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If you were a billionaire, what's the most ridiculous and indulgent thing you would use your money for?

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Vasya · 18/08/2019 08:19

Setting aside for the moment the fact that the existence of billionaires is a sign of a broken economy and they shouldn't exist... what is the most self-indulgent, ridiculous thing you would pay for if you were one?

I'll start:

  1. Hire Stevie Nicks to work with me to write a love song about my husband.
  1. Host a dinner party catered by Alain Passard
  1. Daily back, neck and shoulder aromatherapy massage before bed

(And I don't want any worthy suggestions about world hunger and scholarship programmes. That stuff is all assumed. I want the fun, stupid stuff you could have just because you were rich enough.)

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Silvercatowner · 18/08/2019 08:25

I'd have clean sheets on my bed every day.

RainIsRaining · 18/08/2019 08:26

I’d have my own personal hair stylist and make up artist. I don’t even like the heavy overly done look. I’d just like to look great all the time. Very frivolous 🙈

franke · 18/08/2019 08:26

I'd never wash and dry my hair myself ever again.

BlackCatSleeping · 18/08/2019 08:27

I’d have a cat room and someone to clean the kitty litter for me. Obviously, I’d handle the kitty cuddles myself.

JoJoSM2 · 18/08/2019 08:28

Some stupidly expensive artwork.

proseccoaficionado · 18/08/2019 08:28

How do I even start?
-personal trainer DAILY
-make-up artist
-hair stylist
-massage every day
-personal doctor
-personal chef (diet please)
-personal jet to travel this whoooooole world

BreakfastAtSquiffanys · 18/08/2019 08:30

I admire your imagination with the Stevie Nicks thing!

If I'm allowed to be environmentally irresponsible, I'd go for...
Hiring someone to strip and change my bed every day with fresh sheets which MUST be line dried outside.
Never have to share transport with strangers, so all journeys chauffeur driven, private jet etc.
Professional hairdresser on call for blow dry at 5 minutes notice.
Bespoke shoes - I could even do what the Queen does and have someone break them in for me.
I like cooking but I would employ someone just to chop red chillies for me

proseccoaficionado · 18/08/2019 08:31

@BreakfastAtSquiffanys amen at the "line dried"

thefemaleJoshLyman · 18/08/2019 08:35

Massive yacht with staff to sail around the Med/Caribbean. Flat in London, house im my current city. Private jet to go to my yacht all the time. I'd teach 3 days per week to stop me being bored!! Shock

sweetkitty · 18/08/2019 08:41

Daily massage is a good one
Fresh line dried sheets
I’d have a PA to help me and arrange my life and do all the stuff I forget to do
I’d have my million pound 65 acre home up here in Scotland (it keeps coming up on my FB) and turn it into a vegan animal sanctuary and a nice little flat in London for visits

daphine2004 · 18/08/2019 08:43

I’d buy Greenland.

Screamqueenz · 18/08/2019 08:45

Personal trainer and chef.
Personal hairdresser and stylist.

FairyAnn · 18/08/2019 08:46

Full size replica of the Xenomorph from Alien. Always wanted one 😁

TSSDNCOP · 18/08/2019 08:50

I’d have someone put up and take down my Christmas decorations and wrap my gifts.

On my enormous yacht, which is an eco-palace with no plastic at all, I’d like to be brought breakfast with 3 pieces of folded paper with that days suggested destinations so I can just pick randomly where we will sail.

CloudsCanLookLikeSheep · 18/08/2019 08:52

Personal chef.

BlodwynBludd · 18/08/2019 08:53

After the obligatory staff (Nanny, chef. Pt, masseuse, hairdresser, beautician, housekeeper, gardener etc) I would buy an animal sanctuary so I could just wander arond whenever I fancied.

Barbarafromblackpool · 18/08/2019 09:01

I’d create an amazing garden with different areas like a prehistoric plant section, a poisoner’s garden etc.

Offer to paint whole streets rainbow colours.

Create play parks. I know that’s in the ‘making the world a better place section’ but I would enjoy it.

Alltheprettyseahorses · 18/08/2019 09:05

A museum of fairground, circus and pantomime memorabilia including actual rides.

A shitload of outdoor decorations at Christmas and Halloween for the little one.

ALL the books.

MagicKingdom17 · 18/08/2019 09:06

I would hire out Magic Kingdom in Disney World for the day. Grin

Sexnotgender · 18/08/2019 09:07

I’d buy loads of land and rescue all the donkeys and greyhounds that need homes. Literally all of them!

I’d have more donkeys than you could shake a stick at.

fortheloveofPete · 18/08/2019 09:18

Personal chef
Cleaner
I'd have a fleet of high end cars and drive a different one every day.

But what I would love to do is this...

Buy a big house in the area which I love. I would pay off the mortgage in the house I'm in now. I would find the roughest, most noisy, inconsiderate, feral family I could find, and give them this house. Then sit back and watch.

I would spend the rest of my life volunteering for a couple of my favourite places.

Vasya · 18/08/2019 09:24

Some of these are outstanding, I am updating my billionaire wish list!

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EmpressJewel · 18/08/2019 09:25

In the film Coming to America (Eddie Murphy) the royal family had people walking in from of them throwing rose petals at their feet. I'd have some of that.

NotQuiteUsual · 18/08/2019 09:26

We answered this yesterday! Playing on the B&Q bathroom designer tool, while looking at potential properties and DD asked to add an extra toilet it so we could poo together. Before you know it we've maximised the amount of toilets the bathroom can comfortably fit.

So I would have a bathroom with six toilets. One for each family member and an extra guests toilet. We would hold family meetings there and any trades people coming into the house would be directed to that bathroom should they need to use the loo. Imagine their faces when they open the door?! Grin

Atlasta · 18/08/2019 09:33

Private jet to pick us up from the village Green every Friday evening and take us to whatever destination we chose for that weekend- then drop us home Sunday.
( Village would be on lockdown during these times so no hangers-on issues or problems with a jet landing on the village greenGrin

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