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a) $5,000
b) $500,000
c) $5 million

And no, you don't "pick one". :p I'm asking what you'd do for each value.

Personally,

a) I'd use all of it to help my parents pay for tuition. If they refused, then I'd save it for a future computer (and if you have to ask "Which company?", I swear I'll stab you in the eye with my uni-ball VISION pen).

b) I'd set aside $300,000 for my own future use, and $100,000 for my parents. I'd use whatever I'd need to entirely pay for tuition, use a few thousand to buy my dad a Power Mac G5 and 30" Cinema Display, and donate the remaining to charity and websites I enjoy (including this one, of course :)).

c) I'd set aside $3 million for my own future use, $1 million for my parents. Again, I'd pay off tuition, buy my dad a G5+30", donate a healthy sum to charity and websites (keep in mind that part of that $3 million will also go to charities in the future), then I'd buy myself a Dodge Magnum R/T and two nice cars for my parents. I'd also buy new windows for this house (the original windows are crap), and heck, I might even entice the county to fix the damn road here.
 
a) Pay off car 👎

b) Pay off car, give $10g to parents for a holiday and then use the rest for me on an overseas trip.

c) Sell car, buy M3 CSL, put $3m away for retirement, give $1m to parent for retirement, spend rest on property, computers, gadgets, clothes and other useless things.

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A. Blow most of it on my boys. (No, I don't care if they're spoiled) Then, the rest on my wife.

B. Give a hundred grand to my boys college/get-the-hell-out-of-my-house fund. Buy my wife some classic furnature. Maybe a new 70 Sony Qualia HDTV set.

C. Leave my wife; stick her with the kids and start my life all over again! *SMACK!* How'd she know! In that case, pay off most of the house, buy a beach house for ourselves, new cabin in Big Bear and a bigger boat. Maybe sell the business, and retire for a few years.
 
5000$ is not an extremely big amount of money... I'd either spend it towards my girlfriend, or my car. Probably for my girlfriend, come to think of it. :scared:

500 000$... that's trickier. I'd buy a nice big house, and then put most of what's left aside, in a bank account, towards my savings when I retire.

5 millions? Perhaps I'd start my own "speedshop"-esque business, or something similar to that. While 5 millions is a lot of money, it's all too easy to spend in the wrong places. I'd put about half of it aside, again towards my future, and to make sure I wouldn't use it up in 20 minutes (and believe me, I'm sure I could), the other half I'd use to get crazy... a big house, perhaps a trip somewhere hot and sunny, maybe a supercar or two. Living the playboy life, in short.
 
Hmm...

a) Give it to my dad to pay off some of the stuff he's had to pay for, for me.

b) Probably buy a house smaller than the one I grew up in. (don't know sq. ft. at the moment)

c.) Hmm.. Get a xB and tC for daily drivers and of course my Viper!

Any money left over save...
 
a) spend it on my Skyline engine

b) Buy a Nice house, give my parents a holiday, Buy a Skyline GTR

c) Put alot away for to gain interest, Buy property, spoil my parents/family and friends, go on holidays, Buy some nice cars like R34 GTR, maybe a Viper GTS and a new M5 or something. Or maybe start a business of some sort.
 
A) Buy a Mini

B) Buy a house and put it up for rent, then live in it when I'm older

C) Buy a few houses, put them up for rent, Buy a Viper SRT10, Buy a HSV Clubsport R8 and buy an endless supply of Red Bull:D
 
A) Either sell my car and combined the money to buy a new one, or just put it away for later. I could also easily see myself blowing it on gadgets.

B)Put the majority of it away for house/retirement (even though its over 50 years away). I'd then probably use 40k on a new car. Give some money to my parents for what their paying for college.

C) Two chicks at the same time.

Just kidding, I'd set aside about 3 million, buy a new car, pay my parents for college. I've always thought it sounded nice to be the owner of a nice new apartment building.
 
a) $5,000
b) $500,000
c) $5 million

a). Spend most of it on my Skyline (new tyres, oil change, couple of other things).
b). Buy a R32 Skyline GTS-25 (2 door, manual), buy a R32 Skyline GT-R, buy the $2,000 Sony digital camera i've wanted for ages, spend more money on my current Skyline, buy lots of stuff i've always wanted.
c). All of the above, plus a Ferrari F50 (hopefully get it converted to RHD), FPV Tornado (ute for carrying the slick tyres for the F50 to the racetrack!), give brothers & sister $50,000 each, give parents $100,000 each, $50,000 for my grandparents if they want it, build myself a (very small, with big section and six car garage) house, give some to charity/community organisations, keep buying Lotto tickets and much more.
 
