How Would You ‘Really’ Like To Help Someone If You Won The Lottery?

[Bobbisox1]

Forget the holidays, the bigger house, the better car
Is there something you’d love to do for someone?

Me?
My friends daughter is going through the cruelest of times after her divorce,she has 3 beautiful kids, he abuses her mentally , so does his latest girlfriend
I’d love to say Here’s the keys love, you’re now mortgage free and here’s 10 grand to furnish it

[rowanwitch]

Set up a trust find for my friends daughter, she's very bright but will need help going to uni, would be lovely to give her a start on adult life free of debt, maybe with enough left for the deposit on her first home. I have no children or nieces or nephews so she is the next best thing.

[pat2604]

From Burly Shirley - open an animal sanctuary, but get others to run it for me as I'm no spring chicken any more, but I would go every day to visit the animals, play with them and love them. I would never turn an animal away. Heaven.

Ditto!!!

[Theland]

A scene sticks in my mind from a few years ago.
A little old lady in headscarf, an old macintosh, and clutching a shopping bag, looking in the window of the local butchers shop, not sure whether or not to buy, and if so what?
I would have loved to have stuffed some money into her hand and told her to go in and buy what she wanted.
I will do this I hope, sooner than later.

[Smowball]

What fabulous answers! Xx

[burlyshirley]

Theland that reminds me of the time I was queuing at a cake stall in the market in my lunch hour many years ago. There was a shabbily dressed little old lady counting coppers in her pocket and she asked how much a particular cake was, but it was too expensive and she just put the money back in her pocket and shuffled off. I hastily asked the lady serving to give me the cake and I paid for it, but when I went to look for the old lady she had gone and I simply couldn't see her anywhere. I was so frustrated and deeply upset that she couldn't afford a little treat like a cake. I looked for that old lady week after week in the market, but never saw her again. I haven't thought about this in a long time, you have brought it all back to me.

[burlyshirley]

Thanks pat - we have a lot in common I think.