + Buy a boat I could manage on my own and go for a sail around the med/where ever for a 6 months to a year, get a motorbike to carry on the boat. Try not to spend too much though as id want to give up work and live on it for the rest of my days.

g) £10,000,000 - F + The big money hmm, custom built house to my design, nice car, fund a few projects to keep me busy (race team perhaps) just live on it.

NRS

22,079 posts

200 months

Tuesday 30th September 2014
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monamimate said:
NRS said:
... 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.
How crazy would one have to go if £17,000 per month for the next 50 years wasn't enough (and that's just based on the capital)?

Seems plenty enough for nice toys, travel, home and beer money...
I was more thinking along the lines of buying stuff like a McLaren F1, then having running costs of it etc. Check people who work offshore - quite a few will be on relatively similar amount per month, and they also get a lot of free time on their weeks off. I guess it's pretty obvious, but recently someone said to me generally the people who win the lottery tend to be much happier for a while, but after a period their happiness level just drops back to normal.

hacksaw

748 posts

116 months

Tuesday 30th September 2014
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a) £10 - Couple of pints down the local


b) £100 - Family meal out


c) £1000 - Deposit for next years holiday


d) £10,000 - Holiday for family, bank a little


e) £100,000 - Pay off the mortgage to allow me to change jobs to something more interesting

f) £1,000,000 - Pay off the mortgage, buy couple of small properties for the kids, couple of new cars, couple of Italian Lambretta's, a months blow out holiday. Bank the rest / semi - retire

g) £10,000,000 - Retire, pay off mortgage and rent out current house, couple more houses as investments, holiday home somewhere, 3 or 4 new cars, fleet of lambretta's, invest the rest to live on in the future.

ilduce

485 posts

126 months

Tuesday 30th September 2014
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Cotty said:
Duke Thrust said:
Go on then, elaborate.
I have posted my response. Im waiting for ilduce to post his.
I just read yours- A bodykit and a campervan.
It's like reading a gypsy's letter to Santa.

Given 10M GBP I predict you would become the official Liberace of Pi'keys.
(I can't believe some of the words this place censors)


Edited by ilduce on Tuesday 30th September 17:40

Cotty

39,389 posts

283 months

Tuesday 30th September 2014
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ilduce said:
I just read yours- A bodykit and a campervan.
It's like reading a gypsy's letter to Santa.

Given 10M GBP I predict you would become the official Liberace of Pi'keys.
(I can't believe some of the words this place censors)
So you are not actually going to respond to the original question the OP posted, just put down other peoples responses. Pointless continuing this.

qube_TA

8,402 posts

244 months

Tuesday 30th September 2014
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What's the most interesting thing you could spend £10 on (other than for a winning lotto ticket / gambling)?






Zwolf

25,867 posts

205 months

Tuesday 30th September 2014
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qube_TA said:
What's the most interesting thing you could spend £10 on (other than for a winning lotto ticket / gambling)?
A book on something you're very interested in.

monamimate

838 posts

141 months

Tuesday 30th September 2014
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NRS said:
monamimate said:
NRS said:
... 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.
How crazy would one have to go if £17,000 per month for the next 50 years wasn't enough (and that's just based on the capital)?

Seems plenty enough for nice toys, travel, home and beer money...
I was more thinking along the lines of buying stuff like a McLaren F1, then having running costs of it etc. Check people who work offshore - quite a few will be on relatively similar amount per month, and they also get a lot of free time on their weeks off. I guess it's pretty obvious, but recently someone said to me generally the people who win the lottery tend to be much happier for a while, but after a period their happiness level just drops back to normal.
I saw the same research re happiness, but that seems fine: I'd be as happy as I am now, just in a nicer house with bigger toys.... Perfect!

Chuck328

1,580 posts

166 months

Wednesday 1st October 2014
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a) £10 - back pocket with the other one.


b) £100 - Just another night out on the town.


c) £1000 - Few more nights out, fill the car a few times for the track.


d) £10,000 - Half on another holiday half in the bank.


e) £100,000 - 90k invested, rest as above (all)


f) £1,000,000 - Can I afford to retire?


g) 10,000,000 - fkin right I can


ilduce

485 posts

126 months

Wednesday 1st October 2014
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Cotty said:
ilduce said:
I just read yours- A bodykit and a campervan.
It's like reading a gypsy's letter to Santa.

Given 10M GBP I predict you would become the official Liberace of Pi'keys.
(I can't believe some of the words this place censors)
So you are not actually going to respond to the original question the OP posted, just put down other peoples responses. Pointless continuing this.
Me? Oh I'd buy PH and shut it. I wouldn't feel too bad because you'd still have mumsnet.