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I need 700k - any ideas? (lighthearted)

30 replies

Howcanwehelp · 05/02/2021 13:03

I was fantasy house shopping and I found a house for 700k. It's flat at the front, has a downstairs bedroom that would be perfect for ds is a few years when stairs become a problem, has a big back garden and local to schools.
Other then lottery win any ideas?
It's double what my current house is worth 😂

OP posts:
TeeBee · 05/02/2021 13:09

OP, I'm in a similar boat. I want to move house but all my fantasy houses are slightly over £1M. I've already got some equity in my current property so would only need a small lottery win. Shall we club together? How would you cope with two teenage boys? :-D

Kljnmw3459 · 05/02/2021 13:12

Watching this thread as I need roughly 900k for a decent property round here. I've checked pockets and back of the sofa.... could you take in ironing?

SnoozyBoozy · 05/02/2021 13:16

@Kljnmw3459

Watching this thread as I need roughly 900k for a decent property round here. I've checked pockets and back of the sofa.... could you take in ironing?
Grin the ironing comment really made me laugh! I'm planning on winning the euromillions tonight.
TheYearOfSmallThings · 05/02/2021 13:21

When you find a solution can you let me know? I could really use 300k, and I feel like there must be a way for me to get it, but it keeps evading me.

Original poster
Howcanwehelp · 05/02/2021 13:23

@teebee I have two 11 year olds so it would be interesting :-)

OP posts:
Pandoraslastchance · 05/02/2021 13:24

Sell a kidney? Sell a child? Desperate times and all that.

mashernasher · 05/02/2021 13:26

Watch the film Saving Grace and set up a cannabis farm?

TeeBee · 05/02/2021 13:27

[quote Howcanwehelp]@teebee I have two 11 year olds so it would be interesting :-)[/quote]
You'd have on-hand babysitters.
How do you stand on gin?

mashernasher · 05/02/2021 13:27

Re: your 11 year olds, is there any call for chimney sweeps in your area?

TeeBee · 05/02/2021 13:33

My partner works with many millionaires. I'm currently trying to persuade him to take one for the team to get me the extra cash. He's said he's tried and they're not biting :-D Useless!

Dogonahottinroof · 05/02/2021 13:37

The Mumsnet classic responses to those needing money:

get a job at Tesco
take in ironing
become a cleaner
stop having takeaways
cut out spa days
get a lodger (or 2 or 3) sleep in the living room yourself
sell stuff on eBay

(because those are all going to help)

Nonamesavail · 05/02/2021 13:40

I only need 250k for my dream house and thats too much :(

Original poster
Howcanwehelp · 05/02/2021 13:47

OK, I've taken the plunge and bought a euro millions ticket. If I win there will be new houses for all (possible monopoly sized if I win a tenner)

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listsandbudgets · 05/02/2021 14:08

How about some online surveys, I'm sure you could amass that much quite quickly twenty years or so

Soubriquet · 05/02/2021 14:09

Find a sugar daddy
Marry a old millionaire and wait for him to cough it
Strip Grin
Sell used shoes on eBay

TheYearOfSmallThings · 05/02/2021 14:18

Strip

Well, I suppose I could use the threat of stripping.

But we've all been through so much this year already...

listsandbudgets · 05/02/2021 14:20

strip I think its more likely people would pay me not to Grin

I've heard selling used (unwashed) knickers on ebay is lucrative

mashernasher · 05/02/2021 14:23

@Dogonahottinroof you forgot start your own business, with no money, no computer, no internet and 5 pre-school children.

BikerWife · 05/02/2021 14:26

I have no idea how to get £700k or obviously I would have done it myself by now Grin But I NEED a link to the dream house so I can be nosey focus my thoughts and help you OP

AaronPurr · 05/02/2021 14:26

@listsandbudgets

strip I think its more likely people would pay me not to Grin

I've heard selling used (unwashed) knickers on ebay is lucrative

Can I add to the unwashed knickers, Ebay also had a thriving market for well worn shoes...

The things you learn on MN

Very interesting thread about it here 😲

Well worn shoe thread

SnoozyBoozy · 05/02/2021 17:31

@listsandbudgets

strip I think its more likely people would pay me not to Grin

I've heard selling used (unwashed) knickers on ebay is lucrative

Do you think there's much call for hole-ridden, should-have-been-thrown-out-long-ago knickers with elastic hanging off?
LOTM · 05/02/2021 17:36

This guy swapped his way from a red paperclip to a house in a series of trades:

CaraDuneRedux · 05/02/2021 17:39

There must be enough of us here for a bank heist. Ocean's Mumsnet Eight.

My dream house came on the market just round the corner. I only need 950K.

NCforthisconvo · 05/02/2021 18:30

I’m looking down the back of the sofa tonight, sure I’ll find 1.6mill down there...

I keep winding myself up by looking at the houses near to our rented flat and then need to eat chocolate to make myself feel better.

AGnu · 05/02/2021 19:09

I only need around £100k more than I can afford for my dream house.

Any chance you might have any elderly, rich, long-lost relatives? Perhaps if you did one of those DNA tests you might find a random relative who you could befriend & who would conveniently be childless/have a dreadful relationship with their children so it wouldn't look at all suspicious if they left all their millions to their recently discovered 3rd cousin, 4 times removed.