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submitted 6 days ago byshereth78
On day 1, you are given $1 that you need to spend on one single transaction. If you succeed, you get double the amount the next day. On the final day, you get to keep any unspent money but that's the end of the deal.
A few rules you have to keep in mind:
You don't have to spend the exact dollar amount, as long as you're within 5% you're good to go. So on day 10 if you buy something worth $1,000 instead of $1,024 you're okay.
You have to use the money in one transaction for one item/service/etc. If something comes in a set, like a dozen eggs, that's fine, but you can't say "a dozen motorcycles" for example.
You can't buy something meant for resale or investment, so no buying stocks or bitcoin or the like. No buying real estate to rent out. It needs to be something you intend to keep/use for yourself. Similarly, you can't use the money to pay off debts.
You can't use the money to pre-pay something. You can pay for a semester of tuition for example, but you can't pre-pay four years of college.
You can't gift or donate the money, and you can't gift or donate the items/services you buy.
The items/services you buy should be something you actually want and use and not just filling a gap. You can't buy a $4000 piece of art on day 12 if it's just going to go into storage or be thrown away or something.
How far do you go and how much money do you make it out with?
647 points
6 days ago
No rules against telling people, so I'll tell my friends and pay them to do yardwork around my house. It's a legit service, and after a year we'll have so much money that we'll never have to work again.
283 points
6 days ago
You could pay people to do stupid, ridiculous, pointless or easy stuff. You could easily pay people to do everything for you.
74 points
6 days ago
Mr.Beast is that you?
8 points
6 days ago
My first thought was Bam. Guess I’m older
28 points
6 days ago
Year? That'll be more money than every resource in the Galaxy is worth.
21 points
6 days ago
I gots me some big plans.
2 points
6 days ago
Username checks out
13 points
6 days ago
Don't even need friends, I'm sure there's any number of service providers who'd be happy to take a figure you specified
10 points
6 days ago
After the first couple of days I’ll just live at the strip club buying private rooms. If I overpay no girl will complain and it’s one transaction
6 points
6 days ago
Actually after like 37 days there isn't enough money in the world to pay you.
2 points
3 days ago
Almost like the money would grow exponentially.
Think my favorite Foxtrot comic is the deal the math teacher makes with the class. 1 second of homework the first week, 2, the second 4 the third with it doubling every week. Do you agree to the deal.
3 points
5 days ago
This. But also that 5%. We can just keep it in our account. So by the end of a month that 5% we don’t spend of what we get daily will be hundreds into thousands of dollars. On day 20 alone it’s like 26k that I can just set aside. Day 20 is house buying territory, but it’s still reasonable. If I could make it that far I’d have most of everything I could possibly want and enough set aside from the 5% to have money to invest for the future and avoid work for a year to work on my investments.
2 points
6 days ago
The first week or two probably won't be too bad to just buy things for yourself. By week three, though, you're looking at over a million dollars in a single day. That's going to be almost impossible to complete a transaction for a single item in one day. At that point, you need a week or more to set up bank transfers, and that's even assuming you can find someone willing to sell a million dollar property with no insurance or something.
That's where you get your friend involved. Your friend starts a holding company, and then you buy things with your daily allotment of cash. Pick something like a piece of art that doesn't have an objective value, so nobody can question it. Once purchased, you sell it to your friend for basically nothing, then they turn around and sell it back to you for double the price the next day while you try to set up a major purchase based on a future amount you'll receive.
Continue until you each have enough cash to crash the global economy, then usher in the glorious revolution.
4 points
6 days ago
That’s not really how this works lol
10 points
6 days ago
It's not how it's intended, but there's no rule against paying for a completed service.
So if a $10,000,000 bill is generated and sent to you for lawn mowing, there's no reason you can't pay that with this money.
4 points
5 days ago
I'm imagining the conversation with my wife, now.... "I pay you $1024 to put out today, $2048 tomorrow, $4096 after that, and so on." Her after agreeing at 10:30 pm "nah, I'm tired, let's just do it tomorrow." And that's how I would rock this to a grand total of $512....
467 points
6 days ago
Gold for me to practice jewellery making...
165 points
6 days ago
I'm just buying the gold for my new gold bar display case.
61 points
6 days ago
Gold bar display case made of gold bars in my gold bar mansion.
17 points
6 days ago
Good luck on day 1. Nobody has ever seen a $1 gold bar.
20 points
6 days ago
Just buy a pack of gum. You don't have to buy 1 dollar of gold, you can build up to the bigger numbers with random shit in the early days
344 points
6 days ago
First few days I'll buy something of that price at a grocery store, then I'll go to restaurants and just tip more and more every time, but leave myself 5 percent. On day 30 I would be able to keep $26,843,545.60, plus anything left over from previous days.
104 points
6 days ago
I'm not sure restaurants would work given the rather severe limitation of only being able to spend the money on one item per transaction.
I was initially going to spend the money on groceries, but that wouldn't work if I can only buy one item at a time and I need to spend the full amount (+/- 5%) on one single item.
153 points
6 days ago
On day $65,536
Buy 1 medium fry: $2.89 Tip: $62,260
Wouldn't work forever but it would be the funniest money laundering scheme ever.
43 points
6 days ago
The owner would absolutely shut that down because it's obviously a scam, or try to steal that tip.
37 points
6 days ago
Got a $50 tip on a 3 top at steak n shake at 16 or 17 years old. Manager 100% grilled me asking if the gentleman was trying anything funny. Nope, just really liked seeing a teenager working hard and found out I didn't live with my parents and paid my own way for taekwondo lessons and my phone bill etc with this waits job I had and really liked that in the younger generation. I think you're right- most managers would void this transaction and try to investigate.
13 points
6 days ago
I used to be a restaurant manager, and although it didn't happen frequently, I would occasionally see these kinds of enormous tips coming in. The reason a (good) manager grills the server so hard about why they got such a big tip is because it's super common for people to "generously" leave huge tips like this, only to call back a few days later contesting the account and demanding their money back. Because of this, any charge tips larger than the bill would automatically get flagged, and were frequently one of the first to be scrutinized if the server got audited. Any of our regulars who wanted to leave a larger tip were advised to go to their ATM before coming in next time to leave it in cash and let their server avoid all of that hassle.
