If you were super rich and you have $1,000,000 a day to spend, what would you spend it on?

I’d buy things that retain their value like property or maybe a football team or a railroad or two.

A million dollars per day?

I have no idea.

I’d buy a house in Norway and one in New Zealand, and buy citizenship to each. Probably a lot if books, and university classes, and private tutors for my son, and dental surgery, and live off the rest.

Mainly on investing in things that would let the poor and hungry lift themselves into a productive, successful life.

Booze, birds and fast cars – the rest I would just squander.

I’d buy up businesses and force them to turn ethical and environment-friendly.

@downtide Great answer.

Whaddya mean if? Fuck dollars, but even a million quid would see me downgrade.
I’d struggle on though, we all have to make small sacrifices from time to time.

I could not spend a million in a year. € that is. In a year, a million dollars will only be enough to buy a loaf of bread.

Seriously. I might be able to get rid of one million on ‘fun’. Maybe a few millions, if I buy a houseboat or something.

I’d probably just travel. Put on the Ritz, balls out all over the world.

I would get myself out of debt. Then I would get my family out of debt and then my best friends out of debt. I would then buy a large piece of property to build a big animal shelter (NO KILL, of course) and take in any animal that needs help. I would want to model it after Best Friends in Utah. To me they are the ‘best’. I would employee only the people who want to work with animals. I would develope a task force to eliminate dog fighting. I would like to find a cure for cancer and a number of other horribly devastating diseases. I think I could be very busy.

I would run for a Senate seat

I would go to the International Space Station.

I would first pay off any outstanding debts for myself and my loved ones, and probably buy new homes and/or cars for the people whom I care about. Then I would make it my full-time job to improve my fitness. Once I had a stable fitness level and found ways to manage my RAD (rheumatic and/or autoimmune diseases), I would travel the world. I would buy property and homes in several places.

I would eventually start a foundation to buy foreclosed homes and renovate them to be ‘green’ and sell them back to the families who lost them for an amount they could actually afford; if the original family didn’t want them, I’d find other families who are struggling to help. As a single mom with a decent profession, I made too much for social programs, but not enough to actually support myself and my child – those are the types of families I want to help.

Giggles.

@filmfann Have you seen the movie Gravity yet? I just saw it yesterday. It might put you off wanting to go the International Space Station. I’m still shaking.

I would put every member of my family to work processing requests for grants for worthy causes.

Lottery tickets.

methinks many of you missed the ‘no charity, no gambling, selfishness encouraged’ bit.

I could never be that selfish.

@Kardamom The day after the Challenger explosion, someone asked me if I would want to go up in the next shuttle. I said “Absolutely!”

A ticket to go to the Vatican so I can steal the Pope’s hat. I really want to.
A mannequin that looks just like me, so I can put it in my room. That would be pretty creepy.
Probably buy a lot of junk I don’t need. Then, I’d move away from my mother. Because she’s insane.
Does it count as charity if I steal people’s identity and improve their credit? It’s still identity theft, and I think it would be funny.

I would buy Lance Armstrong’s cancerous nut and have it free-dried and bronzed for display.

If I don’t have to pay taxes on it, I would give a million to everyone I know and then to anyone I read about that I thought could use it wisely. Every so often I would keep a million for myself. I do have wants too. I would have someone in to take care of the place I live. I’ll go out for meals whenever I please. I’d give a million a year to my kids. I’d go to theater productions whenever I wanted. I’d give extravagant parties. I’d take friends on trips to places in the world I wanted to go.