Brewster's millions....how would you do it??

[DnetMHZ]

I watched Brewster's millions again on tv last night for about the 100th time. I got to thinking.
what would you do?

1. take the $1 million and walk away
2. go for the $300 million. If so how would you spend the 30 million and still follow the rules.?

RULES:
You must spend 30 million dollars in 30 days and have nothing at all to show for it at the end except receipts.
If you do this then you will get 300 million dollars.
You can donate 5% to charity
You can gamble away 5%
You cannot buy valuable things and destroy them.
and you cannot buy an insanely expensive gift for someone.
also you cannot tell anyone about the little game or the rules. If you do this you get nothing.

Lets hear your ideas.

DnetMHZ

 

[iamwiz82]

<< I watched Brewster's millions again on tv last night for about the 100th time. I got to thinking.
what would you do?

1. take the $1 million and walk away
2. go for the $300 million. If so how would you spend the 30 million and still follow the rules.?

RULES:
You must spend 30 million dollars in 30 days and have nothing at all to show for it at the end except receipts.
If you do this then you will get 300 million dollars.
You can donate 5% to charity
You can gamble away 5%
You cannot buy valuable things and destroy them.
and you cannot buy an insanely expensive gift for someone.
also you cannot tell anyone about the little game or the rules. If you do this you get nothing.

Lets hear your ideas.

DnetMHZ >>



The easiest way would be to rent a few floors of an insanely expensive hotel. BTW, this movie starred Richard Pryor right?

 

[DnetMHZ]

<< BTW, this movie starred Richard Pryor right? >>



That is correct.

and actually he did rent 2 floors of an expensive hotel for the month in the movie.. only paid $1 million though.

 

[GasX]

He pulled a very clever trick in the movie. He bought a rare stamped and then used it to mail something. I would just do that over and over. I would also buy really old valuable coins and use them to buy sodas from vending machines.

I would also have one hell of a party.

 

[killface]

I'd buy airtime on any network TV station.

 

[FettsBabe]

I don't know, but thats a damn sure way to jumpstart the economy.

 

[Nightfall]

I would probably run for president or something while throwing a big party.

I figure all the advertising, the people to help with the campaign, as well as the party I am going to throw would come out to about 30 million.

I also figure I can buy a new house in Wyoming next to Harrison Ford (1-2 million at least), a couple new cars, hire people to wire the mansion, throw a party for the entire town. Maybe buy more real estate.

The possibilities are endless.

 

[DnetMHZ]

<< I also figure I can buy a new house in Wyoming next to Harrison Ford (1-2 million at least), a couple new cars, hire people to wire the mansion, throw a party for the entire town. Maybe buy more real estate. >>



the only problem is one of the rules is that you can't own anything after the 30 days so you'd lose out on the 300 million.

 

[royaldank]

I pick out 10 of my favorite bands and hold a three festival for anyone that wants to attend.

You could easily get rid of that money in a matter of a week. After paying everything to set up the party, pay the bands, the contractors, the lights, the bathrooms, etc.

But, I'd leave enough for me to fly to Amsterdam and live for 20 days before coming back to collect the rest.

 

[Mister T]

Buy a glacier from the artic and have it shipped to the carribean.

Get some adult entertainment.

Buy tons of bottles of dom perrignon and drink them.

 

[RedRooster]

I'd put a full page ad, no make that a 10 page ad in the local paper inviting the entire city to a certain bar(boy, would that bar be lucky), and drinks were on me for the entire month. I'd just get the bar to hire 100 more people and keep a running tab for me, when it got to $30M I'd shut er down.

 

[Bulk Beef]

I'd start a war with Canada. Wouldn't last more than about twelve hours, and $30 million for a war is a bargain by current standards.

 

[mithrandir2001]

Yea, advertising seems like the best way to blow through the cash. It's intangible and you can easily scale (involve more stations/papers) to eat up the $30 million.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

There's an even easier way. You can't give expensive gifts, but there's nothing that says you can't make bad business decisions. Buy a Van Gogh or two and sell the painting to your girlfriend, wife, kids, parents or anyone else you want to make rich. Tell them it's a fake and charge a dollar. Bingo, one transaction and they have 30 mill and you have 300 million once you spend that buck.

 

[Alligator]

try to see if i could go through a mil in one day strip club hopping with 20 friends
if so, do it the other 29 days

 

[DnetMHZ]

<< try to see if i could go through a mil in one day strip club hopping with 20 friends >>



or rent out every cat house in Nevada

not that I'd do such a thing of course.. *LOL*

 

[trmiv]

If it was a few months ago, I would have bought 30 million in Enron stock.

 

[Pacfanweb]

Buy up all the commercial time during the Super Bowl. That would about do it, I think.

 

[trmiv]

<< Buy up all the commercial time during the Super Bowl. That would about do it, I think. >>



Man would that piss off the people that tune in for the commercials. I doubt I could come up with anything half as creative as some of the stuff in the super bowl.

 

[gotsmack]

I'd buy 30 million pick 6 lotto tickets.

my numbers 1,2,3,4,5,6

 

[kt]

<< I'd buy 30 million pick 6 lotto tickets.

my numbers 1,2,3,4,5,6 >>


What an irony that would be if those were the winning numbers and you just hit the $100 million jackpot. Cool, another $100 million to waste in 29 days

 

[GasX]

<< I'd buy 30 million pick 6 lotto tickets.

my numbers 1,2,3,4,5,6 >>

What part of "You can gamble away 5%" did you not understand?

 

[bugsysiegel]

Hooters and beer at the local topless establishment, crap, I could go through $30M in a couple of hours!!!!

 

[gotsmack]

<< What part of "You can gamble away 5%" did you not understand? >>



Its not gambleing. I'm purchasing valueable pieces of paper that expire in a few days

ok, I admit it. I didn't read all of the post.

I'd just trade currency every two seconds until I loose all of it in exchange fees.

 

[zeon]

so i'm not the only one who's watched that movie more times than i am years old...

i'm thinking i'd start by renting out the top two floors of the worlds most expensive metropolitan hotel (wherever that may be) for me and say, 15 of my friends. Essentially ever day we'd go out and induldge in the most lavish and wasteful activities we could think of... and there would be many for i have creative friends... i'm sure a good deal of time would be spent driving exoctic cars and chasing exotic women. I'd definatly throw a few lavish parties with world class dj's/sound/lighting... i'd definatly donate the 5% though to a charity, as someone else ought to benefit in my windfall... oh... and i'd have and advertising agency create a campaign for a really enticing/desireable product that did'nt exist and then run ads for it all over the country... people would be so confused...