Big Cheque

[rabet]

Hi all. I received a cheque today for £200,000. But I cannot touch a penny of it as am holding it as power of attorney for another person. But I can't help wondering what how I would spend it if that was permissible. A new car, perhaps; a holiday cottage? What would be your choices?

[anneasquith]

most of it ................... give it to my children, that would bring me great joy.

[wolf63]

My cats are ten on Monday. You could buy them a present :-)

[rabet]

Delete "what" ^^ *** Pino Grigio.

[anneasquith]

that would be merlin and Frankie :)

[Stephen_G]

Buy a Passport and a Ticket to wherever Oakley (The people who make Sunglasses) are based, and buy a pair or two hundred

[rabet]

Are they your children or wolf's cats?

[Buenchico]

Given that I've got window frames that are falling out, plumbing that leaks, a TV aerial that points closer to the ground than to a transmitter, and countless other things I can't currently afford to fix, some house repairs would be top of my list.

Then, as I've only had a couple of nights away in a hotel on holiday (rather than for work) in the past quarter of a century, I'd try to find someone reliable to look after my cats for a while (with a back-up in case they dropped down dead the day after I went away, as happened the last time I did it!) and take a short break somewhere.

I'd also buy a decent secondhand car. (My current one cost me £350 about 5 years ago, has got over 135,000 miles on the clock and might not last too much longer. I wouldn't want anything 'flash' or new; just something that might have a few more years life left in it than what I've got now).

About £10k though would probably be in the post very quickly to the guy whom I think of as my son.

[wolf63]

Anne - Merlin is my current avatars. She has the most amazing blank look on her face. :-)

[anneasquith]

wolf's cats :)

[anneasquith]

chris. where would you travel to ?

[rabet]

Very generous, man that I think of as my father!:)

[Zacs-Master]

Fast cars, wild women, strong beer. And the rest I'd squander.

[Graham-W]

It's not from a Nigerian General who needs to move some money abroad, is it? Not seen that one for a while.

[sherrardk]

A house (they're quite reasonable here) and a trip to Florida for us and my friend and her kids.

[rabet]

No, graham, my mother.

[Buenchico]

>>>chris. where would you travel to ?

Give me about a year to sort through all of the options, Anne, and I might be able to answer that!

Here's one possibility though:
http://www.albi-tourisme.fr/us/

[anneasquith]

stunning .

[rabet]

Albi! That looks beautiful.

[tamborine]

I would buy rental property ie metal containers, so DSS tenants can fill with mould, wreck furniture & doors, slosh paint wherever, neglect gardens & fill with rubbish to attract vermin, no ch/electric/plumbing for them to maintain or complain about.

[sherrardk]

Tambo, I'm sure you've posted about problems with DSS tenants before. Why not buy nicer houses, in nicer areas that better off people can afford to rent rather than trying to make a quick buck and then moaning when it goes wrong?