If money was no object...

[yoanbob]

Mrsc2b when your kids become teenagers and grow out of your place send them to ours for some getting back to whats important therapy.

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happy with my man and at least work isnt terrible but more time to spend with hubby would be fab!

[Dobby]

I'd Tell my boss to deliver there own shoping politly
I'm going down the plot and I'll be there as long as I wont
Buy a new shed new stove for the plot got to have a brew.
Seeds lots of Seeds
stanles steal fork and spade
maybe a new green house or A polly tonel like pigletwillys
railway slepers (New ones) for raised beds
paving slabs for the paths
cabbadge with netting
I guess I'm cheap well what do you expect comeing from yorkshire
dont need a new car yet it will only get full of mud like the one i got

oh and pay the morgage of
dont think I need anything else
I got eveything with Mrs D

[Headfry]

I would buy lifeboats for the RNLI.....

[Farmer_Gyles]

i'd buy a nuke and strap the ex wife to it and send it out into space ..... biggest firework party in the world!

[Winged one]

I have a dream of near self-sufficiency - large veg garden, our own chicks, maybe goats, pIgs etc. Lots of trees - both productive (orchard of apples, plums, pears, and willow for feeding the heating etc), and non-productive (just a nicelarge wooded area of native hardwoods - oaks, beeches, birches, ash, rowan, t5hat kinda thing - although I suppose there would be the production of nuts there too, and maybe mushrooms). Big area of fruit bushes.

Lots of outbuikldings = for the animals, our own wood, storing fruit and veg and preserved food of all sorts. Space to dry clothes over winter (shed with roof but not a lot of wall). And store whatever other useful stuff (junk in OH's eyes mainly) that we have. And to store our recyclables for when we do make trips to recycling centres - no point in just going with a few things, bring the car loaded with sacks.

Nice house, detatched, with cosy rooms that are nicely proprtioned. Enough space to relax in ourselves, but also space we can open up to entertain in. A big kitchen to do lots of proper cooking in. A room to dedicate to projects - sewing, knitting, craft things - so that I can leave them all set out and not spend 20 mins of the 30 I get setting things out and tidying them away again. Lots of space for books. Open fires or stoves. Very well insulated. Using as much natural power as possible - wind, solar etc. Going offgrid would be even better (but would need careful consideration - certainly would want backup for the freezers of produce etc).

And time to enjoy it all. I love my job and the people I work with, but it often feels like I don't have the work/life balance right.

The other dream would be buying a big period house (one that hasn't sold off it's nice big garden) closer to town so we could walk or cycle to work, have loads of veg in the garden and have some more time to ourselves.

The second dream will only be fulfilled if we ever win the lotto - twice. The first is what we are sorta vaguely planning for when we retire - maybe not the full scale of above, but our own place with a bit of land out in the countryside. And hopefully taking early retirement to get there (and that countryside might be here or France - both are very appealing).

In the meantime, we have a nice house that, once the extension is finished, will suit us very well for a long time to come (wasn't that bad before). Our jobs fulfill us both. We can pay the bills and not worry overly about money. We are lucky enough to have a lottie and enjoy the results. A bit more time would be nice, but as long as the 3 of us are healthy and happy (and for the most part we are), we can't really ask for more.....

[Headfry]

Winged One, thats a lovely dream that I hope somehow comes true for you.
Seems a lot of us here would love to live a green, natural life, with land for farming and beauty in its own right. There whole 'river cottage' life would be a dream for me too.

[cottage garden]

I would but purchase a large amount of land and built a huge timber house with a verandah that I could sing with my guitar and have no fear of neighbours covering their ears.

I would then have a lot more children. Always wanted a least 5 but had to stop at 3because of space and money... just putting one child through University these days costs an arm and a leg. Would like to foster too.

I would also employ a deaf man (have to be deaf because of my singing) to help with the digging and heavy work. Because, of course there would be a huge potager bursting with fresh vegetables and flowers. Oooh and I could get a cow or two.

Best of all my hubby would be able to give up his job in the city (commutes 5 hours a day) and would be home and able to learn carpentry and all the other things he has set aside for years.

I'm in happy daydream land now........

[Birdie Wife]

Money no object?

1. end world pverty
2. ship all the wasters off to live on the moon
3. everyone that's left gets a carbon-neural house with enough PV panels and a mini-tubine to generate all the leccy you need, so we don't have to biuld a massive barrage across the Severn or 200 mega-turbines on Lewis, ie don't have to stuff the environment to save ourselves. Same goes for everyone in India and China, so they don't need to build any more power stations, and everyone has enough of everything.

Okay, so a bit simplistic, but it's a start!

[MrsC]

[QUOTE=yoanbob;135941]Mrsc2b when your kids become teenagers and grow out of your place send them to ours for some getting back to whats important therapy.

yoanbob, don't know what you mean't by that comment?

[Madasafish]

New wife. house in sun.
servants, vineyard,

[yoanbob]

i would like to run art/craft etc workshops for children who haven't had the best start in life/have had to deal with things that most adults will never experience and give them a place where they could have a holiday, some time away where they could be kids for real. i would also like to write kids books

sorry to be vauge mrs c2b I was refering to your dream and mine of helping teens young adults.

[groanathome]

money no object ... easy ... hire a day of the jackal type team of hitmen and slowly but surely systematically take out town planners and their twisted back handing property developer bedfellows ...(who are hell bent in turning any where left with any natural charm into soul-less takes on 'toytown' in their unstoppable quest to make shed loads of dosh at the expense of people and places dignity and tradition.) ... until their kind are rid from this green and pleasant land.

[MrsC]

i would like to run art/craft etc workshops for children who haven't had the best start in life/have had to deal with things that most adults will never experience and give them a place where they could have a holiday, some time away where they could be kids for real. i would also like to write kids books

sorry to be vauge mrs c2b I was refering to your dream and mine of helping teens young adults.

I see what you mean

[Headfry]

groanathome - brilliant, I will spend whats left of my money with you!!!!! brilliantly put!!

Ps may I cut/paste and keep your views, you are so very right and my village is heading that way gerrrrrrrr

[zebedee]

For me, two toys; a battered old Land Rover to carry all my gardening stuff, and a Ferrari Testarossa (I know, I'm 58, but you're only young once but you can be immature for ever!!!)
For my wife, (and me of course) a nice secluded house with a big garden. But I would still want to work with my teenagers.