# If money were no object, how would you spend your time? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 20, 2003, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-money-were-no-object-how-would-you-spend-your-time/156343 "2003-02-20T16:04:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Rhum\_Runner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rhum\_Runner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhum_Runner)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2003, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-money-were-no-object-how-would-you-spend-your-time/156343/41 "2003-02-21T21:12:59Z")
I’d buy a 40-50’ sailboat and a small house in the islands. I’d cruise up to Maine for the summers, and then back down to the island after hurrican season. ---
**Author:** ![silkstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@silkstar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silkstar)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2003, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-money-were-no-object-how-would-you-spend-your-time/156343/42 "2003-02-21T21:49:22Z")
The first month I would stay in the $15,000 per night presidential suite at the Venezian Hotel in Las Vegas for one night. I would take remaining $10,000 and stay in $50 a night motels, gamble some and eat very well. The second month would depend on the first month but most likely I would reassemble my brain cells and start over somewhere else. ---
**Author:** ![Medievalist2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e19adc/32.png) [@Medievalist2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Medievalist2)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-money-were-no-object-how-would-you-spend-your-time/156343/43 "2003-02-28T09:29:10Z")
I would earn multiple Ph. D. degrees - one in English; one in history; one in art history; one in French; one in Latin; one in German; one in Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese; one in Arabic; one in Japanese and Chinese; one in Greek; one in Russian … and so on … ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-money-were-no-object-how-would-you-spend-your-time/156343/44 "2003-02-28T10:22:22Z")
How embarassing. I’d be right where I am now doing more or less what I’m doing now only with much nicer things around me. And I’d own my apartment too. Sigh. This state has no lotto though. And I have no rich uncle Miltons either, sigh. ---
**Author:** ![II\_Gyan\_II](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/bbe5ce/32.png) [@II\_Gyan\_II](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/II_Gyan_II)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-money-were-no-object-how-would-you-spend-your-time/156343/45 "2003-02-28T10:47:47Z")
Thing is, I would much prefer having a truncated lumpsum rather than a continuous trickle. I can then buy property/things at once, invest part of the money for growth purposes …etc With the rest, travel around the world at leisure. After a few years, select 3-4 locations around the world and buy houses there. Setup education sponsorships for a few poor kids. Actually, there isn’t much else to do. ---
**Author:** ![Marconi\_Schmeese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ea666f/32.png) [@Marconi\_Schmeese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marconi_Schmeese)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-money-were-no-object-how-would-you-spend-your-time/156343/46 "2003-02-28T14:47:16Z")
I would donate all my time to working with severely mentally and/or physically handicapped children. That’s why I’m working my ass off now so I can make enough money early to support that dream in the near future. Don’t get me wrong, I will still have a condo in Manhattan, a small estate in Atlanta to be near the fam and a house in St. George Island. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Janx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Janx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Janx)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-money-were-no-object-how-would-you-spend-your-time/156343/47 "2003-02-28T18:51:19Z")
To paraphrase Zaphod Beebelbrox: I would spend my time laying around on the beach with lots of naked young women and a team of scientists whose job it is to work out new ways for the women to be \*nice \* to me. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-money-were-no-object-how-would-you-spend-your-time/156343.md?page=2)