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1 million dollars in 1 year: How would you spend it?

Piobaire

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Open a chain of medical marijuana shops. So I spent it all on drugs...yet invested it in positive cash flow businesses. Win/win
 

AntiHero84

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1.) Buy a decent, but modest, house. 500-600K
2.) Buy a comfortable, but reliable car. 40K
3.) Splurge on a new wardrobe for the wife and self. 20K
4.) Furnish new house. 100K
5.) Invest the rest. 240K

I have become very boring.
 

ratboycom

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buy a couple houses (Condo in downtown Yokohama or the top of Tower Plaza MusashiKosugi and a vacation house on Malta), couple of cars, blow the rest on coke and bespoke

wait, make that if I had 10Million
 

FLMountainMan

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Boring but:

  • Charity/tithe - $100,000.
  • Pay off house - $105,000.
  • Pay off student loans - $135,000.
  • Retirement accounts for mom & dad - $300,000.
  • Lavish vacation - $50,000
  • Used luxury car - $40,000
  • Bulldoze house and build/furnish a nicer one on top - $270,000.
 

Dedalus

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Hold a contest with a $1 million prize, where people have to debase themselves to win.
 

GQgeek

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would spend entire amount on a house or condo since i'm not allowed to invest it.
 

Joffrey

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Down payment for a nice condo/row house here. Give some to my siblings and parents. Pay off debt. Buy a nice car (maybe cayman or a new MB C class). Invest. spoil myself on a few trips and clothes/watches.
 

milosz

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Porsche Cayman S or a high-end SUV.
Yearlong road trip to see all 48 states. Buy **** along the way.
 

RedLantern

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Donate to Federal Goverment to help pay down the national debt.
 

fredfred

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1) Buy the new Mercedes Gullwing ($190K, all in)

2) Spend a week or two on Richard Brandon's Neckar Island

3) Make reservation on Richard Branson's new space flying machine ($200K)
 

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i'd buy 100 acres of land, have someone load the trees up with pumpkins, get on an atv, and drive around and shoot the pumpkins with a 12 gauge.
 

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It would become my modest down payment on a 3BR apt in Manhattan.
 

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