If you won the lottery, what would you buy that isn’t considered a flashy purchase?

[Evilmorty]

What would I buy?

A professional oven clean, a magnolia tree for my garden and a proper family history/ancestry investigator team like they have on Who do you think you are.

Many pairs of cashmere socks. They don't last very well but I'd have a drawer full!

A cleaner to come in for an hour or two every day. Just to keep the house looking nice & tidy. Maybe he/she could hand up my laundry too..

I'd also splash out (a tiny bit) on a gardener to do one of those clean cut modern gardens that are then easy to maintain and look stylish.

Enough batteries for all the gadgets in the house

One of those fancy Brabantia 4 arm washing lines.

I really want one but it is such a BORING thing to spend money on when I have a perfectly functional generic 3 arm one.

Oooh yeah a super king size bed! And a really luxurious set of towels!

Some nursing bras that fit well. Someone to clean my oven and under my fridge. A window cleaner to pop in at the end of every day to clean DD's sticky prints off of the internal doors.

A new washing machine, mine's on its last legs.
I'd give my dd and her bf a deposit for a flat.
A weekend away with dh.
Get a new bathroom put in.
New carpets downstairs.
Have the chimney swept.
Go to the theatre a bit more often that the once a year that we can afford at the moment.
Rent a storage unit for all the clutter in the house, so we could tidy properly and then get it sorted out bit by bit.
Tell dh that he can retire now.

I'd hire a humongous skip and get rid of all the crap and tat that we've accumulated over the years. Much easier than wheedling DH into doing tip runs.

A flat near my dad's school So she doesn't have to take school bus.

Bamboo carpets throughout a very big house.

You can get a robot vac/mop. here. Fantastic customer service from that place - I bought a robot vac which was great but the dust bit couldn’t cope with my very very hairy dog. I returned it after three weeks for a no quibble refund.

Not sure what I would buy with a lotto win really, I have everything I need but it would be nice if full time work became optional - I would reduce my hours!

Oh yes, I might replace my bathrooms and my kitchen floor tiles - they are perfectly ok, all £££ Fired Earth tiles - not my taste at all but definitely not bad enough to warrant the cash they would cost to change.

A Staffordshire bull terrier. I wouldn't have to work so could spend my whole day with it. (I already have a dog but DH wouldn't let me have a staffy)

And a new mattress. Ours is fucked and we can't afford one at the moment.

House with a garden and new carpets.

Dont buy one!- you can get 10 free at any dog shelter you like.

A beautiful greenhouse. As it happens, I'd also need a bigger garden and a different house to accommodate this.

A really good haircut and colour.
A mindfulness course/retreat
A dog walker

If new teeth aren't flashy, then I would have those. I have wonky front teeth and while it's not obvious, I'd like them fixed.

I love nail polish and a single bottle from my favourite indie brands costs around £15. I'd spend around £200 getting all the ones in my wishlist.

A car. Nothing flashy, nothing head-turning, just something suitable for my family that is nice to drive and new to me.

I would only ever buy Kerrygold butter. I buy it now, but not exclusively, and it would be lovely to buy it without wincing at the price.

Really great bedding.

I have also worked out that I can have the following staff for about £10k a year:

Cleaner (2h pw - cleaning and some dishwashing)
Housekeeper (2h pw - laundry, dishwashing, bed changing, food delivery management etc)
Gardener (2h per fortnight - keep on top of the annoying jobs, allow me to potter about doing the rest)
Handyman (2h per fortnight - probably not needed that often)
PA (2h pw - to organise the rest of them, do any required admin)

That include materials for some of the jobs.

I actually like cooking, but keeping on top of all the other crap stops me doing it.

I am loving that Kerrygold butter is on the list!

I’d also treat myself to an unlimited cinema card I reckon.

A really nice comfortable bed.

My cleaner to come every day.

One of those Dyson hair wrap thingys.

A horse.

Have my car washed inside and out once a week

A window at the back that doesn't leak

soul
Slight derail, but trying to get a dog from our local shelter appears to be nigh on impossible. I've not tried myself but several friends have. All of them had previous dogs, all experienced. All have been refused. The only person I know who got a rescue had no experience at all, couldn't cope and gave it back.
Consequently wouldn't touch our local ones with a barge pole.
(Weirdly though, I did tell DH if we won big, I'd need land and lots of it so I could take in all the unwanted dogs and look after them)