# When I have money I can waste, I'm going to... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 17, 2015, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-have-money-i-can-waste-im-going-to/725442 "2015-07-17T19:11:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2015, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-have-money-i-can-waste-im-going-to/725442/21 "2015-07-19T15:40:03Z")
> [@Isosleepy](#): > > Hire a bunch of scientists with the sole and express purpose of developing nanotech which will cover the White House and turn it an indelible fuchsia. > > From then on, any time I watch the news, and the anchor has trouble pronouncing " at the Fuchsia House tonight" I will know that I have both realized my dreams and made a difference. > > Similar thing if I had 3 wishes - but without the scientists. First wish: turn the White House fuchsia. Second wish: Again! Third wish: _Again!_ What a waste of wishes! Wish for the ability to turn any building any color any time you like, then move on to hookers and blow or something. You can give a man a fish or you can teach a man how to magically make the White House fuchsia any time he likes… ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-have-money-i-can-waste-im-going-to/725442/22 "2015-07-20T16:24:04Z")
When was the last time someone built a pyramid? I think we are overdue. I would build a pyramid or 3 in remote locations and fill them with Indiana Jones type booby traps and all kinds of meaningless but profound looking symbolism so people for the next thousand years would be trying to make sense of them. ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-have-money-i-can-waste-im-going-to/725442/23 "2015-07-20T16:29:18Z")
> [@xizor](#): > > When was the last time someone built a pyramid? I think we are overdue. > > I would build a pyramid or 3 in remote locations and fill them with Indiana Jones type booby traps and all kinds of meaningless but profound looking symbolism so people for the next thousand years would be trying to make sense of them. Better have deep pockets…I seem to recall that an estimate of building one of the Giza pyramids would be something like $5 billion. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-have-money-i-can-waste-im-going-to/725442/24 "2015-07-20T16:32:13Z")
> [@xizor](#): > > When was the last time someone built a pyramid? I think we are overdue. > > I would build a pyramid or 3 in remote locations and fill them with Indiana Jones type booby traps and all kinds of meaningless but profound looking symbolism so people for the next thousand years would be trying to make sense of them. I really like this idea. What could we plant to make future generations think we were incestuous chicken fuckers? ---
**Author:** ![installLSC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/54ee81/32.png) [@installLSC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/installLSC)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-have-money-i-can-waste-im-going-to/725442/25 "2015-07-20T16:34:23Z")
I’d set up a true vanity project: books that would interest me and probably only me, with a huge inhouse research staff. Want a three volume History of the Ottoman Empire in WWI? No. Want a lavishly illustrated coffee table book on the history of the sawing a woman in half illusion? Not really. A well researched history of the relationship between networks and their affiliates? Are you serious? Welll I don’t care, because this is for my own niche interests. ---
**Author:** ![blackpug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eb9ed0/32.png) [@blackpug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blackpug)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-have-money-i-can-waste-im-going-to/725442/26 "2015-07-20T16:34:46Z")
if it was enough to change my life (retire), ? hell yea, I’d move to the mtns. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-have-money-i-can-waste-im-going-to/725442/27 "2015-07-20T16:40:42Z")
Design a backyard anaerobic digester/biogas BBQ grill. I’ll need a few minions, a lot of tools and equipment, a lot of experimentation (may need a lab - may just send out samples), and probably a bigger back yard. ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-have-money-i-can-waste-im-going-to/725442/28 "2015-07-20T16:50:48Z")
build one of [these.](http://www.factoryfive.com/kits/gtm-supercar/) ---
**Author:** ![stillownedbysetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@stillownedbysetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stillownedbysetters)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-have-money-i-can-waste-im-going-to/725442/29 "2015-07-20T18:57:49Z")
Buy some bookstores - good old fashioned bookstores where you can put your rump in a cushioned seat and sample books all the livelong day. Since I’m filthy rich and have no need to make these profitable, I can put one anywhere I like. 😃 I will buy an enormous ocean-going sailboat and spend a couple of years sailing around the world, stopping anywhere I like, doing anything I like. I will buy an NFL franchise, an NBA club, an MLB organization and an NHL team so I can have a sporting event to attend in every season, year-round. I’ll buy a mountain and an island and no one comes or comes without an invitation. Yes, I’m old and curmudgeonly, but since I’m filthy rich, that translates as mature and aloof. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-have-money-i-can-waste-im-going-to/725442/30 "2015-07-20T19:02:36Z")
I need a monkey butler. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-have-money-i-can-waste-im-going-to/725442/31 "2015-07-20T19:08:39Z")