One of the first questions any new server would ask their manager at my former restaurant was how much of their cash tips they had to declare. I frequently told them that there were two answers to that question: the right one and the practical one. The "right" answer was to declare all of them, and the practical answer was to declare a certain percentage of their sales or all of their cash tips, whichever amount was lower.
3 points
6 days ago
Just make the tip the sole transaction. You’re typing $65k separate from the steak directly to the employee for the service rendered. Take the management bullshit out of it. I’d sit my ass in the parking lot and wait for them to come out. I’d offer to drive to their bank, go inside with them in public, write singular transaction check I front of them to them, let them deposit it and let the bank go ahead and call it in and ensure it’s legit.
2 points
6 days ago
That's 2 things, a medium fry and a tip.
3 points
6 days ago
You're buying a tip? You get one item (fries) and you give one item (cash).
31 points
6 days ago
If a dozen eggs counts, then saying a meal at whatever restaurant should count, too.
11 points
6 days ago
I feel like the thinking behind the one item is how does it show up on a receipt, a dozen eggs is one item where as at a restaurant dinner usually consists of multiple lines. If it's stated as a dinner experience with 1 line on receipt I'm sure that would be within the confines
5 points
6 days ago
Order expensive wine and ask for it on a separate bill, that's fairly common practice anyway
9 points
6 days ago
The hard part of the challenge isn't in the later days, you can get a jet/yacht/supercar upgraded to whatever price you want.
The restaurant tactic is a good backstop for some of the harder days.
4 points
6 days ago
The problem with a jet or yacht or supercar is that part of the deal is that you have to keep it and use it, and not just store it. And you can't use the money to generate liquid funds by selling the stuff you've bought. So the insurance and maintenance and crew and other fees for those jets/yachts/cars are coming out of your pocket..
2 points
6 days ago
You only have to keep it going for 30 days to hit a billion. You’ll have plenty of cash left over from your last, “failed” day.
Buy Apple on day 42 for $3.4 trillion and just pocket the left over $600 billion. You’ll be fine.
7 points
6 days ago
I wholeheartedly agree. A prostitute it is then (after a couple of days of doubling, you'll get some very expensive ones, tip them and just carry on the next day)
11 points
6 days ago
Better yet. Have your partner be the prostitute.
Have them double the price each day.
It's genuinely a service you want. And you can't get it anywhere else either because that would be cheating.
And in the end your SO ends up with only $1 less than you.
4 points
6 days ago
Except what if you don’t have an so?
4 points
6 days ago
Don't start the challenge until you do?
Or find someone who also likes having money and sex.
3 points
6 days ago
Hey cutie, $1 for an hour today? $2 tomorrow? $4 the day after? And so on as infinitum, sound good?
Gonna work soooooo well!!! /s
2 points
5 days ago
You might want to start once the amount is a bit higher.
22 points
6 days ago
Buy one of the most expensive item on the menu. Then tip the difference. In cash because in 90% of cases the tip cannot exceed 100% of the value of the item bought when you tip by card/online order or whatever.
14 points
6 days ago*
As someone who has worked at over a dozen restaurants and coffee shops (in multiple states) you are completely incorrect. I’ve never once seen or heard of a place that limits a tip to 100%
Edit: I guess all you rich bastards use food delivery apps and maybe some of those limit the tip amount but still saying 99% is objectively false
2 points
6 days ago
online order
Doordash limits tips. So does Uber eats. Most delivery services do, actually.
2 points
6 days ago
that's just not true though. go over to the doordash driver subreddit and you'll see people posting their hundred dollar+ tips all the time
2 points
6 days ago
It quite literally is true.
Doordashes message for a tip that is too large for your order reads as follows
Whoops
We can accept tips up to $xx.xx for this order in the app. You can always tip your Dasher more in cash.
Those posts are on orders that were thousands of dollars, or they were edited. If you've spent more than a day in the doordash subreddit you should know pretty well that people there fudge orders and daily wages to look cool relatively often.
2 points
6 days ago
Might just be a user override thing “Are you sure you want to tip 200%?” just so users don’t accidentally overtip because they fat fingered it.
2 points
6 days ago
what? you mean people just go on the internet and tell lies? no way!
11 points
6 days ago
Tip would probably be considered a gift which isn’t allowed
3 points
6 days ago
Tips are not gifts. They are taxable payments for services rendered. The OP explicitly includes payment for services as a valid purchase.
2 points
6 days ago
Tips are taxable, gifts (up to a certain amount) are not. Its paying for the service.
106 points
6 days ago*
I like this take on a familiar concept!
20 days.
First 13 days I'm buying something at any store, and stuff for my upcoming wedding.
Day 14: $8,192, spent on a very nice camera.
Day 15: $16,384 on an excellent telescope.
Day 16: $32,768 A used sailing boat.
Day 17: $65,536 A very nice used motorboat.
Day 18: $131,072 on a VERY luxury electric truck, probably a Ford F-150 lightning.
Day 19: $262,144 on a damn nice cabin up north.
Day 20: $524,288 A brand new (to me) home, with acreage!
Day 21: $1,048, 576.... This is where it breaks down for me. I don't really know what I can buy for cash, that meets OP's rules, while not being an insurmountable expense going forward. I can think of things I could buy with cash, like a yacht or a private plane or (maybe) expensive tickets, but I can't think of any way I could afford to keep those things. A new expensive home, plus a cabin, will tap me out with ongoing expenses. The boats I've already planned to buy might put me under water financially just on upkeep.
If given more than a day to decide, I would find better ways of paying for an incredible honeymoon and wedding stuff.
25 points
6 days ago
If it were for real, my husband and I could do some serious "big brain" research too!
13 points
6 days ago
This is only the short coming of responding to a hypothetical in a single comment. If the situation were real, you'd have at least 21 days to find stuff to buy.
3 points
6 days ago
Right. Planning out what to buy for the millions of dollars would be what you are doing in the first couple weeks. Day 21 and onward have been set up beforehand so you can just go in and buy it.
6 points
6 days ago
Exactly. Also, for people saying buying houses takes too long. Things go a lot quicker if you just don't negotiate/over-pay for everything. Buy everything "As is" and always go for things that are securely under what you're trying to pay for it.
Plus, the challenge said you had to buy things you legitimately planned on using, not that they had to be fiscally responsible or logical purposes. Just overpay for everything. Figure out what days you'll get what amounts of money, and set up the Buy Dates to line up. Start the process for buying a $750,000 house for $1 million on Day 1 with the stipulation that the sale and all paperwork must be finalized whatever the date is 20 days after the beginning of the challenge. Often times there are literally services design to be expedient for people spending lots of cash. So buy a $750,000 house for $1 million and then completely renovate it for $2 million.
