What I Would Do if I had $1 000 000

Cliché to the max, I realize. Still, it's a question that many of us consider. What would we do if we were up among the wealthy and glamorous? Would we be charitable, or miserly? Well today, I'm going to screw up the whole system, and set out some guidelines for myself. They are as follows;

1. No charitable acts. Everyone always gives half there money away to charity when asked this question. I would too, but I find that this question limits the creativity you can have with this one. So charities are out.
2. No buying houses. Too expensive. In fact, I'm outlawing anything costing over $250 000.
3. No putting it away in savings accounts or into the bank.

Okay, that's it. Now onto the list.

1. I'd buy a zero-g plane ride. Thought you had to be an astronaut to go to space? Think again! For only $4, 950, you can book a trip on a plane that makes repeated dives to simulate zero gravity. I'm in.
2. For about $150 000, I could buy a home bowling alley. I only bowl about five times a year, but still... who can say they have a home bowling alley?
3. Speaking of sports, I wouldn't mind a ping-pong table. Good ol' Walmart has one for just $150.
4. Still speaking of sports, you can buy a 14-day lift pass at Lake Louise for about $800.
5. Did you now that you can buy a legit soccer field for about 100 000 dollars? my house is going to be a sports centre, I'm telling you. I could start a business.
6. Of course, to play soccer, I'll need a soccer ball. That'll be about $25 000 dollars for a nice, Fifa approved soccer ball. Oh, wait... thats $25 dollars. But wait! I'll need more then that! I'll take 100.
7. I know that Laura likes to write, and I know that Julia likes her pens. And so for next christmas, I'd get them each a nice pen. How about the "forbidden city fountain pen?" Those clock in at about $42 500 dollars.

You know, I'm not sure I'd want to have that much cash. It would be terrible trying to figure out what to do with it. Let's say that you had $100 000 000 dollars or something like that. You'd want to donate a whole whack load of it to charity, of course... but which one?
I feel like if I was in that situation, I'd feel guilty no matter what I did. That money could save thousands upon thousands of lives, if it was spent correctly. but what if you backed the wrong charity, and they weren't as effective at life-saving as another charity? Your mistake might mean someone lost their live without need to. And then if you still had a bunch of money, you'd feel guilty that you hadn't used what you had left to help other people. It would be terrible.
Well, I sure made that take a turn for the worse. Sorry about that. Until next time, thanks for reading.

-Mark