Who Wants to Be a Confusionaire: How to Spend your Million!
Publication Date: Sunday, March 02, 2008
The Confused.com million pound giveaway is well underway. As you no doubt know by now, anybody who gets a car insurance or home insurance quote through Confused.com will get the chance to win a cool million, and the prize will be drawn on the 15th of May 2008.
Well, not quite ‘anybody’. The Confused.com staff obviously cannot enter. But this did not stop us from taunting them by asking how they would spend a million, were they to win it. And – being the good sports that they are – they put their bitterness to one side, and told us some fab ways in which they would whittle away their fortune.
Mark Hardwidge tells us: “Assuming that I’d taken care of family and friends and I could blow the rest however I wanted,
- I’d get a pilot license and set up an air safari business in the Masai Mara
- I’d travel the world, going to places that have interesting sounding names (Chappaquiddick Island, Valparaíso, Nether Wallop…)
- I’d buy an Aston Martin DB9 and spend six months driving around America
- I’d resign, which would finally give me time to write The Great Novel that I know is inside me somewhere!”
International playboy Steven Williams says:
“I'd buy a massive bachelor pad, kit it out with a cinema, games room - complete with arcade games, pool table and some foosball. I'd have my own pool and jacuzzi. I'd get the biggest bed I could find, and invite over Hugh Hefner’s fabulous women for one massive party. I'd get a massive garage and buy some really fast cars… One million, spent and thoroughly enjoyed!”
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Tom Bennett said:
“I'd order an Aston Martin V8 Vantage in Mercury Silver with a black and orange interior, give a wedge of cash to a couple of good causes that I support, and do loads of nice things for my wife and son.”
Which good causes Tom?
“Greenpeace and the RNLI.” If you’re a millionaire or otherwise, feel free to support these causes by visiting their sites and making a small donation!
From the sublime to the ridiculous, Lois Burman told us that she would buy the world’s largest ball made from elastic bands, and the two world’s largest frying pans. Unsurprisingly, these three items are currently housed in the US. The largest ball made from elastic bands was made by Steve Milton of Eugene, Oregon, using over 175,000 elastic bands, and has a circumference of 19 feet. The largest frying pan, with a diameter of a whopping 15 feet, is in Rose Hill, North Carolina. It is used annually to fry 365 whole chickens at a fowl festival. The second biggest, measuring a puny 10 feet in diameter, lives in Selbyville, Delaware. Lois continued to tell us that she would invest the rest into genetic research to make humans into giants, which would hopefully get the torch in motion for the first Giant Olympics. These Olympics would feature a bat and ball game, which used the world’s largest elastic ball and frying pans. It is widely agreed that it is a good thing that Lois cannot qualify to win the million.
According to Elaine Smith:
“I’d buy a big house with lots of land, and have a very, very large herd of Highland Coos. And of course I'd have to have a very hunky Highland Coo herdsman to look after them… Don't tell my husband!”
Don’t worry – we won’t. Er… Oops!
Gwyn Lowe would buy Dunbar Rock, just off the coast of Honduras. Which is certainly a compelling idea. The sales blurb reads:
“This beautiful historical landmark was once used as a mooring for the famous pirate Blackbeard. Local legend has it that there is buried treasure on the island. When the owner was constructing the villas, he discovered a hidden cave on the island. He found many pieces of pre-Colombian pottery, but sadly no treasure.”
Which means that the treasure be still out there. Aarrrr!
The next question to ask Gwyn would be – how would he spend the proceeds of the treasure? Today, Dunbar Rock; tomorrow, the world? It could be like playing Monopoly on a full-size Risk board.
A little closer to home, Christina Dunlop would buy “a big turnip in the country”. But in which country? Swede(n)?
For more spending ideas, why not check out www.spendamillion.com - run by a self confessed daydreamer and blogger. You are allocated a virtual million pounds on signing up, and can allocate how you would spend it on your very own millionaire’s wish-list. You can cover yourself in bling, go on your dream holiday, make a low-budget movie, get a mail order spouse… and still have plenty left over to get a pilot’s license and swim in chocolate! The world is your lobster!
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