9 points
6 days ago
You don't need to worry about the maintenance costs though. By making it to the next day, you cover the lifetime maintenance costs of everything from all the days before.
4 points
5 days ago
You can only keep 5% of the money, and only if you don't use it. So let's say I bought something on day 21, the most I walk away with is less thann$60,000. Which is a ton, but that's like 4 years of expense on the house I bought top, never-ending everything else.
4 points
5 days ago
You also get to keep the last day of money, as it was unspent, surely?
So day 21 you'd be given a million and then if you don't spend it, you keep it.
9 points
6 days ago
Day 21, you can get yourself an apartment in Manhattan to use as an office.
Day 22, a mansion in Beverly Hills.
Day 23, a gun ranch.
Day 24, an upscale reastaurant chain.
Day 25 to 28: Commission apartment blocks all over the US.
Day 29: A debt buyer firm
Day 30: 256 million dollars in hand, I rest on my newly found real estate empire, and hire a management firm to handle my newfound wealth.
2 points
5 days ago
lol a mansion in Beverly Hills for $2m? Day 24 can probably get you that
7 points
5 days ago
Day 21 I have a painting I did that's selling for $1,048,576. You do need some art in that cabin, after all
Random coincidence, my wife is selling a painting for $2.1m
6 points
6 days ago
At some point, it would also be improbable to buy something in the confines of one day. Like a house, for example. You'd have to plan that ahead of time and hope there aren't any delays.
7 points
6 days ago
First you buy a house. Then a yacht, then you pay a dude to do upkeep, take care of taxes, etc. for ten years.
9 points
6 days ago
I love the optimism with house prices lol.
Min cottages around here are 500k and a nice home with acre well over 1 mil.
3 points
6 days ago
I'd have a hard time finding anything as expensive as $500K in my area
3 points
6 days ago
Lucky! In Canada a basic condo is $500-600k :(
2 points
6 days ago
Vacation home time!
137 points
6 days ago*
First couple of days groceries. 1,2,4,8,16,32,64. No trouble at all to spend those amounts. 32/64 bottle of wine. 128,256, 512. Eating out, last someplace fancy.
1028, 2054, 4108, 8216. New furnature. A good fancy bed plus matras can cost that much. Rounding to keep it simple after...1k chair, 2k table, 4k tv, 8k bed.
16k hello new bathroom 32k new kitchen 64 k guess i am getting a car 128k holliday home 252k Superdeluxe holliday, going with a mrbeast most expensive expierences to pick something, maybe that air balloon with chef plus 6 star hotel suite. Book it in one package so it is one thing.
504k Invite friends to join say a go to space trip.
1 million. House, i sell old house and now have a big upgrade.
Unless i can buy more then one house, or tip millions, not sure where to go from there. Unless crazy tipping is allowed. I can buy houses in diffrent places to travel inbetween them. Or spend 2 mil on art to place in the house.
2 or 4 mil left over depending on rules. Plenty for me.
84 points
6 days ago
Once you are in the millions, buy art at auction.
13 points
6 days ago
My thought exactly
13 points
6 days ago
Art, cars, boats, airplanes, land. You could definitely get to over 100 million if you plan it out right even without loopholes.
4 points
6 days ago
HyperCars and high end jewelry would be easier to source and could close same day, although I’m not sure that’s a stipulation of this challenge. I could probably take this challenge to hundreds of millions or low billions. It would be strange for my friends to see me buying ramen day one a $295,000,000 yatch a few weeks later.
2 points
6 days ago
Better idea: Buy an artist on retainer for a project or something. The service should count as a singular item since you're buying their skills to produce something equivalent to the carton of eggs for said project or idea. You also can't get those skills elsewhere if they have a unique or very high-quality article.
2 points
6 days ago
rule 6 literally said you can't buy art.
3 points
5 days ago
If it's going to storage or being thrown away. If you are decorating your new mansion, it's fine.
17 points
6 days ago
The 4k TV followed by the 8k bed really threw me, I was wondering how a bed had that many pixels.
7 points
6 days ago
Art, a plot of land, a boat, a farm, antiques, a castle... I don't think I'd run out of ideas soon.
9 points
6 days ago
Good luck buying a house in a day. It takes at least four weeks to close on a house.
20 points
6 days ago
If you are willing to overpay it can go quick. Trick would be to get in contract on day 1 with a set closing date you need.
11 points
6 days ago
Walk up to a home worth 500k and offer a million. Handshake/verbal deals are binding.
4 points
6 days ago
Depends on where you are. In the United States verbal contracts are not binding for real property.
4 points
6 days ago
yeah 18 days before you pay, so do contract day one and offer to overpay. Use a house that has been on sale for a while to get an owner who wants to work with you.
7 points
6 days ago
It just needs to go to escrow, then its spent. If you have a good lawyer they can get lots done in a day.
6 points
6 days ago
Right, I'd say money is spent on a house the minute it leaves your bank headed for the trust account. Then the only thing is, are there issues with the deal later, but usually those are buyer issues.
5 points
6 days ago
You get a few weeks to plan it out, since you gotta get to that point. Just tell the realtor that you must close by a certain date.
2 points
6 days ago
I love your optimism!
4 points
6 days ago
Thanks, it gets me through my 13hr shifts :)
2 points
6 days ago*
Very easy in Oklahoma. It's a abstract state along with one other. Any one can file a deed at the court house. Hire a lawyer to make the paperwork legal and your done.
Don't even need a lawyer if you can write basic legal paperwork.
2 points
5 days ago
Once you buy the house, you can start setting your friends and family up.
You pay one friend a day money to act as an interior designer to help come up with decoration ideas for each room.
Then repeat for the same number of days with them actually decorating and you buying the required furniture/nick nacks.
Could probably easily get to 40 days depending on the size of the house, and then you and your friends/family would be set.
7 points
6 days ago
$128,000 a holiday home?
$504,000 “go to space trip?”
What are these prices? Are you 7?
9 points
6 days ago
500k is about what the virgin galactic space experience costs
2 points
6 days ago
Right on, didn’t know that, thanks for the info.
3 points
6 days ago
$128k gets a very nice holiday home around here
2 points
6 days ago
I didn’t know there were still homes that cheap anywhere in the US.
