Blogging Challenge Day 6: What would you do if you were given £1m?

Welcome to Day 6! The penultimate blog of the challenge!

What would you do if you were given £1m?

Think about it. What would be the first thing you do?

I am struggling to decide what would be the first thing I would do. The very first. It is a hard amount to fathom having; I have never had more than £2100, and even that was entirely a student loan, so technically I was (and still am *sigh*) in the red. So the most money I have actually had in my 20-years on this earth would be around £1400. So the thought of £1,000,000?! That is mind-blowing. I struggle to comprehend it. I am tempted to write "the first thing I would do is go and buy a burger", but I think that is just because my stomach is craving a burger right now.

I guess it would seem logical to make the first purchase a relatively large one, but also a practical one. While I'd love to say "the first thing I'd do is buy our family home of the last 20 years from the council, so my parents own it like they dreamed they would when they first moved in all those years ago", that would take a matter of weeks to sort out and finalise, so it wouldn't be my first official purchase.

This is a real tough one; the most I have ever spent in one chunk was £433 to stay in an Edinburgh hotel for 7 days in August 2012, but if I had £1m it would feel wrong to not open with some sort of massive transaction. It is hard to work out what I would do; the closest I have come to having lots of money is the fact that Peter Mayhew - a man best known for playing Chewbacca in the Star Wars series - shares my surname. Sadly we're no relation, though to be honest I don't think having that much body hair would suit me.

OK, I have decided. The first thing I'd do: I would go out and have a really expensive meal, where I can enjoy the rich taste of wealthiness and have a toast to my luck. I'd stuff my self with luxury, costly food, so I could sleep well that night.

Now we get onto the fun things; I'd love to go to lots of different locations. Poland; Russia; France; Spain; just see the world, really, staying in expensive hotels and feeling a bit like a more scruffy version of James Bond.

I'd also buy our family home, as I said above, as well as a flat for me and my friends to live in. One day, Jon will come home and find that I've paid someone to knock his room off the building. Oh, how we'll all laugh!
The temptation to use the money for evil pranks would be hard to resist, I'll be honest. I'd love to offer someone £100 to shave off their eyebrows, just to see if they'd do it. Money is power, and power corrupts.

Evil wouldn't be the only path I would walk down, though; I'd do some nice things. I'd donate lots of money to charitable causes, of course, and I'd treat those I care about; I'd love to see PDT's face as I present him with the Power Rangers Morphsuit costume he's always wanted, or follow the news story as I pay Tom Hiddleston to dress up as his Avengers character Loki and visit Mairi, and then watch as the world wonders about the famous actor's "sudden disappearance". I would pay off all my friends' student loans, and we would go on a big holiday, paying someone to film it, and release it as "The Inbetweeners 2".

It would be amazing the things I could do; so if any millionaire is reading this, then you should consider it a shrewd yet fun investment. Feel free to ask for my PayPal details in the comments section.

On a serious note, what would you do with £1m? Let's get some audience interaction going! Leave comments in the comment section of this blog, or below the Facebook link, or in a Tweet to me. I'd love to know what other people would do with the money. Click here to see what Amy chose to do with her hypothetical million (when her blog is up); I think she would spend at least some of it on tattoos. Amy, I totally think you should get "I did the blogging challenge!" tattooed on you. After tomorrow's final day of the challenge, of course. One more day.