What would you buy/do?

Today, looking through the paper I saw a Christmas decoration storage box with 120compartments, £249.99.
I thought to myself that even if I was a millionaire I would make do with a cardboard ?.
I have found that over the years as I have been able to afford more of what I want that I want it less.
I think I would like a project, something that will give me something to plan and bring to fruition without having to think about the cost.

It would mean we could pay for our new extension without having to take out a mortgage.

I'd start with a fortnight at Champneys or similar health spa, then acquire a whole new wardrobe. Favourite charities would benefit as would my entire family. I'd buy a house closer to my families and an electric or hybrid car.

I would hire a specialist travel agent to arrange a tour of Gobekli Tepe escorted by a qualified archaeologist.

NotTooOld

boodymum - your post has just made me feel shallow and greedy! I really hope your wishes come true.

I think that’s the point of the question, to think of something entirely for you to enjoy.

I think a swimming pool would be my treat to myself.

Hard to think of something just me me, as my first reaction would be to see all my family financial secure, with mortgages paid off.

Mine would be a small camper van so we could travel freely now we are retired.

Staying with the ‘shallow’ view - a cobalt blue Aston Martin first, then a small flat in New York, overlooking Central Park for starters!

I want to take the whole family down by first class train to the Savoy or Claridges to spend a few days in their best suites in the run up to Christmas. I want the stay to be truly magical, with snow (can you buy snow? ), pantos, Winter Wonderlands, the Nutcracker and all.

So obviously I’m happy for my win to be put on hold for a year at least.

A bolthole in Australia with a view to moving the whole family there for a better future, jobs/ lifestyle etc.

A bungalow with a lovely garden. And Monty Don to help me look after it.

Well if I'm not allowed to give it away to benefit others then it would be designing my perfect house facing the sea with the moors behind it

A 10 bedroom house, with ensuites for every room, with a large manicured lawn and a live in gardener and housekeeper. Never want to cook and clean.
I will have family and friends over, it will be their holiday home

I used to think I would buy a house with a sea view, but I don't know now that I would want to move away, as it's ore difficult to make new friends when you're older.

So I'd probably go away somewhere luxurious for a while, and hand over to a project manager, who can arrange for the whole house and garden to be made over, then come back to my own house, but nicer. The PM could organise a housekeeper, too - not a live-in one, but someone who could take over the chores and boring bits of home ownership and life admin.

I would buy a house by the coast big enough for all the family to visit (not all at once) somewhere near enough to the beach where I could swim in the Summer. I’d let my daughter live rent free in my London house and then I could spend a little time with her too.

I would move to a house with plenty of land so I could rescue dogs and donkeys.

With a well stocked wine cellar.

Nice thread!

My daughter and family live 800km away in Victoria BC, so i would buy a condo there, and work with a decorator to make it a perfect bolt-hole while visiting. That way we could be close, but have our own space.

Meanwhile my house would get a re-do; not major, but new furnishings to replace what is shabby.

Brilliant idea for a thread vampirequeen!

I'll take an extended holiday to Alaska, Canada and Boston. I'll take 3 of my best friends with me because I'd enjoy it even more with them in tow. And whilst I've been away, someone would have found me that perfect 4 bedroomed house overlooking the sea in North Wales - I know exactly where it is. Naturally, it will have been tastefully decorated and furnished in my absence and just ready and waiting for me to move in.

A sanctuary where dogs could live, be loved and cherished and never be afraid. I'll need masses of land, money for vet bills, food etc, nice warm kennels for them to sleep in. Bliss.

I would buy a home in Cornwall with views of the sea.
It would have a gorgeous live-in kitchen, large windows to let lots of light in, a pretty cottage garden and a gardener to regularly keep it looking good.

Well I’d have to combine others with myself in a way. I would work out a Covid safe way of getting my Australian family together with my British family in a nice warm place like say italy.
I might buy an Alfa Romeo a whole new wardrobe, have the flat decorated.
But it’s far more fun working out how one would help other people !!

It's always been my dream to have £500 for a clothes shopping spree.

I my actual dreams about it, I never find anything I like lol

If I won the lottery, maybe £1000 and the same for a couple of friends

I would have some work done on my home to make it more disability friendly, install a hydrotherapy pool, and buy some specialised furniture such as a profiling chair bed to aid getting in and out of bed, and a high tech pressure relief rise and recline chair to use during the day.

I'd like to go to the zoo and have a tapir grooming session while I consider my options, please.

Gosh! My wish list seems very limited compared to others here. I’d buy myself a work of art. I can’t specify anything in particular, because it depends what’s on sale when I win this hypothetical huge sum. I’m not thinking of the stuff that sells for millions at Christie’s, more the stuff that has a guide price of a few thousand in a regional saleroom. I love browsing catalogues for upcoming fine art sales, and in the past I have gazed longingly at a Cranach woodcut, an Evelyn de Morgan painting, a Damian Hirst print and a Picasso drawing.