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If I had a million dollars, I'd be rich...

Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2012 9:18 pm
by Ad Orientem
... or not. Lately I have been mildly amused (and occasionally disgusted) by what the mega wealthy are spending their bucks on. So I thought I'd start a thread for things to blow insane amounts of money on. Here are a few things to get the ball rolling...

Living in a New York City hotel condo that you paid $15 million for and then paying near a half million a year on top of that for "maintenance."
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/26/reale ... -fees.html

$10 million for Al Capone's Miami Beach getaway house...
http://www.zillow.com/blog/2012-08-21/h ... es-estate/

$500 million (rumored) for the Hawaiian island of Lanai...
http://www.cnbc.com/id/48570175

$95 million for the sailing yacht Athena now for sale (price does not include the roughly $10 million in annual crew and upkeep expenses)...
http://www.yachtforums.com/forums/royal ... thena.html
(OK I will admit the boat made me very very briefly wish I was Bill Gates sole heir.)

Feel free to add your own Gilded Age gazzilionaire trinkets you find.

Re: If I had a million dollars, I'd be rich...

Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2012 4:31 am
by dragoncar
The super rich are blowing all their money on Kraft dinner... they just eat more.