$5k: sell my car $10k, that gives me $15k, put a $7k down payment on an '03-'04 cobra and spend 3k on a 2.2kb blower, and smoke the **** out of 95% of the cars out there. $5k left :)

$500k: give $50k to 3 of my bros EACH, & mom $50k. build my own house for $250,000. save $150k

$5,000,000: give my 3 bros and mom $100k each, buy myself a nice house in Atherton California for $1.75 million, spend the rest of the $2 million on a gamble, building a kart track around Silicon Valley that will most likely pull in $$$$$. And still have $25k to pursue in other interests.

OR

$5,000,000: give my bros & mom $500,000 each. buy myself a $1,000,000 home and spend the rest on the Kart track gamble!
 
I'll say this is AUS$, so it's worth less than your fancy pants US$

  • Buy a cheap-ish car + rego and insurance
  • Buy a Viper + rego and insurance, give $100k to each of my parents, put $100k away (mainly for future fuel costs ;)), spend rest on gadgets
  • Buy a Viper + rego and insurance, give $400k to each of my parents, put $3m away, buy parents a Holden Commodore each, buy a house for me and my mum.

Blake
 
5000 $ : nothing special
500000 $ : 400000 for house, 15000 for tuning my Sti,5000 for another trip to Japan
save the rest
5000000 $ : I'd quit my medicine studies, put everything on the bank, should be
about 8000 - 10000 $ / per month cash on hand and I'd move to Tokyo,
my job : maybe I'd race a small cup car, like Civic Type R cup or so...
 
a) Would use £5000 for a deposit on a house

b) Pay off some of my brothers and sisters mortages and use the rest for my house and car loan.

c) Pay off all my familys mortages (which would equate to about £1,000,000) Give each of them £250,000 spending money, and put the other £2,500,000 in a high interest savings accout.
 
:drool: I would............

a)Sell 04 Altima( 👎 ). Cover the negative equity with some of the $5000. Get a loan for maybe Focus ZX5.

b)Buy a 350Z or Mustang GT, Land Cruiser(90's), a house, other toys, etc. and invest the rest.

c)Same as "b", except replace the sports car with an used NSX(90's). Also, add vacation home(s), more toys and ealier retirement.
 
A) Probably fix-up the house, and/or go on vacation with my wife. (Both are cars are paid off.)

B) By a nice house in the area (yeah, that's the average price of a new home here). Since the home will be paid off, I'll use my wages to pay for a Lexus.

C) Probably buy a home here, and a nice bit of land in the north part of the state, or a tiny bungalow near the beach. I'll also see the world with my wife. We'll save a bit for our (future) kids to go to college. And save/invest the rest for rainy days.

(I can't imagine myself not working though, unless you have a 50 million category...)
 
£5000: Would go in my savings account, which would contribute to my next car

£500,000: Would move me to Australia and set me up with a hoose and a caar.

£5 Million: Pay everything off (for family also) and pursue a career in Motorsports.
 
A) Invest it in the house.

B) Invest it in a house.

C) Screw the house, I'm getting a yacht.
 
a) I'd buy a new computer and put the rest away for safe keeping

b)First, I'd buy a used 240SX, then I'd set aside $100,000 for regular spending for the next five years while I'm in university (Tuition, rent, bills, car insurance, food, clothes, etc.). I'd take $250,000 and invest it in something long term and low risk, and eventually either spend it on a house later, or keep it as a rainy day fund. The remaining $150,000 I'd donate to cancer research in my friend's name.

c) First, I'd take $1,000,000 and set it aside for a house once I decide to settle down (I'd obviously buy something where I could afford the property taxes and various bills). Secondly, I'd also set aside $100-150k for the next five years for University. I'd then take $2,000,000 and invest it, again as a rainy day fund. That way, I wouldn't have to worry much at all about money for most, if not all of my life. Next I would buy some nice cars. First, a Porsche 911 Carerra S as a daily driver. Second, I would import a R32 Skyline GT-R from Japan. And if I felt the desire to do so, I'd also get a Miata and modify it as a track day car. And I'd probably get a BMW 3 Series for driving around with friends or running errands which require a half decent trunk. Whatever's leftover I'd donate to cancer research (It should be well over $1,000,000 leftover).
 
