# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-giving-you-300/255958/21 "2004-07-20T15:03:25Z")
> [@SHAKES](#): > > …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… Does a raging hangover and a mild case of heartburn count as “having nothing to show”? ---
**Author:** ![TwoTrouts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a9adbd/32.png) [@TwoTrouts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwoTrouts)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-giving-you-300/255958/22 "2004-07-20T15:10:51Z")
An old friend and I would go to a sushi bar. We ran up a $150.00 tab at one fifteen years ago and were still hungry, so $300.00 should be no problem! ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-giving-you-300/255958/23 "2004-07-20T15:19:06Z")
> [@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… Doesn’t this imply that anything that you could pay for using a credit card can’t be used for this contest? After all , what’s the difference between buying a meal with the $300 and paying off a credit card that you used to buy a $300 meal? Oh, and I’d probably spend the $300 on one of those ‘Have a star named after you’ scams. Of course, I guess I would have something to show for it, the Dag Otto constellation. ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Stilettos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/fbc32d/32.png) [@Red\_Stilettos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Stilettos)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-giving-you-300/255958/24 "2004-07-20T15:19:39Z")
I’d rent the fastest car I could get for the money and go for a nice, long drive. Hopefully, I wouldn’t have a speeding ticket at the end of the day, as that would violate the OP’s rules. 😃 ---
**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, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-giving-you-300/255958/25 "2004-07-20T15:28:27Z")
Well, in light of some of the other posts, I’m going to invest mine in a stock that I know will split 12 times in the next 2 years, and then I’m going to give half my profit to charity. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-giving-you-300/255958/26 "2004-07-20T16:29:05Z")
I will run down to my kid’s private school at put it toward their tuition. ---
**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, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-giving-you-300/255958/27 "2004-07-20T16:34:16Z")
> [@Sutremaine](#): > > 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… I’m Elenia, not Eve. I’m flattered you’d confuse us, though. And I didn’t read the OP clearly enough. Nothing to show…well Lake George has paragliding for an hour for $100. There’s me and my bf, so that’s $200. Then we’d go to dinner. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-giving-you-300/255958/28 "2004-07-20T17:05:36Z")
Find a rare coin dealer and buy (say) a 1905 quarter, and make a phone call. I could lose $300 real quick at a casino. Take an all-day cab ride to nowhere. Buy a new iPod and lose it on the subway. Seriously, $300 is absurdly easy to blow through and have nothing to show for it at the end of the day other than a memory. Ah! I just realized that sedation for dental work costs $300 (just got the insurance statement yesterday) - and you don’t remember what happened. Go to the dentist, get sedated, have a snooze in the chair and go home. You got nothing - no dental work and no memory of it! ---
**Author:** ![Beauty\_Personified](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e480ec/32.png) [@Beauty\_Personified](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beauty_Personified)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-giving-you-300/255958/29 "2004-07-20T19:07:11Z")
> [@Kallessa](#): > > Hire a group of clowns to disrupt the City Council meeting … So there’d be twice as many clowns at the meeting? 😃 _Me?_ I wonder how far $300 would get me if I took a flight? It would have to be a one-way trip, with no return ticket in hand in order to qualify for the the OP’s rules. Which most posters don’t seem to understand. You can’t have anything physical to show for what you spent, and you can’t just give the money away (no charity). I don’t quite see how not paying bills fits in with the other rules, but I guess a lot of people have bills to pay or loans to pay off, so that would be too easy. I like **gotpasswords** rare coin phone call idea. I believe Richard Pryor did something like that in _Brewster’s Millions_. That was a great movie! I advise anyone who hasn’t seen it to rent it sometime. Anybody want to place bets on how soon we’ll see a remake in theatres? I’ll bet my $300 dollars that it’ll be opening tonight. 😉 Seriously, though, it won’t be long. Anyhoo… ---
**Author:** ![gum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bbe5ce/32.png) [@gum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gum)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-giving-you-300/255958/30 "2004-07-20T19:08:12Z")
Considering today’s prices: I’d buy myself a package of cigarettes. ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-giving-you-300/255958/31 "2004-07-20T19:43:57Z")
> [@Sublight](#): > > Two really, really easy chicks at once. Three Hundred really, really, REALLY… er, forget it. Steak and strippers sounds good. ---
**Author:** ![Binarydrone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Binarydrone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Binarydrone)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-giving-you-300/255958/32 "2004-07-20T19:46:44Z")
**tanstaafl** , I have to mention that your specific username in conjunction with the topic of this thread has me tickled pint. ---
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-giving-you-300/255958/33 "2004-07-20T19:58:13Z")
300 lotto tickets… 😉 or just go to the really REALLY swanky restaurant in town and pay cash. ---
**Author:** ![Chastain86](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Chastain86](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chastain86)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-giving-you-300/255958/34 "2004-07-20T19:59:08Z")
I’d rent an organ grinder. Complete with a monkey. No reason. ---
**Author:** ![Padmaraga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f07891/32.png) [@Padmaraga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Padmaraga)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-giving-you-300/255958/35 "2004-07-20T20:17:56Z")
Well, _technically_, if the laser hair removal really works, I should have “nothing” to show for it… ---
**Author:** ![gum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bbe5ce/32.png) [@gum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gum)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-giving-you-300/255958/36 "2004-07-20T20:18:12Z")
Originally posted by **Chastain86** > [@](#): > > - I’d rent an organ grinder. Complete with a monkey. > > No reason. \* That’s so cool. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![START](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@START](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/START)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-giving-you-300/255958/37 "2004-07-20T20:26:03Z")
I would be at the mall first and get some clothes and maybe a CD or X-Box Game and with what I had left over I would use it on my car, i’m thinking new front speakers or a CD Player. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-giving-you-300/255958/38 "2004-07-20T20:45:04Z")
> [@Liberal](#): > > Well, in light of some of the other posts, I’m going to invest mine in a stock that I know will split 12 times in the next 2 years, and then I’m going to give half my profit to charity. You’ve never seen Brewster’s Million, have you Lib? At the end of it, you have a profit - so you’ve clearly violated the OP. The concept of this is “can you spend a whole bunch of cash purely on consumable goods and services that you are no longer in possession of at the end of the day” not “can you spend a whole bunch of cash”? Seriously, get that “B” changed to a “T” in your name - it’s far more accurate! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-giving-you-300/255958/39 "2004-07-20T20:49:09Z")
> [@Beauty Personified](#): > > _Me?_ I wonder how far $300 would get me if I took a flight? It would have to be a one-way trip, with no return ticket in hand in order to qualify for the the OP’s rules. You could probably get a round-trip voucher off of eBay for ~$300, if you wanted to make a one-day trip. > [@](#): > > I like **gotpasswords** rare coin phone call idea. I believe Richard Pryor did something like that in _Brewster’s Millions_. Pryor purchased that super-expensive upside-down airplane stamp and mailed a letter with it! ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-giving-you-300/255958/40 "2004-07-20T21:02:33Z")
Well, I could take the wife and kid to a major league sporting event (if we cared about any) and only end up having to spend a little extra out of pocket. :rolleyes: Actually, I’d rent a couple watercraft and spend the day at Tahoe. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-giving-you-300/255958.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-giving-you-300/255958.md?page=3)