What do you own or have in your life that you wouldn't sell for £1 billion?

[LookingThroughGlass]

As above, what wouldn't you sell or change for a billion £?

Mine - my wonderful cats😻

Straight away thought my husband. Then my children.

The cat.

I wouldn't wish any harm to DCs and DH but a billion is a lot of money.

I'm also in my 50s and I'm depressed by how much my brain seems to have deteriorated since I was 18 - in terms of my memory, sharpness of wit and so on. So a reset to 18 would be good from that point of view.

Most of the skills I have acquired since then have been to do with my job, so I absolutely would 'sell' those as with a billion, I wouldn't need to work again. So an easy 'yes'.

Knowledge is more difficult - I know about lots of interesting things that I didn't 30+ years ago, and if all that was completely wiped there'd be no guarantee I'd discover the same things, and I'd no longer have first hand knowledge of interesting political/historical events I have lived through in that time. Plus I'd suddenly be absolutely rubbish in a pub quiz 😆So not knowledge.

Life experience would also be a definite no. I wouldn't want to be as naive and, I have to admit, arrogant as I was when I was 18. I cringe at many of the stupid decisions I made in the years between 18 and now.

Only family members.

Fuck that they can have my cat. See you all suckers!

Take it all OP. When do I get the money?

My children and mine , and their , health .

Most difficult object to part with would be my engagement ring. But DH would pull it off himself and promise me a new one for £1b 😂

My family (including my cats). Otherwise I’ll take the billion!

Nothing and I’m sure my husband would sell me for that too which I’d fully support 😂

My husband, children & my dog.
My Mum as well.

Apart from family, my integrity and EQ. No one’s having those.

My children.

DPs goner for a billion though. He would understand 😂

As it's clearly a seller's market, come round, take what you want. Take the lot. Take my family, take my possessions, take my self respect. A billion you say...ta very much.

I'd sell all my physical possessions for way less than that.

My dh and kids, no way obviously. But any inanimate objects...they can have them all and I'd thank them for the decluttering.

Surprised by everyone selling their husbands. I couldn't live without mine, he's the only person on earth who really understands me, I'd be a shell.

I guess a flipside to op's question would be, if you lost your dh (to a hypothetical kidnapper) how much would you pay to get him back. I'd go into a life of crime if I had to, to raise the money to buy him back. Ditto the kids

There's a Russel Crowe film called the Next Three Days where an ordinary dad turns to crime to break his wife out of prison. I'd totally do that for dh or my kids, no question. (Dh probably wouldn't for me, he'd hire barristers and stuff, he's too lawful)

Just my son. I assume my cat and husband will be happy together without me if I use some of the billion for premium cat food.

The only thing I'd save from a fire aside from family and pets is a wooden stool that my brother hand made from scratch before he died. So maybe that, but I can also imagine him questioning my sanity for turning down £1bn for a wooden stool!

Only my sons. Would sell the dogs!

More information needed. Would they go to a good home?

That's beautiful, @superchick. It will stay with me all day I think. My son died about 6 years ago and I often think about how DS2, his brother, is affected. I found DS1's Pokemon cards recently and gave them to DS2. I wonder if he has anything else from DS1 that might be a source of comfort for him.

I'm really sorry you lost your brother. xx

I'm confused by people saying DH or DC. Unless I'm missing something fundamental, the ability to sell people ended with slavery, so that's nonsense.

For a billion, you could have pretty much anything/everything of mine.

Only thing I wouldn't exchange it for would be freedom. No point having all that money unless you have complete freedom over what you do with it.

My cat.

For animals, you'd be able to do your own vetting of the new home - I would hope if they were paying you 1 billion they'd really, really want them and look after them!