1. Keep quiet about it.
2. Buy a nice place to live, and a few 'toys' (bikes/cars/truck/etc)
3. Try to get the balance right between keeping myself and my kids grounded, and enjoying our new found privilege and freedom.
4. Do the Dakar rally.
5. Set up a property/development business to give me something to play at, and build a long term, safe investment for the kids to inherit.
6. Quietly buy myself immortality by gifting a fair bit of it to various local charities (ie build a kids hospice, set up a foundation to help underprivileged kids, etc)
Stuff charity, they can have what's leftover when I'm dead. And before anyone gets moraly outraged, the population of the world is increacing so it'll probably help more people then than it would now, doing it now is just making you feel good. A bit like giving it to local charieites is less philanthopic than giving it to african charities.
Probably take up yacht racing, $100million for an Auld Mug campaign and the change on a lifetime raceing in the VOR?
with the remaining £90m create a Trust owned investment fund the income off which would be given to local charities etc in Worcestershire. Id have fun working on the investment fund doing projects that interest me, and the income can be put to good use
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On of the things I often day dream about is having Mark Zuckerberg type wealth and just keeping a cool billion in the bank to fund future business oportunities...then blowing the other $27.5 billion on whatever you can build to help people desperately in need of it. Very similar to your idea, but no where near as financially prudent 😉
I can't even begin to imagine how that would feel. After we'd closed a 24 month deal for a mental health facility a while back, the guys who worked on it were offered the opportunity to help the long term residents move their stuff from the old facility to the new one. I spent most of the day bubbling away, as did most of my colleagues, I honestly have no idea how it must feel to truly change a load of lives in a positive way.
I'm very boring.
£1m equity in each of the FTSE 100 companies (and leave it alone), nice property in a decent ski and bike area of the Alps (near a good airport of course), pay off a few mortgages, keep working (but possibly school term time only), and relax knowing that money isn't an issue (learning how to jump doubles properly might be).
£1m equity in each of the FTSE 100 companies
£1m in each of the FTSE[b]100[/b] might not leave you much change out of £100m to buy the rest of the stuff you want 😉
£1m in each of the FTSE100 might not leave you much change out of £100m to buy the rest of the stuff you want
the key to happiness is to only want what you can get / afford....
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"£1m equity in each of the FTSE 100 companies"
£1m in each of the FTSE100 might not leave you much change out of £100m to buy the rest of the stuff you want
The guy won £108m didn't he? £8m would be enough, more than enough.
buy a pencil, write someone an FRO note.. then keep my family as best i could.
Set up my family and friends with a few bob.
Buy a nice spot in Wiltshire.
Buy another in SW1.
Buy another in Serre Che.
Buy four or five nice cars.
Buy four or five nice bikes.
Stock my cellar and library to a fine degree.
Sit back and enjoy life.
First things first:
Travel, but luxury travel. None of that larking around in 5* hysterics they call “Premier Hotels” for me... nooooo bloody way. I want secret uber s****y hideouts in far out places.
Then vehicles: A Bug Veyron, a Campervan, a 2CV, an Audi Q5S then get my TT tarted back up the “new” spec and a Smart Fortwo CDI Convertable.
Then some flipflops.
Then Home: It would be mighty difficult then to identify exactly, item by item, the stuff I’d buy but suffice to say it would include a house/apartment in La Rochelle in the old town, then a place in Stockholm, then I’d by a place back in Ironbridge on the hill overlooking the Church.
Then a boat: It would be a Swan 70ft sloop, something thats reasonably fast at cruising, easy to moor up and it must have a hot shower and some creature comforts to make some longer passage cruising “bearable” 😆
Then bikes: You know what, I have all I need.
amongst other things I'd buy land and make it more accessible to mountain bikers (and probably to other outdoor users), some id keep as natural trails, some id develop into trail centres, but with a proper range of trails
The guy won £108m didn't he? £8m would be enough, more than enough.