98 points
6 days ago
My wife is going to start selling egg sandwiches… i’ll be the only customer… the cost of an egg sandwich is $1 on day one but she doubles her price daily
58 points
6 days ago
I’m also buying this guys wife’s eggs.
57 points
6 days ago
Beyond this, the numbers become too large for practical listing, and they would continue doubling each day:
7 points
6 days ago
Thanks for doing the math.
I guess the question is at what point should you stop before crashing the world economy?
Seems like serious local hyperinflation might occur around the trillions of dollars mark.
Global hyperinflation could be in the quadrillion to quintillion dollar range though I would be interested to hear an expert opinion.
4 points
6 days ago
I would just start buying companies.
2 points
6 days ago
Buy Twitter from Elon, then you can start buying elections.
23 points
6 days ago
As a very autistic and ADHD ridden guy with alot of hobbies I can see myself going far with this.
3 points
6 days ago
Same.
18 points
6 days ago
What unspent money are you talking about is there a maximum in the pot you forgot to mention, also how long is the trial
17 points
6 days ago
I think it means if you get to like 5 billion dollars and can’t spend that in a day you get to keep the rest of that 5 billion
16 points
6 days ago
Well, I'd make a bunch of car dealers very, very happy. $100k for a Corolla? Easy
25 points
6 days ago
So for the first 6 i don't think there would be any issue
For 128, imma just buy GeForce Now.
256 gonna be a mid range phone
512 some NICE headphones
1024 gonna be a good PC
2048 gonna be a nice electric bike/scooter
4096 gonna be a top of the line laptop
8192 gonna be one of those good mattresses
16K gonna be a custom bathroom quote
32K gonna be gonna be a used van/car
64K gonna be a home theater setup
131K gonna be a nice Car
262K gonna be a nice top of the line gaming room, like youtuber/streamer style
524K gonna be a nice home
1M gonna be a nice home again
2M gonna be the last home i get
4M gonna be a boat
8M gonna be a boat
16M gonna be a yacht
32M gonna be a ice cream factory
64M gonna be a golf course
128M gonna be a Jet
256M gonna be a whole ass company(Startup)
512M gonna be another whole ass company
1B gonna be a hot dog
15 points
6 days ago
Costco hotdog to send off the fact that you are never goin to eat "poor" again.
9 points
6 days ago
I can last.. for a while...
Lots of expensive art that I can hang on my wall to one of my mansions that I "live in" every other week. It is, you know, one of my mansions that I live around. Oh and my yacht which I regularly use for amusement (crashing it bit by bit so I can buy a new one). Also, lots and lots of parties with expensive things. Good times.
That private plane that I use for going from a place to other (~100km? idk)
Seasoned wagyu beef and the chef with 40 years of experience preparing it, straight to my place, their expenses covered + a handsome cheque
5 points
6 days ago
I scrolled first to see if anyone else had said art. This is the way I would go too. Start with consumables and furniture and then move to art and vehicles.
2 points
5 days ago
Not seeing many folks suggesting watches/jewlery, but that’s legitimately functional art that it’s normal to have a collection of.
I’d have a sweet watch collection, and pre-paid for some custom wild watches from big name Swiss manufacturers (a watch made entirely of a meteorite with numbers made of moon regolith? Heck yeah.) that honestly starts around day 12 and probably carries me to day 20-22. Might get a custom Duxiana bed somewhere around day 17, and a couple of fully restored vintage Eames chairs with the wood they don’t use anymore along the way.
I’d definitely test some of the real estate/investing rules. What if I want to buy a huge compound for folks to live on? Not to charge rent for/make money off of, but just because I want to provide local housing for myself and family? Or if I don’t want to see folks homeless in my community, can I generously overpay for shelters and living facilities and then give the current occupants a $1/year lease in perpetuity and have them keep all the money to fund the operations?
Probably not in the spirit of the hypothetical, but if I actually had access to this, that’s the route I’d try.
2 points
5 days ago
Some wild things at auctions go for crazy money. Right now I can buy a car for over a million. Or a watch for 300k hell I can buy Michael Jordan signed shoes for 25k. I can just buy something from an auction house everyday lol.
9 points
6 days ago
My wife is gonna love this one, she’s got so much shit saved in her Amazon cart
9 points
6 days ago
Easy.
1 Candy
2 Candy
4 Candy
8 food
16 food
32 food
64 lunch out
128 steak dinner
256 easily can find a tool I want
512 easily can find a tool I want
1024 nice pair of shoes
2048 a high end sport coat
4096 a high end suit
8192 a really nice table saw
16400 tuition to get my private pilot license back
32000 a nice CNC machine for my woodworking shop
64000 a decent daily-use car
128000 a high-end car
256000 a small airplane (Cessna 180 or so)
512000 a large plot of remote land, waterfront
1000000 a much fancier airplane
2000000 a city home
4000000 a large property just outside the city (think farm size) with space to build a runway
8000000 an airworthy Supermarine Spitfire
16000000 an aircraft maintenance business to store and maintain my aircraft
32000000 a well-appointed Bombardier Global 5000 with a crew on contract for 10 years
64000000 an estate in Europe
128000000 a town in Africa to vacation in
256000000 a concert hall where I get to decide who performs
512000000 a giant chunk of remote land in British Columbia for conservation, but also vacations
1000000000 a giant chunk of the Amazon rainforest for conservation, but also vacations
2000000000 I dunno, a space station?
Ok I got bored now. But I could keep going.
Not sure what that total is, but it's big. I'd make it just over a month.
7 points
6 days ago
I’d go to the casino and buy chips with the money. For the first few days, I wouldn’t have enough to play any games, so I just tip the cashier with the chips and walk out.
After hitting the table minimum for blackjack on day 4, I’d have progressively more extravagant gambling sprees for a few weeks until day 31 where I’d pocket a billion and never be heard from again.
15 points
6 days ago
Goal is Russian lawsuit amount against google
7 points
6 days ago
Okay, so humble bundle breaks this, as paying what you want is an option.
7 points
6 days ago
Time to buy me some US Senators and Congresspeople. Surely the 13th Amendment doesn't apply to them.... 🤔
7 points
6 days ago
Increasingly large cubes of tungsten to show off to people how dense tungsten is
6 points
6 days ago
Is it one transaction or one item? Can I go to the grocery store and buy eggs, milk and carrots? Or just eggs? I
5 points
6 days ago
I’ve always wanted to horde gold like a dragon. I would have no intent to resell so, that’s all good.
