Re: The one million Euro dress

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That is pretty stupid.

Reading the comments on that site are also rather amusing. Most of the posters are outraged that 1 million Euros would be treated like that what with so many people suffering and starving. Its so selfish. That's funny stuff. Like any of them would turn around and give it all to charity if they got all that cash. Maybe a little but by no means all.

What I find so bad about it is that she didn't put it into some kinds of investments. With a million Euros she could set up an investments to generate a reasonable living for herself, all the more so if she kept a job as well. That's what I see as the waste.

I also wonder if that isn't a violation of some kind of currency tampering laws? Here in the US you could possibly get arrested for doing that with cash, especially so much.

In a message dated 1/14/2010 5:42:36 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, no_reply writes:

Click on the link to see the dress.Administrator

[Guest guest]

I could likely pay through to a doctorate with that much money. I certainly would not spend it on a dress. Also, the dress is a bit tacky.

[Guest guest]

What I found interesting is a link on that page to;

http://ca.lifestyle.yahoo.com/family-relationships/blog/lifestylists/5378/the-th\

row-away-fashion-dilemma

discusing how some fashion retailers just throw away new clothes.

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> The one million Euro dress

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> Who hasn't spent money on something dumb. Whether it's that outfit that looked

great on the rack (but, in retrospect, not so great on your rack), or the pair

of shoes that looks amazing on your feet but you can't walk in them (no, I

haven't done that at all), everyone has regretted a fashion choice.

> But here's one could possibly be the silliest thing ever. A UK man won two

million Euros in the lottery -- that's three million Canadian dollars -- and

gave half of it to his daughter. The daughter took her share -- that's 1.5

million Canadian dollars -- and stitched every single Euro into the dress.

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> Apart from the fact that the dress is, (let's face it) not the nicest looking

dress, what happens when she's bored of it? Can she take those bills off and

take them to the bank? I asked our finance editor, who, after looking at me

strangely, said that it would be up to the bank to decide on whether to accept

the money. But he did say that retailers would be within their rights not to

accept extremely damaged bills.

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> It just seems that in a time when we're only now coming out of a recession and

companies are deliberating throwing away clothes the one million euro could have

been spent in a much better way.

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> I'm pretty sure that this is a big joke or a publicity stunt.

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> What you think of the dress? And if you won the lottery, how would you spend

the money?

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