Reply to: How would being rich change your life?

[Moscow Mule]

In addition to all of the nice things mentioned above, I would get my Ocean Master qualification, and buy a fleet of yachts - probably an ex-America's Cup type for racing (leave that in Cowes), an enormous dive platform type thing (leave that in Cyprus for easy access to the Red Sea) and several smaller 55s to leave around my favourite bits of the world.

I'd also learn to fly my own jet plane.

[minestrone]

Have a couple of people working for me, kind of like Max from Hart to Hart where someone looks after my interests but with a bit less of the mourdaa.

I would like to have house service so that my laundry would reapear back in the wardrobe the day after wearing, cleaned and ironed. Have someone do my cooking as well.

It's the general running of my life that I can't stand, the mundane duties, ironing your shirts on a Sunday, the weekly shop on Monday night. Actually going out and working is not that bad.

[Board Game Geek]

I'd do a venn diagram of the ones I know at the point of the win, and they'd be the Inner Circle. Any new ones go in to the Outer Circle, though with time can migrate Inwards depending on how things pan out.

[OwlHoot]

Give loads of money to friends, so they don't have to be tied down with work either. No point being rich if all your friends have to work is there ? ..

The snag is you'd suddenly find you had loads more friends, and you wouldn't know who your real friends were.

[Board Game Geek]

Give up work.

Spend more time online, or playing board games, roleplaying. I've done a lot of travel to Central Europe and America. Not interested in the Far East. Yuk.

Equip a music studio. Buy a nightclub and make it Goth/BDSM only (ie...doesn't need to open for the mainstream).

Build dream house. Not fussed about cars. Probably get a driver, since driving is boring and demands time, which I can better spend in the car doing other things.

Give loads of money to friends, so they don't have to be tied down with work either. No point being rich if all your friends have to work is there ?

Don't have kids, but if I did, I'd make sure they don't have to work either.

Don't agree with the "I had to work, so they have to as well" selfish mentality.

[OwlHoot]

I'd be able to live more like Dim Prawn, with his millions.

[Solidec]

Apart from the obligatory nice house in the country, villa in tuscany, Aston Martin etc...

I would attempt to live comfortably off savings and investment return, never having to work again.

They I would dabble in some philanthropy, love the idea of being in the enviable financial position to make a significant difference to peoples lives.

I would probably do a few degrees in stuff I am interested in, get tutored in loads of skills i wanted to learn, eg a musical instrument, some languages.

And I would then just enjoy life.

[BolshieBastard]

It would probably make me more philanthropic! I'd love to give the local RNLI and similar good causes some resources to benefit the work they do.

[PM-Junkie]

I'd retire. You only sacrifice the best years of your life in order to live, surely? Bollox to that for a hobby.

I'd also drive the same crappy car just to piss everyone off who'd be expecting me to get a Porsche or something equally pointless.

Nice house and time with family are all I aspire to.

I'm one of those sick barstewards who actually enjoys what I do, and on the odd occasion when I haven't been doing it miss the intellectual stimulation so much that my wife threatens to walk out.

I think, even if I won the lottery (highly unlikely since I don't play it), I'd still carry on doing it. I know - I am a very sick man and need to seek medical help urgently

[Shimano105]

I'd retire. You only sacrifice the best years of your life in order to live, surely? Bollox to that for a hobby.

I'd also drive the same crappy car just to piss everyone off who'd be expecting me to get a Porsche or something equally pointless.

Nice house and time with family are all I aspire to.

[Badger]

I would move from permie job to permie job, getting fired for laughing too much.

Usual, house, cars, sort the kids, travel, Msc or something, and invest in some small businesses.

Also my mates and I go to the Le-Mans 24hr race every year, I'd hire each one a DB9 to drive down to our usual camp site in - that would be brill.

[PM-Junkie]

Sorry to be soppy but I would spend all day every day with my children. I miss them so much and I'm luckier than most people with good work hours and limited travel.

Great answer

[London75]

Sorry to be soppy but I would spend all day every day with my children. I miss them so much and I'm luckier than most people with good work hours and limited travel.

[portseven]

* Pay off all debts (inc mortgates)
* Put a pot in a trust fund for the kids
* Buy a nicer car & house somewhere sunny
* Arrange finance so that I have a steady income for life
* Spend time at home with family and also contributing to various open source projects.

[Clippy]

I would continue to post crap on here whilst periodically 'shouting' Lodsamoneeeeeeeey in my posts in an 80's Harry Enfield style.