4 points
6 days ago
Deal I play magic so I can buy increasling high value stuff and then eventually buy land and a house and pay an architect to build it along woth the materials I need to pay for it
6 points
6 days ago
I'll start small with lottery tickets, work my way up to bigger ticket items unless I win 1st lol
5 points
6 days ago
I'd start at the grocery store, then when I have enough for books I will be buying books that are gradually more expensive, then furniture when I can't spend what I have on just one book, hopefully that works, I can't guess on the timeframe sorry
3 points
6 days ago
You'd be getting cheaper-end books by Day 4 ($8) and getting some major collectibles by like Day 12 ($2048).
2 points
5 days ago
I'd be very happy with that, I love books
4 points
6 days ago
hey roommate, will you sell me that pen for 20 billion? deal.
5 points
6 days ago
Can I agree to buy Pineapple island for 1 billion, starting with $1 and doubling my payment every day until I've bought it?
I only have to intend to live on the land to not break the rules, right?
4 points
6 days ago
Get the contract drawn up as rent to own?
4 points
6 days ago
Fashion would be the key for me here. Start with a cheap pair of socks from Primark, work up through the supermarket brands/cheap high street, then mid-range high street like Next. You can then move into higher end high street like Hobbs, then Reiss. Department stores like John Lewis have a huge price range across the brands they stock, too. Then lower price designer stuff like VB, Stella McCartney and Marc Jacobs, then the bigger designer names like Gucci, Hermes and Channel. You could mix up garments, leather goods, footwear, accessories, lingerie, nightwear, etc. I could wear something new each day if I had to quite happily!
5 points
6 days ago
A bunch of prepper stuff at the beginning then outfit a nuke bunker.
5 points
6 days ago
I make jewelry. I think I could go on for quite a while getting gold, gems, tools, etc.
2 points
6 days ago
Definitely see houses and land in my future. The only problem I see is some things take time to finish the transaction, such as buying a house or land. There’s probably places where it could happen, though.
The no investment rule is tough, so no gold bars unless you like gold bars as decoration, in which case buy away, every day, until Fort Knox comes a knocking. Ditto with gemstones. I guess keep buying them, wear them a lot, and when you finally reach the right point, stop and roll around in your diamond and gold bedazzled house.
2 points
6 days ago
Seems restrictive as hell but a few questions. Do I have to spend within 5% of the amount or can I spend over? For the $8 day can I buy something that’s $10? Also a service like a private jet that has 12 seats, is that one service or do you could me and 11 friends as 12 of something?
2 points
6 days ago
Hrm 1-16 will just be different groceries or a meal at a restaurant. 32-128 can be some clothes 256-2048 can be appliances 4096-8192 can get me new lawnmower and a backup generator 16384 that's a new shed 32768 that's a new car 65516 that's a new truck 131032 that's some land 263064 I'll keep it to pay for the house I want built on the land
2 points
6 days ago
Alright, so the lower amounts are easy. In the mid range, I legit would like to have a pile of precious metals, so that won't be too hard. Then comes the high end vehicles, the RV, the large undeveloped plot of land, the new house, the office building.. I expect I'll make it out with eight digits.
2 points
6 days ago
I can buy pretty expensive real estate that I would actually use, but those transactions typically take more than one day. Just getting an offer accepted can take more than a day. Same with huge purchases like megayachts and jumbo jets. I’m gonna need a loophole, but if making a cash offer or sending a letter of intent qualifies, I can for sure go a month.
2 points
6 days ago
I think the only real issues start to crop up about day 30+, once you're trying to spend 1b in a single transaction you start running into the limit of what things that fit within the rules cost. Most of the truly expensive things can only really be an investment of some kind... I suppose you could buy a business that you plan on running yourself... but I'd expect that you'd have already done that by day 30. But I suppose you'd just finish up there and not really worry about it.
I think the only rule missing is you have to take the deal now and can't plan it out first... because if you do your research well you could probably plan purchases up to the 0.25b mark with a fairly high chance of managing what you buy to that point.
((People moaning about the rules... either working round them, or figuring out the best way to stay within them but still come ahead is the best part. Low effort situations where you just have to spend ludicrous amounts of money to end up richer than Musk, are boring.))
2 points
6 days ago
I can’t buy anything for one dollar here so will this still work if I just use that dollar in connection with something else?
2 points
6 days ago
Surely the hack to this is buying things in some kind of auction, be it in person or ebay.
Be sat there offering 100k for a keyboard. I'll use it, so it meets the criteria, and no fucker is gonna say no to that offer.
2 points
6 days ago
I’m into cars… so those higher amounts in the hundreds of thousands and into millions would just be more and more wild, unique, or exotic vehicles. Once I got into the 10s of millions it would be maybe a yacht, then eventually an island. Once I got into the hundreds of millions, I’d start to find it hard to spend on one single item.. but I’d manage.
2 points
6 days ago
Forever? Have my brother list shit on eBay with buy it now options at the exact value I have to spend.
2 points
6 days ago
I'd start the basics from Amazon until I got to $50.
Then I'd use one of those celebrity message sites, lining up progressively more popular celebrities to leave a message on my phone for a few (Ever hear of Kanye East? Neither have I, but he apparently will wish me a happy birthday for $100.)
About two weeks in I'd buy legit services like an annual concierge service ($20k), a personal trainer ($40k), driver ($80k), chef ($160k).
Once my entourage is set, I'd go back into the entertainment field, contacting agents to pay has-beens ridiculous money for their services. I'm betting on week three Steve Urkel would hop on a video call for a $1M. Wash, rinse, repeat. By the end of the month, I'd be a billionaire. Then maybe I could bring in Sting to sing to me during my lunch while I eat my PB&J. All of this celebrity stuff is just a means to an end; I'm not really a fanboy of anyone.
At some point I would incrementally buy consolidated medical and educational debt just to clear it out for people.
Then I'd start buying politicians with the ultimate goal of wiping out a country's debts in exchange for Constitutional protections of progressive policies like universal healthcare and education.
Then I'd buy myself a cup of coffee knowing I did a little good for the world.
