I have wondered how others might spend the money to accomplish the same goals. I mean, here are some ideas:
Travel in style - entire cruise line rented for you and a hired entourage to be at sea for 25 days. This gets rid of the money. You can spend it all and get a receipt day one. You are also at sea and not at risk to purchase anything.
Any other ideas?
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Well my idea to easily guarantee that you got rid of the money was to take out a loan that was so big that even after you earned interest on the loan, the effective interest you have to pay back on top of the original loan amount at the end of the 30 days, was $30 million!!!
Of course, it wouldn't be much fun - but that's to be had with the inherited 300 million!!
I'd throw a giant free concert. Pay 10 top bands, rent out a stadium and hire equipment and workers all paid extra for short notice.
Life Moves pretty Fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I would get pretty drunk with a whole bunch of people.. throwing basically a gigantic party for 29 days..
Then simply burn whatever cash is left, since heat is a valuable service that is justified.
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Please remember that he was not aloud to give more than 5% to charity, 5% gambled and im pretty sure there was a limit on some things... he couldnt go out and buy 10 playboy models for a month cause that would be against the nature of the will. You also cannot give money to other people unless they are doing you a service.
thats 150,000 to charity and gambled only
Oh. They would be doing a service ;)
share 10% of $30 million is $3 million and half of that for 5% is 1.5 million.
$3 million for charity and gambling
Day 1...go to a bar ..buy rounds for the whole bar the whole night ..do that every night till the money is gone ....now you might think that you would come short ..but if a bar had some one buying rounds for a whole night and all was on you ..it wouldnt take to too long to get back to 0 in 30 days and too get the 300 mil at the end of it
sharei would be amazed if ANYONE could spend 100 000$ in one bar on one night no matter how many ppl are in there
just cant be done
i would make the craziest movie EVER
You just have to go to the right places. Could take you only two drinks to blow a 100k:
http://www.forbestraveler.com/food-drink/expensive-cocktails-slide-5.h tml
I don't know of too many bars that take in 30 million dollars in a month.
If I have to read the book to help explain the movie that tells me the movie failed
I'd give it to charity. That would get rid of the money easily and you'd feel you'd done a lot of good with it.
shareFirst of all since you can only give 5% to charity, I would split that between AIDs and Cancer research
I would then build some high rises for the homeless, and then basically have it as a stock investment firm, yet allow it to be public (like what the Green Bay Packers have, people in Green Bay own stock) and that way just slip out of it, that should work.
I would then rent myself the penthouse in the most expensive hotel, hire a bunch of my friends to work for me, and then own TONS of dotcoms so that they could totally tank LOL.
Maybe buy a wrestling promotion and put alot into it and then just lose it. Eh I dunno...I know how to spend money but I always seem to have assets.
I'd probably also buy some VERY expensive artifacts and then put them on display in museums with minimum security so if they get stolen they're not an investment anymore.
I'd go to Vegas with another 5% and purposefully lose...
I dunno alot of things I guess you can and can't do...maybe pay to go to every major collegiate institution in the country and flunk out/drop out....I dunno....LOL. That would mean I'd have to go to most of the East Coast schools in 1 week, drop out, and then move to the Mid West and West Coast...crap 3 weeks of my life wasted by getting kicked out of college. Holy hell LOL......maybe start my own Woodstock in not woodstock and just pay an insane amount on security, bands, stage, set up...hell it's 2005 dude it can't be THAT hard to blow 30 mil these days!
Actually, I got it...if you're still reading this...I'd invest in a movie, keep my hands off of it it doesn't belong to me, so bang.
But you could only so much to charity according to the rules.
If it was me I would go to a major sports event and buy everyone there souviners and food and drinks. You do that several times and you'll get rid of it pretty fast.
Whores,booze and friends and family
shareThat stamp store. I would bought everything in that store and mailed them all.
shareGo to a huge 30000+ square foot mansion and rent it for $999000 a day for 30 days, nobody could refuse that offer. That would leave me with $1000 a day to get transportation into town and spend it on expensive meals at fancy resturants. This would be the best way to do it.
sharei would buy everyone in the mall a cell phone and put it under my name
30 days later i get the bill for 30M
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Whatever was allowed (rare stamps, hosting a baseball game, buying lunch for a bunch of people, etc.), I'd do it like Monty, but MORE.
If one $1.5 million stamp was allowed, why not buy 20 of those and send them? If playhing the Yankees is allowed, why not play ALL the Major League baseball teams? If buying lunch for a bunch of people was allowed, why not buy lunch for all the schoolchildren in America?
I'd spend the money in 20 days, live on the streets for 10 days, making sure none of the crazy investments accidentally turned a profit.
That wouldn't make as interesting a movie, but I'd sure get the $300!
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I would buy a ton of really expensive clothes then donate them to charity. I didnt spend the money on charity i spent it on clothes..then decided to just..get rid of it. And buy REALLY expensive meals stay at a grand hotel for the 30 days...but most of it would go to the clothes..
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I would donate 15 million to charties and 5 million feeding poor people. The 10 million i would party, travel, stay at the most prestigous places in the world. Pay 2 million in advance for university, business school, and law school. If i have money left than max out my credit cards, and than pay off the cards fast. no prove of me buying any assets. In 2005 spending 30 million in 30 days is nothing.
shareYou lose, you can only donate 5% to charity or $1.5 million to charity
shareJust buy a Hummer and drive a couple hundred miles. With the price of gas nowadays, that beast will eat up the $30 million in now time.
shareBuy a bunch of crazy stripper wives
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go up on the rooftop and throw large wads of cash at people
Go to the nearest university and ask to speak to their Financial Aid department. Offer to pay full four-year tuition for the poorest 300 students, including books and other expenses, in advance.
