10-21-2004, 12:11 AM
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#1 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: DC & Vancouver
Posts: 2,040
| If I had a million dollars....
I would buy a cool apartment in Yaletown Vancouver and furnish it, buy a cute little car, fancy techy computer stuff, gadgets and fencing gear.
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10-21-2004, 12:39 AM
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#2 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: ---->
Posts: 2,008
| Start up a business venture, create some jobs, thereby creating wealth for more people while increasing my own as well. Live on what I need, and invest the rest. | |
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10-21-2004, 12:44 AM
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#3 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: The great U.S.ofA.
Posts: 1,362
| Buy a flat in NY, put a couple thousand away to finish college, invest some, get a frontier, give the rest away to a charity or something of that sort.
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10-21-2004, 01:34 AM
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#4 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2002
Posts: 2,997
| If I had a million bucks then I wouldn't be hanging around here and fantasizing about having a million bucks. | |
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10-21-2004, 01:54 AM
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#5 | | The Judge
Join Date: Feb 2003
Posts: 4,103
| buy a nice car, buy a small place, invest the rest, finish college, work doing whatever i want to. | |
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10-21-2004, 05:42 AM
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#6 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Mass/ct
Posts: 3,226
| Put it all in the bank till i need it.. only speand what i get on it for intrest... only speand the actual million if i needed it..... Continue working and living a normal life.. a little higher level mabey than my salary allows me to live on.. beacuse i have money.... | |
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10-21-2004, 05:42 AM
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#7 | | Senior Member
Join Date: May 2003 Location: UK
Posts: 1,565
| "If I had a million dollars/I'd buy you a green dress/but not a real green dress, that's cruel"
Anyway.
If I had £546,929.79 GBP, I would pay off my mortgage, student loan, credit card bill and overdraft. I would repair my garage roof, andpossibly replace my bathroom. I would buy a zippy little shiny new car; nothing fancy though. I would buy some fencing kit (a mask, a spare foil, some better shoes) and I would go mad in a scrapbooking craft shop. I would also probably buy some clothes/shoes - girly shopping! I'd take my mum - she loves clothes but worries too much about money.
I would also buy my brother a motorbike (he had to sell his to raise a deposit for a house), and a one-man hovercraft for my boyriend and me to race (we are just race marshals at the moment).
Well, that's what springs to mind at this point!
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10-21-2004, 06:54 AM
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#8 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Anchorage Alaska
Posts: 1,528
| Fencing salle. Really cool fencing salle.
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10-21-2004, 08:39 AM
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#9 | | Member
Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Greensboro, NC
Posts: 92
| Invest, Invest, Invest.
Assuming a 10% return (the S&P average) my 1 million would become 4 million in a little less than 15 years
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10-21-2004, 09:09 AM
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#10 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2003
Posts: 5,483
| I'd start an inner city fencing program similar to the Peter Westbrook foundation. A big Salle, alot of strips and good equipment.
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10-21-2004, 10:45 AM
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#11 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Staying in DC
Posts: 1,432
| Let see.
38% to Uncle Sam
10% to church(es)
Pay off mortgage
Some redecorating
New vehicle
budget for NAC's, NAT's and few other trips
Bank rest.
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10-21-2004, 11:24 AM
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#12 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: St. Mary's College of Maryland
Posts: 197
| No more student loans!
And grad school out of the way financially!
Now there's a dream...
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10-21-2004, 11:37 AM
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#13 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Chicago-land
Posts: 227
| Mmmmm
First thing before picking it up I would contact an attorny and Financial advisor.
likely plan.
First lets do max contributions to my IRA, and 401k plans to get the easy tax deductable bits out of the way.
I wouldnt pay off my house. Expected investment income off the money would be greater than the interest rate Im paying, and its tax deductable.
I would pay off my vette, sell my '80 yamaha xs650 and buy a '05 yamaha fz6.
Id set aside 10-20k for a good vacation, and some play money.
The rest I would leave to my lawyer and financial advisor to find as many tax loop holes to keep uncle sam away from it, and invest it intelligently for me.
$1million isnt a whole lot these days, but If I kept on working like I never had it, I could probably retire by 45.
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10-21-2004, 11:40 AM
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#14 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: ---->
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Originally Posted by Mergs Let see.
38% to Uncle Sam |
You musn't have heard Steve Martin's plan on how to make a million dollars without paying any taxes. | |
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10-21-2004, 12:03 PM
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#15 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Haydenville, MA
Posts: 1,558
| I'd pay off loans (both my own student loans, my sister's student loans and all my parents loans and mortgages and stuff). Then, depending on how much I had left, I'd probably buy a house, or some property. | |
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10-21-2004, 12:24 PM
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#16 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Canada
Posts: 124
| what would I do with $1,241,644.54 Canadian
Small but nice car. (say...$40000+ $2000 insurence + gas at $0.95/L)
better, and soundproof apartment. ($250-500/mo extra)
a sevral mounth round-the-world trip (after my BA, before whateer I do after it... lets sa and MA) .($30000)
A bit of new fencing equipment (lets say $600).
living expences (I am a student) (on top of the above... $750/mo)
some investment (low risk) (whatever is left)
Lottery winnings and inheritence are not taxed in Canada (go figure....). Since I dont by lottery tickets, and lack rich relitives, this is not to say that I stand any chance of actually getting a million $
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10-21-2004, 12:35 PM
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#17 | | Member
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 34
| I'd stick it all on red...
or black perhaps. | |
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10-21-2004, 02:41 PM
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#18 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Bristol, England
Posts: 132
| I'd buy a gold toilet seat.
No, two! | |
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10-21-2004, 03:47 PM
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#19 | | Member
Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: La La Land
Posts: 48
| I would buy fencing101.com and dress up their employees in pads and use them as fencing targets 
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10-21-2004, 04:05 PM
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#20 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Chicago-land
Posts: 227
| pads? you are too kind!! 
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