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spent at least a few daydreaming moments fantasizing about
spending money? Not just a few hundred bucks either, but huge,
irresponsible sums of money, all on completely unnecessary
luxury items? Most of us probably have, but sadly, reality tends
to intervene. Just as we’re settling into a meditation about a
chartered plane jetting us off to Aruba, the memory of that
unpaid and overdue $250 phone bill intrudes and throws cold
water on the fantasy.  If one were to make a completely
uneducated guess as to what something like the aforementioned
scenario would cost, $1 million would probably be a common
conjecture. However, it’s 2011 now, and $1 million isn’t what it
used to be. However, that’s in part because a lot of people
simply don’t know how far $1 million can go, and the amount of
time and effort that it would take to spend it. For all the
grousing over the rent, doctor’s bills and car payments, it
would be hard to blow through $1 million just on