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I’m back in skool, and one of the course exercises is to spend one billion dollars, with no residual income from your purchases, in six weeks or less.
Rules such as not being able to purchase anything thats not for sale already (Can’t buy Bank One Ballpark). Can’t buy anything illegal, and can only give to charity up to thirty million.
Any ideas how to spend this kind of loot?
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Wasn't this a movie? Brewster's Millions, or something similar? I think he ran for office, then dropped out of the race, rented a lot of things, threw some parties....
*........in other words, become a politician.......and declare war on a small country.
*This looks like an opportunity to bail out all the U.S. airlines and fund AMTRAK as well. If you have any cash left over after that you can buy me a new van.
*Estimate for the military activities in Afganistan are one billion per month.About 30 million people in California, 20% are smokers, at 2 packs per day and $3/pack that's one billion dollars in a month. No residual income just some residual cancers.Or buy everyone in Washington state all their gasoline for a month.Or cover the cost of Alaska's "Permanent Fund Dividend" for one October. Last month 580,000 Alaskan each got a check for $1826 just for taking up space for another year. -David
*Pay me One billion dollars for financial advice.My advice: dont pay anyone One billion$ unless they know what they are talking aboutoops too late pay up!
*A yacht. A private jet. Places to put them. It's a start.Rich Beckman
*Could you do a takeover of a small company traded on the stock exchange? The stockb isfor sale.Rich Beckman
*Place ads in every paper, magazine, radio show and network broadcast in the world, ..."ChrisR, one really cool dude". 200 million worth?
*Go into outer space on a Russian rocket a few times?Party with a coupla dozen cases of $1,000 a bottle wine/champagne/etc., on a privately chartered concorde, to a $$$$$ private island for a bit?6 weeks with Demi Moore means you owe Woody $72 mill - what was that movie?Wait.I'm a programmer, I should have thought of this sooner. There's no bigger black hole in the universe than software development. Gimme $1B, and in six weeks, I'll still be "working out a bug" (wink) on the planet's most killer app ever. So, you'll have no residual nothing, my services are already for sale, all on the up and up, and i'm no charity case.
*A billion is a lot of dough. I once heard a comparison between a million and a billion. If you counted dollar bills at the rate of one per second, it would take about 2 weeks to count out a million dollars. To count out a billion dollars would take i 32 years.
*Chris,If you're married this will be really easy. Just let your wife paint the living room.This will inevitably upset the delicate balance of the universe and lead to all sorts of decorating and remodeling costs that will easily top one billion dollars without leaving anything left for a new wide-screen TV, pick-up truck or new tools for you.But hey, if she's happy, you're happy right?Eric
*Eric,I just have to let the wife go to the mall and e to the tool store and that wont be enough money, In fact Ill end up charging some on the credit cards
*Here's what I have so far...West coast home purchase 2.6 million, with another 500 thousand in furnishings. Need high dollar homes in other areas (allowed 4) BUT..can have outbuildings of any size such as woodshops, hotrod parking and automotive shops built on site, etc.,etc.,Need to know of big CNC type machines to build my lawn furniture etc. I figure it should take at least a few million worth of tooling to build a patio table and chair set able to accomodate 3 or 4 hundred of my closest friends for live concerts and the like on weekends. All the custom cut steaks and beer that you could possibly imagine after flying you all first class to New Zealand and a weekend of hang gliding.THINK BIG TOOLING!
*There was a little shack in Aspen that just sold for 22 million. I' ll bet if you can find some of cheap estates 10 mil + through the Dupont registry or maybe Christies Real Estate.
*If you're thinking Big CNC's think Cincinati-Milacron, Haas, Okuma, Famar, Matsuura. Or a nice one is Bystronic Laser Cutters. I think my former Boss got one of those for about 2 Mil. If you go with CNC's remember that you also need to add on instalation costs and shipping. Another cool toy would be a Giotto spinning lathe. Lets you form sheet metal into cool shapes. You can check out used prices on high cost toys at http://www.dovebid.com, then see if you can find new prices for the same stuff elsewhere.
