What would you buy/do?

I'd love a house on the coast and my own cat sanctuary.

I would love to see the Aurora, possibly in the southern part of Argentina, Ushuaia perhaps, the Galapagos islands and finally do the Silk Road... I’d take my grandson with me because he’s unlikely to ever travel, and his uncle as he’s the most travelled and interesting companion on such a journey.
if anything is left, a small flat for my eventual dotage/widowhood.

Evelyn not Edith, must have been thinking of 'Allo 'Allo.

A cautionary tale: Anybody remember Edith Adams?

Against all odds, New Jersey native Evelyn Adams, won the lottery in back-to-back years — 1985 and 1986 — for a grand total of $5.4 million. (That's about $16 million in today's money.)

Feeling lucky, and rightfully so, she took her extra cash to the tables and slot machines in Atlantic City.

She pushed her luck. As of 2016, she was penniless and residing in a trailer park after gambling it all away.

Money can't but you happiness, but it can buy you two return tickets on The Orient Express from London to Venice. It won't happen though, I have never done the lottery.

Ooh, and a Donkey

I'd love a model train set. If I was a bit younger I'd consider roller skates because they look fun. I'd probably break a bone if I gave them a go now.

hollysteers

I would buy a flat in Paris. Such a dream, Parisian life ?

Considering life here at the moment maybe we could swap for a few weeks!?

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

Now why doesn't this surprise me MissA?

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.

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

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.

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

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 !!

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.

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.

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.

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.

With a well stocked wine cellar.

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

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 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.

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

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

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