Sell everything and buy one vain item, what is it?

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When you say you might like to build a place, do you mean build it yourself or hire construction?
My grandfathers built all their own homes. It's something you don't see much these days.
Not around here, anyway.
The idea is nice either way but I'd also like a place with some history, that feels dug in.

Are (rich) people able to design their homes, or are they always just done by the building company? Most new builds here are cookie-cutter communities, meaning there's about five or six variations on a layout and they repeat them all along the new street or village whether they're single dwellings or rowhouses. Some of the rich folks contract companies to build sprawling estates or I suppose nice, smaller homes on big parcels of land but that's pretty rare these days.

I'd prefer a small place. Something cosy with leaded windows and bespoke bookshelves. Odd little nooks here and there, where I can read. A wood-burning fire, and nothing painted white. Not much land to call my own, but adjacent to open land and water. Sigh. I could do it if I sold my house and all my investments and stuff, but I always put my kids' needs before my own so I doubt it will ever happen.

I'd buy myself a restored vintage 1965 colour TV set with the legs on the bottom.

A fursuit. Or multiple fursuits.

This thought experiment made me think about what all the stuff I own would realistically be worth if I sold it. I reckon my entire estate wouldn't amount to much over £5,000.

Really, it's a couple of crap cars, a record player and vinyl collection and some out of date tech. Bit sobering. Can't buy much with that.

Maybe a paraglider. Or a really nice Telecaster and a massive tube amp.

I'd get like £1500 at most if I did this, I'm not sure what I could even get with that. Maybe a bed? That is if getting it with the mattress and all the other toppings would still count as one item.

I would buy a 1 year supply of food for SHTF with my personal savings account. I would buy a property-tax free multi-million dollar parsonage with all cash in Austin, Texas if I had to cash out trust fund.I would buy a used church building for my church plant if I had to liquidate all my oil company assets.

A half-decent grand piano? That's the only thing I can think that I'd actually want and is in the right price range. Though as I live in a council flat, I'd have to take some money off to soundproof the ceiling....