If you won the National Lottery jackpot, what’s the first thing you’d do? Do you think sudden wealth would change your life for the better, or are there downsides to becoming extremely rich?
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00:00I'm too old, I wouldn't know how to spend it, but with a bit of thought I would find
00:05a way of spending it.
00:07If you won the National Lottery jackpot, what's the first thing you'd do?
00:10Well, I need a new car, and I'd book my holiday for Australia for the ashes next year.
00:18Do you think that a sudden change in wealth would change your life for the better, or
00:22are there downsides to being extremely rich?
00:25It provides choice, and I'd look forward to exploiting those choices.
00:31I'd probably make sure my three children were able to buy a house.
00:35How much time have I got to think on that one?
00:43Obviously we all think about that sometimes, don't we, having unlimited funds to spare.
00:51Environmental comes to mind, but I should probably regret that, having said that.
00:56I'd rather spend it on myself!