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bigblu89
04/26/2024
10:39 AM
#1
Hypothetical:

I hand you a prepaid debit card with a balance of $75,000.

You are given 48 hours to turn the balance from $75k to $0.

The following caveats apply:

When the 48 hours is up, you can have no tangible assets (including stocks) that you didn't already have before the 48 hours started.

You cannot destroy any assets you purchase with the money. So you cant buy a $75,000 car just to crash it.

You cannot use the money to pay down any current debts you have (Mortgage, Credit Cards, Student Loans, etc)

You can only donate $1000 of the money to charity. You can only profit $1000 from any gambling you do, but that money needs to be spent as well.

You cannot grossly overpay for any experience. For example, you cannot go to a restaurant and tip the wait staff $70k just to get rid of the money.

All you can have at the end of the 48 hours is the memories of what you spent the money on.

How would you spend the money?
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Ratchetrockon
04/26/2024
10:39 AM
#2
I'm gonna buy the sennheiser he-1

With the money left over im just gonna buy lotto tickets
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Dungeater
04/26/2024
10:40 AM
#3
ill get two burgers from 5 Guys
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bigblu89
04/26/2024
10:40 AM
#4
Ratchetrockon posted...
I'm gonna buy the sennheiser he-1

Can't

When the 48 hours is up, you can have no tangible assets (including stocks) that you didn't already have before the 48 hours started.

You can only profit $1000 from any gambling you do, but that money needs to be spent as well.
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voldothegr8
04/26/2024
10:41 AM
#5
Easiest hookers and blow answer ever.
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bigblu89
04/26/2024
10:41 AM
#6
voldothegr8 posted...
Easiest hookers and blow answer ever.

Can't

You cannot grossly overpay for any experience.


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ai123
04/26/2024
10:42 AM
#7
Hire 5 Bugatti Chiron for me and friends/family to do a weekend road trip (7,000 per day).
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Ratchetrockon
04/26/2024
10:43 AM
#8
Ahh wtf

I'll think about this later
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SydnieStarlight
04/26/2024
10:43 AM
#9
I'd give it back to you and tell you to leave me alone, since you added a whole bunch of arbitrary stipulations that exclude every single thing I would spend money on.
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mystic_belmont
04/26/2024
10:43 AM
#10
So Brewster's thousands?

Yeah, this is easy.

I can not have any tangible assets? Great, I fix my teeth. And I fix my mom's teeth.

After that, I buy a very nice dinner.
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Bishop_Hastur
04/26/2024
10:43 AM
#11
I wouldn't accept the card. Too many caveats are attached for me to want to deal with it.
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mystic_belmont
04/26/2024
10:44 AM
#12
Or I buy a bunch of Kickstarter projects. They don't fund until months or years later.
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voldothegr8
04/26/2024
10:44 AM
#13
bigblu89 posted...
Can't
Who said anything about overpaying for an experience? $75k for a weekend of debauchery with hookers is fair market price.
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bigblu89
04/26/2024
10:45 AM
#14
mystic_belmont posted...
So Brewster's thousands?

Basically. I watched it the other day and felt the $30 Million would be a tough one, so shrunk it down.

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CRON
04/26/2024
10:45 AM
#15
I'd pay off my debts, finally be able to see a doctor/dentist and get treatment, and hopefully have enough left over to buy a car.
Thanks for reading!
bigblu89
04/26/2024
10:45 AM
#16
voldothegr8 posted...
Who said anything about overpaying for an experience? $75k for a weekend of debauchery with hookers is fair market price.

I'll have to take your word for it. I haven't priced out a hooker recently, or at all. Lol
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Mistere_Man
04/26/2024
10:46 AM
#17
Can I pay down someone elses debt? Like if you have a family member with large debt.
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LeoRavus
04/26/2024
10:46 AM
#18
I guess find the most expensive hotel within reasonable driving distance with the most expensive room service and eat like a king for 2 days.
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bigblu89
04/26/2024
10:46 AM
#19
CRON posted...
I'd pay off my debts, finally be able to see a doctor/dentist and get treatment, and hopefully have enough left over to buy a car.

Can't pay down debts.

You cannot use the money to pay down any current debts you have (Mortgage, Credit Cards, Student Loans, etc)
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04/26/2024
08:02 AM
#20
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Tyranthraxus
04/26/2024
10:46 AM
#21
$50k doing some renovations on my house.

$25k on investments.
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bigblu89
04/26/2024
10:48 AM
#22
Tyranthraxus posted...
$50k doing some renovations on my house.

$25k on investments.

Can't

Not sure if you read though, or maybe I didn't explain it properly, but the only thing you can have when the 48 hours is up is the memories of what you spent the money on. Nothing tangible.
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Board_hunter567
04/26/2024
10:50 AM
#23
Spend it all on a 48 hours blitz advertising campaign for a scam operation/cryptocurrency, wait for the money to roll in from the scam.

If that doesn't count, I guess rent out a big warehouse and do something fun with it.
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Mistere_Man
04/26/2024
10:51 AM
#24
I cant pay my debts, but can I pay off someone elses? Like a family member or just some person on the street?
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DirkDiggles
04/26/2024
10:51 AM
#25
Pay off some bills and then hookers and blow.
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manila2k1
04/26/2024
10:52 AM
#26
You can keep the money because it'll just be a source of stress.
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Tyranthraxus
04/26/2024
10:53 AM
#27
bigblu89 posted...
Can't

Not sure if you read though, or maybe I didn't explain it properly, but the only thing you can have when the 48 hours is up is the memories of what you spent the money on. Nothing tangible.

