A SF illustrated journey into champagne wishes and caviar dreams...

[Tokyo Slim]

All submissions in this thread must be accompanied by pictures or links to items for sale.

This is the scenario and rules:

1 - You just received 10 Million US dollars, tax free.

2 - You have to spend it all in one post (or as much of it as you can)

3 - After that post, any remaining money is null and void. You can post as many times as you want, but you always start off with ten million, and you cannot repeat any of your previous purchases.

4 -You cannot buy more than one of each item or items from the same vendor. (I.E. you cannot buy ten million sponges from the dollar store unless something else you purchase can consume those items.) Yes, you can buy more than one gallon of gas for your new yacht, because it makes the Yacht run.

5 - Your purchases must be from amongst the following categories, Real Estate and Property, Vehicles and Transportation, Decorative Items of value (jewelry, artwork, etc.), Services and Leisure (Fine dining, cruises, trips, scuba lessons, etc), Entertainment and Technology (a lap dance would qualify, but more than one lap dance would be violating rule 4). and Clothing and Accessories.

6 - Again, you must find and post a link to item for sale, picture (with a quoted price), or article about its sale that describes the asking price.


7 - All items must be for SALE when you post it. Nothing that used to be for sale (ended auction, etc) and nothing that will be for sale later.

Have some extra time on your hands and some dreams? Imagine the possibilities with us!

 

[FrankDrebben]

1. Home on the water in Newport Beach with dock $7.9M
http://www.californiamoves.com/Prope...2733&RowNum=41

2. 112 foot yacht for the slip $1.9
http://www.boattrader.com/listing/19...HOUSE-90671543

3. $200,000 worth of bespoke suits (I had to tie it back to SF somehow)

 

[kwilkinson]

Frank-
Just copying Matt's real life doesn't mean you win the contest.

 

[unpainted huffheinz]

I cannot figure out how to budget coat hangers based on your silly rules. As a result I will just buy some brothel in Holland and a plane ticket there.

 

[lee_44106]

I'd buy Anne Hathaway.

For links, check out all the Dumb Threads.

 

[Tokyo Slim]

oh ye of little imagination...

 

[FidelCashflow]

I got some free time on my hands right now, so I'll play. Homes Apartment in 1 West India Quay in London. London's great for shopping. I like this building because its one of the only modern buildings in London and its smack in the middle of everything which makes your commute around London easier to deal with. I'd get one of the smaller ones because I want several houses around the world, none of them need to be huge. - $2.4M

Dubai villa - Somewhere close to the beach $3M-ish

And my regular house right now, not worthy of mention. But I'm a hometown type of guy.

Transportation: Saleen S7 - just because it's a car so distinct most people have never seen or heard of it. It reminds me of some of my hot wheels from when I was a kid. This would be perfect for cruising around Dubai. ($550K)

Maybach - I'd want one of these for London because I couldn't stand having to drive myself around a city that crowded. This way I could just relax in the back seat. I specifically want a Maybach because everyone there seems to a Rolls-Royce Phantom, and I'd just want to buck the trend. - ($330K)

Mercedes CLS $95K - This would be my everyday car just because I'm in love with the curves of the car and I like 4-doors. Plus it won't attract attention like the other two aforementioned cars. I like anonymity.

NetJets card - just so I don't have to deal with airline food. (unsure how much it costs, maybe $100K a year?)

Yacht - for cruising around the Indian Ocean. Rented because I don't see what the point of owning something with as much upkeep as a yacht is if you only use it occasionally. $50K/yr rental

The Help: A Butler - so I don't have to iron my own clothes or polish my own shoes (he better know how to do a crazy mirror-shine.) $60k/year(?)

Personal Chef - so I don't have to go out to restaurants and look for food I like - $70K/year(?)

Maid - take a wild guess

$50K/year(?)

Watches: Hublot Big Bang - red gold, brown strap, diamonds and all. I'm oddly obsessed with it despite its impracticality. $22K

Breguet - I just love the styling of these watches with the guilloche dial. I'd really settle for any similarly styled Breguet - $50K

Cartier Santos - its too iconic not to have one. Just about one of the classiest oversized watches out there in my eyes - $6K

 

[ms244]

1992 MiG 29M US$ 10,000,000 Russian Federation

http://www.military-heat.com/27/mili...vilian-market/

Executive jets are for pussies, this is what the ballers travel in.

 

[Matt]

1 x trip to 'Everything $2'
5,000,000 x things.

 

[FidelCashflow]

Originally Posted by ms244

It'll be fun until you get shot down over NYC while en route to a sale at Barney's.

 

[ms244]

Originally Posted by FidelCashflow

It'll be fun until you get shot down over NYC while en route to a sale at Barney's.
interesting point,I didn't know Barney's had AA systems installed. Would you suggest this one then? http://farm1.static.flickr.com/96/25...fe4caf.jpg?v=0

 

[FidelCashflow]

I reccommend George Michael's jetpack from Arrested Development:

http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01...sted-1-big.jpg

 

[j]

I don't have the energy to post pictures, but it's simple - I would buy a huge shop space somewhere nearby, and then the rest of the money would go into a good CNC machine, other metalworking machines, some woodworking machines, a vehicle lift, tons of hand tools, a big pile of random raw materials, and a badass computer/media center/sound system with good seating. And a BMW 800 GS completely decked out, whenever they finally get around to releasing it. And decent wetbar with a kegerator system and a few taps, etc. Aside from that, I'm good.

 

[VKK3450]

I got some free time on my hands right now, so I'll play.

Homes

Apartment in 1 West India Quay in London. London's great for shopping. I like this building because its one of the only modern buildings in London and its smack in the middle of everything which makes your commute around London easier to deal with. I'd get one of the smaller ones because I want several houses around the world, none of them need to be huge. - $2.4M

I dont know why you would want to live out in Canary Wharf, its hardly London. Its just full of bankers who stay there out of convenience because its too much of a pain ********** to huff it back to west / north west London at 2 am. The friends I have who live out there would 10x rather live in a period property somewhere more central.

I get depressed when I go to the wharf outside of business hours.

K

 

[FidelCashflow]

Originally Posted by VKK3450

I dont know why you would want to live out in Canary Wharf, its hardly London. Its just full of bankers who stay there out of convenience because its too much of a pain ********** to huff it back to west / north west London at 2 am. The friends I have who live out there would 10x rather live in a period property somewhere more central. I get depressed when I go to the wharf outside of business hours. K
It's right along the docks, so you have a nice view of the waterfront. It's got all the office towers, so it has a really metropolitan vibe. The area lights up at night which is pretty nice. It's a solid location in central London. But mainly because it's one of the only modern buildings in London. Victorian houses all have character and all that good stuff, but sometimes you just want to step into the 21st century.

In my neighborhood, a 10 year-old house is considered old, let alone a 100 year-old apartment.