What would you do if you won a million dollars

[pmz310]

I would travel

[wotgoplunk]

Keep a little for myself, and give the rest away. 

Don't laugh like that. I'm serious!

[pies]

two chicks at the same time

[Bob]

I like my Cadbury's one at a time, thank you.      Except those are eggs... so that's out the window now...


I'd invest it and live off the interest.  Pay off debts.  Buy a few things.  Make sure I was set for life as much as I could.

I'm still thinking a million dollars isn't what it used to be though.  I'm not sure it would last a lifetime without any work. 

You'd have to pay maybe a third or half in taxes though.  Gift tax.  Yeah, you won that million dollars, but you don't get a million dollars.

The very first thing I would do is hire someone to tell me what the wisest thing to do with the money is.  And I think I'd keep it as quiet as possible.  Probably quit the day job though. 

[quantum]

I'd invest, get a financial adviser or two.  Do as much as I can to make it grow instead of deplete it.  Most likely keep my weekly church gig. 

[ted]

I can't think of anything in particular I would buy or do; I'm quite content as I am. However, my wife and son would want to go berserk with it I expect. The main problem would be dealing with them.

[Bob]

You could pay someone to deal with them.  

Hire a butler.

[tompilk]

i'd buy a model d and go and follow hamelin, argerich, berezovsky for a year... lol they'd think I was a stalker...

[gerry]

I'd spend it all on a tank of gas and take a drive

[Bob]

Might not get you too far the way things are going. 

[gerry]

i'd buy a model d and go and follow hamelin, argerich, berezovsky for a year... lol they'd think I was a stalker...

I think a Model T would be more fuel-efficient

[gyzzzmo]

House, big Grand and do a piano study. For the rest i wouldnt know what to do with it :p

[richard black]

A million dollars .... about half a million UK pounds. In one of the cheaper areas of London that will just about buy you a house these days, if you aren't too fussy. But I already own a flat, and a couple of very nice pianos, so I'd probably emulate whatever famous footballer it was and spend half of it on booze, women and fast cars, and just waste the rest.

[thalbergmad]

I would spend it on whores and scores.

Thal

[ahinton]

I would spend it on whores and scores.

In which order? (I ask only because I have what some might regard as a vested interest in supplying one of the above)...

Best,

Alistair

[thalberg]

I'd use it to get all the things I don't have right now:

1.  Tuition money to get a marketable degree/career
2. A place to live
3. A replacement for my car
4.  A trip to Europe

[thalbergmad]

(I ask only because I have what some might regard as a vested interest in supplying one of the above)...

Great, i will have 2 slim blondes in their early 30's for May 26th.

Thanks

Thal

[Bob]

Will these do Thal? 

https://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/00/14/65/37/two-blondes.jpg

[pmz310]

Will these do Thal? 

https://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/00/14/65/37/two-blondes.jpg

hahahahaha, he means human, slim, drop dead gorgious blondes

[thalbergmad]

Will these do Thal? 

https://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/00/14/65/37/two-blondes.jpg

Looks like my ex girlfriend and her sister.

Thal

[shortyshort]

two chicks at the same time

Why only two ?? ?? ??

[pianochick93]

I would buy a nice house, nice car, and lots of books.

Oh, and a nice piano

[ihatepop]

Reserve about 1/10 for a good piano, spend about 7/10 on CDs and sheet music  , and donate the rest to charity.

[pianochick93]

Looks like my ex girlfriend and her sister.

Thal

Wrong species Thal...
No wonder you're not having great relationships...

[shortyshort]

Wrong species Thal...
No wonder you're not having great relationships...

Perhaps Thal does not care about species. 

[aewanko]

I'll burn it!

nope, i'll buy it for a piano duh! a grand piano would do

[rc]

All I want is a baby grand piano.  Don't need a million for that, but it would definitely help me afford a house to put the piano in.  Just a small, low maintainance house.  Where I live everybody seems to want the biggest castle on the block.  Why I'll never know.

Oh, and a couple bucks for a new vehicle since my van will not survive next winter.

Cut back on work hours and see if I can start making a living off music.

Go skydiving.

Might be fun to take up mountain climbing.

[dana_minmin]

I'll buy a house (anywhere I don't care) big enough to sit a concert grand.
then of course buying a concert grand. and those managers would treat you like a VIP when you walk in and say "I'm looking for a concert grand for my house."    

[lucylucy]

two chicks at the same time

[prometheus]

Give it away.

[ahinton]

At the moment, I guess that I'd wonder how many European cents it would be worth and whether I'd be able to buy more than a few kilos of coffee and a couple of bottles of wine with it - otherwise (and if there were any left over after that), I imagine I'd start thinking about the proportion of my borrowings I could pay off with it...

