Why amazed? Well, I never play the lottery so winning it is even more improbable than the oft quoted sentence: “The odds show that your more likely to be struck by lightning than you ever are to win the lottery.”
The simple fact is that I’m just not interested in the lottery concept – it’s just boring!
But OK somehow I managed to win a lottery – so let’s put on my imaginary thinking hat. Many have said that they would choose to remain anonymous if possible to avoid all the attention and people asking for a share of your winnings. I agree that I would choose to remain anonymous to the general public. So now I have to think about what would I do with all that money? It’s actually not too hard for me to decide, because I would use a tactic that was used by old lady that I used to know who lived alone and was careful with her money. She decided that rather than die and just leave her money to her grandchildren in her will, she would rather give them her savings now and have them come to see her and tell her how they proposed to use the money – that way she got the pleasure of finding out all the good things that her money was able to provide.
So here is my list:
- Put aside a fairly substantial amount for myself e.g. £100,000 – that should be enough to ensure that I could afford the expensive disability equipment that I require/would like (disability equipment is always so much more expensive than people expect). It may even mean that I could sell my house and afford either an already completely accessible and wheelchair friendly home or I could build something that specifically met my needs.
- Approach my friends one by one (even those I haven’t seen for ages) and ask them to come and visit me, because I have a proposal for them – that is a very simple solution to the loneliness that I sometimes feel.
- All those who do turn up, I would simply ask are there things that they really need and can’t afford. I’d want to know exactly what they were, so that I could reject the merely frivolous stuff.
- Then depending upon their need and how much a financial boost would mean to them to achieve whatever they needed – I would give them the money with the sole proviso that they must come and either show me or tell me in some other way how my money has improved their life.
- Any money leftover, I would then invest in my “pension pot” to be divided as per my “Last Will and Testament”.
This sounds a little “controlling”, but those that know me wouldn’t be offended because that is how I have always been! It would be nice to say that I would just leave the money to charities, but unfortunately I don’t believe that all charities spend the money they receive to benefit those for whom the charity was setup. So many seem to operate like large companies with large overheads & salaries for their senior staff.
So that’s what I would do with a mythical lottery win. I won’t waste any sleep over it though!
bibbysmith 
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