If You Were Rich...

[retrowire]

Yep this is one of those threads where one elicits it's readers to dream and imagine what they would do with an endless amount of money.

But there's a catch...

You know what's more important than money? The simpler things in life.

So here's the thread question...

What simple and inexpensive thing would you do or have done for you, using an endless amount of money?

For example here's mine...

I would never wear the same pair of socks again. Every day, it would be a brand new pair.

So there you have it. No yachts, no mansions or flying cars...

What simpler things would you make happen with that kind of money?

EDITED TO ADD: I am saddened by how many people didn't read the catch to the question. Lol starting businesses and buying houses and paying off everything does not count as simple and inexpensive. Still though a lot of neat answers!

[steve2470]

1. oh I love this... new underwear every day! haha nt

[retrowire]

5. Personally delivered warm straight from the dryer

Mmmmmm

[bluedigger]

2. ...

[Major Nikon]

50. I'd also have a professional ball shaver

[demmiblue]

3. The first thing that popped in my head (because I'm hungry... lol!):

Buy/eat vegetarian stuffed grape leaves every other day (plus some pita, hummus and baklava).

Oh, and falafel to go on the pita with the hummus (plus lettuce, cucumber, tomato, onion, pickle).


I told you I was hungry!

[retrowire]

4. Delish! Nt

[Freedomofspeech]

6. I would have a massage everyday.

[Luciferous]

25. That's a good one!

[CrispyQ]

7. I'd buy a really nice car & hire a full time driver.

No more wasted time at traffic lights. No more dealing with rude drivers. It will be like my own personal RTD. It would be a great job for someone cuz I don't go out much. You'll have a lot of time off & if you like to hike, we'll be hitting the trails a few times a week. Any takers? Oh wait. Got to win the LOTTO first.

[ret5hd]

9. I'm an excellent driver!

[CrispyQ]

14. You're on the short list!

[Iggo]

13. That's my standard answer to the "What kind of car would you buy?" question.

"Whatever kind my driver wants. Because I'm never driving again. Ever."

[CrispyQ]

16. Wouldn't it be nice?

I couldn't wait to get my driver's license. Within a few short years I came to hate driving. When I moved to a town that had bus service I was in heaven! But man, I would love to have enough money to have a driver.

I have a client who has a thing for the old Checker cabs. He's got two - one is a wagon - so cool! They are all spiffed up - bright Taxi yellow, with the black & white checkerboard detail, & his company logo on the door. When he takes you out to lunch, people notice! It's so much fun! They aren't very comfortable, tho. LOL.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

8. You and Jerry Lewis!

Jerry Has a Thing About Socks
Jerry Lewis never wears the same pair twice. On an extensive promotional tour in the 1960s, according to a 1996 biography, he packed 192 pairs of white and black socks. He's said to change his socks four times a day.

[Doreen]

10. I would hire someone to come in each day to scoop cat pans.

Then when it is time to do a total dump and clean they get to do that also. The challenge for them will be to do the scooping and cleaning as anally as I do.

[CrispyQ]

17. You're going to need A LOT of money for that!

[hibbing]

11. Endless supply of money

I would like a small acreage with some chickens and a nice garden and all that it takes to keep that going. Not sure if that is as simple as you had in mind.


Peace

[Bayard]

12. I have that....

We bought this little farm for peace and quiet, and to have our gardens and animals and little log cabin in the pines. I would like to buy the property/acreage on the other side of us where the owners have about a hundred screaming grandkids that live with them now, a son that sits in the driveway and guns the engine on his old junker truck for hours on end, and occasionally shoot off some big guns that makes everybody here jump in the air.

Oh--and I want a pond and a new pony. Sigh......

[Wolf Frankula]

15. I'd Retire

I'd have my yard work done for me.

I would NOT biddy-biddy-bum all day. I consulted an expert, and was told you have to be Jewish to biddy-biddy-bum. I'm not Jewish.

