I’d go into day surgery & get a mole removed. Then take the $5000 cash & run.
I would donate my prize, too (but keep the $5000 for sure). I’m far from perfect, but I can’t think of anything I would want to surgically change.
In all honesty, though, my parents have spent about $5000 fixing my teeth, from braces to gum surgury to veneers to crowns, and just recently, brand new crowns. My insurance covered most of the new crowns, and just changing my two front teeth - making them look real, for the first time in my life - was the biggest high I can imagine. People compliment my smile on a daily basis now, and nothing makes me happier after years of being teased and ridiculed, so I totally understand why people get plastic surgury. To each his own.
I’d take a flatter stomach and perkier, slightly larger tits - but I wouldn’t want to go through surgery. I’d take it if it were a fairy godmother waving a wand, but I don’t fancy getting cut up. The want doesn’t go anywhere near to covering the risk for me right now.
I file my want for bigger, perkier tits under “daydreams”, alongside my desire to play Doctor Who, or manage a local ladies’ soccer team and by so doing revolutionise English women’s football and win scads of awards.
I’d take the money and get my teeth fixed instead-I need two root canals, a bridge, and three caps.
That’s a sign of a good plastic surgeon. You look exactly like you, only better. It’s definitely NOT for people who want big changes, otherwise they’ll never be happy. You gotta have realistic expectations.
Well, I’d probably donate, too. But if required to use it for myself, I’d probably…well…do something with my skin, I guess. I’m starting to get a softening of the jawline that I don’t like, and wrinkles around my eyes. My nose is rather, um, aquiline, and I think I’d change that just a tiny bit. And the tummy-tuck/lipo thing might not be bad…All this on the assumption that I wouldn’t have to be in pain, of course, which wouldn’t happen–kinda like Tansu’s fairy godmother/magic wand thing.
If I had just read a deep moving article about burn victims or accident survivors, I might donate it.
But chances are, I wouldn’t have read that article, but instead read some other magazine that showed pictures of how much better my life would be if I were pretty and/or thin - so complete overhaul. (I do think that I would be happier, it wouldn’t solve all my problems, but it would definitely solve the ones related to not looking better) There’s a plastic surgeon in the bottom floor of my building. I keep wanting to go into the office and ask “Assuming money were no object, what could you do?” Sadly, money is an object & I wouldn’t want to waste that much of his time.
To make this thread more fun, you should have specified to all the do-gooders that you can’t donate it; use it or lose it. Spoilsports . . .
Me, I’m trying to make up my mind between a middle-aged chin-tuck, or a nose-job. Something swoopy and Kay Kendall-y, I think. [Getting out coin to toss]
Can I use it for semi-annual microdermabrasion sessions, or electrolysis?
I wouldn’t want anything invasive, but would love to be able to quit waxing my legs, or to rid myself of those little reminding remnants of my Acne Years…
And even though I wouldn’t have to miss work for the procedures, can I still have the $5K?
Oooh, electrolysis - now you’re talking!