# What gift would be the ultimate for you? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 23, 2014, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gift-would-be-the-ultimate-for-you/708008 "2014-12-23T13:53:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2014, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gift-would-be-the-ultimate-for-you/708008/1 "2014-12-23T13:53:19Z")
Ground rules: world peace and the end to hunger, greed, pollution, disease, etc. are fine and noble dreams, but no one can write a check to make any of those things happen. What we’re sharing here is something that a mysterious benefactor could give you that would fulfill your wildest dream or fantasy. It might be your own tropical island, the car of your dreams, a live-in massage therapist, or the vacation of a lifetime. And it’s all about YOU! Just for a moment, allow yourself to think only of yourself - a little fantasy of self-indulgence can be fun! I’ll go first. I would love a pottery studio. I have one, sorta, in the basement, but I share the space with the furnace, the water heater, the water tank, and miscellaneous stuff on storage shelves. But my Super Secret Santa would give me a separate building with high ceilings, lots of windows, all the cool equipment that I’d love to have but could never afford, and space for it all so I don’t need to move things around when I want to work. Self-cleaning would be nice, too, but I won’t be greedy. 😃 Bonus for a variety of clays and glazes that are delivered regularly as I need them. How about you? ---
**Author:** ![ZPG\_Zealot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e47c2d/32.png) [@ZPG\_Zealot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZPG_Zealot)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2014, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gift-would-be-the-ultimate-for-you/708008/2 "2014-12-23T13:56:12Z")
One of those space tourist trips to the International Space Station. I would even brush up on my Russian. ---
**Author:** ![peedin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peedin/32/14095_2.png) [@peedin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peedin)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2014, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gift-would-be-the-ultimate-for-you/708008/3 "2014-12-23T14:00:38Z")
A farmette, about 10 acres, with a nice ranch house (not too big), a barn with stalls, pastures, and indoor and outdoor riding arenas. With all the equipment and knowledge to keep the place working. I wouldn’t mind a horse or two or three to go with. And a Shetland pony and a goat. ---
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2014, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gift-would-be-the-ultimate-for-you/708008/4 "2014-12-23T14:49:57Z")
I want to convert my garage to a giant, professional kitchen, and then build a new garage in front of it. I figure minimum ante there is about $200K. Santa? Are you listening? ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2014, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gift-would-be-the-ultimate-for-you/708008/5 "2014-12-23T14:55:54Z")
I’d want my dream clarinet. That would be a Selmer Paris rosewood E-flat contra-alto clarinet (also known as an E-flat contrabass.) I played one in college (it belonged to the school) and it had the most gorgeous sound ever. I’d also like a gym membership so that I could do weight training and actually be able to lift my new clarinet. Those things are heavy. ---
**Author:** ![stolatt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@stolatt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stolatt)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2014, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gift-would-be-the-ultimate-for-you/708008/6 "2014-12-23T15:15:48Z")
A farm with a lot of land and a house with a big wrap around porch. All the veggies and fruit I grow would be distributed to the soup kitchens in Detroit. I guess I would need a bigass truck too. ---
**Author:** ![TheFaerie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c57346/32.png) [@TheFaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheFaerie)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2014, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gift-would-be-the-ultimate-for-you/708008/7 "2014-12-23T15:19:40Z")
I’d like to update my crap/craft room with big windows, better lighting and better storage solutions for the books, yarn, beads and fabric. New cabinets/workspaces with a big wall mounted TV that doubles as a computer monitor for perusing Ravelry. 🙂 A deep, comfy chair with short arms for kntting and a space to spread out the quilting frame. ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2014, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gift-would-be-the-ultimate-for-you/708008/8 "2014-12-23T15:23:15Z")
Fully furnished Beach House ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2014, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gift-would-be-the-ultimate-for-you/708008/9 "2014-12-23T15:27:35Z")
A Tesla Model X and a garage to charge it in. ---
**Author:** ![mo50](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@mo50](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mo50)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2014, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gift-would-be-the-ultimate-for-you/708008/10 "2014-12-23T15:35:02Z")
A Spitfire with an airstrip. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2014, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gift-would-be-the-ultimate-for-you/708008/11 "2014-12-23T18:50:13Z")
I half expected someone to want a live-in housekeeper and cook. Or at least a Housework Fairy to tend to the most hated chores… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2014, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gift-would-be-the-ultimate-for-you/708008/12 "2014-12-23T18:52:08Z")
$5,000-10,000 so I could record an album. A good one (i.e., in a professional studio with professional instrumentalists). The money would have to _only_ be able to be used for recording, though, so I don’t find other things to do with it and never make the album. I already have a bunch of possible album names. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2014, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gift-would-be-the-ultimate-for-you/708008/13 "2014-12-23T19:09:18Z")
ETA: ^^ username/last line combo. I’d like to buy a giant chunk of land that’s slated for development, preserve it all, and use part of it to create a big ol’ wildlife sanctuary. Several giant chunks of land slated for development, while we’re at it. Similarly to **peedin** , I’d like my own ranch, maybe out in the Hill Country area of central Texas, near the Marble Falls area, with chickens and goats and a donkey or two. Screw the riding arenas, though – we’re hittin’ the trails! I’d sow wildflower seeds everywhere as we rode along. The ranch could be next door to the wildlife sanctuary. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Silvorange](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@Silvorange](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silvorange)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2014, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gift-would-be-the-ultimate-for-you/708008/14 "2014-12-23T19:18:57Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > I half expected someone to want a live-in housekeeper and cook. Or at least a Housework Fairy to tend to the most hated chores… 😉 That’s definitely part of mine. If I could get the rest of my house-fixing done, have enough income to stay home instead of working, and have somebody to clean up after me, that would be super-awesome. ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2014, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gift-would-be-the-ultimate-for-you/708008/15 "2014-12-23T20:05:25Z")
An expertly designed workshop constructed on my property with top-of-the-line tools, space for lumber, air filtration, etc. The whole works. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2014, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gift-would-be-the-ultimate-for-you/708008/16 "2014-12-23T20:50:07Z")
I’ll just take a nice house with the usual accompaniments like a maid, a cook, a driver and a butler. ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2014, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gift-would-be-the-ultimate-for-you/708008/17 "2014-12-23T21:05:43Z")
I would like a house, not too large - three bedrooms, nice kitchen, wired for sound all throughout, on a decent plot of treed land… and an indoor lap pool. Oh, and a pool cleaner for life, so all I would ever have to do is dive in. ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2014, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gift-would-be-the-ultimate-for-you/708008/18 "2014-12-23T22:55:46Z")
A little bit of land with a creek and about a half dozen houses on it, so family could live there and some could be used as retreats for artists of all ilk. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2014, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gift-would-be-the-ultimate-for-you/708008/19 "2014-12-23T23:06:18Z")
Nothing says ‘I love you’ like cold cash. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2014, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gift-would-be-the-ultimate-for-you/708008/20 "2014-12-23T23:08:55Z")
A cash grant that would be enough so that if I became disabled I could live in a really nice place. Or, if not disabled, just old, I’d be able to afford a high end nursing home. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gift-would-be-the-ultimate-for-you/708008.md?page=2)