What would you do* with £100m?
I was just trying to make a funny 🙁
[i]someone who said they'd give away £90m and still live a very mice life thank you very much.
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This, basically. I'd probably buy a campsite or something somewhere nice and run it as a hobby. I couldn't do 'nothing'.
I'd buy a mountain, open a café with a few b&b rooms on said mountain (none of your trail centre crap, I'm talking a proper café Rene style boozery) that would sell awesome cake and beers. I'd also have cars. Lots of cars, but I'd limit myself to one of each engine size (ie one V6, one V8, one V10).
If the win was big enough I'd be tempted to hollow out the mountain and consider world domination but I think the temptation for Vin rouge would be too much.
It's nice to dream isnt it?
A few nice houses in good skiing/riding spots. French, Austrian, Swiss alps, Whistler, maybe somewhere warm. Some nice bikes. Sort out a few family and friends, but not a huge amount, dont want them becoming reliant on me giving them cash all the time 😉
Some away to charity.
Would take a chunk of it to fund a start up idea or two and use those companies as the day job.
I'd pay my mate to be my lifelong cycling companion, then we'd go bicycle shopping & then bicycle riding.
They say the money magnifies your weaknesses.
So thats cars and Rum for me then.
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Bring back the Sinclair C5
Friends are genuinely rich enough to never ever worry about work again.
They bank at Coutes and the contract will not allow them to be stupid!
One thing they both agree on is that to not worry - really not worry and live on the interest you need at LEAST £12-15M.
Less than that and you can easily outspend the income.
Make a few friends and family members happy, buy a nice house not to big but with a large chunk of land and a couple of cars I like and a few bikes. Wouldn't bother with property abroad rather move around and stay in hotels and chalets.
Buy 108 million lottery tickets and see if I won again.
Can you buy friends?
I'd buy friends 😆
You guys really aren’t think big enough
£108m @ 5% return (and with that kind of money you should really be getting better)… give you 100k a week to spend just from the earnings
So I’d
Buy Spurs a decent striker
and a left back
and a holding mid fielder
and a creative mid fielder
and a manager
Hmmm... there still may not be enough left to do what I'd really like.
A charity for disaffected kids... educational/vocational with lots of fun outdoors type stuff
I would retire from my current bureaucratic shite job to start my own small cafe to pass time.
Right. I’ve had a chance to think / day dream about it.
Some money to family and friends to clear their debts with some on top to set them up for early retirement. Not too much that it destroys them.
Buy the house that I mentioned in my OP, one in Cornwall, one in the Dolomites and one on Lake Garda. Run the spare houses as a business, but with guaranteed availability for me as when required.
Set up a bike / outdoor pursuits business in or near Kirkby to keep me busy. Sales, service, café, bunk barn and guided rides / training. Employ enough staff that I’m not kept too busy 😉
Some toys to fill one of my two barns: Bikes, home cinema, home gym, spa, pool table, massive Scalextric (obviously) and so on.
Convert the other barn for guest accommodation.
Flash sports car (DBS). Family car. 4x4 and people carrier.
Invest the rest to pay an income to me and charities. But lock a good chunk of the capital away so that I don’t go mad and blow the lot snorting coke out of the ass cracks of actresses.
New tyre for rear of bike - front is OK for now. Probably get Mojo to look at my rear shock also.
Don’t need a boat, helicopter, plane or coke dusted actress*.
*Would be willing to reconsider this if it was Eva Green.
What would you do* with £100m?*Funny, amusing and light answers only please.
After the boring " new house, make sure my family is looked after " type stuff ....
the Mighty Whites would get a new chairman 😆 MOT
Then bikes: You know what, I have all I need.
a rigid singlespeed? you could probably get quite a nice one for £108mil.
Donate at least half of it to various charities, 25 mil. to family and friends and live off the interest of the rest.