Wolf

[DFW]

36. I have some Jewish ancestry

I think I'd get an allotment of two or three days a week to biddy-biddy-bum

[Laffy Kat]

18. A great hair stylist come to my house and do my hair every morning.

I'm vain, what can I say?

[csziggy]

19. A maid a couple of times of month and someone to pull weeds in the garden

Because of a lifetime of shoveling shit and being abused by my horses, I can't do much work that involves bending over.

Until my husband retired we had a maid come once a month, mostly to clean the bathrooms and floors. My husband said he would do it and we could save the money, but guess what - that ain't happening. He has good reasons - in the last six months he nearly died of a burst appendix and the infection and his mother died. But the house is still not clean. So I want my maid back just so things get cleaned on a routine basis.

Right now I am trying to find someone to come in for a few hours a month to pull weeds. I have been trying to find someone since last November but so far haven't been able to.

If I were rich, I would have the same services done but more often. Maybe have someone full time to clean up the yard, mow the lawn, clean up branches all over the farm and mow the pastures, etc. Maybe a maid once a week - though we're not real messy so we don't need the house cleaned too often.

[NanceGreggs]

20. Spend my days ...

... browsing antique stores and yarn shops.

[DFW]

21. Probably change nothing

Give away gobs of money to cancer research and Democratic candidates I like.

[Rhiannon12866]

22. I'd hire someone to drive me in really bad weather

That used to be my fantasy when I had to drive to work during snowstorms. Occasionally, I'd chicken out and take a cab, but I obviously couldn't do that every day. I remember one older gentleman who gave me tips about driving in snow. I'd hire him.

[MrScorpio]

23. I'd live in Hollywood

Open a small club with a big warehouse club and some restaurants next to it. All barbecue all the time. I want to put a lot of people to work.

Take that, vegans.

Hire pros to run it all. I'm just going to hold court, like The Godfather or Rick Blaine without his pesky Nazi problem. It'll be the place where I'll help people solve their own problems.

I'll buy some trucks and hire some drivers to help feed the homeless, with volunteers fixing meals in my kitchens.

I'll always wear nice clothes and drive an Explorer.

[retrowire]

24. Ahem

1. I'm vegan

2. Opening businesses and managing charities does not count as the simpler things

3. Lol

[MrScorpio]

27. Money can only take care of my basic needs

In order to satisfy my soul I need to put it to some use.

Trust me, it's simpler that way.

[Luciferous]

26. I would hire someone to clean my house once a week

Never having to scrub another toilet sounds good to me!

For bigger things, I would pay off my debts and buy a cottage near the beach with enough room for some chickens and a garden. I would spend my days gardening, reading, and walking the dog on the beach.

[luvMIdog]

28. I'd give envelopes of it to women in battered women shelters and ..

I'd have some fun finding old beat up houses and sticking envelopes of money in their mailbox. I'd hand envelopes of money to women pushing babies in strollers down the street to go grocery shopping. I'd just have a blast giving people cash surprises.

[retrowire]

29. So what you're saying is...

You wanna be a magical money fairy.

I love it!

[luvMIdog]

30. yes! I wanna be a money fairy :)

[retrowire]

32. With green wings made of dollar bills! :) Nt

[luvMIdog]

33. not with my body I'd look like a beetle LOL!

[athena]

41. I love your signature! (n/t)

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

31. Even tho you need it ...

I really hate money.
I know seems silly. Never carry any with me, no cards either.

My dear and beautiful wife takes care of all that money jazz.
So is probably just give it away to someone or some organization that need it.

[Moostache]

34. I would hire 7 different people to protest outside wherever Trump sleeps.

One person per day but paid as full-time employees...who says Democrats can't be "job creators"????

[irisblue]

44. You are brilliant

[sarge43]

35. Fresh flowers delivered every day.

Plant an apple orchard

[pnwest]

37. Fresh contact lenses every day. New ones

always feel so clean and lubed

[yuiyoshida]

38. I would move to Saipan

Its American Territory and I would retire there for the rest of my life.