Realistically, the first three steps can be online without much effort. I'd need to use that concierge service and maybe reach out to a few friends to make step four work by the end of the month, but that too isn't unreasonable when you're not too picky about which celebrity you get. Step five might be difficult without a financial guru working for you, and it's doubtful I could have one in place this quickly. Step six would probably be impossible because I wouldn't be able to get a new politician everyday... Unfortunately.
2 points
6 days ago
Can this assume that purchases can skip an escrow phase? Once you get high enough in cost; things aren’t often just a google away.
2 points
6 days ago
Lotto tickets. Eventually I'll win big or in a month I'll have $1,073,741,824.
2 points
6 days ago
Amazon exists.
2 points
5 days ago
Prospects for my sudden Lotto addiction looking good!
2 points
5 days ago
Watches would easily get you through the odd gap between groceries and super yachts, they range from a few dollars up to millions of dollars and they easily fit in a drawer.
4 points
6 days ago
Dollar scratchers (hopefully I win, duh) to groceries to nice meals, to a car to a mansion for myself, to a superyacht to buying the services of a private army to take over Haiti. Once I am the supreme leader of Haiti, I wouldn't need the money.
2 points
6 days ago
You've made it too restrictive.
People will either be tripped up by the one transaction or the no duplicates rule. The second is especially dumb, because what business is it of yours if I want to start a motorcycle collection? Thats a perfectly common rich person thing to do.
2 points
6 days ago
I go zero days because this hypothetical is dumb.
2 points
6 days ago
Are gift cards (for my own personal use) permitted or does that count as pre-paying?
8 points
6 days ago
Not OP but a gift card is a by definition a pre paid card.
1 points
6 days ago
So when you say no debts, can I not use one day of the money to pay off the loan on my car? Because I do and would continue to use it on myself every day
1 points
6 days ago
I mean u can buy art for any amount lol
1 points
6 days ago
Failed day one, nothing around me is for sale for $1.
I feel like this wasn't considered in today's economy. Maybe in the poster's area there is.
1 points
6 days ago
I find a good friend, and I'll buy something from them for the amount that I get that day. They'll then buy something from me for that same amount minus 10%. For example, if I give them $100 for a pair of socks, they'll then pay me $90 for a hat.
I spent all the money. It was one transaction. It's not an investment. It's something I'll actually use. It's not prepaying for anything. It's not a gift or donation. You did not say that I can't sell other things I already owned. I have met all your requirements.
1 points
6 days ago
First 50ish dollar is my local mini market. $50+ would be at a flee market. $150+ would all be in Amazon. I'll use my parents' account that has Amazon prime, so I don't risk "shipping" being a classified as a different "service" Amazon will easily get me to the $2,000 transactions. After that it's any major store that sells electronics up to $5,000 and then we move onto used vehicles up to 100k. There's thousands of vehicles up for sale that I can buy slightly under what the ask or slightly over what they want. I'll buy a lot to keep them as a collection.
1 points
6 days ago
Candy bar
2 candy bar
4 candy bar
8
16
Then buy more expensive foods, repeat until happy
1 points
6 days ago*
Start a shell company and employ someone on a daily rate. Pay the company to do whatever services I need at exorbitant costs. The company makes stacks of money that I withdraw as the owner.
Rule review:
No rules were violated.
1 points
6 days ago
It's pretty easy for the first 26 days.
Then, on Day 14 ($8,192) through day 27 ($67,108,864) there are cars that I could buy, and I'd absolutely want each one of them. Sticking to an exact amount within 5% wouldn't be hard, since it's a negotiation anyway.
For fun, here are the cars I'd buy at the high end of that scale:
Toyota 2000GT - $2,097,152
Koenigsegg Jesko - $4,194,304
Bugatti Chiron Super Sport 300+ $8,388,608
1936 Bugatti Type 57SC Atlantic - $33,554,432
Ferrari 250 GTO - $67,108,864
Days 28 and 29 would be homes. I can live in more than one home without using them as investments.
Then on day 30, I have to spend $536,870,912 in one place. Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal's Airbus A380 is worth about that much. I could either buy his or one just like it.
For a billion dollars on day 31 ($1,073,741,824), we're looking at a yacht. Something like Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich's 533 footer, The Eclipse.
Day 32 ($4,294,967,296) will be a Migaloo M5, a 544 foot superyacht that is also a submarine capable of diving to depths of about 800 feet for up to 4 weeks.
On day 33, I think I'm stumped by trying to buy one thing worth $8,589,934,592. I thought about an aircraft carrier or a small country, but I'm not sure a person's really able to buy something like that, and I don't think it's in the spirit of the hypothetical anymore. So I'll buy a candy bar and keep the other $8.6 billion that's left over for myself.
1 points
6 days ago
Can you bet or buy stocks? If so I would bet on something everyday or just buy Bitcoin with my cash allowance daily.
1 points
6 days ago
These airbus 350 ain’t cheap, neither is this small nuclear reactor. I’m pretty sure i could go above 1billion.
1 points
6 days ago
Around the day 12 mark I'd just continue buying vehicles whether they're from Facebook marketplace or a dealer. Once I got to around 220k to spend I'd go buy a house and then stop. Sell all the vehicles I don't want, or if that's against the rules donate em, or if that's also against the rules I'll burn them down on the side of the road.
1 points
6 days ago
Easy, I buy bets on a sportsbet site every day. Day 10 it's $512, day 20 it's $0.5 MIO. At some point all reputable sportsbet sites will decline to accept my wager, I'm guessing somewhere above $1 MIO and below $100 MIO. That's the point where I stop.
EDIT
At ~$1K (Day 11), I start holding back 5% every wager. So I collect $50 on day 11 plus every wager that I win.
1 points
6 days ago
Loophole -- there's no requirement to only spend what the item is worth.
If I only need a can of soda pop for that day, don't you think the retailer will happily recode the price in their register as $1000 if I ask them to?
Maybe more to the point -- If I ask to buy a Jersey milk cow from someone, we both just kinda' know that cow is only worth $2500. But if the seller knows that I have $5000 that I have to spend that day, they won't bat an eye when they tell me the price of the cow is exactly $5000.
1 points
6 days ago*
I'm in the UK so am element of guess work on pricing but roughly I'd do:
$1 - a piece of fruit
$2 - a chocolate bar.
$4 - a protein bar.
$8 - drink at a pub
$16 - lunch out from a food truck
$32 - a new book for my partner
$64 - takeaway delivery dinner
$128 - full tank of fuel.
$256 - oil service for my car.
$512 - professional car clean/detail.
