What would you do if you won the lottery?

[Extreme Optimist]

If everything else is paid for it’s a bad job if you can’t live off 20-30k/year

I don't disagree .
What I meant was that £20 - £39k is a pathetic return on an investment of £2million

 

[Henarar]

I don't disagree .
What I meant was that £20 - £39k is a pathetic return on an investment of £2million

good return on an investment of 2 quid though

 

[ThatsSomeSheep]

If you won a life changing amount of money on the lottery but only allowed yourself ONE extravagant or luxury purchase for the farm (remainder of winnings invested obviously!), what would it be?

For me it would either be:
1) a new 360 digger as I have never operated one that when slewing left/right you don't need to stop about a foot before you should need to or be careful that one of the tracks falls off.
Or (most likely)
2) a small self propelled road sweeper like the council use in pedestrianised areas or on pavements, leaving my shovel and brush for those small awkward corners I still wouldn't be able to reach.

I would love a helicopter!

Reckon it would be a business expense too = great for checking sheep, travelling to sales etc!

TSS

 

[Doing it for the kids]

Think I'd probably sell tomorrow, if it meant i could double or treble my UK acreage somewhere quiet and crime free, which is potentially what you have just said you would turn down...

The trouble is the only farms to buy with that in mind are miles away from anything interesting so may not be for everyone!

 

[hendrebc]

Employ couple of good men i know to give me more free time and pay 110% attention to detail to everything, apart from that not alot.

That's what I would do I like what I do now. But I'd probably end up with farms all over the place (world even) doing the same things there as well ive always wanted a go on a combine so my own big arable farm in the south east sounds good. @Yale has a good plan too I think

 

[nelly55]

Let my son farm,and clear off travelling the world.Unless he wanted to travel as well.

 

[Doing it for the kids]

the lottery is like robin hood in reverse it takes from the poor and gives to the rich

How do you work that out? I don’t know the stats but I bet the number of lottery tickets bought would be innversially proportional to the income of those buying them - ie the poor buy more than the rich.

lots of un-satisfied folk on here
just remember for you to be better off someone else has to be worse off

you miss understand
if you are better off there must be someone worse off or you wouldn't be better off

I think most of the folk on TFF are from the uk. by default that makes us all significantly better off than the bulk of the global population. We have free health care, running water and food.

I bet if a cross section of society was asked this question not as many as farmers would say carry on as most have said in this thread.

 

[kill]

Point Break 2016?! What heresy is this? They've remade Point Break? But why? And how?

If this new one doesn't have Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze in it then I'm just not interested...

I used to watch the original almost weekly as a child.

Remake but using alot of extreme sports. Very worth while for the amazing scenery as filmed in spectacular areas of this planet

Sorry to break the bad news but Patrick Swayze died in 2009 so probably not a good idea to use him in the remake!!!!!!!

 

[A1an]

Money doesn’t solve your problems but it does make life a lot more bearable.

 

[milkloss]

I’ll admit to not having read all the posts but just how many of actually buy a lottery ticket.

Got to be in it to win it!

 

[Doing it for the kids]

Never bought one

 

[Henarar]

How do you work that out? I don’t know the stats but I bet the number of lottery tickets bought would be innversially proportional to the income of those buying them - ie the poor buy more than the rich.





I think most of the folk on TFF are from the uk. by default that makes us all significantly better off than the bulk of the global population. We have free health care, running water and food.

I bet if a cross section of society was asked this question not as many as farmers would say carry on as most have said in this thread.

Ok then the would-be rich

 

[bigg6480]

I would stop claiming sfp so I could just farm how I want.

 

[Ali_Maxxum]

I'd buy some land opposite us, and build my dream house with a biiiiiig yard and mahoosive shed with workshop, then some more sheds for kit, a dedicated wash bay, long concrete drive and some nice metal electric gates with a biggish splay onto the road.

