You get $1,000,000 in the next 5 minutes

[alittlepepper]

Buy a $150,000 home.
Pay cash up front for a $20-22,000 car.
Invest the rest in slow growth mutual funds so that in 20 years that $800k I had left turned into roughly $6-8 million depending on the rates I could get.
Then I would travel.

 

[Thedayrecker]

I'd save some for college, blow the college money on booze and drugs, buy a PS3, a couple games, acessories for said PS3, a new guitar (well more like a new amp an pedal), a car (doesn't have to be new), and I'd give the rest away to charity.

EDIT:[/s] Or maybe save the rest for an apartment.

 

[Dango]

I would probably spend almost all of it on getting my family a much nicer house, and then I would keep the rest until I need it.

 

[Shepsauce]

I'd invest it by starting my own game company with my fellow computer savvy buddies while putting myself through the rest of college, and make sure my newly pregnant girlfriend is comfortable and has anything she needs. Especially a decent ceremony *wink wink* It's not every day that a million dollars just comes along and plops itself in your lap, gotta take advantage of it while it's there rather than saving it for that rainy day that will never come along so long as you do something good with it. At least in my opinion.

 

[Girl With One Eye]

Pay off my debts, buy a house and a car, buy every ps3/xbox game I wanted then store it in a bank until I decide what to invest in next.

 

[Lawyer105]

Pay off my house, shove the rest into investments. Retire 10 years earlier.

 

[garjian]

hmmm...

buy more weights...
buy mass effect 2... and dynasty warriors 5(maybe 6): empires
i might... head down to london and have a look at some clothes...
give my mother some...
order some pizza...
i could be persuaded to buy a PS3 with LBP and SC:IV, if a certain friend at college would play it with me, and not get sick of my patronising/training/killing him...
i might try going out and spending far too much on alcohol, and see what thats like...
maybe id give FFXI a proper go... seeing as i already have it...
ahhh, id buy some good synths...

i think thats about it for the short term... maybe after college id get a consultation about leg lengthening surgery... meh... i havent really more-than-dented the total... so, i guess id invest it or something, or give more to my mum... the more i give that way, the better the house wed move to... but i suppose... upkeep has to be looked at, so maybe it aint a good idea... meh...

ahh!
id get the more recent yu-gi-oh ds game aswell... though some of the newer cards are really fucking that game up...

 

[Flishiz]

Invest it in a broad diversified portfolio of dividend-paying stocks, for 80% of it, and the other 200,000 would all be poured into my favorite corporation EVARRR Silver Wheaton, and I'll enjoy being richer than all you people buying material goods...

 

[IcyEvils]

That's roughly £650,000. Hmm. I'd use it to pay off my family's mortgage, split £100,000 between 10 different charities, keep some for college/later life, give £50,000 to people close to me who need it and buy a ton of books/movies/games & consoles. And go on a year long trip to cousins in Australia.

 

[dnnydllr]

By War Bonds like any patriotic person would...but seriously I'd use it to pay my way through college and then leave the rest for a rainy day...I plan to have quite a few of those in my lifetime.

 

[Wardnath]

Bank it all and live off the interest, I suppose.

 

[Mr. Gency]

Buy my self more Xbox 360s, PS3s, PCs and HDTVs.

Spoiler: Why, you may ask...

 

[Mrsoupcup]

Spend 10% on stuff, the rest on bills and what's left heads to the bank.

 

[GLo Jones]

Definitely not enough for me. I'd need $6 million to buy my island off the coast of Chile, then another $10 mill or so to create more lush housing for friends and make minor renovations to the land (and also capture and rid the island of pumas). I'd then probably need another $20-30 million to buy armaments, a couple of tanks/APCs, and an airfield. Then only if I had another $50 million-ish to fall back on would I declare the island an independent nation (The Republic of Skira), safe in the knowledge that Chile could do fuck all about it and the UN would officially recognise Skira as a nation.

I'd then allow a friend of mine to take charge of an enormous upstart exclusive airsoft site covering at least half the island. It would easily be the world's largest and most authentic airsoft experience. We'd then live off that, and pretty much work our nation from there.

So yeh, give me about $100,000,000 and I'll be happy. $1 million's cool though I guess...

 

[Vhite]

I would spend everything on cupcakes.

 

[JaymesFogarty]

I'd go to M&S and exchange it. Then, I'd get a house, a new car, and the special edition of Bioshock 2. Done.

 

[Dapper Ninja]

I would set it all on fire to show it who's boss.

 

[Sir-jackington]

Pay for me and a bunch of my friends to go to Japan or possibly America, get us all veyr drunk, make some bad decision and return as a disgrace to my country with nothing but a bad hangover, an unwanted tattoo and one less kidney