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What would you do with 56 million pounds? It’s the sort of dilemma I think a lot of us would love to have, and it’s an actual reality for one lucky couple who scooped one half of the £112 million Euro Lottery jackpot on Friday. I did buy a ticket for this, but unfortunately was left with nothing after the draw was made. As I was reading this article on the BBC website, particularly the part about how Mr Page was shaking so much that he couldn’t make the phone call to check they had actually won, how would you actually react if you were told you’d won that sort of money?

It’s one thing winning a few hundred, or even a few thousand pounds, or presumably an amount that you can visualise, and see what you could do with it. But £56,000,000.00!? What does that look like? What would it be like knowing you never need work again, and you could do pretty much anything you wanted!? What are the sort of moral obligations you might feel knowing that you have far more money than you really need? Well unfortunately (?) I can only imagine at this point in time, but I think it is certainly the sort of dilemma I would like to find myself in!

To try and put this amount of money into perspective it would have put them in at equal 980th in the 2009 Times Rich List. This is above the likes of Noel and Liam Gallagher, Guy Ritchie, Tim Burton and Helena Bonham Carter, and Van Morrison to name just a few.

Here’s what the Gadgets team suggested that they would spend their money on last time there was a big UK winner of the Euro Lottery. Further to those suggestions, I can’t help but think that ‘Uncle Scrooge McDuck’ from Duck Tales might be onto to something with swimming in his cash! Although maybe only with notes rather than coins, as I can’t help but feel ones of the non cartoon variety might be a bit more painful!