What would you do if you won a million pounds/dollars ?

this discussion is the result of a conversion with KikiCat Slight smile

Basically if you won a million quid/ bucks

how would you spend the money on ?

or How would you use it ?

its just fun Slight smile but interesting to see would other people do the same as me ?

  • Bigger house with a decent amount of land around it - sort of a buffer zone for our hermitage but also an opportunity to encourage wildlife and gardening, incl. growing at least a proportion of our own food.  More therapy, ND advice and guidance (coaching?) plus a bit for charity.  Plus check on wills, investments, inheritance planning and possible care costs because I'm not at all sure the next generation of my family are going to be able to thrive in this world.   And, sadly, a million probably wouldn't go that far.      

  • yea but it would be healthier for your lungs to live outside of a city

  • yes - this is a common theme Slight smile

  • just move from london, why pay max for the least when you can pay less and life your entire life off this money in any other reasonable place? 

  • It would however a nice little shack in the middle of your own forest with no people for miles around.

  • A million doesnโ€™t seem much now.. just enough to buy a basic central london flat

  • There's usually a local co-operative that would buy up the olives, press them them for you, and you would get a proportion of the proceeds and a few large jars of oil for home consumption. I'm only thinking of an acre or so, not an agribusiness. I would probably go to Murcia or the Huelva part of Andalusia. The North is pretty but not really olive country. A cider apple orchard in Asturias would be an alternative, though.

  • wow you have it all planned  --- i worked with a guy from Spain and he would show me photographs of North Spain and it seems incredibly beautiful.

    would you run the Oil Grove as a business concern ? 

  • ha ha  good one    --  and get all gold teeth  and smile alot  lmao   ---

    that idea of keeping it secret appeals to me so much it would give me such a buzz Slight smile

  • Keep it a secret from everyone.

  • I would sell up here and buy a house in Spain or Portugal (my wife has Irish citizenship so Brexit should not be a problem) with an olive grove. I would build a tower on the house and in the lower part it would be a library, with galleries. Above would be a  sort of den room and an en-suite bathroom and finally on the flat roof I would have an open air bar/kitchen covered by a canvas awning.

  • i would buy an tesla car 

    build 4-6 social houses with extra big gardens in my home town.

    move to italy and take as many of my family with me as possible

    but would be be any happier ?

  • yes i would maybe do that. There are quite a few people living in converted coal boats on Lough Erne now. I have no idea what they do all day Slight smile

  • Cool I like the investment idea 

  • Taxed enough, already!

  • id live off it... and not need to worry about how to exist or how to get a job.... id get myself a cheap accomodation that i can live in for the rest of my life and not run out of money, like a cheap flat... or even a narrowboat... and id just live in peace, without having to bugger around with all this enforced labour nonsense that society is in that has no room for anything else. just to exist is all id do with it. some may think thats not big, but to just be able to exist freely is very big a thing.

  • I would make restitution for what I ignored while unable to work, and earn.

    I would also invest in Gold and Silver. Precious Metals are inflation-proof.

    Plus, I would sort out the family grave, the grave of my gran's parents and the family grave for my Artist friend. (his family left their site to wreck and ruin)

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