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Wimp Clause

posted 15 years ago by crunchman74
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I got to ask so how many people would be tempted or take the wimp clause of the million dollars instead of the 30 million to spend in 30 days then the 300 million ??

I myself I say give me the million and I would be happy because all that stress then if you fail you end up with nothing. I would rather take the million put it in a high intrest account, which I have heard can be 12% which of course that is $120,000.00 and even if they took half or taxes that still leaves me with $60,000.00 give it to me that is $5000.00 a month I am use to living off of $1000.00. I would either buy some cd's or invest some, might be just me though.

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[–] nammage 9 years ago

If you started with nothing and end up with nothing then you break even. You already know what to expect. So, unless you're money hungry, I don't see it as such a big deal from that perspective.

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[–] thereffman 9 years ago

You kids are killing me here.

You're going to waste all that time to apply, enroll, register for classes at a university in order to spend 0.5% of the money you need to spend? Smart thinking right there. Also a rule says you must get value for your money, that means you'd have to attend and complete these classes, I'm sure you can do everything mentioned as well as actually pass the classes in a mere 30 days.

I'm sure strip clubs are totally open for giving written receipts

Doing everything in Post 3, you'd be spending no more than 100k a day. That's at most 3 million in 30 days, leaving you 57,000,000 to go. Yeah, easiest thing in the world.

You would all fail, spending 7-8M of the 30 (60 today) you'd have to unload, unreal.

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[–] gillilde 9 years ago

Spending the money whether it was 30 million or even 90 million would be easy. It's the whole point of not being able to tell anyone why you are doing it that is the catch. Can't throw big parties and not expect someone to try to have your back...

[–] stevenackerman69 8 years ago

Also, if Monty had told Spike and everyone else he had to spend the 30 million, they could've helped him find ways to spend it that he didn't think of himself, plus they wouldn't object to any of the big spending. Another thing: Spike would not have tried to make Monty that 10 million that put him back at the beginning again.

[–] hurricane (1963) a year ago

I'd be very tempted to take the wimp clause, If I'm honest.

Yes, I could get a potential 300 million, but I could also get a potential nothing.

I'm with Brewster's gran that he quoted at the start of the movie. A bird in the hand is worth 300 million in the bush.

[–] moviechatterer (15966) a year ago

I would definitely take it .

I dont seem to be able to spend the meagre amount that I have incoming .
Tiny house . old car . $$$ in bank, dunno what to do with it.

[–] hurricane (1963) a year ago

I know people say it'd be easier these days, and you'd need more than 30 million these days. But I'd be tempted to go with the wimp clause.

A bird in the hand, and all that.