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Save it until the day after Valentine’s Day and buy a large box of chocolate. Buy a sheet of paper and a pencil. Get your palm read at the carnival (for £1 your fortune may be bleak). Buy some Tic-Tacs for the chain-smoker at work. Use it as a very ineffective paper weight. Get the silence of a child if you buy a big lollypop. Give it to the homeless guy in the city centre. Roll it down the hill then try to find it. Park your car for 10 minutes in central London. See how many flushes it takes to get it down the toilet Give it to the CEO of a major oil company, along with the shirt off your back. Tape it to your forehead. Buy a full day’s food for a poor family in Africa. Exchange it for the new £1 coin and hunt for a vending machine that accepts it. Buy a scratch card and turn your £1 into a piece of garbage. Buy two copies of the evening standard and wish you had just read the free metro. Become a very small partner in a very small business. microsoft small business accounting 101 Give it to someone who needs it, that’s just about everyone in the phone book right now. Buy a bunch of jaw breakers and shove them all in your mouth. Rent a car for 7 minutes. Put it in your left hand breast pocket in case a hit man has the wrong person. Be spoilt for choice at the £1 shop. Spend one hour at the penny arcade. Buy a tub of imitation play dough and regress to childhood. Many people who follow me in property know that I am promoting Rick Otton’s strategies for buying property using no bank financing and none of my own money (except a pound)! Exchange it on Craigslist for something cool, like a jigsaw with 5 missing pieces. Travel 100 yards on the tube in central London Fill your tires with air and vacuum the car’s interior. Get something cool in your local Discovery Channel Store’s closing down sale. Download a legal song from iTunes. Stick it on an envelope instead of a stamp – may not get delivered Buy something that will last forever a low energy light bulb Travel back to 1785 and pop it in a savings account. Lose bet Drinks all round at your place – Tea that is. Get fake attention from a stripper for roughly 5 seconds. Buy a few bites of someone’s pizza slice. Put it on the end of a fishing line and play win or lose. Save it (sorry, you currently get very little interest for this). Buy one-thirtieth of one share in Microsoft. Buy a key ring, open up a gift shop at the airport and sell it for £10.