If you suddenly got £100,000,000,000 what would you do?

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19 Jul 2009, 11:45 am

i would go and buy some lollies.



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19 Jul 2009, 4:12 pm

I'd buy a house with a party deck (the roof you can party on, OH YEAH!) and a really expensive pedigree dog and 100 tattoos and a life supply of cookies in 100 different flavours. and i'd pay my doctor to stop nagging me about eating billions of cookies. I'd have the breakfast cookies and the lunch cookies, and the triple fudge chocolate s**t on a stick cookies that look like tar from all the sugar... and I'd crap on my managers desk. I hate him. I'd crap in the confessional box at the church too. and I'd get the best male prostitutes in town when i was bored :wink:



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19 Jul 2009, 8:51 pm

Convert it to US (they don't make change on the street, alas...;)
Pay taxes, which should leave me with...oh, say 20 million.
Pay bills
set up a fund to manage the money
live off the proceeds
buy all my musical instruments, books, CDs, and records back...;0
get a job (bribe HR...;)



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19 Jul 2009, 11:58 pm

i am suprised how much people are seem materialistic. =.=



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20 Jul 2009, 3:46 pm

ruennsheng wrote:
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If I received $1.4 billion dollars,
which would be the equivilant of 100 billion pounds,
this is what I'd do with it.

$275 million would go to charity

$80 million would go to my mom

$80 million would go to my older sister

$150 million would go to my high school

$150 million would go to Portland Community College

The rest I'd ditch in a Swiss bank account.



Why would your schools need so much money>.


Because of budget cuts...f-ing recession's laughing at everyone.

PCC would probably take the $150 million and use it
to get their expansion on warp speed.

I'd also take $125 million and use it
to buy a new house for my family.


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20 Jul 2009, 3:59 pm

I'd buy a house and land, set aside some to pay the taxes on said house and land, give some to family, buy more clothes because I don't have that many, and support homeless shelters and hospitals.

And park some in a bank so that the interest can be a continuing source of income.



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20 Jul 2009, 7:44 pm

Wow. I don't think you guys quite understand the kind of money we are talking about. It is about three or four times what Bill Gates has. This money can buy an entire foreign country. It can buy the largest companies in the World. Mere 10 million would be more than enough to live off interest for the rest of your life. With 100 billion you could pretty much start your own country.



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21 Jul 2009, 1:21 am

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All in the title, really, if you got £100,000,000,000 what would be the first thing you would do?


Take a sizeable chunk of it and invest it wisely for the future.
Donate some to a couple charities which have helped me out.
Then I'd go shopping.

I want a boat, a comfortable, classy, wooden, boat. Not too big. Not too small. Sails and a motor too. Would like to have it built to order by a boatbuilder who really knows what they're doing.

Would like a house, not too big, not too small. With a 'quiet side' where I can get away from other people's noise and commotion. It needs to be a great place for my wife's plants. We both do model trains and would like a room for that. She quilts and sews, want a room for that and a long-arm quilting machine.
Would like to have a back garden with those Garden Railway trains.
Know they're high maintenance, but would like a swimming pool too.

Would like to take some of that money to set up some kind of endowment, scholarship, or something, or two somethings, which would truly help in places where help was truly needed.

Question is, if one has that much money, how much of his time is eaten up in managing that money?

I do NOT want to jack around with people who are trying to get any of that money away from me just because I have it to give.


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21 Jul 2009, 2:15 am

phil777 wrote:
i am suprised how much people are seem materialistic. =.=

Same here. :?


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21 Jul 2009, 3:32 am

balls to buying a house, id get one built to my exact specifications :D

id also hirer some financial advisor's to make sure i invest it properly and i would make sure no one in my immediate family wouldn't have to work again and probably give buckets load to various charity's and what not.



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21 Jul 2009, 9:06 am

Take all the money and move somewhere where family and peers will NEVER bother me again!! ! :twisted:



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21 Jul 2009, 11:12 am

I'd move to America and get a huge mansion.... and lots of SpongeBob stuff! :lol:


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22 Jul 2009, 12:08 am

I'd move to the USA, Hawaii maybe, and open a Ferrari museum with as many street cars and F1 cars as I could stock it with, and charge $1 admission ! !! !! !! !! !!




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22 Jul 2009, 2:41 am

I would convert it to kilograms.



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22 Jul 2009, 6:10 am

I would buy A huge villa in aspen, a mountain top mansion in greece, and a old style mansion in england, and a penthouse in tokyo. I would furnish them all with cool stuff, and get a computer comany to make a custom processor, graphics, mother board ect for a uber computer! and lots of nice cars, and then a bribe for the police so I dont get arested for driving them. And to shut my dad up, a astin martin db9 for him...



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22 Jul 2009, 6:31 am

- Buy a media conglomerate
- Donate some to worthy causes
- Set up a heap of scholarships etc. for financially disadvantaged students
- Hire a full time hitman/bodyguard
- Finally move out of home
- Begrudgingly give some to family members
- Open a casino
- Change my name to something cool sounding