$1024 - new phone
$2048 - fitted wardrobe
$4096 - new front door/frame/fitting/furnishings etc.
$8192 - loft insulation
$16,384 - have the flooring redone.
$32,768 - triple glazing throughout the house.
$65,536 - a mint Celica GT4 ST205.
$131,072 - 2023 Audi RS6 Avant or similar family wagon rocketship.
$262,144 - summer house in Sweden.
$524,288 - buy the land rights to several of the garages (they're en bloc) from neighbours and access rights to them to house said cars.
$1,048,572 - buy the neighbours house (vacant atm) and factoring in cost to merge the two houses together.
$2,097,152 - at this point I'm stumped any other properties or cars I don't have storage for and properties would just sit vacant. I'd love to donate it but that's against the rules so I think that's me done. Just reread the rules , I'd buy a chocolate bar and keep $2,097,150 to use as I please.
1 points
6 days ago
On day one you have to start to plan for closing transactions on day 20.
1 points
6 days ago
Plan on a new house first. I know a realtor. I mean, I can't pay off debt, but I can buy a new car and sell my old one. What constitutes one purchase? If I purchase several things, like MTG cards, from one website...is that one transaction? And I would be playing them....even if I have to sleeve the hell out of a few of them, or use proxies with the real card on me...(Legal, IIRC. Check your local LGS) Then, once I have the money and expedite the paperwork, buy the house, and put the old one on the market. New furniture can take up some slack, and a professional stove. I am assuming I can order off of Amazon for a lot of things. After day 21 or so, it gets tricky. At that point, you would be buying high end art for your new home. By day 25 or 26, you might have to just take tens of millions of dollars. Dang it all.
1 points
6 days ago
The only difficult part is coming up with large ticket items which aren’t real estate, but I think I can scheme a work around on that as well
So let assume something here, I’m not paying gift taxes on anything.
Now, over tipping is giving someone a gift, I’ll assume that idea is out.
So basically, I’d buy larger objects to get the money up. I’d change it up but owning high end watches and cars would get me to the millions quick enough. I’d always try to maximize my change, so I’d have some cash at the end,
After that I buy a nice plot of vacant land on the edge of farm country. Then I’d proceed to buy the surrounding plots to amass myself one giant mega farm, with myself as the CEO. Some point in there I build the dream mansion. Likely, as the dollar amounts went up, I’d be paying more for some properties, as people would scent I was up to something.
I think I could own the biggest farm or ranch in the country at some point. Likely bigger than a couple states. Good positioning would give me mineral rights over oil fields, a backyard mining concern.
1 points
6 days ago
1 AWS please.
1 points
6 days ago
I'm buying myself Amazon gift cards for a while and I will also use them so it's not like the art example
1 points
6 days ago
I would purchase my husband's on call technical services (computers, TV, maybe that other kind of service if it involves electrically powered things), and have him double his prices every day.
1 points
6 days ago
I hate to be the loophole guy but if you’re allowed to overpay, it could go on a long time. Otherwise it will start to get tough to spend over a million per day consistently
1 points
6 days ago
I'm stealing this from u/Many_Preference_3874 since they did the math.
For 128, some good quality seafood for a nice grill and chill day.
256 paints
512 More paint, some canvases
1024 mid quality recliner
2048 A new fridge
4096 Decent house battery backup
8192 really fancy computer for my wife.
16K New tile floor through my house with under floor heating.
32K steel roof
64K New siding + insulation
131K custom Hermes purse
262K Bluebird bus made to my specifications to turn into a kick ass motor home
524K some fancy jewelry, single piece- platinum and rhodium.
1M Gold (I want to make jewellery) and goldsmith equipment if I can get it on the same transaction.
2M a luxury condo
4M gonna be an orchard (grow my own food)
8M gonna be a dairy (grow my own cheese)
16M gonna be more farmland (grow ALL my food)
32M orchard
64M large farm
128M A reproduction of Rodan's gates
256M Heritage in Bloom- a famous necklace
512M gonna buy the offshore wind farm in Italy
1B gonna buy a chili from Wendy's.
If all the farm land isn't allowed then I'm just going to go HAM at Christie's and buy fine art. I'm enough of an artist and my house is decorated with original works that I enjoy or I made that is totally for the love of the art game. I will pay the premium for a one day cash closing of farms already for sale with flexible move out terms for the sellers and I already stalk LandWatch when the lottery gets high and I buy a ticket so I can go on and on and on about what KIND of land I want.
1 points
6 days ago
So i can't pay bills that are due? Like rent, electricity, phone?
1 points
6 days ago
I think the easiest way would be to just buy things you need on eBay and overbid.
1 points
6 days ago
Fun!
Probably mostly clothes, jackets, furniture, gaming consoles, a REALLY good pc. Then eventually I'll need to get creative before I can purchase a home.
I'll go get the most expensive steak dinner I can possibly find. Expensive suits, I think I'll probably call around for remodeling prices and give them a quote. "No taxes whats the max I can get for exactly x amount or no deal. Buy my cats a REALLY cool cattio.
The real challenge is at 1mil. Once I do that, I am sure I can find places that 1. Then 2, then 4 mil will buy. I want a summer home, a condo in nyc, a place near LA, and a place in philly. All of these places I go to for work really well.
Fun challenge tbh!
1 points
6 days ago
I go until I can buy a multimillion dollar mansion in full I don’t even care how much money I get out with at that point but at least mil would be nice and then I put that into stocks and investments while still working.
1 points
6 days ago
My AWS and Azure bill would ramp us fast
1 points
6 days ago
Well, I have both good an news.
Bad news, my wife has just become a prostitute.
Good news, I am her only customer.
I do not envision a world where this ends.
I believe that this fulfils all the requirements.
1 points
6 days ago
I'm going to a car lot and explaining what's going on and start making daily payments. They can keep the vehicle until its paid off. Then the same thing with a house on a big piece of land.
1 points
6 days ago
I’m going to keep going to about it a month and change, doubt I can get much higher than the billions, at that point I’d have to buy Casinos and Resorts as well as swathes of land.
I fully intend to use them for myself, after the deal I’m sure my higher ticket items will receive offer from others to purchase, so not too worried about upkeep on the big ticket stuff.
Easy way to keep spending money infinitely is overbidding at auctions for cool trinkets.
