To ask..if you won the lottery..

[gentlyscented]

..after the new home,cars, holiday. What would you buy that would make your life easier, or maybe it would be something you've always wanted but is not possible to buy now?

Mine would be a live in chef, to cook me breakfast, lunch and dinner ahhhhh ☺️ I hate cooking. It gives me rage 😠

I do get what you're saying that money would not necessarily by itself make you happy. Like my dad always said moneys not everything, but it helps.

I think the biggest things for me would be to own my own home.

To have a car - I can't afford one at the moment and it's so limiting. DS has autism and depression and anxiety. He finds going out in a car easier when he's not feeling well. Dd would be able to do air cadets like she wants, except i can't get her there and back without a car.

DS would be able to have tutors to help him catch up on all the schoolwork he's missed because of his mental health. I would be able to access private therapies for him and improve his life.

And as I said have a great nanny who I could trust with DS so when he can't leave the house and can't be left because he's at risk of harming himself I can still go out. Because at the moment I don't see friends, go to the hairdresser or anywhere because I can't guarantee that I can turn up. That would greatly improve my life.

I would also have the security of not having to rely on the benefits system and not have the worry of whether DS will have his DLA renewed or if being switched to UC.

And I would probably do an open university degree or similar.

So I suppose for me the money would not be giving me a fancy life but a more normal life. Which would I think improve my happiness. Although I suppose owning a house and doing a degree would be more like luxuries. But still.

Some great things here that i forgot I wanted 😱

If I win the Euro's I promise I'll buy you all what you want 😂

Bling

I think you have it. Happiness and stress are linked, but not the same.

I'm quite happy in my friends and family. I'm financially secure and I don't work long hours. I don't live anywhere near my means.

But I would say I'm quite stressed by work at frequent intervals, and my job depresses me. I earn very well, and would probably struggle to earn as much elsewhere. I don't like managing people even though I'm good at it, and I find it difficult to fit my passions in, and maintain my health.

If I won the lottery, I could:

• quit, and never have to deal with these moaning bores again
• attempt to make a career as a writer, or self-publish if no one deems it worth wasting the paper (I have written four books, so know I'm able to finish the job - not a total pipe dream!)
• spend a decent amount of time a day exercising

As well as all the fripparies. That would be enough for me. To do things on my own terms.

Money doesn’t buy happiness by itself but it’s buys you choices

You hate your neighbours, they are noisy and antisocial. Normal person would probably have to stay where they are. A rich person would still be unhappy and affected by the neighbours but they have money to move - pay stamp duty etc

On a smaller level. A poor family, it’s raining (so free walk to the park not an option) probably have to stay in with moaning kids. Rich person can pay to go out for lunch, go to the cinema, go to an inside interactive attraction etc.

All the things in my life that make me unhappy ultimately ALL come down to money. I’m fat and ugly. If I was rich I could afford a personal trainer and to have my hair cut more than Once a year and to have facials and expensive beauty products, I’d also have a cleaner etc so would have more time to go to the gym etc

I hate my car and it’s old and starting to fall apart, with money I could change my car whenever I liked.

If I won a huge amount £100 mil + I would do a lot for charity. I would but houses for women’s aid to house women and children. I would do a daily food shop delivery to food banks and I would run classes helping people to cook on a budget with limited supplies. I would fund a club a school for young carers and I would pay for councillors if those children needed them.

Obviously I would do the usual stuff - new home, new cars, holidays and having my breasts put back where they used to be after breastfeeding 3 children. I just couldn’t sit around knowing that I had that amount of money in the bank when other people who work full time can’t afford to feed their children.

Id buy a big bungalow and have a large utility room with one of those industrial sized washers so i can get all my big duvets etc in. And the same with driers
A bit sad i know.

I would buy handmade shoes and bras - though I'd also get a reduction as I hate my huge boobs, and also get laser eye surgery done.

And buy a holiday cottage in Devon.

A horse.

A villa in the Greek islands, a language teacher to come in daily to help me get beyond basic tourist Greek, and a guitar teacher. A live-in housekeeper, a pool, a home cinema room and a massive library.

Chauffeur and housekeeper.

I forgot one - physio on-call to put my hips back into line every time they go wonky again, and make me do my exercises.

