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

[Vasya]

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.)

Hands up if you didn't know you needed a gin, chocolate and sex toy cave until this thread.

I'd have my own private tea supplier, who would source the finest teas from around the world for me and make my own personal signature blends.

I'd have a personal trainer and private yiga instructor and would go on yoga retreats in exotic places. I'd be super fit and unbelievably zen.

I'd also learn language after language and go and spend time in all of the countries whose languages I'd learned.

Not exactly rock 'n roll eh? Call me dull, but I don't really fancy the gin, chocolate and sex toy cave tbh!

Dammit how could I have been so busy thinking about socks and tights that I forgot about a sex gin and chocolate cave???

I'll allow you access to my sex-gin-chocolate cave, if you provide the socks and tights to restrain any unwelcome intruders. #socksecurity

I'd like a lady's maid and stylist, could be two people or one person. I'm not that interested in clothes and hate clothes shopping. I need someone who would know what suits me and shop for me. Also someone to know what I'm up to that day and will choose and lay out the perfect outfit, plus sort out laundering etc. That way I can always be both stylish and comfortable (at the moment I am settling for comfortable) without having to put any mental effort into it whatsoever.

I want to own a whole mountain, doesn't have to be a hugely tall one, with most of the bottom half covered in native forest and a clever house built into the side of the mountain so that it can barely be seen but has amazing views. It will be big and stunning enough to hold amazing parties, but they will be rare because I'm an introvert, hence wanting a house on a private mountain.

My own vineyard. I don't even drink all that much wine, but I love the look of a vineyard, and people who love wine usually also love their food so there are generally great restaurants where wine is made.

Enough properties in different parts of the world so that I can avoid spring entirely, thus solving my tree pollen hay fever problem. (I know that I also want a native forest, but I'll be there in the summer and autumn so won't suffer.)

Never wash or dry my own hair

Boob job and tummy tuck

I'd have a cinema room

I think I would have a housekeeper

Like the sound of aromatherapy massages daily

Clean sheets everyday

(And another baby although DH might not agree) 😂

Hair and makeup stylist daily
Personal Chef
New clothes daily
Bed linens washed and ironed daily
Housekeeper
Huge house with huge grounds and dozens of animals.
A donkey of my own 🤣

Ohhhh I would also pay Stephen King to sit and talk with me about his books for a couple of hours. Although he's probably rich enough to tell me to bugger off.

I hate flying so I'd like to reach my favourite destinations without setting foot in an airport. Trains, boats, whatever's needed, in enough class and style to arrive relaxed.

A housekeeper to change the sheets daily
Bespoke shoes and boots
a house in Martha's Vineyard

I would have a huge house with a theme park in the back garden

I would also dabble in space tourism

Lots of houses with so many clothes etc I never had to pack when I moved between houses.

We put the lottery on last week and were looking at fantasy homes, we pretty soon decided that we'd set aside our scruples about holiday homes pretty quickly if we got massively rich.

Personal Masseuse!

Cattenberg That's exactly what we were going for!! In fact thats almost exactly how the entire conversation went down yesterday

I’d have someone massage my feet and tickle my back every night!

Wine train.

I saw this on a property porn thing once on a ski chalet for billionaires. They had a wine cellar obvs, but to get to the wine cellar there was an actual little train you got on to get down to the cellar and back.

Since then, the wine train has been the top of the billionaire wish list in the Magnani household.

I'd have a personal hairdresser to sort out the frizz every morn.
Personal trainer.
Personal chef.
My house would have a library with pull along ladders to reach the highest books.
The biggest bed possible.
Daily massage to stop the aches and pains.
Teeth whitening.
Breast reduction.
Book nook/writing book.
Cleaner. PA.
Best hotels when I travel.
A driver.

*writing nook

Housekeeper here in central London.
A family organiser - travel etc
House in Cadiz and also Greece. Each with year round resident housekeeper/driver.
Yacht in med. hired crew fine I think.
A driver.
A walled garden somewhere (don’t really want a country pile though).
Private jet.
Painting lessons with favourite artist.
Piano lessons daily.
A big renovation project to get stuck into - something like listed linked terrace/mews properties.

@daphine2004

Buy the Daily Mail and slowly but surely turn every woman-hating article into a feminist one. Take all the hate and turn it positive. I'll keep the obsession with house prices just for a laugh though

A donkey of my own

You can have one of my donkeys from the rescue, as long as you’re nice to him.

I think a billion would be wasted on me 😂 probably just have someone to clean up the toys daily, but then id have a big house with a huge play room so wouldn't need it because id just shut the doors 😁

On the other hand ask my DH and he would give you 100 answers 😉 probably LOTS of cars...

vampire

’Full body massage every night’ from Brad Pitt

I'd pay someone to design an automatic tooth brusher/flosser/polisher - like a roomba for your face.

I'd have an orchard and a swimming pool complete with a music system leading out to a patio with a built in Bbq with loads of seating
A full time gardener and my own personal chauffeur
I'd have a mews in London too