Ooooh, Ahhhhh!
- Travel - first class all the way
- My own tropical island - white sand, blue water…the works!
I want to travel. And SWMBO has said repeatedly that she’d like to go on a Mediterranean cruise. So, my splurge would be to take my sweetie on a 2-3 week long Med cruise, first class all the way. We’d plan it so that we got off in Athens or someplace like that, then rat around there for a while, then slowly make our way back via train. We’d hit places in Italy, Germany, France and then end with a stay in England for a while.
Then, since we’re rich, we’ll either come back home or do it again!
I want neck/head/shoulder/foot massages pretty much whenever I am sitting down, and full massages every time I’m laying down. Pretty much a 24/7 masseuse would be tops.
A large, private dream back yard complete with flowers, trees, pond, screened in porch (lavish one) fence, gorgeous landscaping, garden, etc. I mean - the WORKS.
A washer and dryer or a dishwasher of my very own. Sigh, I’m an NYC apartment dweller and my needs are simple.
A completely repaired, rewired, replummed, rewindowed, replastered, new appliances, with a 100% stable foundation, craftsman home c. 1910 to 1929, complete with little nooks, pantry, original hardwood and other details that only homes from that era can have - but just without the fixer-upper problems.
Preferably 2 story + basement, 3 bedroom, with a decent size living and dining room, an enclosed patio or sunroom in the back facing either south or east, and a decent size back yard with room for a garden. And of course, completely paid off.
Also, in an older neighbourhood - close to the inner city and close to the bike path.
Financial independence. There’s no one material thing I really want, but life would be great if I didn’t have to work for a living. There are so many ways I’d like to volunteer my time, and things I’d love to do around the house, but my need for a regular income severely infringes upon my ability to do them.
Actually, a bespoke suit would be nice.
Just a little ol’ Ford.
I often think of things in terms of GTs now as opposed to dollars. Like ‘this IRA is worth a couple of GTs now’ or ‘that retirement home would cost ten GTs’, etc.
One thing I’ve always wanted, If I won the lotto, would be a large hot tub custom built to resemble a canibals stew pot.
But if I only win a scratch ticket I’d settle for a new card-board box unter the overpass near the MacDonalds. (Their dumpster has the best grub)
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Housekeeper
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Travel
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Time to read, and read, and read in my fancy home library that I have been dreaming about since I was a kid…
A laundry room that I don’t have to share with neighbors. As long as we’re dreaming, it should be on the bedroom floor of the house. It should have cabinets and a sink. There should be enough space for a clothes rack, and an ironing board I can leave up. It should be painted a cheery color.
The washer and dryer should be the super efficient kind and have enough capacity so I can wash things like pillows and blankets and the bathroom rugs.
If that’s too much to ask, I’d like really nice high thread count cotton sheets.
A huge Library and a castle, with rooms with all sorts of bizarre things in it like an Alchemist or Dr or scientist would have had 100’s of years ago. Skeletons, chemistry equipment, hundreds of original and old books, manuscripts, maps, candles, weird contraptions/inventions, bizarre things in jars. The library would be quite large and lit by candle light (I cant read in the very bright light, its annoying) with a ladder on a rail to climb up to get books on the top shelves. This castle would also have a HUGE fireplace like Charles Foster Kane had in Citizen Kane at Xanadu. Bear-skin rugs, a GAMING room with old-style wooden tables and decorated like some INN out of Lord of the Rings, with real kegs of beer and ale, everything candle-lit, a gallery of art, a staircase that is obscenely HUGE, a WAR ROOM with all sorts of medieval weapons, tactical stuff etc. How much do you think this would cost, I mean the castle etc? lol I would hire some hollywood set creators that do horror movies to decorate the whole place, make it look like Dracula’s home, that would probably be the cheaper part…I’d but expensive props and costumes from all my favorite horror/scifi flicks and have them displayed throughout. Wow…ok thats a lot of money come to think of it. :smack:
I know someone who has one. He says driving it through the Rockies is a rush. I bet. The sound is amazing.
Small: I’d like to own my home free of debt.
Big: I’d like an annuity of about $100,000 a year (after taxes) so I could do volunteer work and travel on my own or take a friend along.
Ditto!
I’d rather spend my money helping others than for material things.
It doesn’t quite make the top of my list, but if I ever win the lottery I’m getting the super ginormous laundromat-sized washer and dryer. Three loads a week and I’m done bayybeee.
Get alaundry spinner … it whizzes out even more of the water left in the wet laundry, makes the whole load take less time to dry!
I want one of these to go with the front load set where the washer has a drawer that you put the gallons of detergent, fabric softener and bleach in, and it sucks up the right amounts of each at the right time. All you do is shove the laundry in and turn on the machines =)
Can I get a functioning moon colony that’d be really expensive, but I’d be willing to share with lots of people – lots of Dopers anyway.
An oceanfront cottage overlooking the Pacific.