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'd buy a seven bedroom house and have two more children to fill it up. It would have a massive garden and I'd finally have enough money to make it a gorgeous garden.

DP could have a little recording studio and could quit work to just play music and build things while I garden and go for really long runs.

We would up our camping game further and spend all summer holiday every summer holiday camping in exciting places. DP could go to Japan as often as he likes (I'm not going, he bores on about the place so much that I'm over it without ever having been!) I'll go skiing with the children while he does.

I'd pay a cleaner to come and do the jobs that we don't like doing. I love cooking, so I'll keep that, but it would be lovely to be able to eat out whenever I didn't feel like it!

I would do some things for friends and family. I would make them a combination of fun and practical and probably try to do them in a way that made them a lovely surprise.

Basically, we would do the same things we do now, but more of them and some of them on a grander scale!

A holiday cottage by the sea, which I would spend most of my time at.

Ooh I love this thread!

Housekeeper - the one from 50 Shades of Grey she’s amazing!

And I would have a personal trainer come and sort me out then have surgery on my wobbly bits that can’t be sorted by exercise.

A horse - that would be kept at home (with lovely off road hacking and an indoor school!)

Nothing. Beyond paying off the house and getting the outside landscaped sooner rather than later, there is nothing that I want. I love my car, I have no desire for expensive clothes or jewellery.
I’d give loads away to charity and friend and family. Spread it around.

Definitely a chef, I'd pay my sister's mortgage off too and give her stacks of money as it would be no fun to be rich on my own. I'd buy a ski chalet, it wouldn't make my life easier, just nicer. I'd have to get a live-in Mary Poppins type nanny who could spend time with the other kids whilst I concentrated on one child at a time. And a driver to drive the kids around to all their bloody clubs.

I would get laser eye surgery and not have to deal with specs or lenses.

I think part of the reason people get unhappy is because they stop doing the things that were keeping them stable before, like work. So I would keep working in my favourite jobs and try to stay within my social circle by keeping the win secret. But just things like not having to worry about the car's next MOT or finding money for necessities would keep me happy.

A gardener. One with rippling muscles...

Chef and or housekeeper. Hate cooking and would love a cleaner but also one to do washing/ changing beds etc

Agree about shoes as all the nice shoes are normal width, I would also have a chiropodist on speed dial as I suffer with my feet badly. A sports masseuse on speed dial as well as I have stiff muscles regularly.

A nutritionist to help me meal prep healthy meals (doesn't mean I wouldn't eat junk food but the other food I eat will be healthy!). A housekeeper. A sleep consultant as my children just don't sleep, like ever!

Housekeeper, chef and first class travel. I hate the scrum of cattle class and the grim queuing up to get on the plane. A glass of champagne in the lounge and wander down at my convenience - heaven!

Ooh also. I'd buy a house for my parents with an attached annex for my brother. He has autism and is not able to love independently but a little flat of his own with family right next door would be brilliant, he could have independence with company when he wanted, and my parents would have their own space too but would know my brother was safe and happy. That would be amazing. It would have to be in a village but with good enough public transport for dbro to be able to get around by himself. And a spare room so we could visit and not have to sleep on a sofa bed.

That would be pretty awesome.

For ourselves, I think we might buy out the lady next door (semi-detached) and make our two small houses into one with a big garden. Plus extensions, and perhaps even buy the field at the back, sow it for pasture and in the fullness of time keep horses on it. That would be pretty awesome.

After the house/car stuff I would buy:

A better wheelchair than the one I have now. Electric and comfortable, made to measure. One I can sit in for hours without wanting to die of pain.

A carer/cook/companion. Someone who can help me when I need it and plan and cook healthy meals for me as well as just someone to talk to during the long, lonely days.

One of those gravity blankets that are supposed to be good for PTSD.

Lots of yarn to crochet with.

I would fund my research.

I've got some great ideas and some kit to do them..I just need to hire a person with the right skills...and pay them.

Its frustrating.

Loads of (subtle & tasteful) plastic surgery, I'm very flawed.

I’d pay off the mortgage and get everyone I like a housekeeper! Just not having to keep on top of cleaning/cooking would be an amazing improvement to quality of life!

If I won euro millions, then I’d set up a charity funding business, employ my friends to work whatever hours they wanted to, they’d have to find charities they liked the look of/felt were really deserving of the money and research them to make sure they were all above board. Then everyone gets to do something they feel passionate about. Plus we’d all have housekeepers to take the stress away. Have spent a lot of time thinking about this.

I'd love a swimming pool, more storage, and a housekeeper to come in a couple of hours a day a few days a week - to do stuff like get the shopping in, keep the place tidy, change sheets and do the washing as well as the day to day cleaning.

I'm a catastrophic housekeeper; slowly getting better but it really is a very slow road. I would love my house to be spick and span all the time.

Apart from the Victorian Gothic country vicarage with orangery and double height library I'd go for :

Fresh white bedding every day so I'd need a housekeeper for that.

Lots of dosh to charities - dogs and women in particular

Making sure family and friends were looked after

Then odd things would be hiring a PI to find out all the ins and outs of a fairly famous recluse. Not to expose them but just to satisfy my curiosity so their secrets would go with me to my grave.

Hiring a genealogist to do my family tree.

Definitely a cleaner and gardener.

Then I’d also like someone to come in once a week to arrange fresh flowers around the house.

And I’d like an interior designer who comes in to decorate my house according to the seasons. At Christmas I want my house looking like one of those Hallmark Christmas movies!

Housekeeper and hairdresser to come to my house once a week🥰🥰

We would travel around the world for a year or so with the children.

When home I would have a housekeeper/cleaner to do all the boring stuff I don’t like doing but tyey would be well paid for it!

I would buy myself loads of new pretty bras(big boobs).

I'd get portion controlled and calorie counted meals delivered to me so I could lose weight without the hassle of preparing meals and counting them myself (shit at maths - short on time).

I know I'd probably end up quitting and eating out a lot instead because I have zero willpower which is why I'm still fat.

Ooh, pay off the mortgages of my siblings and two best friends. Secretly enjoy leaving twatty 'friend' who never pays money back to pay her own mortgage.

Buy the farm around my parents home and turf out the horrible git who makes everyone's lives a misery. Install my cousin to run the farm, but open a shop for handmade crafts and a naice cafe.

Buy my parents gorgeous but under cared for house from them, where I was born, and give it a dazzling makeover. Including a gym in one of the outbuildings, and a spa.

I would invest serious money in having bespoke shoes made that are comfortable and fit properly.

One of the best things about living in Exeter, when I did so, was the reasonably-priced handmade shoes from Chuckle Shoes on Fore Street.

I saved a fortune buying shoes from there that fit properly, could be repaired well, and stretched for my daughter when her feet grew.

A cleaner, a cook and a swimming pool!

After the nice big house, lovely new car, dream holidays for me and my boys, and lots in savings for the boys, I'd sign my kids up to 1-on-1 swimming lessons, which I currently cannot afford, take them on lots of lovely days out to make memories, and launch my own business so that when the money ran out my boys would have a future business to rely on. I'd donate a lump sum to different charities (SCBU at my local hospital, Brain Research UK, my son's school PTA, my son's scout group and my church).