We won the lottery. That’s the conversation we were having over dinner last night!
I was asked what I would do, if, say we won €3 million?
Well, here’s what I’d do…
- I’d clear the mortgage
- Buy that 85 acres around us that’s for sale
- Turn it into an organic farm (replanting the hedgerows)
- Employ someone to manage the farm on our behalf
- (maybe) give my family a euro or two 🙂
- Alfie wants to buy a boat – he’s already picked and priced the one he wants
but I’d buy one of these……………….
the new farm manager would have to put in a long driveway 🙂
Photo credit: Czech Sport Aircraft
What would you do?
A Year In Redwood 
Do lots of philanthropic work Lie back and live off the interest my money would generate in the bank
Ena,
You are much more generous than I! I think I need to work out how much I need to win to generate the amount of interest I’d like 🙂
M
Buy that four bedroomed villa in the South of France that we’ve been promising ourselves for years. Seriously.
Roisin,
Three million should just about cover that!
M
I’d start by buying a small but comfortable camper van and taking off across Europe, stopping anywhere we fancy and maybe even paying to park where we can hook up to water and power! Then I’d think about what to do with the rest.
June,
That kind of thought came into my head too… have fun while ‘worrying’ about how to spend the money….. oh to have that worry!
M
So the winner in the midlands wasn’t you, then?! (Don’t worry – I won’t tell anyone!)
Unfortunately not….. will have to try harder!
Ha ha. We have had that chat SO MANY times, but maybe on a smaller scale. We don’t talk about 3 million but even so we have a shopping list. Like you, we’d buy all the land around us that’s still for sale from the original package and farm it organically. Dexter cattle may feature. We have no end of plans to improve the house starting with a bigger kitchen, and all the outbuildings would get re-vamped and new roofs. Mind you, it’d probably help if we actually DID the lottery now and then.
Matt,
I know I never do the lottery… so get given out to for not remembering to do it!!! And I’ve been rethinking my strategy too on buying the land…. the neighbours are reckoning on it costing €1 million…. I think I may need to up my winnings!!!!! 🙂
M