Best,

Alistair

[ahinton]

Give it away.

If you were to do that in UK, you'd immediately set up a series of tax problems and then wish you'd kept enough back to fund the financial advice that you'd need in order to plan to overcome them.

Best,

Alistair

[Bob]

I volunteer to take prometheus's burden of a million dollars away.  Least I can do.

[Bob]

In cash please. $20's are ok.  $50's if I must.

No pennies!

[ahinton]

In cash please.

A violinist that I used to know (he's been dead for a few years now) used on occasion to say "I'll take any insult that you care to throw at me, as long as it's in cash"...

Best,

Alistair

[Bob]

Feel free to throw money.  Bills are soft and hurt a lot less than coins, so please throw bills.  Bills with Ben Franklin are the easiest to throw, so throw Franklins please.  






 








(Bobs looks up and not-so-subtlely nudges his tip jar forward). 

[ahinton]

Feel free to throw money.  Bills are soft and hurt a lot less than coins, so please throw bills.  Bills with Ben Franklin are the easiest to throw, so throw Franklins please.

Due to their lightness of weight, however, they also have the unfortunate habit of failing frequently to find their intended target when thrown; direct credit into my bank account is my preferred method (in case anyone was feeling exceptionally generous) - much less messy and with no risk either of personal injury from coin-throwing or non-arrival of thrown banknotes. Mind you, we seem now to have wnadered somewhat off-topic, since we are now in the area of financial gifts rather than winnings...

Best,

Alistair

[pianochick93]

get used to it, people on this forum are weird (me included)

[Bob]

(Bob looks around at all the "weirdos" and is glad is he isn't like them, but of course he'll never say this.)

[longpiaopiao]

I WOULD LIKE TO GO TRAVEL TO HEAVEN WITH IT. I NEVER GO BEFORE.

[pianochick93]

I WOULD LIKE TO GO TRAVEL TO HEAVEN WITH IT. I NEVER GO BEFORE.

I think this goes in the same category as 'money can't buy you love'

It sure as hell can't buy you a trip to heaven (no pun intended there)

[prometheus]

I volunteer to take prometheus's burden of a million dollars away.  Least I can do.

Why would I do that? Giving it all to some greedy random person online wouldn't be much worse than spending it on prostitutes, now would it?

[ahinton]

Why would I do that? Giving it all to some greedy random person online wouldn't be much worse than spending it on prostitutes, now would it?

That's not for me to say on your behalf, but I would point out that it might take far longer to spend in the second way you mention, unless you happen to know some very expensive prostitutes whom you'd be happy to visit with great frequency...

Best,

Alistair

[thalbergmad]

All this talk about money and prostitutes reminds me of a joke:

What is the difference between a counterfeit dollar and a skinny prositute?

One is a phoney buck.

Thal

[ahinton]

All this talk about money and prostitutes reminds me of a joke:

What is the difference between a counterfeit dollar and a skinny prositute?

One is a phoney buck.

Indeed - and it could be either, could it not?! (especially if you don't omit that vital "t" in "prostitute" the second time around).

Anyway, knowing my fortune, I daresay that if I won a million dollars they'd probably be of the Zimbabwean variety...

Best,

Alistair

[wotgoplunk]

Anyway, knowing my fortune, I daresay that if I won a million dollars they'd probably be of the Zimbabwean variety...

You know a thread has devolved substantially when economic jokes are made. 

[ahinton]

You know a thread has devolved substantially when economic jokes are made. 

Do you really mean "devolved"? (saith the Scotsman who gives thought to such things de temps en temps), for it rather sounds as though you really mean "undermined"; that said, I hasten to assure you and anyone else interested (that's if anyone IS interested, which I'm somewhat inclined to take leave to doubt)) that, were someone to ensure that I won a million Zimbabwean dollars, I would not see that as any kind of "joke" - oh, no, siree!...

Best,

Alistair

[Bob]

I was just trying to be nice.  I could take on some of the burden of spending or investing a million dollars.


You can go to heaven.  You just can't get back quite so easily.

[thalbergmad]

You could not get into Heaven if you had a million dollars. Did not Jesus say something about that in the Bible?

"It is easier for a white man to win the Olympic 100 metres than it is for a rich man to enter the kingdom of Heaven".

Thal

[ahinton]

You could not get into Heaven if you had a million dollars. Did not Jesus say something about that in the Bible?

"It is easier for a white man to win the Olympic 100 metres than it is for a rich man to enter the kingdom of Heaven".

Ah, what would we do without your sense of humour here, Thal?! Anyway, bearing in mind your recent contributions to another thread on this forum, might one reasonably presume that, if you did indeed win such a sum, you'd earmark a decent amount of it to buy the Powell OC recording when it comes out?

Best,

Alistair