You've just won £10million. It's in your acccount. Tell me your next 24 hours.

First phone call would be to my financial advisor to work out the best place to put the money to get the best return.
Start looking for a bigger house on Rightmove.
Probably have a beer.
 
- Phone work and quit
- Spend much of the day dreamily planning what purchases to make - would probably look towards buying a new house, as well as car etc. Probably a holiday to plan.
- Go out for a nice meal with the wife and kids - nothing particularly extravagant (we live in the countryside - don't want to have to travel too far), but certainly wouldn't be thinking about keeping costs down by opting for cheaper dishes, water to drink etc.

People say that money doesn't make you happy but, for me, it would mean I could stop working - and going to work is the main thing that makes me unhappy (just steals so much of my time and energy: means I can't enact many of the things I think about doing... if only I had the time).
 
okay.. first 24 hrs?

leave work
drive to a nice place in the country side, pop a bottle
pull out a notebook
write down the stuff imma be doing
and starting thinking about my next steps.
 
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Sit back and relax.

Book financial advisors, sort kids out with their own houses.

Spend the rest of the time on Rightmove sorting out my new place.

Buy the wife a Daschund (or two!).
 
Step One: Open ** removed because of the excess swearing **
Step Two: Quit job.
Step Three: Head aboard for a few days to think about how to manage the money, how much to give to who and how (one off, monthly).
Step Four: Engage a decent lawyer and tell them the plan. Ensure it is difficult for me to deviate from that plan with an emergency fund in place.
Step Five: Head North and tell the parents and brother.
Step Six: Buy dog.

I realise I am a very boring person, but what would you expect from a Tax Accountant?
 
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I don't think I'd do anything right there and then... might pop a bottle of bubbly. If I could get a sitter, I might even go out for dinner, but probably just eat chicken wings and drink Champagne.
 
I'd probably spend most of the first 24 hours in some sort of daze, not really taking it in. If my head was working at all I'd start planning the future. Where I might want to live, how to leave work, how to ensure that the money will last me the rest of my days with no risk of losing it or blowing it all on something stupid. I wouldn't really want anyone other than the wife knowing until I had a plan in place.
 
24 hours? I'd go to work as normal. I might open up some separate investment options as it would take me over the ISA limit but am not particularly liking how turbulent the stock markets are at the moment for such a large amount so would look at other options to diversify. I might download a brochure for a Oyster Yacht. Those who make massive changes to their life too soon seem to blow through the money, appear unhappy and then end up with none left, no job and poor employment prospects. I'd also resist all attempts to publicise my identity.
 
I'm going to be boring and say not a lot for the first 24 hours. Ordering a takeaway would do me. Maybe try to devise a plan to see that the money lasts through the rest of my life rather than blowing it in 10 years, how I'd help immediate family, etc. Certainly wouldn't be shouting from the roof tops about it, would try to keep it as private as possible.
 
Start planning how much I am going to blow and invest.
Give 8 Pack a call to spec something insane.
Block all my friends and families numbers.
Plan how I will escape all the inevitable feuds and long lost friends.
Get some new rich friends.
 
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Step One: Open this reddit thread I had saved for a long time.
Step Two: Quit job.
Step Three: Head aboard for a few days to think about how to manage the money, how much to give to who and how (one off, monthly).
Step Four: Engage a decent lawyer and tell them the plan. Ensure it is difficult for me to deviate from that plan with an emergency fund in place.
Step Five: Head North and tell the parents and brother.
Step Six: Buy dog.

I realise I am a very boring person, but what would you expect from a Tax Accountant?
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I'm not an accountant but I read that thread a few months back and it's exactly what I'd do as well. Tell no one, sort out a plan for my sake and to stop others leeching and then make plans.
 
I saw a documentary on winners once, someone from the lottery said they had a man who won and didn't want anyone to know, not even his wife/girlfriend.

Not because he wanted to do her out of money or anything nasty like that, he just didn't want anything to change. I guess he still gave her a nice life but maybe made out he was doing better at work (or whatever it was)

I don't think I would tell anyone other than my girlfriend and immediate family.
 
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