So Can Money Buy You Happiness? ; As Lottery Winners Gather to Celebrate the 2,000th Millionaire, We Asked Them ...

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AS THE 2,000th Lottery millionaire pops the champagne, we asked 16 former jackpot winners to reveal how their money has been spent - and how their lives have changed.

1. DAVID COPELAND, 31, is single and lives in Hereford in a modest twobedroom Sixties house.

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So Can Money Buy You Happiness? ; As Lottery Winners Gather to Celebrate the 2,000th Millionaire, We Asked Them ...

OCCUPATION: Former lab technician.

WON: Pounds 1,000,000 on January 4, 2000.

FIRST PURCHASE: On the day I won, I went to the supermarket and bought half a dozen bottles of champagne to share with my friends BEST BUY: A new Seat Leon, which I love, for around Pounds 14,000. I've also had six cruises, which were worth every single penny. When I was a young boy, I used to dream about going on a cruise, and I booked my first one in the summer of 2000, sailing from Majorca to the Canary Islands. It was everything I hoped for and I was hooked. Now I try to go on at least one cruise a year.

MOST EXTRAVAGANT: I saw an advertisement in a magazine offering me the chance to buy an acre of the Moon. I treated myself to an acre of Venus and Mars, too - all for Pounds 120. I got the deeds, and a certificate and it makes a great talking point at parties. But then you don't have to be a millionaire to do that.

BIGGEST WASTE OF MONEY: Nothing - I'm just not by nature a big spending person. My money has all been carefully invested, and I spend the same that I did each week when I was a lab technician - old habits die hard. The last thing I bought was actually a tin o...

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