Pay the hospital bills of 100 cancer patients. If it was winter, call up the local electric company and offer to pay the heating bills of their poor, elderly, and/or chronically ill customers (but not for deadbeats or cheats).
Invest the $30 million in stem-cell research to find cures for nerve damage, Parkinson's disease, paraplegics, progeria, and aging.
Buy the rights to "Twice upon a Time" from George Lucas, then donate the rights to a distribution company in exchange for releasing an uncut DVD with all the trimmings.
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I would purchase as many luxo and sports cars that I could find and take them all to the demolition derby. Buy some more then buy a tractor-trailor and run into all of them at 100 mph, then pay for all of the cleanup afterwards. Then I would go and buy as much jewllery as I could and then hand all of it out on the street to beautiful women as I see them. Maybe go out and purchase a really nice BMW or MERC, fill it will jewllery and give it to a random beautiful woman that I see giving her my telephone number in the process. Don't know what I would after though, maybe hire a film crew and make people do crazy stuff for money like eat worms or cockroaches and get it all on film and later get a large crowd going and throw money in the air and watch as people trample over each other to get the cash. HAHAHAHA THAT WOULD BE AWESOME!!!!
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Are we assuming that we cannot have any assets after 30 days? If that's the case then some of you totally missed the boat on how the game works.
For me, the ultimate easiest way to blow it is similar to what Monty did in buying airtime...say, NBC for the month? In today's inflated airtime prices that would certainly suck it up lickety-split. However, that's not much fun, so let's go a different way:
WEEK ONE:
Rent a fleet of yachts and race in the Atlantic ocean, followed by a huge feast Saturday night. Total cost: $10,000,000.
WEEK TWO:
Hire Mariah Carey and Christina Aguilera to sing any song I want any time I want. Top of that list would include the entire Van Halen catalogue. Total cost: $10,000,000.
WEEK THREE:
Rent the entire Plaza hotel just so I could wake up in a different place everyday and have room service. Total cost: $5,000,000
WEEK FOUR:
With $5,000,000 left over, I need something huge to close out the month. How's about...renting a fleet of Lamborghinis, Ferraris and MacLarens and hire Danica Patrick to race them with me. Why her and not someone like Dale Earnhardt Jr. or Tony Stewart? Four words: HAVE YOU SEEN HER!?
So there you have it...the greatest month of my life. Someone try to top that please.
hahahaaha...I can't believe you actually posted that...my first piece of advice to you is to hit "preview post" next time and read what you actually write...next grab a calculator (you can probably find one at one of those things called a uhhhh store) and do the problem 10 + 15 + 10 + 5...you might find out that the answer is 40...he had to spend 30 million...when you said "Four words: HAVE YOU SEEN HER!?" I was actually stunned that you didn't think it was 9 words. Next..."Someone try to top that please..." alright I will top it...I would hire a *beep* math teacher to teach you how to do simple math problems...hahaha wow thanks for the laugh pal
shareFirst of all, thanks for taking time out of your "busy" day to add up my spent money. I'm pretty sure it's 30. Second, what kind of loser ARE YOU? Judging by your vernacular you're, what...8? 9 tops? How about going to school so you don't have to file for welfare when you're 18 and take my tax money from me. Third, unless you plan on paying a math teacher $30,000,000, you didn't "top" anything. You should go thank your mom for shooting crack while she was pregnant with you. I'd say go thank your dad, but I'm pretty sure he took off when he heard YOU were coming...wouldn't we all?
shareHahaha that was the whole point tough guy...you can't count to 30. You make no good points at all and it's pretty damn funny. Just for future reference I'm 19 and currently enrolled in one of top 20 colleges in America (get out a globe to find out where exactly that is). Anyway why would I thank my mom for shooting crack? hahaha your're a douche
shareNo no..."your're" a douche...or rather, a burden. I didn't know Larry's Beauty College was one of the top 20. Since you gave me no college name, a globe would be pretty useless...you know, like your life? be sure and get that degree so that when I ask for seasoning on my curly fries you know what I'm referring to. Can I assume you're adopted?
Yo HashLarry,
stop making a fool of yourself and scroll up and count again. that's all I have to say.
Ha ha...I knew someone would notice he added that up wrong...bravo!
shareI would spend it all on a mcdollads mcflurry, and eat it
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That's one of the funniest things I've ever read on these forums, hands down. For someone to get so upset over something and then be so wrong about it really makes my day.
But as for what I would do...
My first option would be to wuss out and just take the 30 Mil. Yeah, I said it...if it were REAL life, I'm sure many of you would to.
But in the spirit of fun, I'd have to say this;
If you can't GIVE it away, and everyone is complaining about buying lunch for people, saying that "it's charity", how about buying a bunch (maybe 30) of high end cars (I'm sure there's a car that costs around a million) and taking them to a local college and selling them all for a dollar a piece. Once the students find out that you are for real it shouldn't take too long to sell them (hopefully insurance payments don't enter their minds)
You aren't destroying the value, they are still worth the same, and you can take the 30 bucks or so to a local McDonalds and buy yourself some treats for the rest of the month. YUMMY!!
My first option would be to wuss out and just take the 30 Mil.
I say it too. CaptainAmerica10 » Mon Dec 26 2005 11:16:29 posted
Week one 10 million
Week two 10 million
Week three 5 million
Week four 5 million +
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30 million
In all fairness to AshyLarry » Tue Jan 10 2006 18:40:40 post
10+15+10+5=40 but, that is not what CaptainAmerica10 posted
I can top that. Indecent proposal for 30 days
sharehahahaha..no kidding
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