If I found $1 on the ground right now, I'd leave it for the next person to pick up.

If I found $10 on the ground right now, I'd use it to buy next week's coffee.

If I found $100 on the ground right now, I'd use it to buy some Christmas presents and not have to hit my bank account quite as hard for Christmas.

If I found $1000 on the ground right now, I'd report it to the police. Then if it ended up coming back to me I'd probably put it towards rent for a month, and watch my bank account grow a little more cushion.

If someone gave me $10,000 today, I'd pay off a couple student loans, and feel a lot more comfortable financially each month.

If someone gave me $100,000 today, I'd pay off all my student loans and finally be able to enjoy my actual income level. I'd stop renting and find a home that my family could make our own.

If someone gave me $1,000,000 today, I'd do a few things. I'd pay off my student loans. I'd rent the house I'm in until I found the house I actually want for the rest of my life. The house would have some modest guest quarters, probably in the form of a mother-in-law apartment. I'd buy a truck and a boat, and invite friends and people I admire to come visit for 2-4 week blocks. I'd keep teaching because it keeps me young and because I've learned how to teach pretty well at this point, but I would reduce my hours. I'd travel with my family, to Iceland and Patagonia, and a few other places.

If someone gave me $10,000,000 today, I'd do everything I would with a million, and try to give most of the rest away, buying similar freedoms for a few people I've looked up to all my life. I'd consider them genius grants for people who have given freely of their time and their experience, with little financial gain.

With a little more freedom, I'd teach really well, help other people figure out how to teach well and hopefully revolutionize public education. I'd develop some really important open source software projects.

But I live quite comfortably in southeast Alaska, where every time I drive to work I look up at the mountains and give a little thanks for living where I do. So while I'd make good use of any money sent my way, I'm working on all these things little by little, and thoroughly enjoying the journey as it is playing out.

With 10k, I'd hire a designer for all the ideas floating around in my head, and move to a bigger city.

With 50k, I'd also hire a developer, to take care of some of those ideas while I take care of others.

Also, with 100k I would do the same and invest some in other peoples ideas.

Buy more Bitcoins, of course.

10K - put everything into savings

50K - put 40K into savings and use 10K to get a hot tub

100K - buy hot tub with 10K and use 90K to buy more land

EDIT: typo

I would buy things in large bulk to save money, getting a safe return on my investment.

- a. $10,000 i. Save $5,000 ii. Invest $1,000 into CrowdFunding Startups iii. Invest $1,000 into Ramen-Noodle Startups iv. Use $3,000 for my own startup.

b. $50,000 i. Save $25,000 ii. Invest $5,000 into CrowdFunding Startups iii. Invest $5,000 into Ramen-Noodle Startups iv. Use $15,000 for my own startup.

c. $100,000 i. Save $50,000 ii. Invest $10,000 into CrowdFunding Startups iii. Invest $10,000 into Ramen-Noodle Startups iv. Use $30,000 for my own startup.