what would you do with a few unlimited $$ purchases?

[Urchina]

200+ acre organic farm with generous, very old water rights. Farm must have older apple orchard, a large and gracious old Victorian farmhouse (6 bedrooms, large country kitchen, butler's pantry, formal dining room, formal living room, 7 bathrooms (one in each bedroom plus one on the main level), summer kitchen/pantry/laundry/beer & winemaking room, library, wraparound porch, family room, finished attic and finished cellar), a vintage barn, painted white or red with a cupola on top, a large and airy chicken coop, and fenced/cross-fenced pasture. Preferably on a year-round stream or creek. No highway frontage, old oak and fir trees also a must. Also, it must be within 5 miles of a reasonably-sized city in northern California or Western Oregon.

Property taxes in perpetuity for the above-mentioned farm.

Solar panels, a couple of windmills, and a pond for the above-mentioned farm.

A small coastal or big-city vacation house for when I tire of the farm.

A 1953 or 1954 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz convertible, cherry please.

And a really, outrageous, extravagant, flamboyant velvet sofa. I've always wanted one.

 

[W2R]

Ok all you LYBM-ers - if you had unlimited money to spend on a few items of your choosing, what would they be? I guess it's easier to limit it to just a few items, otherwise we might wind up with long lists of worthy charities (not that that's bad, but not quite what I'm aiming to ask here).

(1) The obvious use for gobs of money would be to cover medical expenses so that I could quit work NOW instead of 16+ months from now.

(2) I'd like to give Frank a couple of million, so he could retire now and live as he deserves to live. He works so hard. What the heck - - another couple of million for my daughter even though she might be a little young to handle it wisely. (Party!!! )

(3) How about John and Yoko Lennon's condo in Manhattan? That would probably be luxurious as all get-out, and extremely private. But then the last time I was in Manhattan was in 1954, and I don't know if I would like it or not.

 

[Marquette]

Abandoned missle silo

Lasers

Sharks

A good onsite barber at my beck and call

Oh, and someone to keep my back waxed. Gotta look good for the ladies.

edit: And an army of munchkins and / or oompa loompas

edit2: And a pony.

 

[socca]

I'm trying to send some pictures and not sure this is going to work.

Looks like Florida to me - house paint color, architecture, and trees don't remind me of anything I've ever seen in Minneapolis.

I'd buy Oregon (for the summer months) and Arizona (for the winter).

 

[73ss454]

So, do you like the house better than the car?

 

[socca]

So, do you like the house better than the car?

I'm not much into either houses or cars. Give me a nice big fruit & vegetable garden instead. Your immediate neighborhood looks much like mine. I haven't seen your car around, so you must not live in Sarasota.

 

[Zoocat]

Santa Barbara Bungalow. Asking price $929,000

 

[Sarah in SC]

73ss454, the car is truly awesome! Thanks so much for sharing the pictures with us. sigh....now if only this thing had sound so we could hear it cranking up!

Man, but I'd give back most of what you other folks wanted for a ride in that car.
Well, except for the pony, Marquette.

 

[73ss454]

Thanks for showing me how to post the pictures Sarah.

 

[Urchina]

A $929K asking price sounds pretty good, actually. But don't forget the 1.25% of sales price for yearly property taxes, though. That'll run you about what, $11,600 if you paid asking.

 

[RetiredGypsy]

10 square miles of beautiful land with fresh water and fertile soil, a good tent, a small cabin and enough eucalyptus to keep all the spiders away.

 

[Marquette]

Man, but I'd give back most of what you other folks wanted for a ride in that car.
Well, except for the pony, Marquette.

With access to oompah loompah's with lasers and a secret underground lair, I'm thinking we could get you one of those cars... failing that, you can borrow the pony.

