Congratulations - you've just won the Euromillions

I'd fully indulge my enthusiasm for firearms by moving to the states and purchasing a home with a gun range. I'd have such an enormous collection of 1911s for a start! Also, an entertainment system with the best gaming PC money can buy. Couple that with a gym with an indoor pool, and I'm sorted.
 
I would buy Hereford United to stop the crazy **** that's happening there at the minute. Get the team as far up the leagues as possible and give the fans something to cheer for once :)

Also I would try and persuade Guns N' Roses to get back together for a 1 off concert.
 
Lopéz said:
So you win the Euromillions. You are rich beyond your wildest dreams.
You immediately hand in your notice and go on a rap star-esque rampage with boats, bling, guns, widescreen TVs and gyrating honeys - that sort of thing.

After a few months of this you will probably begin to tire and even get a little bit bored so you need a project, something to get your teeth into when you feel like it, but not something that ties you down like an actual job.

What business would you set up (or buy out), what would your level of input be and why?

I'll put my own ideas out there shortly but for now I'm just curious as to what sort of things people could actually see themselves doing.
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Do what John Carmack failed at and spend time with a small team building a space rocket to go into orbit with and go into the history books to be the first civilian to travel into space in a privately built craft!

And put a telescope up there at the same time to get awesome photos of space :cool:
 
I would have a go at the high stakes poker tournament circuit, probably wouldn't do well but if I could afford to do it then that would be my plan
 
If anyone found out I had won the EuroMillions, I'd probably get pestered forever by ********* who want free money. And I'd not know who my friends were. After I "got bored" I'd give it all away and go back to my job as a cashier.
 
Is it sad that I'd probably make Caseking.de an offer for OcUK?

I mean computer hardware is my hobby, I'd probably be as hands-off as possible though, as long as it turned a healthy profit I'd just let it carry on as-is.
 
Nothing would change for me.

Same stuff except bigger and more expensive. Same **** different day. ;)

It would be nice though dont get me wrong. :D
 
Lopéz said:
So you win the Euromillions. You are rich beyond your wildest dreams.
You immediately hand in your notice and go on a rap star-esque rampage with boats, bling, guns, widescreen TVs and gyrating honeys - that sort of thing.

After a few months of this you will probably begin to tire and even get a little bit bored so you need a project, something to get your teeth into when you feel like it, but not something that ties you down like an actual job.

What business would you set up (or buy out), what would your level of input be and why?

I'll put my own ideas out there shortly but for now I'm just curious as to what sort of things people could actually see themselves doing.
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I wouldn't buy a yacht or a supercar, mansion or any of that crap. Holds no value whatsoever to me.

I certainly would spend some money going all over the world, seeing everything I could see, opening my eyes no doubt to many new things.

I'd probably plow money into conservation projects after divvying up a fund for my family/relatives.

Even with the Euromillions tho, I'm not sure how much conservation that would actually finance. But it would probably be enough to make some difference, somewhere. Things like protecting habitats, reversing desertification, etc, etc. Important stuff that needs a lot of money.
 
Euromillions eh? Depends on how much I'd won, but say more than Sting as a base figure.

First off, roughly 10% would be split between immediate family members. Not evenly. Younger members getting twice as much as older members (for example, parents get half as much as children).

Take another 10% and blow it on cars, houses etc...

As part of that, spend the next 3-5 years chasing the snow around the world, broken up with warm holidays, all 5 star, seeing the sights etc...

Then settle down, and build my mansion. With a triple garage, where one of the bays is a car elevator to the underground garage that can hold 20+ motors. My Batcave if you will.

Beyond that, I wouldn't run a business. I would spread my wealth somewhat though. To the deprived locals of wherever I am. Hookers and drug dealers are deprived right? I would do that until death, probably manage a couple years before that happens. I'll go all Don Simpson, where the toxicology report ACTUALLY would be quicker to list the drugs NOT in my system.

Drug fuelled heart attack on the ****ter. Thats the way for me.
 
I'd buy a house with enough land to build a shed big enough for some purchases.
Do my class one and buy a low loader to carry the steam engine I'd buy on, then spend the summer going round all the steam rallies and having a few beers in the sunshine.
Do some voluntary work in the local transport museum.
I'd probably manage to find some time to take the wife on holiday too :D
 
Lopéz said:
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After a few months of this you will probably begin to tire and even get a little bit bored so you need a project, something to get your teeth into when you feel like it, but not something that ties you down like an actual job.

What business would you set up (or buy out), what would your level of input be and why?
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If I became rich enough to not have to care about money and I was bored, I would consult a psychiatrist because the cause of the problem would be my mind. There's a vast amount of interesting things to do in the world if you're rich.

I wouldn't set up or buy out a business to try to stop myself being bored because it wouldn't work. Working to make more money when I already had far more than I needed wouldn't fix my hypothetical boredom because the cause of that would be in my head and I wouldn't see any point in doing that anyway. I'm able to think of more than working and having short holidays. The "go on a rap star-esque rampage with boats, bling, guns, widescreen TVs and gyrating honeys" that you mention would be a short holiday, since you frame it as a very short-term temporary thing to do between work.

I'd probably travel, mainly in places where English is the main language because that would be easier for me, and give dollops of cash to people at irregular intervals because it would please me to use a bit of my good luck to bring a bit of good luck to some other people.

If I wanted something that was more creative, I think I'd build a high performance electric car because I don't know how. That way, I could be entertained in multiple ways - learning how to make one, making one and driving it. And then making it better. Years of entertainment to be had there.
 
Invest in some promising start-ups, mainly technological ones and plop it into a savers account and live off the interest. Don't have a family so buying a big house would be wasteful.
 
Monkeynut said:
If anyone found out I had won the EuroMillions, I'd probably get pestered forever by ********* who want free money. And I'd not know who my friends were. After I "got bored" I'd give it all away and go back to my job as a cashier.
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That's why you remain anonymous, and move to Beverly Hills or somewhere where the residents are equally as rich.
 
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