Ok well 48 hours isn't really enough time to do shit with intangible things so I get some of those high society prostitutes like the ones Tiger Woods was paying $20k a night. Can book same-day first class flights and stay at 5 hotels.

This is a waste of money and not even something I'd do if I could afford it normally but I got no better ideas on how to spend the money.
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theAteam
04/26/2024
10:55 AM
#28
Charter a private jet to LA stay in the nicest hotel/airbnb I can find, go to the nicest restaurant I can find, buy the nicest/most expensive bottle of wine I can find. Generally just have the most extravagant mini-vacation that amount of money can afford.
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LeoRavus
04/26/2024
10:56 AM
#29
What happens if you book a super expensive vacation package including round trip ticket, room, activities, etc. and get there within 48 hours, but stay for a month?
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bigblu89
04/26/2024
10:57 AM
#30
theAteam posted...
Charter a private jet to LA stay in the nicest hotel/airbnb I can find, go to the nicest restaurant I can find, buy the nicest/most expensive bottle of wine I can find. Generally just have the most extravagant mini-vacation that amount of money can afford.

That's more like it!

These are the kind of answers I was hoping for, and not people trying to find workarounds.

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philsov
04/26/2024
10:57 AM
#31
get a lot of cold weather gear. Hot shot myself and a friend to Antarctica or the Canadian Archipelago. Bribe any ranger-type as necessary for the access I crave with snowmobile/jet ski/ATV/etc. Vibe there for about a day, possibly with some awesome-ass drugs, and then head on home.
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Scardude
04/26/2024
11:08 AM
#32
bigblu89 posted...
I'll have to take your word for it. I haven't priced out a hooker recently, or at all. Lol
If he is thinking of the high mile club kind. 75k is change for a weekend. I was bored so I looked it up... For educational purposes
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Xethuminra
04/26/2024
11:13 AM
#33
Rent a tank
Cocytus
04/26/2024
11:15 AM
#34
A big, quick vacation
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NoMeLx22x
04/26/2024
11:20 AM
#36
Probably plan out and purchase a multiple month long trip around the world with my girlfriend, visiting theme parks and other various sites we'd want to see. We can pre-pay for the flights and hotels and tickets, dinners, rental cars, some sort of house sitter for our pets, and spend as much as the money planning out other things relating to the trip.

I think I could do that in 48 hours.
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04/26/2024
09:03 AM
#37
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DoesntMatter
04/26/2024
11:22 AM
#38
this is a stupid hypothetical. the restrictions you placed on this make it so you pretty much can't spend it on anything. what even are you supposed to be able to spend it on?
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bigblu89
04/26/2024
11:23 AM
#39
Asherlee10 posted...
So the OP is basically asking how we would blow $75k and don't be a responsible adult about it?

I guess. Basically how would you spend it if you can only spend it on experiences and not things.



If so, I would probably pre-pay for a few awesome vacations over the next 12 months and spend the rest on home improvement. I'd probably also buy my buddy an Xbo x since he sold his in order to force himself to finish some work, but now he's done with it and still hasn't bought an Xbox again.

So you cant do that, because those are tangible.
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Cocytus
04/26/2024
11:23 AM
#40
DoesntMatter posted...
this is a stupid hypothetical. the restrictions you placed on this make it so you pretty much can't spend it on anything. what even are you supposed to be able to spend it on?
That was the stipulations in Brewster's Millions.
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bigblu89
04/26/2024
11:24 AM
#41
DoesntMatter posted...
this is a stupid hypothetical. the restrictions you placed on this make it so you pretty much can't spend it on anything. what even are you supposed to be able to spend it on?

The idea is to spend it on experiences and not on things

The general idea of actually living your life and not allowing your happiness come from things you own.
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Iodine
04/26/2024
11:26 AM
#42
Buy all the video games I want, go to the dentist, and buy a new car.
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Guide
04/26/2024
11:27 AM
#43
There are no stipulations saying I can't pay off other people's debts. This may be considered an act of charity, but it is not giving money to charity.
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J03can
04/26/2024
11:29 AM
#44
Go to Vegas and spend it as if I won it
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Enclave
04/26/2024
11:29 AM
#45
Dump it into my mortgage.

edit:

Damn, can't do that. I don't know, what I'd spend it on.
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bigblu89
04/26/2024
11:30 AM
#46
Guide posted...
There are no stipulations saying I can't pay off other people's debts. This may be considered an act of charity, but it is not giving money to charity.
For the sake of argument, and to keep the conversation going, consider that charity.
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bigblu89
04/26/2024
11:32 AM
#47
Iodine posted...
Buy all the video games I want, go to the dentist, and buy a new car.

Cant.

When the 48 hours is up, you can have no tangible assets (including stocks) that you didn't already have before the 48 hours started.

It takes zero effort to be a good person.
Dungeater
04/26/2024
11:32 AM
#48
u cant buy digital games? thats weird
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bigblu89
04/26/2024
11:34 AM
#49
Dungeater posted...
u cant buy digital games? thats weird
For the sake of this exercise, no.

The idea is when the 48 hours is up, you have nothing but the memories of what you spent the money on
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Master_Kazuya
04/26/2024
11:35 AM
#50
"I will give you $75k, but you cannot spend it.

What will you spend it on?"
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