Money, time + practicality not an issue. What would your business be?

[meditatingwithdolly]

Sort of inspired by my other thread, I've fallen into a posho rabbit hole with the most delightful (very wealthy) people who have the loveliest businesses. Sheep meditating classes, making paint pigments from foraged plants, lampshades out of recycled fabric scraps. All of which seems to pay very well and be very fulfilling and all your rich friends support you and it doesn't feel like work because it's so enjoyable and creative.
I'd have several businesses:

First would be some sort of travel company, like a posho rep but my clients would never demand anything or complain and they'd be really interesting so I'd love spending time with them and they would be friends for life and insist I visit them in their homes all over the world.

I'd also have a small holding with nice animals, probably a few shetland ponies and people would pay me just to run it and in return I'd offer free workshops a few times a year teaching people how to make fabric buntings and everyone would bring along nice homemade cake and lemonade and we'd all have a great time together.

In my free time I'd get paid to visit reading rooms (posho libraries, very nice furnishings with naice traybakes and cake and tea) and in return I'd advise them on the interior design and suggest ways to make it more "cosy".

I'd also do a bit of travel writing, which of course would cover the cost of my worldwide travels and give me some spending money, and the write up of the restaurants/coffee shops would be such an enjoyable experience.

All of the above of course will not interfere with my lifestyle/family/hobbies and I'll have a plunge pool in my (stately home) garden that I'll swim in every morning and ride horses and live a very healthy lifestyle that gives me a very lovely dewy complexion.

Please enlighten me with your lovely business ideas.

what a coincidence I’m also a travel writer, I only fly first class so have a select audience but I’m from a working class background so can appeal to anyone.

I live in a house that needs renovating & we have various rescue hens and I get lots of village folk to help when away.

I also advise novelists on how to work out their plots as I’m such a fantastic writer myself but just don’t get much time to write.

i exercise daily & have a great many friends I do this with. My family are in awe at my dedication to health & wellbeing.

we too have a plunge pool that’s natural with some ducks living on it.

A large, airy, sunny and warm (not hot) work shops which smells of oak and beeswax, with my cats pottering around. Bach or Debussy playing gently in the background. Fresh coffee in a pot. Whilst I loving and slowly make bassoons and other woodwind instruments to order.
This would be ideal be at the end of my garden which has both shade and light and is but a few meters from my back door, and of course has total privacy from nosey neighbours. And has easy parking - preferably remote controlled gates.
I’ve spent too long daydreaming……

I know someone who breeds maggots and other lovely things, you know for fishing bait. They're a very wealthy family from it! Lol. Who would've aspired to do that as a child growing up 🤣

I would have a bridal shop in a beautiful old building, but it would never actually be open but I would wear a different dress everyday to test them while eating donuts and texting my friends.

I would run a chain of nursing homes for elderly people that have the best facilities, amazing staff and were totally geared towards the needs of each resident, so that they could spend their final years in dignity and being as happy as possible. It would also be free. I'd spend my days drifting around having delightful little chats with my residents, and having absolutely no stress as I have enough staff to delegate everything.
This stems from my own fear of ending up somewhere grim myself!

Sorry but your smallholding will fall at the first hurdle. Shetlands are nastly little bastards whose sole purpose in life is to kick and bite, preferably after having lured you in with their (aledged) adorableness. How about a cat cafe instead? Then your guests can pretend they all care about animal welfare and drink tea and eat naice cake.

I'm assuming that due to the donuts you will also be catering for the more ample bride?!

I’d open a greengrocers that sells plastic free fruit and veg that you can measure and buy by the weight. You bring your own containers kind of thing. Rice etc out of sacks rather than plastic wraps.
A side of smoothie bar where I can use up wonky things.

I’d be running something similar, a chain of little villages for dementia patients like the one in Holland, all completely free for the residents. As a sideline I’d also have a gorgeous writers retreat and a witch themed hotel (possibly in the same place).

I'm a sporner, so pimple popping.

All. Day. Long.

I'd run archaelogical digs in delightful mediterrean locations. It would be mainly cleaning beautiful pots, sitting around in a large sun hat drinking cocktails and having the occasional adventure.

I would be a gardener. But I don't like clean lines or manicured lawns, so it would be very chaotic gardening. The wee beasties would love it, but the humans might not even be able to access their garden through the wild.

Baking!

Very lucrative! DH needs something done, NHS waiting list is long, so we looked private. It's a 15-min job but £900 😮

I'd have a houseplant shop with a lovely bright nursery out the back for raising cuttings. It's not that out there, really. I could do it. But I won't.

I’d open up Rage Room and soft play

open from 5am til late

Rage room special discounts for menopausal women

free unlimited coffee if you are a 5am regular at soft play

I'd be a posh, money-no-object but humble house renovator. I would visit interesting home furnishing and lifestyle shops, and choose things for my home. Behind the scenes, I'd have a housekeeper, cleaners a personal trainer and a stylist. I'd do what made me happy all day every day and live a posho's life

My first thought is that my business would involve being married to someone else with a business, who my business is to "support". Having worked for what feels like forever, I quite fancy someone else doing it.

However, appreciating that it is not in the spirit of this thread, I've always fancied myself running a posh tea shop a bit like Betty's in Harrogate. I know that after two days I'd never want to bake a cake again, but that has always taken my fancy. Also like the idea of having a naice B&B where naice gentle folk come to stay and admire my soft furnishings and enjoy a hearty home-cooked breakfast, whilst gazing out over my cottage garden to the fields beyond, but suspect I'd hate all the whining about pillow softness and the eggs not being boiled to perfection!

I’d have a women only gym and spa with an amazing restaurant/cafe serving the most delicious food which would all be low calorie but wonderfully high in protein and super healthy.

Or I’d be a property developer with an amazing can-do team that are always on time and on schedule and never eat all the naice biscuits.

Didn’t think that far ahead 🤣 Guess I’d also have to stock some heavy duty shape wear

I'd start a mail order brownie company to be delivered occasionally, a few days after I happened to feel like baking. I'd obviously have to spend quite a lot of time travelling and in cafes for research and development purposes.

An amazing bar restaurant open till 1am ISH.
Some where's to drink wine with med style tapas!
Cheap like the med.

With excellent old school music, sometimes acts on like the old films in new York with banquets, lamps on the table, frank Sinatra impersonation, David Bowie rollings stones.
And so on.
Cabeeret style acts but nothing too saucy and children allowed in until 9 so they can enjoy music and entertainment with parents.b

My business would be a huge centre for people who are a bit lonely. There would be different sections like a room for new mums, one for the elderly, and even a massive garden area for dogs that would otherwise be home alone all day. There would be pods for WFH but shared tea rooms so everyone could still interact. And everyone would be really polite, friendly and respectful of each other.
And free vending machines.

I’d look after and ride other people’s horses. Or I’d set up my own studio and teach yoga, Pilates and aerial arts.

I so wish I could do either of or both of those, instead of my actually crappy job 😭.

Love these! I really like the dementia and lonely villages. I also 'work' at a factory that produces beautiful blankets made out of 100% wool and I'd happily donate some to the cause.
I saw Alexandra Tolstoy on a 'working day' video and she was going around these lovely markets trying to source antiques for her clients, sounds like such a lovely job. How the other half live 😭