A horse. And warm boots. I have constantly frozen feet, to the extent that I currently have a damn chilblain on my toe. I used to have a pair of fantastically warm country boots that eventually wore out beyond repair (I must have walked thousands of miles in them, no exaggeration) and now I can't afford to replace them. So I'd have another pair of those, and the gorgeous tweed jacket I want, and I'd be warm at last

But also, a horse. And a pony for DS as well. On full livery to boot!

Id buy the houses either side of my (newly acquired with lottery winnings) detatched house. So I could choose my neighbours. Then I'd buy a Golden Retriever. I'd love one now but they are just so expensive.
And training lessons for me and my dog.

Oh and what sushi says is probably right.
A couple moved into the tiny hamlet where my mum lives a good few years ago. They won the lottery (probably 20 years ago now) and have said ultimately they are no happier, just have a much nicer life style. That said they did move 200+ miles as living in their home town had become untenable.

A brass band to follow me around everywhere, 24-7, to play appropriate accompanying music to reflect my fluctuating moods.

e.g.:

Upset and needing a good blub - Concerto d'Aranjuez
Pensively mournful - Nimrod
Moderately content - Chattanooga 65000
Cheerful - In The Mood
Deliriously silly - The Floral Dance

I'd buy the house behind us (sorry Sean - I do like you as a neighbour) and extend the garden and put up a 3 car garage and woodworking space plus exercise room at the end of it.

I'd never blow dry my own hair again.

After paying off our mortgage and (depending on level of winnings), those of all our family and friends, I wouldn't go crazy - I would just be happy to be able to buy a book, CD, appliance, piece of furniture etc without having to think twice about it.

A plot of woodland in the middle of nowhere would be nice, but I don't care about massive estates with vast amounts of land - if your house is so big that you have to have live-in staff to run it, it ceases to be a private house - plus I don't really like the idea of other people's whole lives being dedicated to making somebody else's nicer or easier (obviously not talking about young children and disabled/vulnerable people who NEED care).

5 acres is plenty, 50 acres is magnificent; any more than that is just a number to brag about - and to have to maintain.

Having said that, I don't actually play the lottery at all - which makes me statistically marginally less likely to win than those who do play

Horses. I’d have a few because I’d have a house with space to have my own stables

Maybe winning the lottery might not make you happy, but it would be nicer to cry in a BMW than on a bike ;)

@Sweetpea55 not sad at all. I want them too 😂@HildaZelda 🤣🤣

I'd go to one of the posh Harley street dentists and have some gorgeous teeth sorted out!

Personal trainer that comes every day, and then any surgery required once I was whipped into shape!

A big country house with an underground swimming pool built and home gym. I'd also like a small cottage type home on the land for my mum and her dogs.

Learn to drive and buy a nice mini.

A housekeeper definitely!

I’d go to a nice department store and have a personal stylist fit me in some nice, well fitting clothes. I feel like a sack of spuds in everything right now and think that would help a lot.

I'd have a really excellent, silent masseuse / gigolo in my "beauty room".

Does anyone remember a TV programme from years ago about a women who won millions and millions and didn’t tell her family and then set up a company that read peoples letter and decided who to help?
I think I’d do something like that f I won a triple euromillions jackpot (but I would bug myself/family nice houses etc too!!)

Ive always said, I'd love, love, love to win millions (very rarely do the actual lottery, sometimes buy a scratch card if someone in front of me purchases one and I think 'what if he/she has just missed out and the next one is the lucky one) never won though.
So as i say, if I did win a vast amount of money, I'd consciously try to avoid splashing out and making life too easy for everyone I loved, those I admire and respect for, but I think that would be really hard not to actually do.
But It would make my day to give to charity, to see something wonderful that enhanced lives, that truly made some difference.

Would I like a massive home, no.
Do I need a chef, no.
A cleaner, maybe twice a week would be nice.

A brand new Range Rover for me an absolute must.

Oh my goodness, I feel I'm slipping into fantasy world.

All the money in the world doesn't even compare to your loved ones making it through the day safely.

As hard as life may seem, remember if you don't get the millions of pounds we dream of we surely have a lot to be grateful for.

(I wonder how much a Range Rover costs on hire purchase??)