# If you had a billion dollars: What are some truly bizarre or weird or eccentric things you would do?

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Aha, found another of the historical threads I was thinking of:

> [@What would you do if money were literally no object](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-money-were-literally-no-object/957616):
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> So Bezos, Gates, Musk, Zuckergerg and Buffett, all died in a misaligned ride on the new space-X capsule and are now on their way to pluto, surprisingly they left you as their sole heir. After doing the usual benevolent things of solving world hunger eliminating disease and cleaning up the planet, you still have a pretty sizable chunk of change and its time to treat yourself. What do you do? To give you the sort of idea of the degree of seriousness consideration I expect in this thread I off…

Bonus points for consistency, such as @Lumpy’s Mjolnir and @Moriarty’s love of expensive watches and travel sized elephants.

In terms of bizarre from that one, I had to mention @Elmer_J.Fudd’s apparently heartfelt but quite random mention:

> [@What would you do if money were literally no object](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-money-were-literally-no-object/957616/48):
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> I changed my mind. I’d buy controlling stock in Kellogg’s and make them bring back Dutch Apple Pop-Tarts.

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