NationStates Jolt Archive


5 million dollars

Not bad
11-07-2006, 08:17
If you had it to leave in your will who or what would you leave it to?
The Mindset
11-07-2006, 08:18
I'd leave it to a furnace. I can't take it with me, but I'm still sure as fucking hell not giving it up.
Neo Undelia
11-07-2006, 08:20
Just out of spite, I'd stipulate that the money be used to build a five million dollar monument to my greatness.:p

Eh, really I'd probably leave it to some charity or something, maybe get a bunch of wells named after me.
Cannot think of a name
11-07-2006, 08:22
Brother to raise my nephew.
Hollip
11-07-2006, 08:31
I would leave the money to my sister, but only if she had me stuffed and somehow attached me to the wings of her private jet. (Which she'd have to buy.)
Mstreeted
11-07-2006, 08:45
I'd split it between five people that mean the most to me

Parents - they can have a mil
Brother - he can have half a mil
Best Friends thay can have 1 mil split 3 ways
Partner & Kids (if I have any at the time) - equally split the rest
IL Ruffino
11-07-2006, 08:47
I'd have a scholarship set up at my school to help those with potential, but no money to back them.

I think it would work for a long time if they kept collecting the bank interest..
Egg and chips
11-07-2006, 09:02
list 10 random people out of the phone book, give each of them a gun, and tell them that the last man standing gets the cash. If I'm going to the afterlife, I'm damn well gonna have some company!
Posi
11-07-2006, 09:07
I'd give about half of it to my family, and the otherhalf to various FOSS groups (like ALSA, Gnash, GNOME, etc.)
Baratstan
11-07-2006, 09:11
Apparently in wills you can put all sorts of crazy conditions to allow the money to be passed on, so the lucky person would have to do something like run the London marathon wearing tin foil.
Kinda Sensible people
11-07-2006, 09:21
I think that I would have to leave some fun behind.

First I would set aside 3 million dollars to go to charities, primarily ones dealing with college scholarships, musical scholarships, and treatment/prevention of abuse.

Then I would cut the 2 million remainder up into 5 parts and assign them to family members and a friend, providing they followed my instrucitons.

1. My mother would have to dye her hair an awful shade of pink and leave it that way for half a year.

2. My father would have to destroy his computer with a sledgehammer.

3. My littlest brother would have to not say a word for 48 hours (that should take him a decade).

4. My other brother would have to learn to play guitar and form a band (he hates rock).

5. My best friend would have to dress up in Chewbacca's outfit for a year and declare himself to be "Jewbacca" (there's a long story behind this, and it's of his own making).

I would also give one penny to the GOP, along with a note reading "Bad Service get's you a one penny tip."
Yootopia
11-07-2006, 10:05
I'd buy some crisps, I think. Kettle Chips, to be precise. Because I'd be rather happy.

But the rest I'd stick in the bank, and then I'd spend it on my friends and such, whilst still letting some of it pile up a bit with interest.
BogMarsh
11-07-2006, 10:08
5 million to invest.
And have to fun -
with the interest.
Nobel Hobos
11-07-2006, 10:12
I'd buy some crisps, I think. Kettle Chips, to be precise. Because I'd be rather happy.

Having 5 million bucks and some Kettle Chips, and being dead would make you happy?
Some people are impossible to please :p
Yootopia
11-07-2006, 10:15
Having 5 million bucks and some Kettle Chips, and being dead would make you happy?
Some people are impossible to please :p
You're forgetting the fact that Kettle Chips are really tasty. I'd want, say, ten packets for the afterlife.

Fine, that's five quid fifty, but it's something.

And I misread the topic - I thought it was "what'd you do if left 5 million dollars".

Urmm I'd probably leave all of it to Water Aid, to stop any bickering amongst family and friends which arises when wills are involved, and Water Aid have a genuinely good idea about how to solve LEDC problems.
Drunk commies deleted
11-07-2006, 16:28
I'd split it between some groups that do good things, like the NRA, ACLU, and People for the American Way.
Franberry
11-07-2006, 16:43
Those "freedom fighters" could sure use some help

or maybe a 5 million dollar diamond statue of me

or maybe to pay for a ticket on a rocketship so my body can be jettisoned into space

or maybe charities...
Barbaric Tribes
11-07-2006, 16:49
Al Queada.
Katganistan
11-07-2006, 16:56
I'd leave it to my nieces and nephews.
Kologk
11-07-2006, 17:02
Two million to charities.

Two million going to my wife/kids if I have any, and my sister if I do not.

One million to be distributed in the following method. My lawyer (or whoever ends up in charge of carrying this out) is to go to anywhere where there are street performers, pick his or her favorite, and give it to them.
Wingarde
11-07-2006, 17:04
...a 5 million dollar diamond statue of me
Given the value of diamonds, that statue will be a lot smaller than you think, and will be vandalized and dismantled before you can even say "WTF". :D
Wilgrove
11-07-2006, 17:07
I would have the access to the 5 million located somewhere on Earth. Whoever finds it first will get the money! The only clue is this. It's somewhere on Earth. :D
Cameroi
11-07-2006, 17:11
indiginous tribal legal funds, nature conservancies, alternative noncommercial radio stations, and a couple of noncommercial online galleries.

i'd give it to soup lines and homeless shelters if they weren't run by christerism and propigandisers of christerism.

=^^=
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The State of Georgia
11-07-2006, 17:34
If you had it to leave in your will who or what would you leave it to?

70% - My Wife.

30% - Church.
Not bad
11-07-2006, 18:35
Id give a million each to my sis and my mother and set up a trust fund for free spaying and neutering of peoples dogs.
Isiseye
11-07-2006, 18:55
If you had it to leave in your will who or what would you leave it to?
family and mayb give a bit to my friends.