# How would you spend a million dollars in 30 days? (rules enclosed) **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 19, 2004, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-spend-a-million-dollars-in-30-days-rules-enclosed/275591 "2004-11-19T01:43:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2004, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-spend-a-million-dollars-in-30-days-rules-enclosed/275591/21 "2004-11-19T03:55:56Z")
I would travel first class for a month, go to the most expensive cities in the world and rent presidential suites. Tokyo, Boston, LA, NYC, London, Paris, etc. And $500/hr call girls would be invited too of course. As well as a few $1000+ bottles of champagne. I could probably blow through the money. ---
**Author:** ![zoog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7ea924/32.png) [@zoog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoog)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2004, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-spend-a-million-dollars-in-30-days-rules-enclosed/275591/22 "2004-11-19T03:58:21Z")
A million? That’s all? I could burn through that in two weeks. No, really. Try me. ---
**Author:** ![professor\_folk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/df788c/32.png) [@professor\_folk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/professor_folk)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2004, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-spend-a-million-dollars-in-30-days-rules-enclosed/275591/23 "2004-11-19T04:18:04Z")
run for office, on the don’t vote for me ticket. ---
**Author:** ![Metacom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecae2f/32.png) [@Metacom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Metacom)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2004, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-spend-a-million-dollars-in-30-days-rules-enclosed/275591/24 "2004-11-19T04:20:19Z")
The most expensive hotel in Amsterdam, for a month. If it works, I won’t remember much of how I spent it. 8) ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2004, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-spend-a-million-dollars-in-30-days-rules-enclosed/275591/25 "2004-11-19T04:27:09Z")
I’ve been in some clubs where the bills have gone well into the quadruple-digits within a few hours without even trying. With a partner, and making an effort to spend money, we could spend a million in a month without even leaving the room. So, **Cerowyn** , you going to be in Tokyo again soon? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![emekthian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecae2f/32.png) [@emekthian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emekthian)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2004, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-spend-a-million-dollars-in-30-days-rules-enclosed/275591/26 "2004-11-19T04:57:18Z")
I’d pay people to humiliate themselves in public. At the end of the month I’d buy a flamethrower, gather whatever cash I had left over into a pile, piss on it, and then take the flamethrower to it. ---
**Author:** ![Arch\_Trout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9f8e36/32.png) [@Arch\_Trout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arch_Trout)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2004, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-spend-a-million-dollars-in-30-days-rules-enclosed/275591/27 "2004-11-19T05:42:58Z")
I know this. 1. Hire the Yankees to play my softball team. 2. Tow an iceberg. 3. Buy a really expensive stamp and use it. 4.Hire all seven movie versions of Brewsters Millions. In all seriousness I’d probably try to hire the Red Sox to play me and my mates, that’d be the million gone straight away. ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2004, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-spend-a-million-dollars-in-30-days-rules-enclosed/275591/28 "2004-11-19T07:26:28Z")
Vegas, man, Vegas!! ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2004, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-spend-a-million-dollars-in-30-days-rules-enclosed/275591/29 "2004-11-19T10:24:36Z")
Watch me rent a whole bunch of airplanes. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2004, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-spend-a-million-dollars-in-30-days-rules-enclosed/275591/30 "2004-11-19T10:44:57Z")
If you really wanted to live like it up, hire a lear jet, fly to Switzerland and stay in the [Imperial Suite](http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/content_pages/record.asp?recordid=50077) at the President Wilson Hotel in Geneva. Dining out would be a [snip](http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/gwr5/content_pages/record.asp?recordid=51942) (even if you have to divide the cost by three, as pper the rules). Trouble is, I’ve blown the million in under three weeks and I haven’t left the hotel ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Roland\_Orzabal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@Roland\_Orzabal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roland_Orzabal)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2004, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-spend-a-million-dollars-in-30-days-rules-enclosed/275591/31 "2004-11-19T10:55:46Z")
