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If you had a million $?

Unread postby ThinkGeek » Sat 02 Apr 2005, 17:04:51

if somebody gave you a million dollars, how would you spend it on getting prepared for the future?

I had to do a project like this for math in middle school, and I got:

$223,200 for 23 Acres
$589,806.93 for House
$13,864.04 supplies-this category was originally something else
$83,977.23 Furnishings
$26,436 Appliances
$24,480 Electronics
$17,436.94 Outdoor Recreational equipment
$20,797.00- Maintenance Equipment.

NOW-Consider that this list was made well before I knew of PO, and I need to go through and make some revisions to it know.

How would you spend your $1 Million?
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Unread postby BabyPeanut » Sat 02 Apr 2005, 20:25:08

Open bar! Morphine and cyanide on the house for everyone! :twisted:
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Re: If you had a million $?

Unread postby DriveElectric » Sat 02 Apr 2005, 20:51:04

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ThinkGeek', '
')$223,200 for 23 Acres


$10,000 per acre is expensive. You can get land for $3,000 to $5,000 per acre from small farmers who are going bankrupt or from their kids when the parents pass away and the kids don't want the farm. Lot's of good deals out there because nobody wants to be a small scale farmer any more.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ThinkGeek', '
')$589,806.93 for House


The seems expensive. I suspect you can build a nice efficient house (2000 to 2500 square feet) for under $200,000.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ThinkGeek', '
')$13,864.04 supplies-this category was originally something else


Supplies for how long? I can see this figure going much higher.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ThinkGeek', '
')$83,977.23 Furnishings


That seems high also. Does everything have to be brand new? Buying used furniture could likely get that figure way down.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ThinkGeek', '
')$26,436 Appliances


That also seems high. Appliances just are not that expensive.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ThinkGeek', '
')$24,480 Electronics


Stop shopping at the Bose store.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ThinkGeek', '
')$17,436.94 Outdoor Recreational equipment


You are not going to have time for recreation on your farm.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ThinkGeek', '
')$20,797.00- Maintenance Equipment.


That is a good figure. Could be higher or lower depending on your farm.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ThinkGeek', '
')NOW-Consider that this list was made well before I knew of PO, and I need to go through and make some revisions to it know.


I would add a category for solar panels on the house. That could be about $20,000 to $30,000 easily.
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Unread postby 0mar » Sat 02 Apr 2005, 22:31:27

hookers, booze and drugs.
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Unread postby uNkNowN ElEmEnt » Sat 02 Apr 2005, 22:37:58

That's easy. I'd buy up several shares (they cost $5,000 each) in the local organic co-op. Its in an agricultural reserve so it cant be used for anything else and not all of the land is being used, its sitting there wasting away. I'd get it in shape and producing food. by the time it is going well I would have the demand for the produce.

that would give me and many others jobs for when TSHTF, and provide more locally grown food.
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Re: If you had a million $?

Unread postby DriveElectric » Sat 02 Apr 2005, 22:41:24

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ThinkGeek', '
')NOW-Consider that this list was made well before I knew of PO, and I need to go through and make some revisions to it know.


You also need to start working on the plan to actually get that $1 million. Otherwise the list is pointless.
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Unread postby ThinkGeek » Sat 02 Apr 2005, 22:52:43

yeah, I know, but where is a high school kid going to get a million?
I just blew my last $800 on a 64-bit computer a week before I heard about this.....
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Unread postby Elijah » Sat 02 Apr 2005, 22:57:14

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('0mar', 'h')ookers, booze and drugs.



I spent most of my inheritance on gambling, liquor and women. The rest I wasted. :lol:
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Unread postby DriveElectric » Sat 02 Apr 2005, 23:23:13

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ThinkGeek', 'y')eah, I know, but where is a high school kid going to get a million?
I just blew my last $800 on a 64-bit computer a week before I heard about this.....


Start buying lottery tickets.
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Unread postby k_semler » Sun 03 Apr 2005, 01:26:31

I will never have a million dollars, let alone one hundred thousand, so why even fantasize about what I would do with this non-existant money in my hands. If I decided to wipe my butt with the pretend money it wouldn't make a slight difference for one reason: I will never have a million dollars. Hell, I would be lucky to get into the upper middle class catagory. It has been observed that most people stay within the same social stratification that they were born into. Why dream big when I'm just surviving?
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Unread postby JBinKC » Sun 03 Apr 2005, 01:35:22

First of all a million dollars IMO is chicken feed. If you speak about $20 million now you are talking.

But if someone gave me a million dollars I sure wouldn't spend it. I would try to make more off of it and if I had decided now is the time to run to the hills I sure wouldn't be paying $10,000 an acre for land you could buy good arable land for around $50 an acre in Bolivia and buy something substantial.
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Unread postby Specop_007 » Sun 03 Apr 2005, 04:49:51

Hookers and blow. 8)
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How I would Spend a Million Dollars

Unread postby resqueen » Sun 03 Apr 2005, 09:01:11

:-D

Good day.

A million, well I could pay my bills, cut up the credit cards and keep farming and maybe even go fishing once in awhile.

I am a little long in the tooth, so that would probably last me, IF I choose not to buy all those expensive medications.

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Unread postby spear » Sun 03 Apr 2005, 09:02:11

Greek islands HERE I COME!!!!!!!!!!!Maybe South Seas too.A man can do PO forever in places like that.Picking fruit off trees,hiding the sailboat in cozy littles coves,spearfishing.Endless summers and lots of hawaiian tropic.
Specop Im beginning to like you more every day.
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Unread postby born2respawn » Sun 03 Apr 2005, 14:14:32

Land, build a house, nudge it towards "small holding" territory and travel the world. Want to visit the USA, Canada and see Europe properly.
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Unread postby Specop_007 » Sun 03 Apr 2005, 22:53:18

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('spear', 'G')reek islands HERE I COME!!!!!!!!!!!Maybe South Seas too.A man can do PO forever in places like that.Picking fruit off trees,hiding the sailboat in cozy littles coves,spearfishing.Endless summers and lots of hawaiian tropic.
Specop Im beginning to like you more every day.


I'll get the hookers and blow, you get the sailboat.
We'll have us a secluded beach filled with nekkid hookers and lots of blow.
Shit, what more could a guy ask for?!
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Unread postby spear » Mon 04 Apr 2005, 08:37:40

When Im finished here buddy,youre the first person I invite.
Forget the blow.Here all you have to do is breathe deeply.
Now,on the hookers.............nahhhh........ theres lots of amorous European lasses here in the summer and all they want to do is play.

We can even get a couple Bulgarian Kalasniks and some tracers and do fireworks at night.
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Unread postby born2respawn » Mon 04 Apr 2005, 14:52:49

I see a great friendship in the offing. :-D
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Unread postby spear » Mon 04 Apr 2005, 15:07:22

You´re invited too angel.
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Unread postby uNkNowN ElEmEnt » Mon 04 Apr 2005, 16:13:57

What else could you ask for?

How about babysitters so you don't have to deal with kids puking from sunstroke while you're trying to get it on with a hooker?
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