The Moon, soccer golf equipment, lottery tickets – what £61million lotto win can purchase

Lucky lottery winners have a lot to select from in the case of spending their mad draw of money.

For EuroMillions-winning pair Richard and Debbie Nuttall, each 54, a world of alternative awaits them after they bagged a £61,708,231 share of the £123 million jackpot prize on January 30. Debbie has now handed her discover in at her civil engineering job whereas self-employed Richard planning to retire early.

The pair stated they’ve an even bigger backyard, a “golf swing room” and additional land for his or her beloved pooch Monty to run round in on their want record – Richard has already purchased a BMW X5 with the winnings. But if the couple needed to be extra inventive with their purchases, they may bag spend the money on soccer membership investments, elements of the Moon and extra lotto tickets.

Here’s what different winners have purchased with their new-found thousands and thousands.

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More lottery tickets

Some weren’t as savvy with their cash as others and determined to take their earnings in a wild course. One chancer even tried to beat the chances and win the lottery once more.

George and Beryl Keates bagged a snug £3.5million on a National Lottery win which modified their lives again in 2014. They set out utilizing their winnings to buy extra lottery tickets. The pensioner pair had fancied the 14,000,000-to-one odds a second time and continued to play.

George stated on the time: “It has been 20 years since the lottery started and it has changed so many people’s lives, including our own and our families, and even in the community with the projects it supports.”

Scottish Football Clubs

Lottery winner John McGuinness invested his winnings into his beloved Scottish Premier Football League membership, Livingston FC, after he bagged £10million again in 1996. However it proved to not be a sensible funding and he admitted he was broke by 2009.

He instructed the Daily Record: “I had the Ferraris, the designer wardrobe and the luxury holidays. I had everything I had ever dreamed about and more.”

The late Colin Weir discovered extra success when forking out his £161million jackpot win on Scottish aspect Partick Thistle FC, with the 55% share he bought handed over to a fan group in late 2019.

The Moon

People have purchased land in stranger locations than huge rocks within the neighborhood of our planet, although one lotto winner determined some out-of-this-world actual property was a sensible funding.

David Copeland bagged a cool £1million in 2000 when he gained the lottery, and determined a frugal way of life would profit him extra as he deliberate on venturing to the moon. He nabbed a £120 bottle of champagne to have a good time the win and a patch of land on the floating house rock

Mr Copeland later adopted up the bizarre buy with patches of land on Venus and Mars. He is but to maneuver to any of the planets or moons he has bought land on.

A booze distillery

For savvy lotto winners seeking to make investments their money, the place higher to place it than a distillery? That’s precisely what Peter Lavery did when he gained a jackpot prize in May 1996.

He stated: “I was having a few drinks at the bus drivers’ club and a friend who knew my weekly Lottery numbers called the club to say I’d won. I thought it was a wind up.

“I didn’t examine my numbers till Sunday morning. I put the TV on and noticed the six numbers, however I didn’t have the ticket, my sister did. So I needed to wait to get it and examine the numbers.”

Now dubbed the “spirit of Belfast”, Peter launched Titanic Whiskey and has sold a series of spirits ever since.

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