If you were given a million dollars how would you spend it?

[Plutonius]

Old thread.

I would invest it and supplement my earnings with the return on investments.

 

[roadbloc]

I'd chill.

 

[Huntn]

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If a genie granted you a million dollars and he would allow you to use it as you please(as long as you played by his rules) how would you spend it?

His rules are simple:
-If you do not use up the million dollars within 24 hoursit will disappear.
-Anything you buy for yourself or for people you know personally(family, friends, coworkers, etc.) with value(gold, diamond, stock, house, currency, etc.) will become dust after 24 hours.

I would take my family on a wonderful vacation to anywhere in the world. Everything paid for, just blow it all off in one day.

There is value in using money for entertainment, but what many people would consider real value would be to use this money for security. Security is money to live on, securing a residence to live in, having money for health issues. Unless I don't understand, basically the conditions are forcing the user to splurg on entertainment? It does not even allow for donating to charity because food has just as much value as gold! This is far from "as you please" and the genie is being an ass.

 

[macquariumguy]

Hookers and blow.

 

[StephenCampbell]

I would give it to classical arts organizations. According to the rules it won't disappear after 24 hours then.

 

[Sun Baked]

Nice RV, a plot of land in the boonies, drill a water well, grab enough solar cells to go off grid ... and prepare for the zombie apocalypse.

Of course if you were a redneck you'd have to add buy a complete brewery from a shuttered brewpub and a grain silo.

 

[costabunny]

I would put a trust fund for my newphew to goto university (he is 10). Buy a nice new volvo, probably treat my close family.

I would make a nice donation to the local animal shelter and childerens ward (some playstations and ipads)

The rest i would likely put away for the future.

Might get really mad and buy a new mac pro.....

 

[JohnLT13]

I would buy lots of land, lets see that turn to dust.

 

[DesertEagle]

Cars and houses require maintenance, so they're perishable like in OP's scenario anyway. It's only a matter of time, so how can anything be truly ours?

I would get into life-long rental services that would provide me and my family with food, a nice home, cars and books for the next 100 years. And I would pay for it in advance, of course before the 24 hours were up. The agreement and its obligations are not physical items, and therefore they cannot turn into dust