# How would you spend a million dollars in 30 days?  (rules enclosed)

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**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")\
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**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2004, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-spend-a-million-dollars-in-30-days-rules-enclosed/275591/61 "2004-11-20T10:05:25Z")

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> [@tryout1](#):
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> If you are organizing a public trip could you post a link? Quite a large number of trips are being planned for the 2006 eclipse, one of the longer ones of our lifetimes. People are going to places ranging from Turkey across the Mediterranean to Egypt and into the Libyan desert, and I hope to sign up for one of them. Right now I’m just trying to gather information.

This would just be myself and some friends with us all chipping in - and like yourself, rather more at the budget end.

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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2004, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-spend-a-million-dollars-in-30-days-rules-enclosed/275591/62 "2004-11-20T14:21:35Z")

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> I’d do the standard “travel the world and live the high life” thing… but I thought of an additional wrinkle: I’d buy expensive collector coins and banknotes… and use them at their face value.

_Brewster’s Millions_ (the Richard Pryor remake) used this idea. Pryor’s character bought a rare stamp and his antagonist said he had screwed up because the publicty over the sale had made the stamp go up in value, so Brewster was richer than he had been before. Then he got a cheezy “wish you were here” postcard from Brewster that had been mailed with the stamp.

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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2004, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-spend-a-million-dollars-in-30-days-rules-enclosed/275591/63 "2004-11-20T14:24:21Z")

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> [@](#):
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> This one really does seem ridiculously easy - is there any reason why you cannot just use the rockstar “rent the entire movie theater for yourself,” “why fly first class when you can rent your own Learjet,” “buy and drink multiple $20,000 bottles of wine per day” type of behavior?

Earlier this year, there were newspaper articles about the guy that spent something like $27,000 in one night at Score’s without even trying. With a little effort I’m sure you could top out $50,000 a night and go through your million in less than three weeks.

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**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 20, 2004, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-spend-a-million-dollars-in-30-days-rules-enclosed/275591/64 "2004-11-20T20:21:06Z")

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One month in Japan

WOW

Give me a twelve-pack of those legendary thousand dollar fugu tacos!!

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