If you won £1,000,000 Friday

[Steamer]

Buy ALOT of custard.

Maybe take a couple of days off to have a mooch round some cars.

Buy myself a nice office chair.

[Mark Benson]

Make the house we currently live in nicer and slightly bigger - 200k
Buy a workshop nearby to 'play' in - 50-100k
Buy a 1960s race car to put in above workshop - 30-100k
Transporter/motorhome for above - £50k
W124 Merc with a modern Merc V6 conversion for day-to-day wafting - £20k

Wife can have the rest to waste

[Pixel Pusher]

If I won that sort of money, I'd like to start my own company doing what I do now.

Pay the mortgage off and tart the house up.

Treat myself to a 400 wedge and make it mint.

And a new hoover. I need a new hoover.

[Odie]

Pixel Pusher said:

And a new hoover. I need a new hoover.

[Celtic Dragon]

A house around £250 which is very doable where I live, a C63 AMG and pay of the little debt I have, then bank the rest, ring fencing 250k as a private pension on top of other incomes for later in life.

[qube_TA]

Would buy new house, make that nice.

Pay off all loans & cards.

rent out old house.

Carry on working but be very comfortable and loan free.

[Justayellowbadge]

Celtic Dragon said:

A house around £250 which is very doable where I live

One of the condemned streets in Liverpool?

[Tango13]

Retire.

I don't have any dependants so I'd plan on spending the lot. £1m is £40k pa for the next 25yrs plus any interest earned. 25yrs from now i'll be 65 so I would then collect my pension.

[Council Baby]

I'd be chucking £900k in a medium risk investment and fking off around the world ticking off the bucket list with the other £100k.

Edited by Council Baby on Tuesday 15th May 12:02

[BoRED S2upid]

Either extend current house or move to a bigger one either optioncosting less than 250k halve my sisters mortgage for them, 50k on cars and the rest in the bank and carry on as I am.

[bebee]

A mill, or to be a millionaire isn't what it was, whilst I wouldn't turn my nose up at it, there's not a lot it gets you these days in terms of a private jet, a warehouse full of motors, etc..........

If I win, I'd buy a mansion in bellaire and marry a supermodel, beets smooching my hand when I thought no one was looking!

[5pen]

I'd place giving up work in front of a bigger house and a garage full of cars.

Obviously it depends on your time of life and personal circumstances as to whether £1m is enough to retire on (probably not if you're under 50 and still have a mortgage), but having the time and flexibility to do stuff is a luxury I'd love to have.

That's not to say that I wouldn't buy something 'nice' to drive.

[Biker's Nemesis]

Tango13 said:

Retire.

I don't have any dependants so I'd plan on spending the lot. £1m is £40k pa for the next 25yrs plus any interest earned. 25yrs from now i'll be 65 so I would then collect my pension.

Just what i said earlier. I'd be in my 70's though.

[Pixel Pusher]

Council Baby said:

I'd be chucking £100k in a medium risk investment and fuking off around the world tiling off the bucket list with the other £900k.

After reading some of your previous posts, I took the liberty of adjusting your figures CB.

You strike me as a man who lives well.

[tuscaneer]

this sounds daft but a million in this day and age isn't a great deal of poke.certainly not enough to pack in work and live like a king because you'd be stone broke within a couple of years

[Council Baby]

Pixel Pusher said:

After reading some of your previous posts, I took the liberty of adjusting your figures CB.

You strike me as a man who lives well.

I reckon I could do a 1 year round the world trip in relative luxury on £100k

[illmonkey]

Pixel Pusher said:

Council Baby said:

I'd be chucking £100k in a medium risk investment and fuking off around the world tiling off the bucket list with the other £900k.

After reading some of your previous posts, I took the liberty of adjusting your figures CB.

You strike me as a man who's lives well fat.

ETA.

[kambites]

I'd spend some time thinking about where best to invest it, but I doubt I'd spend much of it.

[cal216610]

250k on a house, it's just the 2 of us so nothing large needed.
Love to have a nice workshop for carpentry and motor and general hideaway.
A couple of harley d's and the wife can have the rest.
Oh! and back to work monday as normal.

[LiamM45]

I think I'd buy a modest house for myself, nice car and a bit in the bank (well under 200k) and invest the rest into property, it would take a long time to make my money back, but that's fine by me.

It would at least mean I could live comfortably without worrying about bills.