What would you do with $x million?

BoredShirtless · Post by **BoredShirtless** » 2004-05-18 09:21am

Seriously. Don't say "spend it on hookers" or whatever because you know you wouldn't. What would you do with a coooool one million dollars? 10 million? 100 million? (Bill Gates) million? And not just what would you do with the money: what would you do with yourself? Quit school/work? If so....what would you do?

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2004-05-18 09:25am

Set up my own biotech company to rival Venter's. That is, of course, after my degree, MSc. and Ph.D all paid by myself.

Refund my parents and get my dad that new A4 he wanted and that converted barn house my mum keeps going on about.

Pay my bro to get through university after we go on a trip to Japan and Australia while my parents go to Cyprus and maybe get a villa if they still want one.

Buy shares in stuff.

I wouldn't really splash out, I like being anonymous somewhat and wisely using cash when I need it. But I would adore having my own company and having other family members work within it.

The Third Man · Post by **The Third Man** » 2004-05-18 09:48am

Simple answer for me. First step, get it offshore and out of the grasp of the tax man. Then, become a venture capitalist and gradually give it back (presumably the lucre was somehow extracted from my fellow citizens), and have loads of fun into the bargain.

Post by **Gandalf** » 2004-05-18 09:53am

Put the majority into a foreign investment account.

Use the rest to increase quality of life at home.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2004-05-18 10:26am

put the majority of it in multiple offshore accounts which gain interest monthly. no need to take chances of putting it all into one basket where the bank might go. . .well, bankrupt. then i'd put at least 100k in a local account, live off the interest in that in a moderately well sized condo, spend another 100k on electronics and other goodies, and basically be stocked for the rest of my life. hell, with just one mil i would never have to work again if i spent it smartly.

aerius · Post by **aerius** » 2004-05-18 10:34am

I'll spend it on strippers, no, not that way, I'm gonna buy the local stripjoint. And then I'll sit back and watch the money roll in. And if you guys are real nice to me I'll even give you an SD.net discount for lapdances.

Shroom Man 777 · Post by **Shroom Man 777** » 2004-05-18 10:40am

Yeah. That's a smart idea. Spend it on hookers! Well, not actually spending, more on investing. I'll make bajillions! Especially since I'm in the Philippines, were dollars mean sooo much! A normal American man would have a good life here in the Phils since everyone else is so poor! Hehehe.

I'd buy a new house, not a big one, just a neat one. And fancy electronics, like a PSP. And a new cool car, maybe even a couple. Put myself through a fancy university. I'd publish my fic which you people never read

SyntaxVorlon · Post by **SyntaxVorlon** » 2004-05-18 10:51am

Invest in European hooker markets.

Sir Sirius · Post by **Sir Sirius** » 2004-05-18 10:55am

I'd buy a No.4 Mk1 sniper rifle and a SIG P210-6-9. After that... meh, I'm just too lazy to think about it.

Post by **fgalkin** » 2004-05-18 10:55am

Take over the world.

Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin

Xenophobe3691 · Post by **Xenophobe3691** » 2004-05-18 11:13am

100 Million? Spend 20 on a ticket to space a a tourist, put 50 mil into the bank or into Gold or something, pay my parents back for college, pay for my own Master's and JD (or Ph.D), buy myself a car, then lie back and get that damn Doctorate so I don't end up the reject of the family.

Col. Crackpot · Post by **Col. Crackpot** » 2004-05-18 11:47am

move to the Carribean and live like Jimmy Buffett.

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2004-05-18 12:15pm

Pay off my education. Pay off my sister's education. Pay off all my cousins' educations. Pay off my close friends' educations. Pay off my parents' house. Buy my dad a Corvette.

Once I'm done throwing around all that money, I'd buy a bar.

EDIT: Oh yeah, however much I could to charity--National Diabetes Association, specifically.

Darth Raptor · Post by **Darth Raptor** » 2004-05-18 12:31pm

First I would get a free ride through college, and whatever's left would go to funding digs and other projects.

... And then I lease an island, mine for amber, invest heavily in biotech research...

Bertie Wooster · Post by **Bertie Wooster** » 2004-05-18 12:33pm

Buy land. They don't make it anymore.