I have always wanted to run the Road Rules billboard campaign no state will do. “If you’re being passed on the right, You’re in the wrong” “The speed limit here is 70. The law says keep right. This does apply to YOU” “If you’re driving 55… You’re an asshole” “No, God did not ordain you to enforce traffic laws Move over, let them pass.” “If it is raining or foggy, TURN YOUR DAMNED LIGHTS ON!” On giant billboards next to the interstates. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-have-money-i-can-waste-im-going-to/725442/32 "2015-07-20T19:31:28Z")
If I’m rich enough I’ll buy all the teams in the NFL, NBA, MLB and NHL teams, and I’m mash them all together into one Huge Sport. ---
**Author:** ![Kelevra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/97f17d/32.png) [@Kelevra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kelevra)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-have-money-i-can-waste-im-going-to/725442/33 "2015-07-20T19:55:08Z")
I worked with a guy named Charlie who said “If I ever win the lottery I’m going to buy a flat bed truck to junk my cars on.” It made me realize that people have very different views of being rich. Personally I’d buy an 8 foot chainsaw carved statue of Elvis and hire some strong lads to carry it around wherever I went. I would always get my way because everyone would know that I was the dominant male in the room. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-have-money-i-can-waste-im-going-to/725442/34 "2015-07-20T21:15:39Z")
Start a run for President, and use every speech to call Donald Trump an asshole. And place ads right after his ads calling him an asshole in TV-acceptable terms. Along the lines of the robo-calls before, find the call center where the spammers from the Windows Company work, and put massive amounts of Ex-Lax in their water supply. They can stop crapping all over us and start crapping all over themselves. More seriously, there are lots of cool hotels out there - ones in lighthouses, ones in ice houses, some in castles. Visit them all. We stayed in a caboose last summer and it was great. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-have-money-i-can-waste-im-going-to/725442/35 "2015-07-20T22:09:17Z")
> [@california\_jobcase](#): > > I’d buy a radio station and only play what I wanted to play. I’d also make sure to remind my listeners what I’d refuse to play- Skynyrd, Yes, Bob Seger, Charlie Daniels, Van Morrison, Michael McDonald (alone or with that band he ruined), James Taylor, Dan Fogelberg, and on and on- Howard Hughes bought a local television station in Las Vegas. He used to call them up and tell them whenever he wanted them to broadcast a movie. Sometimes the station would go off the air because he was deciding what he wanted to watch. Other times he would get bored halfway through a movie and tell them to switch to a different movie. Or if he liked a movie, he would tell them to play it again. In Hughes’ defense, this was back before there were VCRs and DVD players. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-have-money-i-can-waste-im-going-to/725442/36 "2015-07-20T22:16:21Z")
Depends on how much money we’re talking about. One of my dreams is to put up a giant statue of a guy holding a croquet mallet on the east shore of the Mississippi across from St. Louis. ---
**Author:** ![PatriotGrrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9dc877/32.png) [@PatriotGrrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatriotGrrrl)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2015, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-have-money-i-can-waste-im-going-to/725442/37 "2015-07-21T00:05:30Z")
> [@HoneyBadgerDC](#): > > I would open up a research and development company. I am an expert at nothing so I would have to hire all the experts and just give them any assignment I felt like whether it was profitable or not. > We would specialize in giant bows and arrows, catapults and other very important things. That sounds like quite a few (apparently profitable) reality TV shows. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2015, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-have-money-i-can-waste-im-going-to/725442/38 "2015-07-21T13:10:57Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > One of my dreams is to put up a giant statue of a guy holding a croquet mallet on the east shore of the Mississippi across from St. Louis. That is AWESOME! ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2015, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-have-money-i-can-waste-im-going-to/725442/39 "2015-07-21T13:38:09Z")
I’ll just mention the bare bones of my plan, lest someone else here play copycat. So, I’d have a really cool sedan chair constructed. There’d be four crews each consisting of eight incrediably strong women, with each crew assigned a six hour shift. A smaller crew of grape-peelers and jesters would round things out. No mimes, no jugglers; this is a serious plan. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2015, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-have-money-i-can-waste-im-going-to/725442/40 "2015-07-21T14:13:08Z")
Buy up as much rural land as I can in my county and the surrounding area. Then place permanent conservation easements on all of it. Not just because it would preserve so much land, but it would also be a huge “screw you” to developers. Maybe I’d buy up controlling interest in development companies and force them to follow proper practice instead of just chasing money. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-have-money-i-can-waste-im-going-to/725442.md?page=1)