In the movie Brewster’s Millions, Montgomery Brewster (Richard Pryor) learns that he is to be the heir to an enormous fortune, but there’s a catch. He has 30 days to spend 30 million dollars. If he succeeds, he inherits 300 million, but if he fails, he has nothing. The hard part is that when the 30 days are over, he must have nothing to show for it. And he can’t donate to charity or simply give it away. Likewise, tips must not exceed the standard rate of 20%. In other words, the money must be spent, not thrown away.
I wonder what creative ways my readers can think of to spend a large amount of money in a short period of time, and have nothing to show for it.
Here are some ideas I came up with:
- Buy rare coins and use them in parking meters or gum ball machines
- Stay in expensive hotels and get room service
- Drink lots of fine wine
- Smoke expensive cigars
- Or fly into outer space
What do you think? Got any great, money-wasting ideas? Let me know!
October 30th, 2007 at 10:42 am
I would find several of the hotel rooms in Vegas that are thousands of dollars a day, let my friends stay there and run up a huge tab. I would also travel around the world dropping larage amounts of money on expensive meals and spas.
October 30th, 2007 at 3:42 pm
Spend it on “Loose Women/Men” who help you “Blow your Wad” and if your lucky you won’t have anything to show for it. Nothing your Doctor is allowed to share with anyone but the CDC or win a prize from the AMA for his article about you.
November 22nd, 2007 at 2:31 am
Well, it is from a different point of view anyway.