First, a million dollars wouldn’t go nearly as far as it once did. Heck, you couldn’t even buy a lot of fairly ordinary homes in Vancouver for a million dollars.
So let’s start with if I had ten million dollars. What would I do with my riches, assuming I hadn’t acquired the money by extorting a bunch of strangely wealthy orphans?
- Buy a fairly ordinary home in Vancouver. That immediately takes care of about 10% of the windfall.
- I suppose I’d get a car of some kind, something nice but not flashy. I’d have to get my driver’s license renewed, too.
- Give a couple million to a few charities/good causes. I don’t have a list yet, I’d have to do some research.
- Buy a 4K TV. honestly, I’d have to come into a lot of money unexpectedly before I could get past the first world guilt of getting something I absolutely positively don’t need.
- Give some money to my co-workers before quitting. Because I’d totally quit. The last two weeks would be glorious.
- Give some money to family and friends–equal amounts, no favorites. No limits on what the money could be used for, as long as it was legal. If someone wants to spend thousands on Beanie Babies, who am I to deny them?
- Stash away a bunch of money in some sort of interest-generating account or investment (one that is stable, not like “I’m investing in Bitcoin because it’s going to keep going up forever!”) so I always have something to fall back on.
- Travel. I’m not sure where. Probably across Canada to start. The U.S. is out for the moment as it seems to be in a possibly never-ending downward spiral and I have no desire to deliberately feed any funds into its current government. Or “government” if you prefer. Also, Europe and other places overseas scare me because I hate flying and taking a cross-Atlantic cruise isn’t much better.
- Buy Twitter and shut it down. I probably couldn’t do this with only $10 million, sadly, but a boy can dream.
- Maybe buy some Beanie Babies. Just kidding. I’d probably buy giant novelty Rubik’s Cubes instead.
- Get one of the high end Wacom Cintiq tablets just to see what the fuss is all about. I’d draw stick men and stick trees and somewhere a poor graphic artist would cry out in anguish at the travesty.
- Buy some macadamia nuts. I love those things but I can’t buy them without thinking they’re some stupid luxury, like caviar or Rolls Royce cars. I wouldn’t buy a lot, though, because that guilt would reassert itself.
- Probably write a lot more lists. This is not necessarily a positive thing, as you can see here.
