My initial reaction is "Invest it so that it can grow into multi-millions!" followed by "Oh wait, over the course of a week I'd watch it dwindle down to 1,000$" followed by "... and then the bank would charge me $900 in fees and miscellany" so I guess in the end I'd spend my $100 on booze.

Um, $1,000,000?
First, I'd buy two houses in Orange County. At $300K Median price, that's maybe $600K. Then I'd take about $10,000 each house to fix it up, etc, and the labor would be about... I don't know, let's go with $1,000 max (I like to spoil my mexican day laborers... we'd watch soccer and drink on the night of the last day of work. It'd be chill.) So that's another $21K off the $400K leaving us with $379K.

Then I'd go to the Apple Store. I'd buy a MacBook Pro 17" ($3500), a MacBook 15" ($1800), an iMac ($2500), a maxed out Mac Pro ($19,000... includes two 30" external monitors)... $26.8K Total

After that I'd go buy some cars at police auctions for dirt cheap. A 2000 Celica that I'd learn to fix up (Cuz I know jack shit about cars), and I don't know, maybe a couple others. I'd use whatever money I have left to pay off my family's debt. And God knows if that would cover it.

Oh, and a shit ton of booze for the housewarming party.

I know you wanted exact numbers but I don't have exact ideas. so I did the best I could.

Oh man, I was going to type something retarded at first, like quoting Lawrence from office space: "Two chicks at the same time, man." However, I thought about it and I think it was kind of a neat thing to consider.

First of all, I'd pay my student loans off. I have about $30,000 in total loans and it would be great to get that off my chest.

With $970,000 left, I'd buy a nice house probably in Texas (I'm assuming I will be working there). I'll probably spend about $200,000 on it. I'd buy a car of some sort, no damn clue what kind because I don't know jack about cars. However, I'm guessing I'll spend about $20,000 on it. That leaves me with about $750,000.

I want to get three nice HDTVs, probably two Samsung 52" HDTV ($4000) one for a game room, another for my living room, and a 32" for my bedroom ($800). I'll spend $200 on a stand for the living room. That leaves me $745,000.

I would then custom build a Martin D-41 Acoustic guitar ($10,000), and get a Les Paul Custom ($3000). I would round off my guitars with a Peavey/Marshall cabinets/tube head (about $5000). I will soundproof some random room, assuming it to be a music room.

I would buy a new desktop rig ($2000), buy a macbook ($1800), set up a mini bar ($2000).

I will purchase two new cameras. I would get two Canon 1Ds Mrk. 3 bodies ($16,000), a nice rig of L lenses for about $15,000. I'd get some lighting equipment including flashes, umbrellas, studio crap for about $10,000.

I'd save the rest, and give me parents about 40% of what I have left over. They need to retire.

I'd fly all my friends and myself to Amsterdam for the Cannabis Cup and go large. Buy a bunch of beer, absinthe, and fine wines. And of course the dankest bud on the face of the earth.

I'd chill out in the Netherlands for a few months and then wander around the British Isles for a few months. Then I'd head to Germany and wander around, find some family and friends acquired over the nets.

Then I'd head to Morocco, then Egypt, try to kick it in the desert without dying of whiteness, check out the Pyramids. I'd visit a friend in Namibia and smoke some bud, then go check out South Africa. Then I'd visit a friend in Tanzania, then go to Ethiopia.

Then I'd go to Kuwait and visit a friend, then to Israel, possibly. Then turkey, then Greece, then possibly Croatia to try to find some long-lost relatives.

Then I'd go to Finland, visit some friends, then Estonia, then Russia. Then maybe I'd go to Mongolia. Not sure if there's much cracking in Mongolia but fuck it, Genghis Khan, man.

Then head to Nepal, see if I can acclimate to climb around and visit temples, without dying of blackened lungs. Then I'd go to Indonesia and visit more temples, see what drugs I could get away with, and maybe see a drag show for the hell of it. Then I'd go to the Philippines, get an outboard motor and try to hop islands and fish. Then I'd go to Viet Nam and fish some more. After that I'd go to Hong Kong and visit some friends, then China.

Then, I'd go to Japan and settle down for a bit. I'd rent or lease a baller apartment, but not really over the top, just pretty nice. I'd buy the coolest looking street bike I can find, and a pretty nice car to drive at night and when it rains, then I'd try to go to school at Tokyo Institute of Technology (TIT!). I'd probably have to give up smoking for a while, but fuck it, they do AI for god's sake. After I get a degree there I may or may not want to stay there.

If not, I'd first go to Brazil. I'd try to learn Capoeira, drink a lot, and try to find the perfect girl. Then I'd go to Peru, then Mexico. By then a friend I worked with will probably by situated with his Lemon Orchard (provided swine flu doesn't wipe out the region!). Then I'd go to Canada and visit old friends and family.

After all this, if I even have money left, I'd touch down in Washington to reunite with friends and family, then buy a 1969 Dodge Charger and go, with whatever friends would be down, through Oregon to Northern California, the Bay Area, smoking bud the whole way, then throughout Southwest America, find some Peyote, then go to Las Vegas and go large. This whole time I will visit random friends and acquaintances. Hell, I'll even stop in OK and find Endyss. Then I'd go to Louisiana, go large, fish, learn how to wrassle gators, then I'd go to D.C. and see some family, see the Smithsonian. Then I'd go to New York, go large, see some hip-hop shows, then go to Boston.

If I still have money left, I'd buy an iPod. Idiot friend lost my old one. If I have money yet, I'd buy a pack of bacon, fry the whole thing, and eat it.



CORRECTIONS: What I explained for Indonesia was actually supposed to be Thailand. I would go to Indonesia, too, though.

Also worth noting that when travelling around the world I would NOT stay in a fucking resort hotel. I'd stay in hostels and when I could, outside or at random people's houses.

/thread.

Ahhhh_crap is the winner.

hah....my answer is actually my intended path anyways. Only thing I may not acomplish is getting into MIT but I'm going to do my damndest to try anyways. And I don't consider it saving, I consider it blowing the money on something worthwhile, namely me and even more money and fun for me (seriously, I intend on starting my own aerospace company, I intend on fucking around with rockets for fun and pay.)