a) I'd put the $5,000.00 in the bank -- spend it regularly.

b) I'd invest $500,000.00 in a small mansion in Liége (a city in Belgium that's developing quickly), divide it up into appartments and cash in on the rent, then sell it in ten to fifteen years for twice as much.

c) I'd invest about $4,000,000.00 in real estate similar to what I said above. $750,000.00 go in the bank, the remaining $250,000.00 will be spent on a Porsche of some sort and plasma TV's for the entire family!
 
a.) Put it in a mutual fund or in the stock market. I'm not going to just blow 5 grand.

b.) Buy a nice $300,000 house, put a 100 grand into the market, and buy a AMG tuned G-Wagon with the rest.

c.) Buy a million dollar house, put 2 million in the market, get a AMG G-Wagon, a VW Phatoen, and a Corvette. Also I would take a nice trip to somewhere exotic. Not to mention I would buy a nice fishing boat and a home down in Cabo San Lucas.
 
1. I'd pay off some of my loan I used for college the past couple of years.


2. I'd pay off my loan entirely, and put the rest on my bank account and just continue living the way I am now, maybe buying some more games / cd's than I do now and a tv... that's all.

3. I'd buy a house near my university, get started on my drivers license and get myself a car and gather interest on the rest of my money. I wouldn't be a big spender blowing the 5 million away in a couple of years.
 
a) Certificate of deposit
b) Certificate of deposit
c) Well, a couple certificates of deposit.
And not tell anyone.

Seriously, everyone would royally hate you if you had that much money. I'd rather just go about my life the way I do now, and use the money to buy my house/property outright rather than having a loan. Without having to worry about house payments and enough land, nothing can go wrong. You can live for years off a very meager income, and no one can touch you--you own everything you have.
 
(keep in mind 10% tithe)
a. save it
b. save some, buy a ford fusion, pay everything off that i can
c. save half, buy a ford GT for a fun car, mercedes S65 sedan for my daily driver (or M5 sedan, or both) buy a house and pay it off (keeping it around 200,000 for the house, i hate big houses) pay everything else off, and with whats left...decorate my house with nice electronic gizmos :)
 
Solid Lifters
pay off most of the house, buy a beach house for ourselves, new cabin in Big Bear and a bigger boat. Maybe sell the business, and retire for a few years.
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With $5 million you could only pay off "most" of your house? What kind of house do you live in?!
 
a) suzuki gs 500 F
b) the flat we currently rent, the suzuki, a car, a new downhill mountainbike, a computer and save and invest the rest.
c) a house with a big garage, some cars, the suzuki, the bike, the pc, give some away for charity and save and invest the rest.
 
a) Buy the RX-7 I saw the other day.
b)But half in a CD account. 1k of it will go towards the self-publication of my novel. 1k towards self-advertisement of my novel...(okay kidding about that part, it's not enough anywho). I'd definitely get a good start in motorsports as a career though with the other 249k USD.
c)Well....1m in a CD, 1m in another CD, 1m in a third CD. Get an RX-7 RZ 2001 model, do all the cool stuff I can to it, get a license, go to maybe Japan or Germany, take my girlfriend with me, spend 1m on her (it won't be my fault!), and hide from all you folks the rest of my life. lol Seriously, if I won that, I wouldn't want the attention.
 
A) new pistons, bore out cylinders *and rods (funds permitting)
B) new pistons, con rods, bore out cylinders, (large) turbo, intercooler, (small) supercharge, new wheels, new tires, struts + dampers + springs, port and polish, new exhaust, relace seats, fibreglass or carbon fibre body panels, reenforce chassis, honeycomb roll cage, ez-smash lightweigh windows, front spoiler (because im no ricer :sly: ), remove all interior paneling, um...
C) A + B + New house + more cars + new computer....replace everything, pretty much.


And radicool02, since when does a mini cost 5G?I know they're small but bthey aren't THAT small!
 
A) Buy a bike.
B) Buy a house and save rest.
C) Scream like a little school girl. Oh, and save 4.5 million of it. Buying a house and whatever else with the 500k thats left.
 
a) Give it all to charity. $5k is miniscule when you can have $500k or $5m
b) Give it all to scientists studying quantum mechanics in time travel.
c) Help in the development of a time machine so I could go back and win the money several more times. After I had more money than Bill Gates, I'd buy Microsoft, convert it to Linux, and make the world a better place.

(did I include anything about really fast cars in there?)
 

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