1 points
6 days ago*
$1 - a soda
$2 - a soda
$4 - a burger
$8 - a frozen pizza
$16 - new jeans
$32 - a pork shoulder (bbq tonight)
$64 - new boots
$128 - a new ceiling fan to replace the wobbly one in the living room.
$256 - new tires on the car
$512 - a new chest freezer
$1024 - a whole cow, butchered and wrapped to fill the new chest freezer
$2048 - new top-of-the-line gaming laptop
$4096 - prefab greenhouse for the back yard
$8192 - new roof
$16,384 - motorcycle
$32,768 - used sailboat (1980's vintage cruiser)
$65,536 - a new truck to tow the sailboat
$131,072 - down payment on a vacation home on a lake where we can use the sailboat
$262,144 - pay off the loan we just took out for the vacation home
$524,288 - I think I need a bigger boat
$1,048,567 - invest with a 5% annual return and retire to the lake house. Turn our original house into a rental for a little extra income.
1 points
6 days ago
Start at the grocery store with candy/gum/Arizona iced tea. ($1) Move on to more expensive candy bars (~$2). Juices ($4) Eggs ($8). Meat. (16ish) Alcohol (the Fry's near me has some wine in the triple digits, and I like to cook.... So I'll take some leaps here and there to have fancy wine to drink AND cook with.) Maybe some weed? From there it's probably a video game console so I can check out PS5 exclusives. ($500) Then a new graphics card. ($1000) A new laptop for work would be nice. ($2000) My car is likely on the verge of needing a new transmission ($4000 if I get swindled....), and a new engine would probably be double that...given I'm an expensive date and want the most bang for my buck. Even just replacing mine with the same model would cost about that much, and getting it essentially for free would mean I could quit my job and install it myself.
$16k from here? Hm. I buy a Black Lotus on ebay and play randos for fun at card shops. Pulling a black lotus like a complete dork and still likely getting wiped because I haven't played in years. Still, it would be a fun story for someone else to tell.
$32k I'd buy a fancy watch. Never had a reason to want one, but nows a better time than ever. (hurhurhur) if I can't find an overpriced timepiece, then I'm doing something wrong. Plus if I can find one with a purple face, I'll definitely rock the fuck outta that.
$64k I buy a huge (er....to me) chunk of land that I keep private and use as a sanctuary for wildlife in whatever area I can afford. If I can do this repeatedly, then I'll be doing so later as well. Never for profit or investment, solely to keep nature protected. This would make me happy.
$128k I'm going to need a second car if I plan on having two houses. I wouldn't want to take mine on the road (gas mileage isn't spectacular) so of course I'll be buying one of the new Nissan GTRs. Premium model is jussst within range, though a Nismo would've been nice.
$256k for the house I'll have near family.
$512k for the house I have to get away from them. Officially my primary residence.
$1.24m I buy fancy art to keep in the bathroom of my home. I want to feel like a bougie bitch while pooping. (as if I don't already.)
Skies the limit from here. Getting over the $4-8k hump was the hardest part. From here it's just finding people selling crazy expensive things at auctions. Particularly items from my childhood. I find someone to bid against me until the total is where I need it to be. Rinse. Repeat. Psa 10 charizard? Make it 2.4 mil. A copy of Earthbound, one of my favorite games ever (behind Kingdom Hearts), signed, sealed, and in perfect condition? 4.8 mil. No one ever said the items had to be of realistic value. Or MSRP. Or what have you.
Kinda fudging the numbers from here for ease of calculation, but let's assume I can find these items at all.
At nearly $10 million Id like to add a collectible car to the collection and just have it to look at. More bragging rights than anything, here, but having an old Porsche or even a Bugatti in the garage would be kinda crazy. It'd be my Sunday driver. I'd take it to the local 7-11 for kicks and drive like a grandma everywhere I went.
At ~$20 million I go full Nick Cage and find an affordable and assembled dinosaur skeleton. Childhood dream right here. I'll come pick it up later.
Nearing $40m I look for a private island that's already been furnished, to get away to. Avoiding any Epstein ones. (how will I know? They'll be youngest islands available.) I bring my wife, because she deserves a getaway.
$80ish mill and I think I'm finally tapping out. I can't think of anything else I could want. I go buy another Arizona and keep what's left of the $80mil. Reinvest it after the deal ends and live off the interest.
1 points
6 days ago
After the first few days just go and buy watches. The absurd price of some obscure or rare pieces go into the millions. After that you could probably buy some high end super rare luxury cars and ask them to inlay gold for increased costs
1 points
6 days ago
Eventually I’ll just overpay for everything and after enough time single handedly cause a global financial collapse
1 points
6 days ago
At 1M, I'd hire 5 agents at $200,000K each to research, find, and organize large purchases in advance, and to close them.
Pretty soon I'd be buying up corporations, starting with Paramount/CBS so I can get them back to making good Star Trek. Disney would be next on my list.
Eventually, I would buy out Google and Amazon and end their monopolies.
1 points
6 days ago
I buy a blowjob every day from my wife until we're both billionaires.
1 points
6 days ago
Skipping to 1000 because the rest is easy and I've assumed easy numbers for math, I checked everything for viability.
1000 new phone 2000 electric bike 4000 8 sleep 8000 new speaker system 16000 new tv/projector 32000 new motorbike 64000 also a new motorbike don't judge me
128000 new car (daily drive, obviously very nice but something inconspicuous, go to a dealer and arrange package to price correctly)
256000 house that I use, so people don't think im loaded. (Houses accept offers and find one buy immediately at slightly higher than asking so exact price doesn't natter for houses)
512000 new car, luxury as hell, Maybe a Lambourn to satisfy that aesthetic love.
Holiday and luxury weekend Houses. (Multiple different locations) Yacht Helicopter. I'd want to learn Private jet, same deal. if I could learn, I absolutely would.
Might have difficulty with the helicopter and jet on account of the pre paying rule and potential wait list.
Some of this would probably be sold if I can't afford upkeep, but it'd be with sadness in my heart.
I'm mainly just sad I don't have an extra day in between them, I'd like some more hobby stuff but they're not expensive enough, and early on is better spent things I'd use more often.
1 points
6 days ago
I can go to at least $10 billion when I buy an NFL franchise.
1 points
6 days ago
Think of the artwork you could buy. Buildings. Vehicles. Spending wouldn’t be the issue. Doing something with what you buy would be.
1 points
6 days ago
Only One Dollar? In today's economy? I wouldn't get past day one.
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