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rabet | 21:04 Wed 24th Jun 2015 | ChatterBank
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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?
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most of it ................... give it to my children, that would bring me great joy.
My cats are ten on Monday. You could buy them a present :-)



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Delete "what" ^^ *** Pino Grigio.
that would be merlin and Frankie :)
Buy a Passport and a Ticket to wherever Oakley (The people who make Sunglasses) are based, and buy a pair or two hundred
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Are they your children or wolf's cats?
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.
Anne - Merlin is my current avatars. She has the most amazing blank look on her face. :-)

wolf's cats :)
chris. where would you travel to ?
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Very generous, man that I think of as my father!:)
Fast cars, wild women, strong beer. And the rest I'd squander.
It's not from a Nigerian General who needs to move some money abroad, is it? Not seen that one for a while.
A house (they're quite reasonable here) and a trip to Florida for us and my friend and her kids.
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No, graham, my mother.
>>>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/
stunning .
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Albi! That looks beautiful.
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.
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?

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