# I'm giving you $300... **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 20, 2004, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-giving-you-300/255958 "2004-07-20T06:18:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-giving-you-300/255958/1 "2004-07-20T06:18:26Z")
I’m giving you three $300 except the only condition is you have to spend it all in one day _and_ at the end of the day you can have NOTHING to show for the money you spent. This means no paying electric bills, credit cards, ect…Also, none of this money can be donated to charity. So how ya’ going to spend it? (Kind of like a bastardized version of “Brwesters Milllions”) Myself I’m not very creative so I’d probably just take me and a buddy out for a steak dinner then go hit the strip club… Yeah, I got noth’n… ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-giving-you-300/255958/2 "2004-07-20T06:38:43Z")
I’d take my cats to the vet because I missed their annual appointment this year. Anything that was left over I’d take friends out to dinner and a movie. Either that, or hookers, hookers, hookers! ---
**Author:** ![Kallessa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7993a0/32.png) [@Kallessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kallessa)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-giving-you-300/255958/3 "2004-07-20T06:52:58Z")
How about randomly picking people to go see _Fahrenheit 9/11_ and _Contro Room_? Does paying the toll for 300 dollars worth of cars count as charity? Too boring anyway. Hire a group of clowns to disrupt the City Council meeting (or legislative assembly of your choice). Yeah, I like this one. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-giving-you-300/255958/4 "2004-07-20T06:54:30Z")
I’d take \*\*Rhiannon8404 \*\* out to dinner. We should be able to blow through $300 with no trouble at all. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-giving-you-300/255958/5 "2004-07-20T06:57:58Z")
Brewster’s Millions was a cool movie. I’d go to a nice wine shop, buy a 300 dollar bottle, and drink it from the bottle right there. ---
**Author:** ![IGJoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/igjoe/32/5420_2.png) [@IGJoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IGJoe)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-giving-you-300/255958/6 "2004-07-20T07:38:28Z")
I could probably blow more than $100 on a _really_ good massage. I’ve also always wanted to try skydiving… 🆒 Isn’t there some reality show along these lines? ---
**Author:** ![Paladud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Paladud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paladud)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-giving-you-300/255958/7 "2004-07-20T07:39:02Z")
I’d go for a day of paintball with two or three friends (rental equipment), then buy as much quality beer as possible with the remaining money. Not particularly imaginative, I suppose. Fun, though. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-giving-you-300/255958/8 "2004-07-20T10:12:58Z")
> [@Mr Pud](#): > > Isn’t there some reality show along these lines? If there’s not there probably will be any minute now. I also remember an episode of _Fantasy Island_ along these lines. Two women each had a bag full of money they had to spend and the first one to spend it all got something. They each sabotaged the other by planting a fiver in the other’s bag so the other couldn’t spend everything. ---
**Author:** ![lemon\_martini2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3be4f8/32.png) [@lemon\_martini2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lemon_martini2)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-giving-you-300/255958/9 "2004-07-20T10:29:22Z")
Thankyou.Your generosity has been noted.I’ll give you my bank account details and will let you know at the end of the day how I’ve spent it 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-giving-you-300/255958/10 "2004-07-20T10:33:01Z")
Pay 30% of my initial writer’s guild dues… ---
**Author:** ![Kayeby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de0a6/32.png) [@Kayeby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kayeby)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-giving-you-300/255958/11 "2004-07-20T10:37:12Z")
I’d definitely go to my beautician. $170 for the beate neuve and hydradermie facials $90 for an hour long massage $12 for an eyebrow wax The rest for lunch Or I’d have a $300 tab at the local pub for my friends. Most are fairly big drinkers though - I expect it wouldn’t last that long. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-giving-you-300/255958/12 "2004-07-20T11:12:25Z")
Rent me a boat on the reservior, do some bass fishing. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-giving-you-300/255958/13 "2004-07-20T11:17:33Z")
Two really, really easy chicks at once. ---
**Author:** ![Earthworm\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f07891/32.png) [@Earthworm\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earthworm_Jim)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-giving-you-300/255958/14 "2004-07-20T11:38:57Z")
I’d give it to my wife 😉 No seriously, (well, slightly more seriously, anyway) I’d get 300 ones and burn them individually. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-giving-you-300/255958/15 "2004-07-20T11:47:57Z")
> [@SHAKES](#): > > I’m giving you three $300 except the only condition is you have to spend it all in one day _and_ at the end of the day you can have NOTHING to show for the money you spent. This means no paying electric bills, credit cards, ect…Also, none of this money can be donated to charity. > > So how ya’ going to spend it? (Kind of like a bastardized version of “Brwesters Milllions”) > > Myself I’m not very creative so I’d probably just take me and a buddy out for a steak dinner then go hit the strip club… > > Yeah, I got noth’n… The “nothing to show” is the hard part. You have nutrition and an erection for your $300, so you did not meet your own criteria. ---
**Author:** ![Shirt\_Ninja\_13](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e19b73/32.png) [@Shirt\_Ninja\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirt_Ninja_13)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-giving-you-300/255958/16 "2004-07-20T13:53:04Z")
> [@SHAKES](#): > > I’m giving you three $300 except the only condition is you have to spend it all in one day _and_ at the end of the day you can have NOTHING to show for the money you spent. This means no paying electric bills, credit cards, ect…Also, none of this money can be donated to charity. > > So how ya’ going to spend it? (Kind of like a bastardized version of “Brwesters Milllions”) > > Myself I’m not very creative so I’d probably just take me and a buddy out for a steak dinner then go hit the strip club… > > Yeah, I got noth’n… let’s see…i’d get dress clothes and convert the rest to cash for this trip i’m about to take to China. and spend $20 on ice cream. _bamf_ ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-giving-you-300/255958/17 "2004-07-20T14:18:14Z")
I’d buy a fairly nice bike, I think. Seeing as how I’m in the market now. Oh…and I know I’m demonstrating my ignorance, but what the hell does _bamf_ mean??? ---
**Author:** ![Sutremaine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e495f1/32.png) [@Sutremaine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sutremaine)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-giving-you-300/255958/18 "2004-07-20T14:25:03Z")
I’m confused. If we’re supposed to have nothing to show for it, why does **Eve** have a shiny new bike? Paragliding seems like fun though. I don’t think I have quite enough nerve to throw myself out of an airplane… ---
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-giving-you-300/255958/19 "2004-07-20T14:40:34Z")
> [@SHAKES](#): > > I’m giving you three $300 except the only condition is you have to spend it all in one day _and_ at the end of the day you can have NOTHING to show for the money you spent. > > So how ya’ going to spend it? (Kind of like a bastardized version of “Brwesters Milllions”) > > Myself I’m not very creative so I’d probably just take me and a buddy out for a steak dinner then go hit the strip club… Once you go to the bathroom you’ll have something to show for the steak dinner. 😃 I’d take it to the casino. With my luck I’d probably have nothing to show for it anyway. ---
**Author:** ![tanstaafl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba8739/32.png) [@tanstaafl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanstaafl)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-giving-you-300/255958/20 "2004-07-20T15:02:43Z")
Take the family to Disneyworld… That $300 will vanish in no time. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-giving-you-300/255958.md?page=2)