[Grammy23]

39. Clean sheets on my bed every day.

I read that Oprah Winfrey has her sheets changed daily! Now that is a luxury. 😉

[MissMillie]

49. Nothing better than clean sheets

And the way the bed feels when you make it up fresh.

[onethatcares]

40. plant a tree everyday

until I ran out of money.

[athena]

42. I would buy foreclosed homes and give them back to their owners.

I would also buy a large -- very large -- plot of land, have native plants and trees planted on it, and return it to nature.

Other than that, I think would want to have one home in each of my favorite five places in the world, plus a cottage on a small lake in Canada, on top of my current home. I would pay someone to make sure they were all properly maintained. Then I would spend a part of the year in each place.

[Thor_MN]

47. You want a small lake on top of your current home?

Do you live near sea level?

[femmocrat]

43. I would downsize.

I would pay someone to clean out this house and I would move to a smaller place. The smaller place has to be at the beach though.
Something like this would be perfect:

[Hayduke Bomgarte]

45. I'd put a bunch of money in

Dog rescue/rehab facilities and try to enlist experts of Cesar Milans caliber to run and oversee them.

[doc03]

46. If I would win like several million on the lottery, I would keep one million for myself.

I would buy a condo in Florida for the winter and one here in Ohio for the summer. I would give a couple million each to my two nieces.
I would donate a few million to Rails to Trails and the rest to charities.

[MissMillie]

48. I don't know if you can consider this to be inexpensive...

But I would want a set of quality chef's knives, and I would pay for them to be sharpened regularly.

[Aristus]

51. Have a professional massage every single day...

[Lunabell]

52. I would...

Catch, spay/neuter and release all the feral cats I feed.

[vlyons]

53. I would create college scholarships

[Binkie The Clown]

54. If I won the lottery I would give all of it to charity.

Maybe I'd pay off my kids' houses first, but money would just make my life complicated, and I'd much rather do something to benefit those who struggle just to make ends meet.

[blueinredohio]

55. If I were rich

I would go to the poorest sections of the country, give it away and try to explain why they should never vote for a republican.

[IrishEyes]

56. I would take classes in everything.

I would try to learn how to do everything I could. I would learn how to sail, karate, scuba dive, hang glide, fly a plane, etc.

I would learn crafts like sewing, knitting, woodworking and I would have the money to buy supplies. I would learn how to cook Thai food, speak Japanese, fly on a trapeze, etc. Whatever interesting thing struck my fancy.

I would donate an equivalent amount of money to charity.

I would also like to have a beautiful bed with soft sheets, a comfy mattress, good pillows, a fancy bedspread and warm blankets.

[alarimer]

57. I would pay somebody well to do the chores.

For me and my partner, that may not be a full time job, but it detracts from the things I like to do.

I would also take my car to the fancy car wash.

[nadine_mn]

58. endless money? Ok after taking care of the initial

basics (buying a hobby farm so we can rescue more animals and pay off all our debts)

I would do a lot of what has been mentioned - charity, rescue, def massage and help cleaning

But then - along the lines of a money fairy - I would help people who need just one or two things fixed that are preventing them from getting ahead

For so many it is reliable transportation - so either pay for their car to get fixed or get rid of that hoopty for a reliable car

Pay off medical bills, credit cards so they can start debt free

Pay off any ridiculous fines or parking tickets that caused their license to be suspended

Money for tuition or taking exams for a better job (goodness moving to another state and finding out the cost to retake the bar exam and bar review classes prevented me from doing it)

Get rid of unlawful retainers on their rental history

New appliances like a washer/dryer so they don't have to drag themselves to the laundromat

Mobility devices - adapting a van for wheel chair users, guide dogs, home adaption

I mean so many people don't want a lot, they just want a chance but something like having your car breakdown and not having the money to fix it can turn into a disaster - like losing your job which sets off a snowball effect.