Let’s say you were sitting on a park bench. Out of the blue, a piece of paper floats off the breeze and lands in your lap.
Upon exmaination, it’s a cashier’s check. It’s made out to YOU. It’s for a million dollars.
Aside from the obvious (cashing it, depositing it), what is the first thing you would do with that money?
For me, I would pay every single bill I have. House, cars, credit cards. Zero debt. NONE. Then, I would buy a corvette.
I would immediately begin abusing my wealth. I would go out of my way to have fun at other people’s expense.
I’ll go to the local bank to open a checking account and be a total cretin, because they won’t want to throw me out if I’m depositing $1,000,000. I would stop random people on the street and say, “I’ll give you $1,000 to roll around in that mud puddle over there.” I’ll conspicuously light my fine cigars with $100 bills. Why would anyone do such things, you ask? Because I CAN! 
“But not a real green dress, that’s cruel!”
How about that, I was thinking about that this morning in the shower.
My parents would make me use it intelligently. You know, pay for everything for college that isn’t covered by my scholarship, set myself up in a nice place to live, stuff like that.
I’d want to buy a kick-ass car (Superbird! Big frickin’ wing! Petty blue!) and a motorcycle (I’m not man enough for a Harley. I’d get a bright red riceburner), and take myself and two friends on a trip to a racing school, and go to Daytona for all of Speedweeks, and get myself some nice cowboy boots.
I’d put about a quarter of it in the bank. With the rest, I’d buy a $750,000 house, and with any luck, rent it out until I’m ready to move into it myself. 
(Kayeby likes big houses with big gardens for doggies to play in)
I like the response from Peter’s neighbor in “Office Space”.
Peter - “What would you do with a million dollars?”
neighbor - “Two chicks at the same time.”
[li] Pay the bills.[/li][li] Buy a house.[/li][li] Run amok in the bookstores and fabric stores.[/li][li] Buy a Lotto ticket (hey you never know…).[/li]
JC, that’s the first thing I thought when I read the title!
Same answer as I always give when this question comes up: I’d buy my own helicopter so I wouldn’t have to rent any more.
once all the bills are paid, I’d hire someone to finish the teak work on our boat… and the painting… and the reupholstering… Then hubby and I would drop dock lines and cruise away.
Ah, sweet reverie…
Charter FairyChatMom’s boat
If I had a million dollars I’d spend it all.
Okay, after I paid off every bill I have, I’d do the following:
Buy myself a house
Buy myself my dream car, and have it restored (69 Camaro)
Contract to have a recording studio built as an addition to house.
Rent studio out to local bands to be able to record/produce their demos, under a signed agreement that .02 of every sale goes to the studio, and another .05 is donated to charity.
Don’t think I didn’t get that…
I would do the normal boring stuff of paying off ALL my bills. Buy a house. Save for my kids education. Fix up my dream car, which is parked in my garage right now, collecting cobwebs. Then I’d like to take three vacations…one with TD and the kids, one with JUST TD, and one with my sis, who I seldom see anymore, but I miss her. Or maybe just offer my sis a little $ for her to pay off her college loans, and let me hang with her for a week. (She’s not allowed to dress me like a moron this time though…I will bring many shoes!)
I have no outstanding bills or loans so…
I’d put all my stuff in storage, return my rented apartment, and go on a looong trip around the world. Maybe I’ll plan my itinerary to coincide with all the dopefests everywhere, I hear they get pretty wild
Visit all the dopers in the world, alphabeticaly.
I wondered if that would slip by.
I think about the what if $$$$$$$$$ thing all the time. After all the dreaming I get honest with myself and I’m always left with that line.
“I’d spend it all”
buy a house
buy a new Dodge Viper
buy MV Agusta motorcycle
basicly have as much fun as my soul could stand.
What do you mean IF I had a million dollars?
::smug, self-satisfied grin::