you have a £5 million lottery win, now how Old Style are you?

jaxx46

I'm the same would love to have a smallholding to spend my days on, near a canal so DP and I could have our barge. Would pay someone to do the ironing all day long if I could afford it and would have clean bed linen EVERY day.

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nuttybabe wrote: »

I wouldnt have a cleaner as I wouldnt think they could clean as well as me

I wouldn't have a cleaner....not because they wouldn't clean as well as me, they would probably do a much better job....I wouldn't have a cleaner because I would feel like I needed to clean for the cleaner coming.

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Shysarah

If I did the lottery, and won it, I would buy myself and my sister and her husband our own homes so we could live securely with cleaners but I would do my own ironing and cooking.
I would give up work and go to University full time to do my degree just because I never had the chance.
I would have a veggie filled garden just like Nigel Slaters on his cookery programme and have a massive library filled with cookery books and all the fiction I could read.
I would travel lots and have a regular break in Ragdale Hall Health Spa (been once its amazing!!).
I would also help my parents to sell the farm and buy the boots i am lusting after in Evans lol...

One thing I would do though after my degree is work in the voluntary sector with the homeless/addicts. Something very close to my heart!

Mmmm not very OS other than the garden lol

ETA - To remind self this is NOT REAL lol

penelopedee_2

Pink-winged wrote: »

I wouldn't have a cleaner....not because they wouldn't clean as well as me, they would probably do a much better job....I wouldn't have a cleaner because I would feel like I needed to clean for the cleaner coming.

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I would be like that too - we had one for a while and the house was lovely because I spent the night before blitzing it.... complete waste of time and money :cool:

mandi

Old Style ?

Wipe my fanny on a rag , just to save on bog roll ...... No way

Penelope_Penguin

Frugal wrote: »

Would you still be as OS as you are now if you won the lottery?

I'd be even more OS DH and I would buy the smallholding of our dreams, give up our jobs, and farm pigs, sheep and a cow :T

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mandi wrote: »

Old Style ?

Wipe my fanny on a rag , just to save on bog roll ...... No way

Hi Mandi,

Old Style doesn't necessarily mean being frugal to extreme. To me it means saving money so we can to make our cash stretch as far as we possibly can.

Using a rag isn't something I would choose to do, but it works for some people enabling them to put the cash saved into different areas of their lives or live in an environmentally friendly way that they feel is making a difference, or just because they want to. Other Old Stylers are as entitled to their beliefs just as much as you and I are.

I think much of Old Style is about personal choices. I'll make mine and no doubt you will make yours, but is it really necessary to be so scathing about others who are trying to save money in a way that suits them?

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I don't do the lottery either but then I would find little use for the cash anyway as I am quite contented with what I have .I like my house so I wouldn't move, I don't need a car as I am happy with the one I have, probably if I had a bit more cash I would probably buy all my food in M&S or Waitrose I suppose .
How sad is that .I can't think of anything that I either need or want to be honest.I have seem most of the countries that I have ever wanted to see and am not keen on the heat so a hot beach would be wasted . Perhaps maybe I would buy more books than at present.My children manage fairly well even though they both work quite hard i couldn't see either of them accepting any extra money as they too are quite happy with their lives .So any extra would be wasted on my tribe I think.Plus of course I enjoy cooking and even ironing doesn't bother me.I don't think I would be happy with a stranger messing about in my house I like to do my cleaning my way and in my own time .

PennyPinchingPrincess

Wooo! Just checked my ticket and I won a tenner tonight

Not quite enough to pack in working, buy my dream home and spend half the year travelling... but a little more in the house fund anyway!

Should I ever win big I'd first make sure my future was secure, and if that meant living old style in a modest house then I'd rather do that than go crazy with the money and have it run out in 10 years - I'm planning on living longer than that!

Even if I won enough to see myself, friends and family living luxuriously then I think I'd still keep some of my ways. I much prefer home cooking to shop bought, and I enjoy cooking. I just wouldn't have to scrimp and stretch so much I hope I'd still think of the environmental impact of my actions too, which naturally leads to OS ways.

Love a cleaner though!

ceridwen

A lot more so....:D

All the extra time I would spend gardening - because I would have a much bigger garden (better house.....).

All the extra time experimenting with cooking/preserving/making my own cosmetics etc...

The cleaning - hmmm....well I do know someone who sometimes works as a cleaner - so, I'd see if I could "bribe her" with the offer of very good wages to come and work for me part-time as a sorta housekeeper (say £15-£20 per hour and paid holidays I would think - yep...I HAVE thought this through in some detail.....). If she wasnt interested - even after I'd ratcheted it up to £25 per hour/etc - then I'd continue doing my own housework rather than employ someone I don't know.

The garden wouldnt take much more time after the initial effort - as I would "bribe" the best "forest gardener" I could get my hands on with a large cheque to come and set up my garden for me as a "forest garden" in the first place.

Ummm...theres a theme emerging here....if I don't want to do something then pay someone else a large "bribe" to do it for me.......