 

[mb]

I want one on the beach and and at that (low) price I doubt that it is even close

Also want one at a ski resort. It doesn't have to be big. It doesn't have to be real nice. The important thing is that I have to able to walk out the door step into my skiis and go

MB

 

[brewer12345]

A $929K asking price sounds pretty good, actually. But don't forget the 1.25% of sales price for yearly property taxes, though. That'll run you about what, $11,600 if you paid asking.

Heh, which is about the taxes on a $500k house in much of NJ.

 

[Moemg]

Heh, which is about the taxes on a $500k house in much of NJ.

Or the $700k house in Florida of course the $700k down the street is paying $1300 in taxes .

 

[ladelfina]

a natural swimming pool (biolago)
Anja Werner, architettura del paesaggio, biopiscine, biolago, giardini

also, an earth-sheltered home
Vetsch Architektur

with a decent stove
Lacanche - Les Pianos Gastronomes

 

[HFWR]

I'm probably being naive, but there's some cognitive dissonance when bungalow and $929k are mentioned in the same sentence...

 

[RunningBum]

A home and membership in Yellowstone Club (private ski/golf resort in Montana, near Yellowstone Natl Park).

A luxury box for Nebraska football games. I'd settle for club seats.

 

[calmloki]

it's all out there waiting for you....

sharks & lasers:

Square miles of land? 640 ACRES WINNEMUCCA GRASS LAND BLUE MOUNTAIN CASH SALE - eBay (item 220241069122 end time Jun-29-08 15:49:48 PDT)

Pony?

oompa loompas? well, let's leave that as an exercise for the reader...

 

[Zoocat]

I'm probably being naive, but there's some cognitive dissonance when bungalow and $929k are mentioned in the same sentence...

Not really naive. You've probably never been to Santa Barbara, right? It is heaven on earth, IMHO.

I also want my own pony to ride along the shore!

 

[lazygood4nothinbum]

if you had unlimited money to spend on a few items of your choosing, what would they be?

food for the world & world peace. moohaha.

 

[Purron]

An animal sancutary to provide a safe haven for homeless cats and dogs.

 

[BunsGettingFirm]

Not really naive. You've probably never been to Santa Barbara, right? It is heaven on earth, IMHO.

I also want my own pony to ride along the shore!

Hey, I did that once as a favor to a family member who helped me move. Wow, I would rather have been trampled by the horse. The entire time I was thinking, this must be one of those things that look really good and really exciting to those not involved in the activity but is actually not that much fun for the actual participants because the during the entire time, I was sitting at a 20 degree angle to the saddle and the horse and holding on for dear life. I also wondered if my crotch will have any skin left. So in other words, it was a lot like making porn.

 

[W2R]

Hey, I did that once as a favor to a family member who helped me move. Wow, I would rather have been trampled by the horse. The entire time I was thinking, this must be one of those things that look really good and really exciting to those not involved in the activity but is actually not that much fun for the actual participants because the during the entire time, I was sitting at a 20 degree angle to the saddle and the horse and holding on for dear life. I also wondered if my crotch will have any skin left. So in other words, it was a lot like making porn.

I grew up on the beachfront in Kailua, Hawaii (as in, the ocean was our back yard). Believe me, horses were not very popular among either beachgoers or homeowners, because horses defecate so much on the beach. Who wants to lay out their towel next to a big string of smelly horse poop? It's absolutely mind-boggling how much poop a horse will leave on a beach, and the homeowners have to go out after every rider goes by and clean up the mess. That can get old after a few years of same-o, same-o, and it is hard to visualize that the rider is having THAT much fun that it would compensate for the hassles to everyone else using the beach. Plus, even worse, you worry about kids and sleeping beachgoers that the horses come close to stepping on.

Kailua was a small town at that time, so you got to know people in your neighborhood. I didn't know anybody who actually lived in our town, or frequented the beach often, who would do something like ride a horse on the beach (even though several in my neighborhood owned horses). It was considered to be a pretty anti-social thing to do even though it looks idyllic in the movies.

Just another point of view - -

 

[Alec-Eldifrawi]

new house with lots of property and a indoor rifle range.