1. No charitable acts. Everyone always gives half there money away to charity when asked this question. I would to [sic], but I find that this question limits the creativity you can have with this one. So charities are out.
2. No buying houses. To[sic] expensive. In fact, I'm outlawing anything costing over $250 000.
3. No putting it away in savings accounts or into the bank.
2. No buying houses. To[sic] expensive. In fact, I'm outlawing anything costing over $250 000.
3. No putting it away in savings accounts or into the bank.
Yeah, Mark, you took my main ideas. However, as a student, I'm going to add more cheating parameters because my thoughts immediately jumped to this:
1. No putting aside money for tuition.
2. No putting aside money for rent.
3. No putting aside money for groceries or medication.
So, now that I've established that, this is what I would do:
1. Buy a duckling. Ducklings are adorable. They snore. They ran after you with their little webbed feet pitter-pattering on the ground. They think you're their mom and follow you everywhere. In fact, I want two ducklings. The first is going to be named Doodlesac, and the other will be Pipes.
2. Stock up on items (necessary little expenses) that add up. These includes things like deodorant, dental floss, soap, toothpaste, shampoo, heat protectant for hair, etc.
3. Get a massage. Lord knows I could use some stress relief.
4. Buy homeless people coffee and dinner. New people every day! (Does that count as a charitable act? It's not technically a charity. I'd also want to give away money to my family members... does that count? Or maybe I can just buy them really expensive gifts or gift cards.)
5. Bring Ollie (my adorable, perfect cat) to Halifax with me. He isn't allowed near Doodlesac and Pipes, but I still need him. Oh God. I don't think I'm near $1 000 000 yet. This is hard.
6. Travel around the world. I'd take a year off and just float from city to city and write in cafés and people-watch every day. That would be incredible.
7. I really hate to say this, but maybe go shopping. I hate the act of shopping. But I do enjoy new clothes and shoes as well as the next person. That would be very fun.
8. Put aside a gas and coffee fund. Kinda cheating, but deal with it.
9. Maybe buy myself a car. It feels like a big thing to get, but it would be cool to get a very nice compact one with a heated steering wheel and good music.
10. Go to the theatre all the time! I want to see musicals and operas and anything worth seeing!
11. Fly home all the time! Weekend trips to Edmonton! Yay!
12. Buy books and notebooks (yes, cater to my disturbing journal addiction). I'd especially want to buy music books!
13. Install shelves in my room. I love shelves. Think of all the books I can fit on them!
14. Buy fuzzy socks and blankets.
15. Hire an assassin to take out my sister's boyfriend. (Okay, this one's a joke)
16. Buy some really pretty furniture and dishes and things to make my apartment very homey.
17. Pay for my friend's rent. She's such a good person. I'd love to make her life a little easier.
18. Buy lots of music on iTunes (especially now that I'm learning about medieval music, which I never thought I would like).
19. Go out for dinner once a week so that I don't have to cook.
20. Hire someone to do my dishes.
21. Create a custom robot of myself to stand in for me when I feel like being a hermit.
Okay, I'm still not sure I'm at a million or even close. But surely the robot would be expensive? Maybe I should save on money and just hire a bodyguard to karate chop anyone who tried to invade my space while I was having alone time.
Good enough? If I get complaints from you, Mark, I may struggle to think of more things. But these are the ones that popped into my mind.
-Laura
No complaints! I feel like your list is better then mine. Although I do think that you should have bought a bowling alley as well.
ReplyDeleteOh, and I have now gone and edited those two to(o)s for you.