If you could afford it......

I'd like a bungalow in a quiet spot, a nice low maintenance garden and be near or in a small friendly village

DH's dream is to have a house on a cliff so that he can watch the sea .....

A house by the sea so I could lie in bed and listen to the waves...

Isn't it funny how many of us would like to have fresh, crisp, clean bed linen every day? Put on by somebody else of course! I would like also to have more dental work done, can't afford what I really need in terms of extensive bridging and implants, BUT, what I would really like is to be gently put to sleep and wake up with all the dental work done, no pain, all sorted. Wake up in crisp, clean, linen, with a mouthful of painless implants, in a bed overlooking some rugged coast somewhere.....

You and my DDiL (and grandaughters) would get on just fine GrandMareS .

Like Prince Phillip once said of princess Anne "If it doesn't fart and eat hay she's not interested"

My little grandson missed being born in a stable by minutes as DDiL was still mucking out well into the last throes of labour.

Obviously look after family
Go back to my roots with cattle and farm
Horses, horses and more horses (for different disciplines.)

My weakness is travel, I love travel and nearly all my spare money goes on it. We have been to some lovely places, my favourite being New Zealand, two months in a motor home, amazing experience.

I came into a little money 2 years ago and right away I knew what I wanted to do do with it. I took my 3 Dgc to Disneyworld in Florida. I blew the lot, but I've given them and dh some great memories.

Someone to replace the bed covers every day with crisp, clean, beautifully ironed white bedding.

A chauffeur - I hate driving!

A beautiful sea view, a chauffeur when needed, clean bed linen every day changed by the bed linen fairy, private medical care, but above all mortgage free homes for our family. In fact reverse the order. .

I would like to spend money on our beautiful 400 year old farmhouse which I've lived in for 36 years. We've done a lot to it over the years but now it needs some major work doing- I'd love a conservatory too and perhaps a pool complex. I'd have it all decorated by real professionals, not just me and DH! Then the bed linen fairy would come every day & change the sheets. Whilst the work was being done, we'd take a world cruise in the Captain's Suite....

A small house near our DD in England and another near our DS in Spain so we can visit more easily. A holiday home for all of us on the Roussillon coast near Collioures.
We have a library full of books (c3000) in our house here. I very rarely go in there and read on my Kindle nearly all the time. I also worry about how to get rid of them if we need to downsize. ?

I quite like doing my own shopping, cleaning, ironing and gardening, so wouldn't want anyone to do that for me. And In the main I have a happy contented life.
I think I might like a few more cruises each year but mostly I would spend my money on my DCs and DGDs A large house near us for DS and family and enough money so he could work at what he loves. Similarly for DD

Nanabilly sorry you can't fly, perhaps Petra or myself could offer you a trip in one of our planes?

Petra,
Thanks for that, shanghai first then HK on the way back?

a VW camper van...fully fitted and a beach hut...heaven.

Books are top of my list and if money was plentiful I'd stretch to a big enough house to have a proper den/study/personal library. We would also love enough land and the finances to have some sort of an animal sanctuary. Oh well, nice to have dreams.

A cleaner, followed by house for my son, give the gc some money and first class travel for us on the plane to SE Asia My OH had an accident in Laos a few years back and needed an operation on his knee. When we came home he was upgraded by the insurance people but I wasn't. Also have some more dental implants done. Also give my friend £4000 to build house so I would need a lot of money. Nice dreaming

Catterygirl, it's not fancy shoes I like, it's comfy ones! I don't mean Cosyfeet slippers, I mean good makes like Ecco, Piccolino, Josef Seibel etc. I can't bear high heels either, or any shoes that pinch my chunky feet. I have just bought some new sandals by Think! (silly name) which look quite dressy but have Velcro fastenings everywhere, so they're really comfy. Not cheap, but they were in a sale ....

First class flights around the world to visit my children whenever I wanted so no work so I had time to go regularly

I love the idea of hand-made shoes!

A cleaner
A chef/grocery shopper

And the biggest luxury of all - pay someone to put fresh bedlinen on every day

and loads of useless kitchen gadgets. oh wait - I already have those !!

A house that doesn't leak! This one without leaks would be fine. And a garden big enough to keep beehives - woodland and bee-friendly wildflowers would be lovely. I'd have to move for that though.

Same as Ness; I sometimes do the lottery and spend all day dreaming of paying off my childrens mortgages [which includes buying a bigger house for my son who lives in a tiny house that they're bursting out of]. However, for me I'd buy a cottage in Cornwall, although would try to buy one that was a semi so that a young, local family could live in the other one, as I worry about holiday homes preventing local people from buying properties.