*Yeah, now we're thinking! I've got six weeks to do this and it's harder than I thought. Instructor says he knows of nobody who's ever spent the whole bannana.
*he aient gave my wife a chance, i took away her debit card and the economy took a dump what does that tell ya
*i Instructor says he knows of nobody who's ever spent the whole bannana.Interesting! What class is this for, Chris? Perhaps you could also invest in (rent = spend) a lot of $ for storage space for all these things you buy. Surely there are also mines for sale--although perhaps they might appreciate. What if you bought a ton of fixer-uppers and hired lots of folks to remodel them, and paid them top dollar? Oh, that would make them appreciate, too. Hmmm.Does prof have a source to which he refers to ok/nix your dollar figures for your spending list?
*If you can' have any residual income then you can't buy any thing with any lasting value. I'm sticking with my first idea. Or may be one Kick-ass Party! Mr. T. Pay up!
*Follow the US Military for a week or so. they buy plenty of stuff and when there done with it they sell it for scrap to the highest bidder. Which ends up being pennies on the dollar return. Fund a military research project. Oh boy could they go through a Billion like water.
*You guys are buying things with residual value. You're donating to individuals which I'm sure doesn't follow the rules. You're donating to the military, again not fair. I'm trying to think about people who provide services that have no value. Running for political office seems like a legitimate expense. All of the consultants and advertising may have residual value though, if you learn anything. Most services aren't expensive enough to amount to anything.Another idea is perishable items(Vegetables, fruit, bread, you get the idea) Buy these items on the open market and hire people to haul them to locations where they spoil. It has to be somewhere, where they can't be brought back from or used as fertilizer.Rental products: Houses, cars, airplanes, ocean liners, the concourse. What are the rules, we're missing something.Terry
*Buy every other politician in the country.No residual value.Already for sale.
*No residualb income!Not no residual value! There's a difference.Rich Beckman
*Kai, The class is part of a grouping at a Tech institute, teaching ways of gaining information using ONLY the internet. Step one of a degree program in computer networking, moving on from the basics to acually building a network system. Anyway...The rules are pretty simple with limitations on donations,core purchase of housing (may buy up to four houses in any area, not topping 100 mill) but no rules on furnishing or options. Hence my idea to purchase a CNC machine to build a titanium BBQ. Herein lies the problem...where to purchase sheets of titanium or the CNC machine and have a verifiable price sheet or the like to add to a list of internet addresses. Get the idea? I have gotten to the point of home purchase and an outbuilding (shop), but filling it with 5 or 6 hundred dollar slide saws and the like is tough. A billion is a damn big number to spend.So far I've spent 500 million and run out of ideas.Got a bad ass dream shop though!
*What's it cost for a lobbiest ? How many lobbiests permitted per politician ? How many politicians are there. (At all levels.) Pay for the maximum allowed number of lobbiests, for every politician everywhere, to lobby for a single minute on a single day, when all tv stations have to carry a short video of you blowing the biggest bubble gum bubble you can. Or something similarly wasteful.
*Interesting, Chris. So things you purchase can maintain their value, just not appreciate? Have you tried contacting anyone who has one, and see where they purchased? http://www.city.sdccd.net/degrees/certificates.asp has three CNC certificate programs--they had to obtain the machines somewhere.
*hey I got a idea, RK sure would help you go through that money quickly with his tapes, videos, CDs boot camps ect thats one way to get rid of that amount of money and get nothing of value for it.
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I'm back in skool, and one of the course exercises is to spend one billion dollars, with no residual income from your purchases, in six weeks or less.
Rules such as not being able to purchase anything thats not for sale already (Can't buy Bank One Ballpark). Can't buy anything illegal, and can only give to charity up to thirty million.
Any ideas how to spend this kind of loot?