How much to make you happy for the next 2 years?

Jono · 31 Aug 2007 at 11:28

Just been having a conversation with a friend about this.

How much money (minimum) would you require to allow you to do everything you REALLY want to do (ignore things that would just be "nice", for now) or buy the things you would like to buy/pay off?

I reckon that for £100,000 I could pay off all my debts, not have to work (and be a bit better off) for the two years and buy a bunch of software/enroll on courses to allow me a decent chance of a complete change of career.

It would still leave me without a house of my own, but for £500,000 I could buy the house I want, where I want to live and make it 'my own'.

MadMan-JaMeS · 31 Aug 2007 at 11:29

i wouldn't settle for anything less than 2mill

platypus · 31 Aug 2007 at 11:30

Several million.

I'd have a few cars to buy.

jaykay · 31 Aug 2007 at 11:32

About £900,000 would do me. Any mnore and it would pay for extras.

PiKe · 31 Aug 2007 at 11:32

It's all very material though isn't it.

PardonTheWait · 31 Aug 2007 at 11:33

£60k would be more than enough. £75k would be just lovely.

MRMOBEUS. · 31 Aug 2007 at 11:33

500k for me!

karoshi · 31 Aug 2007 at 11:35

£115k would do me for two years.. that'd be 2x my wages + paying off my mortgage + a little extra cash to spend on finishing my car and motorbike projects.

Kreeeee · 31 Aug 2007 at 11:36

12k, I'm a student and that would be an awful lot of money for me.

Ripper · 31 Aug 2007 at 11:37

Err, be comfortable if I had 15-20k for the next two years for sure

"andy" · 31 Aug 2007 at 11:39

id be happy with a free tenner

dunno really im sure i could think of things to buy no matter how much i got

Andelusion · 31 Aug 2007 at 11:39

£20k to cover all my student debt I should imagine, a little more would be nice to start renting my own place too.

Burnsy2023 · 31 Aug 2007 at 11:41

About 500 - 600k would do nicely. New Car, house and world travel included as standard.

Burnsy

basmic · 31 Aug 2007 at 11:42

I don't think anything less than a million is classed as much money these days.

If I was given a million, I'd buy a decent house, pay my debts off, get some driving lessons and advanced lessons, a run about car - then live off the interest.

Moredhel · 31 Aug 2007 at 11:42

£600,000,000

Burnsy2023 · 31 Aug 2007 at 11:45

basmic said:
I don't think anything less than a million is classed as much money these days.

If I was given a million, I'd buy a decent house, pay my debts off, get some driving lessons and advanced lessons, a run about car - then live off the interest.

But the OP says 'for the next two years', so your clearly being greedy

Burnsy

Dave M · 31 Aug 2007 at 11:48

Depends if you have to give up work or not.

Still working 20k would be very nice thank you.

Without work I'd need at least 60k, probably more like 80k.

TheDean · 31 Aug 2007 at 11:49

£90k....thanks

Heliospherez · 31 Aug 2007 at 11:56

Funnily enough thats exactly the amount I said I would take.

Most of the other guys I discussed it with said £50,000 or less would do them ?

£100,000 would give me a couple of years free from work and pay off all my debts and mortgage.

magick · 31 Aug 2007 at 11:57

To do anything i want??

About £60 million. £5million on a house in surrey and plus 2 million for cars. The same amount again but in Florida and the same amount in Shanghai China. About £8 million or so on a decent yacht to travel about in and maybe a helicopter to. And that would leave about 30 million to play around with :-)

I don't really want a lot in life. But that would make me happy.