How many school lunch bills can be paid with that?
Or tuition for how many community college students?
this post was submitted on 20 Mar 2025
25 points (96.3% liked)
Ask
286 readers
216 users here now
Rules
- Be nice
- Posts must be legitimate questions (no rage bait or sea lioning)
- No spam
- NSFW allowed if tagged
- No politics
- For support questions, please go to !newtolemmy@lemmy.ca
founded 1 week ago
MODERATORS
Why no houses? I'm sure I could find a house that they could sign over that day if I paid the whole million in cash. It'd be a shithole anyway, if it's only a million bucks.
I guess I could buy a million dollars worth of shares in something that will likely go up by a few cents if not a few dollars the next day, so I could immediately sell the shares and would have more than 1 million.
Medical debt. Just buy up as many people's medical debt as I can.
Your halo is in the mail.
This is fucking brilliant! I'm in the UK so not to rub it in, but we have the NHS...
Go to all the dealerships in my town and buy up as much inventory as possible. You can purchase the cars that day and pay cash in full but you won't receive them for a while. While you wait you have a few days to weeks to coordinate with as many groups as possible to "give" those cars to families in need assuming they can cover the cost of insurance for that vehicle.
Well, being is that I already have all of the equipment set up, I could just pay off my house and all of my debts with the remaining, I don't know, $600,000 just buy jewelry and cars that I can then resell in the future or something if need be.
1 million dollars... worth of pudding.
I like your style. You could travel through the city bestowing pudding on everyone
I buy $1M worth of gold. Definitely something that could be done in a day, and it's a good investment and highly liquid.
That's only about what twenty pounds? That actually seems pretty reasonable.
Good call! How would you even get your hands on a millions worth though? Although you could probably just buy a load of Tiffany's stuff and resell it
I'd find a well-established shop that sells gold bullion, go there, and tell them I'd like to purchase a million dollars' worth. Probably not the most efficient way, but it would be very fast and I think I can get by with losing a few percent of my new fortune.
If you live in a city with a decent size manufacturing scene you could also absolutely buy a million dollars worth of metal from a supplier in town. Especially higher end alloys and metals
But I think it'd probably be easier to buy a million dollars worth of jewelry.
Gold jewelry doesn't have as much inherent value as bullion, so it would be harder to sell without losing money. And in 24 hours I could easily drive to a big city for the purchase (or just book a flight with a tiny fraction of the money).
I don't think you have to sell it though? At least not from reading the original post
But a million is also not that much. I'd imagine any jewelry store in a mall has multiple millions worth of inventory
I don't have to sell it, but I assume I'll want to eventually. And yeah a million isn't really that much for a precious metal shop anyways.
Nice plan!
Online dealers order to house?
My partner is not an artist, but he could paint something on some nice paper in a few minutes. Buy a frame, give him the rest of the $1mil, proudly display the piece in our house. I trust him to use that money well.
Ah... Brewster's Gambit. A classic move.
This is genius!!! If he's not willing to do it I selflessly offer to help you for a 10%. But only because I'm altruistic
Drugs 😊
A bunch of visa giftcards.
Stocks
Stocks are currently T+1, meaning the trade does not finalize until the next day.
In my country they're finalized immediately
Move to this guy's country, buy stocks
How do you day trade in your country?
A 60’ sailing catamaran ah damn the rule ok well lemme think
Is this a "Brewster's Millions" scenario, where it has to be wasted, or do you just have to buy a bunch of crap?
Also, I'm presuming you aren't counting time for the check/etc to clear. Otherwise, very few of us could ever even conceivably make that level of transaction.
Take out a loan using the million dollars collateral and then pay it off with the million dollars?
Stocks, crypto, favors, etc
Favours, of course! Genius
But you have to say it like Tom Papa - "sexual favooors"
There's basically nothing I could buy and have it delivered in the same day anywhere near that amount unless you count stocks or something.
My first instinct was solar and battery for the house, electric car, new tractor, farm supplies, and home improvement (japanese houses aren't great and I would basically gut and rebuild my house as a net zero at least passivhaus).
I would buy myself a nice camera and several lenses (easy $200K right there), a new phone, and a new car. I would then donate the rest to the local homeless shelter.
Donating really doesn't feel like it adheres to the spirit of the question tbh. Frankly I bet if I had a solid 24 hours during the standard work week and a million in cash, I could get a home sale closed, though. Without mortgages, as a buyer I can skip inspections insurance etc and I'm fairly sure it could be done.
That's a good idea, but could the solicitors do their side? Although for 25k I bet you they'd find a way
load more comments
(1 replies)
Easy - index funds.
Usually takes a couple of days to go through no?
Depends on your broker, but generally they can process same day
some art about a banana duct-taped into a wall
There's a lotus dealership up the road, or a Corvette dealership a little farther. Honestly I'm very close to several luxury car dealerships so I would just buy a few cars.
I invest it.
What into?
Investments.
I'd just give it to my money guy, he's got all the strategy details laid out.
You have a money guy? I'm picturing you as Gordon gecko
Better than Gordon Gekko
I just needed to diversify my tech stocks and plan for retirement. I actually work for a living.
view more: next ›