Spend it in moderation on my family too.

Post by **Zaia** » 2004-05-18 12:57pm

Pay off my student loans first and foremost, always.

Then send my family on the vacations they've all been wanting, I'd buy my parents a vacation home, buy myself a home somewhere in Australia and live there for a few years, and I'd set myself up to do freelance photography with the best equipment available. And I'd teach private percussion lessons and perform on the side.

Shroom Man 777 · Post by **Shroom Man 777** » 2004-05-18 01:00pm

Speaking of putting my your family on vacation, I'd like to permanently maroon my crazy ass obsessive compulsive paranoid aunt on some island in the Caymans where the alligators will eat her!

I'd get a trust fund for myself, increase the money by several fold, make sure I can go into a fancy ass, snooty, uppity university where I can become a grade A journalist/writer.

And buy myself the latest version of them Gulfstream private jets

And buy myself a football team

Post by **Mr Bean** » 2004-05-18 02:36pm

1,000 Million?
Simple I'd give it away, I'd stage it over the next twenty years that I can walk around handing away 100k Suitcases once a week(And if money gets amight scarce I'll use some other cool looking method)

Just get myself a nice travaling Van, trick the sonavabitch out till it can blow past most Mustangs, paint it Black and drive around, giving away money, and hire some folks to run a website to track me and another fellow to drive a duplicate Van around so I can switch every once in awhile by a quick flight out of the country then back in at some random airport were I meet my secondary van to drive that around blowing millions of dollers on random strangers

Oh and invest in human gene research, and cloning(When I get old I want three fresh kidneys a week!)

PeZook · Post by **PeZook** » 2004-05-18 04:14pm

With one million? I'd put it into a bank (or several ones), and live off the interest.

10 million? I always wanted to seriously get into sailing, but it's a DAMN expensive sport. Well, no more

100 million? Invest a part of it, then buy myself an island in the Caribbean Sea, a schooner, learn to handle it, and spend the rest of my life cruising the seas.

Ah, dreams...

Gil Hamilton · Post by **Gil Hamilton** » 2004-05-18 04:16pm

Pay people to carefully invest it so that I make vast sums of money, except for a portion that will fund the education of much of my family members. My cousin Emma would go to any college in the world she wanted to if I had my say.

Plus, I'd buy a pirate ship. Eventually and sail the seven seas and give tours of my pirate galley when I make port.

aphexmonster · Post by **aphexmonster** » 2004-05-18 04:26pm

Seeing as how i just moved out with a girl and her kid ...

totaly not working enough hours

and already completely hating my job ...

I think i would move us out ...

buy a shit load of computer stuff

and play video games on the internet all day

never having to work again =)

Damaramu · Post by **Damaramu** » 2004-05-18 04:30pm

Honestly?

I'd do jack and shit. Offshore account and spend (very little) as needed.

That would include getting my woman out of debt (credit cards, student loans).

I wouldn't bother working either.

After doing nothing for a while, I'm sure I'd get bored and think of something fun to use some of that money on. Maybe start my own gaming company? Maybe not.

muse · Post by **muse** » 2004-05-18 04:33pm

I think i'll have some plastic surgery done on my breasts, they've never quite looked right to me...

And then I'll travel the world for a few years before settling down in a nice quiet place somewhere and living happily ever after.

Oh, I was just kidding about the breast surgery.

Enforcer Talen · Post by **Enforcer Talen** » 2004-05-18 05:33pm

buy every book and movie Ive ever wanted.

buy plane tickets for my favorite friends, male and female, and go to hedonism island for a month.

pay for college for everyone in my entire family. pay off their debts.

buy a whole stack of useful items for my reservist job.

mm. . . send some money to betterhumans, so they can do some investing.

send some money to the millenial project.

send some money to ambassador palmer's democracy projects.

do some heavy investing in european medical/space age tech.

get my own house near a pool and track and weight room, work out like no tomorrow.

have a bunch of nice little advisor type people help me chomp out my book.

get a car.

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2004-05-18 05:37pm

Somebody better be donating at least some money to SD.NET.