Fatboy slimslow:
Last night I won £8.60 so I’ve quit the trucks running, the windows are down and the radios getting bored of singing to itself! joking aside, I would need £2,000,000 as to buy something I want is £1,000,000 which involves running a business where you charge £25 a day per person you ■■? Not giving that away! but there’s a house that goes with it and in a leafy and affluent part of Oxfordshire! £1,000,000 in the bank to live off the interest! plus the licence would go back to dvla to take off class one entitlement with a big one fingered salute and a message of THANKS! I can’t understand why most people are money mad? you want to see them up wilmslow and alderley edge? miserable as sin, with the weight of the world on THEIR shoulders!
Depends on my mood on the day. I’d quit my job for anything over a million but no amount of money would stop me working at something. A life of leisure doesn’t appeal. Depending on the money I’d just be working for myself at something. Anything less than a million I’d set my parents up and let my Dad retire and make sure my late brothers girlfriend and kids no longer need worry about money. Then buy myself a nice yacht to live on and a maybe a BMW M5
I put 5 mil, would like to be able to sort the family out etc etc and besides I just started at the firm my dad works at (brenntag) on tankers, which is a job I’ve been yearning after for a while now so I fancy giving that a good go.
It would depend on lots of different factors like outgoings and age left to retirement etc etc etc.With interest rates as they are now it would probably take a surprisingly high amount to be able to retire for someone more than around 25 years from retirement.IE around around £ 400,000 to cover housing costs for a reasonably decent house and probably at least another £350,000 to live on.So £750,000 minimum maybe a lot less than that for someone over 40 without a large mortgage left to pay off on the house.
i said ten million because i would need to help a certain amount of family [as you would]so you would have to make sure you have enough left for yourself but if i was lucky enough i would hire a luxury car with driver for the day and would personally go to swansea DVLA and tell them to remove my HGV entitlement straight away [if its possible] and poke it where the sun dont shine,i would never regret that decision,then on the way back would call in to a number of car showrooms and start enjoying life,also it would be fantastic to help some of the older generation [pensioners]who cannot afford to make ends meet, forgot to mention some funny guy who once checked his numbers in front of us and excitedly said out loud and i quote, OH YEAH, OH YEAH, ALL I NEED IS FIVE MORE NUMBERS,unquote,funny at the time
I would take whatever I won, if it was a big amount I would give some to the hospital I was in for nine and a half months after my accident many years ago. But back to the real world. I won my lottery twice, when I survived a serious RTA,and when I recovered from double pneumonia 3 years ago after 15 days on oxygen.
Dave the Renegade:
I would take whatever I won, if it was a big amount I would give some to the hospital I was in for nine and a half months after my accident many years ago. But back to the real world. I won my lottery twice, when I survived a serious RTA,and when I recovered from double pneumonia 3 years ago after 15 days on oxygen.
I bet that was a hard and long slog mate. 2 days in a hospital is 2 days too much for me. Glad to hear you got through it.
1 million would do me. I’d buy two or three flats around the Gatwick area, rent them out and buy myself a nice house where I’m living now.
Might have to have put it in my dads name though. I’d hate that s**g of an ex-wife of mine to get her fat sausage fingers on any of it, she’s screwed me for enough money and a house already !!!
10,000 and id be gone hopefully only got 6 months till i dont have to drive anymore had enough already and im 26 and been driving for 4 years, sitting in tescos daventry atm reasures my descision to retrain
I’m already retired at 70, so I’d only want £100,000.Any more would just be greed.
The reasons are these:
I love living where I am, and it’s paid for, so would not want to move.
I love my 20 year-old Range Rover, and have no plans to change it, though I could probably afford to. (although it wouldn’t be new!!)
I also love my 35 year old caravan. As above
We spend three months every year touring Europe in the caravan, and at least one week a month in this country, too.
We have a luxury week’s holiday in 5* hotel every year.
We dress well.
We eat well.
We enjoy a bottle of single malt every week.
So why do I want more?
I live in a tiny village, where everyone knows everyone else.
If I won £10,000,000 and invited all the village to a party, someone would say “Look at that flash sod!”
If I didn’t invite them to a party, someone would say" Look at that miserable sod!"
I would probably have to move from the village I love, because, human nature being what it is, there would always be a tinge of envy in the village, so life as it is now could not go on.
But with just £100,000, that’s a manageable sum, and people would be pleased for us.
Just a few rambling thoughts from an old sod who is content with his lot!
emmerson2:
I’m already retired at 70, so I’d only want £100,000.Any more would just be greed.
The reasons are these:
I love living where I am, and it’s paid for, so would not want to move.
I love my 20 year-old Range Rover, and have no plans to change it, though I could probably afford to. (although it wouldn’t be new!!)
I also love my 35 year old caravan. As above
We spend three months every year touring Europe in the caravan, and at least one week a month in this country, too.
We have a luxury week’s holiday in 5* hotel every year.
We dress well.
We eat well.
We enjoy a bottle of single malt every week.
So why do I want more?
I live in a tiny village, where everyone knows everyone else.
If I won £10,000,000 and invited all the village to a party, someone would say “Look at that flash sod!”
If I didn’t invite them to a party, someone would say" Look at that miserable sod!"
I would probably have to move from the village I love, because, human nature being what it is, there would always be a tinge of envy in the village, so life as it is now could not go on.
But with just £100,000, that’s a manageable sum, and people would be pleased for us.
Just a few rambling thoughts from an old sod who is content with his lot!
To last you til you retire was the question. What’s up old in. Eyes letting you down lol.
Fantastic attitude to life fella. I couldn’t agree with you more
so I’ve quit
the trucks running,
the windows are down
and the radios getting bored of singing to itself!
you want to see them up wilmslow and alderley edge?