And fit a RS6 running gear to my van while leaving it looking completely stock 😀
I think I'd split half of it amongst family and friends then spend some on new houses/bikes/cars and invest in some business ventures to keep me busy in between all the riding and holidaying.
It's a huge sum of money to have access too, I hope he enjoys it!
I genuinely hope I would draw up a list of family and friends and split the lot equally . To be fair I don't have a big family or a wide circle of friend so I would still be loaded.
Make sure immediate family are sorted.
Buy a couple of houses here and there with suitably sized garages to store bikes/surfboards/homebrew equipment.
Maybe set up a self-letting business.
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House in the italian lakes, ski chalet somewhere nice, and quite a few cars.
I'd also really like to open a restaurant.
Maybe set up a self-letting business.
With that much money, you'd still go on the game? 😉
Buy a yaught, invite friends, consume booze and play 'I'm on a boat bitch'.
I think we need to be best friends because that was my first reaction too! Only I had the song "I'm on a Boat" from SNL stuck in my head...
I'd like to be able to enjoy my wealth but with my same group of mates, so why not share it around - give a few mates a big chunk then you could all enjoy travelling / biking / skiing together 🙂 Would be a nice feeling not telling a soul and then dropping a few million into each of their bank accounts 😉
I could post and try to impress everyone with my ideas of given huge amounts away but I'd be lying.
My direct family would of course get some and support others, good friends would get something too and those over the years I'm internally grateful to who have helped me one way are another. Of course I'd support a few local communities and give some to charity. But a massive percentage would be spent of me and the rest put away to live off. Properties in the UK of course, Alps and a warmer climate too Ibiza possibly. To keep me busy I'd have a few businesses but I'd not be running them just over seeing them and allowing others to have a job.
That's about it. Oh would I go public, possibly can't see the issue the beggars can be ignored and given your far from the richest in the UK the criminals really aren't that interested.
not tell the world I had won for a start!
Buy some land and build a trail centre on it. It would keep me interested and doing something and hopefully others would enjoy riding it
108mil...... the problem is, you have so much that you can do more or less what you like. you'll also always have eniough unless you are a tit.
make sure mum & dad are sorted (already are, tbh). see to it that my sister finds a job she enjoys. see that the GFs folks and sister are comfortable. no idea what that would involve.
sort out extended family. each aunty and cousin gets 200k.
i'd purchase a mountain on which i could build myself a small cabin taking inspiration from [url= http://cabinporn.com/ ]HERE[/url]. if the hill had an exisiting cable car then good, if not i'd have one fitted and run the hill as my own personal bike park giving some close friends something to do along the way.
a few motors... specifically a Caterham, a Sprinter thing that i would convert into a camper, a 5 series estate and a fiat 500 for the GF.
the majority of the money i would invest in housing/real estate... make housing available to people that can't afford current rental prices. to give myself something to do, i might work as a handy-man fixing the odd thing here and there and generally making sure tennants are happy (obviously i've selected them personally and they just happen to be almost exclusively female - fewer problems, you see?)
not sure about bikes... maybe something with a bit more give in the rear. oh, and maybe have my DB Alpine made in titanium and dietised.
pointless really.... i don't ever play the lotto...
I'd give AIM the money required to build the chairlift at Innerleithen.
Echo chambering here, but I'd sort out the family and then get myself a couple of places to just do what I love - skiing, biking, sailing, summer place in Ibiza.
Then I'd spend my time being ripped and doing fun stuff, possibly on a boat.
I would take some time to get my head around the fact that 100mill would probably grow faster than I can spend it, and that I would probably need to hire people to control it unless I spent/distributed it wisely...
no way would I buy houses, boats etc, that kind of money gives you freedom from material possessions
Probably go down the cashpoint every couple of days, then come here and post photos of my bank balance.
I'd buy an Orange Five and drop an Audi on top of it.
Probably go down the cashpoint every couple of days, then come here and post photos of my bank balance.
The ban hammer would be forthcoming! 🙂