You won’t believe the most common purchase made by lottery winners
What would buy with £112 million? A flash car? A mansion? A luxury Holiday?
Well, according to UK’s Lottery operator, Camelot, none of these are the most common purchase made by the lucky winners.
More than a third, 37 per cent, of big winners of the National Lottery have forked out for the ultimate garden gadget – a ride-on mower, according to a Camelot survey.
One of the couples who chose to spend the big bucks on this Garden gadget are Wayne and Desiree Home, who won £1m in back in 2015.
Wayne said: “I have to be honest, before the win a ride-on mower wasn’t on my wish list, top of the list at the time was a motorbike but when I sit back and survey my perfect lawn, it does bring me almost as much joy as a motorbike might have.
“After the win we moved house and while our home was only slightly bigger our garden was supersized, so much so the house came with its own ride-on mower to manage the ¾ acre of lawn.
“The original model was quickly traded in for a ride-on that had every single gadget and gizmo but was more tractor than ride-on mower so I’ve recently downgraded to a more sedate and manageable model.
“Mowing the lawn is now something of a ritual for me, a ritual which takes place for two hours, alternate weekends, for seven months of the year.”
