£1,000,000 - what would you do?

I've just nipped to the shop to buy a few tickets for tonight's unique EuroMillions lottery draw. Besides the usual prize structure, there is also a raffle ticket number on each ticket.

If you haven't heard about it, there will be a guaranteed 100 UK millionaires created tonight from the raffle ticket numbers.

Clearly, the odds of winning are tiny, but that didn't stop me handing over 6 quid for 3 tickets, or thinking about what I would do with a million quid. So, walking back from the shop, this is what I decided.

£60,000 - pay off existing mortgage/other debt

£500,000 - buy four 1-bed apartments in counties such as Buckinghamshire or Hertfordshire to create a monthly rental income of around £3,500, which I would then live off and then retire, to have a very nice lifestyle watching sports and seeing more of the world. Then when I reach normal retirement age, I would sell the flats.

£50,000 - gift to my brother

£25,000 - gift to my mother

£50,000 - smaller gifts to close friends

£125,000 - sell my existing house and add this to the proceeds to have a better house

£3,000 - laser eye surgery

£50,000 - speculative and long term investments

£20,000 - very nice car, probably a BMW

And then bank the rest - about £100K.

What would you do with £1,000,000 if it landed in your bank account, tax free, next week? OK I know half of you will say things like take out a contract on Owen Coyle, but what would you really do?

I'd be able to live my Route 66 dream, I'd actually probably take a boat over to New York and drive from there to LA.

I've been thinking about the 105 million, and would give each of my siblings, and my wife's, (plus my 7 week old grandson), a million each. That comes to 9 million. We would then bugger off around the world, First class in everything, (until we got fed up with it), whilst we decide who to help, and how to ensure we , my kids, and theirs, have an income for life. I would also have a top-to-toe medical, with the aim of fixing everything they find, plus the things I already know about. Buy a nice house, with my own chef, and trainer, along with a house keeper. I would probably look to help the minor charities, and the poor souls you hear who have nothing, and need this, that , or the other , which they cannot afford. Also, because of the brilliant service, and help, I have had over the lat year or so, I would make a serious (another million or more) donation, to the main hospital in town. If it wasn't for them, I would have popped my clogs some time ago.

If I won a million, I would try to do some of the above, but the first would be self preservation for me and the family.

HG, I've driven along some of route 66, and if you don't have the history for virtually every mile, then its just another road.

I'd pay my mortgage off and put the rest in the bank and live off the interest.

Bernard, Good idea, but I only have 10K to pay on mine. However, like yourself, I may well hang on to a fair chunk of it, to see what the future throws at me.

$139,701,072.39 in Jamaican currency.

* I'd buy an undeveloped beachfront property and set up a facility that overseas-based sporting organizations can use for training in off-season/winter.

* Start my own football team to eventually compete in the National Premier League here.

* Build myself a very comfortable home which won't cost more than $12 Million.

* Buy a season ticket to see Bolton and come over every now and again to use it.

* Open a Karaoke/Titty bar.

* Set aside $10 Million in a fixed deposit for a rainy day.

Sell my house and everything else buy a villa on the florida key's and stay there.

AD, can we come and visit?

I'd buy myself onto the Bolton board and take them down from the inside. Although I suspect Owen Coyle is on the same mission.

BH, unfortunately, I think you're right

1. Pay off my mortgage

2. Pay off my sisters mortgage

3. Gift to parents

4. Buy a house in Port Douglas

5. Invest some (Buy-to-let properties in UK)