Lottery Win - 1st purchasesFollow

per hour?

By the pound.

First I would use my new found clout to force metrotransit to offer a lifetime bus pass, then I would purchase one.

I win.

I'd pay off the house, add on a couple rooms, huge bath with spa tub. I'd start my own company on the side of my work with a half million dollar supercomputer.

that is an impressive web page.

Dunno. In fact, not sure it would be profitable. It would be good science, however, and I'd have the time and own the resulting intellectual property.

I'd invest the money into becoming Batman.

Eventhough I've played the lottery twice in my life, I often think about this. £10M would get you a decent soccer player, like Jermaine Defoe, or Gareth Barry. You could stick him in your living room, and when you have guests, you can throw footballs at him and watch him nifty little tricks. Or, if you want to go for quantity, you could probably buy most of the Romanian national team. You'd need a large living-room, true, but they could do some cool keepy-uppy with each other. Would make a great conversation piece.

More seriously, the first thing I'd do is take my girlfriend and close friends on a trip round the world. After we've fallen out with each other, I think I'd try to set-up some soccer/educational academy for local kids, somewhere in West Africa, maybe Cameroon or Ghana, or LAtin America. I would of course be the player-manager-director of the team, and pick myself as the playmaker.

After Elne posted I commented we may be able to buy the Joyce.
But only if it wouldnt hurt the endowment for the museum.

Live off the interest and go to every place in the world that you have seen in movies or books just to say you have. I would take at least 1 million and invest it into some company like Microsoft. I would put a 10 year freeze on it so I couldn't touch it just in case I got gold fever and bought the farm and went broke. If I did I would have what I made off of the 1 million and hopefully learned by dumb *** lesson. Oh yeah and charity of course... (...)

First Purchase?


A plane ticket that goes anywhere but here.


And then a 67 Impala.


Edited, May 21st 2008 9:31am by Driftwood

This is an easy one for me.

Paid off all my debts. Bought houses for my father and father in law, and give them the maximum gift money under the IRS rules each year to go wild with. Moved my Grandmother to a more luxurious old age home. Went on several luxury vacations. Debated buying a new car, but the one I had was only a couple years old, so will get to the fancy car soon. Bought a super high end piece of **** Alienware for gaming. Became far too well known at the local casino. Still looking for the perfect new home. Invested the rest in a diversified portfolio.