Go to Applebee’s. Eat a sandwich. Tip really well. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2004, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-spend-a-million-dollars-in-30-days-rules-enclosed/275591/32 "2004-11-19T12:03:36Z")
> [@Tapioca Dextrin](#): > > If you really wanted to live like it up, hire a lear jet, fly to Switzerland and stay in the [Imperial Suite](http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/content_pages/record.asp?recordid=50077) at the President Wilson Hotel in Geneva. I used to stay in that hotel all the time. If you’re going that way then try June probably the nicest month right there. Nice little restaurant, too, sort of French/Moroccan. And there is a place within walking distance that rents Ferraris and the like. It used to be about $1000/day, now it’s probably more with the dollar’s free fall. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2004, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-spend-a-million-dollars-in-30-days-rules-enclosed/275591/33 "2004-11-19T12:08:08Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#): > > And there is a place within walking distance that rents Ferraris I guess the servants have to get _some_ exercise. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2004, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-spend-a-million-dollars-in-30-days-rules-enclosed/275591/34 "2004-11-19T13:27:51Z")
I would spend the entire month on airplanes. First class all the way. Only touch ground to get on another airplane. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2004, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-spend-a-million-dollars-in-30-days-rules-enclosed/275591/35 "2004-11-19T13:58:22Z")
I’d buy lunch for _everybody_. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2004, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-spend-a-million-dollars-in-30-days-rules-enclosed/275591/36 "2004-11-19T14:12:31Z")
> [@Uncommon Sense](#): > > The rules are; > > No medical procedures. > No gambling. > No donating. > Has to be spent on you and one other person. > Nothing to show for it after the 30th day. Quite a few people seem to forgetting the rules ---
**Author:** ![N.Sane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f19dbf/32.png) [@N.Sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N.Sane)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2004, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-spend-a-million-dollars-in-30-days-rules-enclosed/275591/37 "2004-11-19T14:30:59Z")
I’d fly my sister and myself to New York (first class, natch), get a great hotel room, and go see plays and enjoy fine dining until the money was gone. (Of course, I’d make sure we had enough money to get back home on.) ---
**Author:** ![ParentalAdvisory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@ParentalAdvisory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParentalAdvisory)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2004, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-spend-a-million-dollars-in-30-days-rules-enclosed/275591/38 "2004-11-19T15:25:56Z")
First I’d spend a week hosting a talent contest for rap artists. And after finding the best one, buy studio time with Dr. Dre. And he didn’t want to do it, maybe someone in the Aftermath/Shady crew might do it. If not them, Timberland. I would pay for the recording contract and studio time for the artist. This would in effect, give someone a chance, as well as feed their family for possibly a lifetime, as recording studios like these are likely to atleast have steady sales, even if the artist isn’t popular. As long as the money is spent after 30 days, the project can still go on, right? The recording may take some time. ---
**Author:** ![Martha\_Medea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/43a26b/32.png) [@Martha\_Medea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martha_Medea)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2004, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-spend-a-million-dollars-in-30-days-rules-enclosed/275591/39 "2004-11-19T15:45:41Z")
Oh, we used to play this one all the time when I was a student. The consensus was something on the lines of chartering a cruise ship and having a massive party with our choice of rock bands as entertainment. Illegal substances were invariably mentioned. At today’s prices we’d probably blow it all in one night. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Who\_me\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/958977/32.png) [@Who\_me\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Who_me_1)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2004, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-spend-a-million-dollars-in-30-days-rules-enclosed/275591/40 "2004-11-19T15:54:40Z")
> [@Tapioca Dextrin](#): > > Quite a few people seem to forgetting the rules Well my answer is that I’d disappear…quietly… with the money… in cash. 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-spend-a-million-dollars-in-30-days-rules-enclosed/275591.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-spend-a-million-dollars-in-30-days-rules-enclosed/275591.md?page=3)