New tractor, nothing whopping, new 145hp Case, new mower, another tipper trailer and a bale trailer, put a loader on the other tractor and front linkage, change our alpine tractor for a new one, probably buy a new wagtail just cos I can, get rid of the old Lely lotus and buy another 6 rotor as a back up/extra tedder for a wet year, buy this new twin rotor rake we so desperately want, change the single rotor for a new one just cos I could. A new little wrapper, new galv flat 8 sledge.

Completely restore; galv chassis etc our 90 and do it up nice, then retire it as a toy/run around and buy a work truck. I'd build some bins/clamps for different stone that we have delivered, I'd have a new 12 or 14t AW Ultima on air, big tyres, rear hitch, etc. I would change our flat roller for one with the transport wheels ram at the back, not like ours with it on the drawbar. I'd have a brand new Golf GTI. New pit bike. 1.5t mini digger and an 8tonner. A low loader. A telehandler. A lime spreader. Probably go on a little holiday. An office attached to the house. The big shed would have a bit on it for work people, with toaster, microwave, etc. Build a little bungalow/holiday let on a little field we've got. Some front and rear twin bale spikes.

So basically keep doing what I'm already doing and probably be even busier than I already am.... it's honestly an obsession this farming/contracting lark, but I love it.

 

[Dry Rot]

Income tax is a tax on income.
VAT is a tax on the consumer.
The lottery is a tax on stupidity.

I won't be winning as I once bought a ticket and I didn't win. So, fudge that, I'll not be trying again!

My best mate at school inherited several million and then went on to marry a girl with several million of her own. He sold up here in the UK and bought a chateau and land in France. He avoided his friends as he reckoned they were after his money and drank himself to death. His wife went mad.

Think I'll stay poor and happy and relatively debt free...and as far away from lawyers and accountants as I can get!

"Lucky lucky lucky me, I'm a lucky son of a gun, I work eight hours, I sleep eight hours, which leaves eight hours for fun..."

 

[Av Gorritt]

I make no apology for re-posting this , which I probably posted a time back . A lad worked for my Dad a good few years back who came from a fairly disadvantaged family . He said if he won the pools or the Irish Sweep ( no official lottery then !) first of all he would buy the biggest lushest most comfortable arm chair he could find , then a ton of best Welsh steam coal , and build a fire half way up the chimney . next 20 Players cigarettes . He'd then pull his armchair up to the fire , and smoke the 20 Players , one after 't'other . For him , that would have been the ultimate in previously unattainable luxury. You start from a different place , you probably have different priorities .! On a bit of a lighter note , an army pal of mine said first of all he would change the whole lot into £1 notes , hire a windowless and sealed room apart from ventilation of course , pay somebody to cart the whole lot into this room and he'd go in , shut the door from inside and wallow in the probable waist high litter of notes . . When he'd had enough , he would pay someone else to gather them all up , and re deposit them in the bank until he decided what to do with it all . He had a girl friend who , he said, wore white knickers with red polka dots the size of half crowns on them , which he thought was the ultimate in kinky . he assured me that she would know exactly what to do with a windfall like that . She probably would have done too !

 

[caveman]

Several years ago, a bloke I know was saying how much money he had saved, as he had a set of numbers but had never bought a ticket and the numbers had never come up.
I suggested to him that he should have two sets of numbers and then he could save two quid every week.

 

[PSQ]

I suggested to him that he should have two sets of numbers and then he could save two quid every week.

The Lotto is £2 a ticket now, and the € Millions is £2.50 a throw.

I buy a 'lucky dip' about once a month and check it the following month, because I like the feeling of having £60 million in my wallet in an unchecked ticket.

I never win a penny, but those unchecked tickets have financed a lot of daydreams...

 

[Sweepa]

Use my new found wealth to infiltrate the social circles of the billionaires. Find a billionaire to marry then use our colossal riches to help buy every sheep in the UK and kill them all ensuring the sheep industry is no more

 

[melted welly]

Firstly I'd get someone to fix that annoying rattle on my Saab. Then have a fun afternoon laying 7 bells into some of the more temperamental machines that have been the bane of my life for the past 14yrs. Nothing would be off limits.....forehammers, gas bottles, the telehandler would probably get involved at some point too.