You are given $1000 that you must spend...

[SSuaveSavior]

Besides spending $997 on a money order, what would you do?

I'd buy survival gear and a plane ticket to somewhere deserted.

 

[backbreaker]

right now.. and i HAD to spend it.. i'd either go to the horse track, or I would go clothes shopping.

 

[speed dawg]

Put it in my emergency fund.

 

[Bible_Belt]

That's about what my 18'x48' high tunnel cost to build. A high tunnel is a greenhouse over dirt. I bend the hoops and cover it with plastic. A high tunnel of tomatoes returns the initial investment in just one year.

I've had $1,000 in my pocket before and taken it to a mall with full intention of blowing it on nothing just because I could. I remember walking around a Kay's Merchandise, looking at everything, and thinking 'it's all crap. I'm going home.'

My attitude toward discretionary spending is that I am always going to look to spend money on something I think I can make money from, like a greenhouse, or at least save money over time to recoup the cost. I bought a cheap motorcycle not too long ago. It looks like a toy, but it gets 60 mpg. I estimate that I will make its cost back in one summer of riding, because my truck only gets 20 mpg. At that point, from my perspective, it's like the bike was free, and I get paid to ride it. By comparison, I used to have a much nicer R1, but that bike cost money to ride.

 

[VikingKing]

Rent. Cigarettes. Some wrist wraps for lifting. Some new clothes (Burlington coat factory, so cheap and nice stuff.)

I mean I'm poor as shivt, I havn't had to work for like 8 months. Unemployment along with working a cash painting job, plus a fat pell grant (because I didn't make much money last year) and the state gi bill and un-subsidized school loan and food stamps. So a thousand is a lot to me.

I'm real tired of working jobs that I have to physically bust my @ss all day. Been paying taxes all my life. So I just found ways to survive until I get an actual career and make real money.

 

[backseatjuan]

One thousand bucks is not much - you are talking about 3 to 4 days of work. Even if you have an office job and making $100 per day, that's still 10 days of work.

For $1000 you could **** 10 hot *****es, or 6 super hot HB 9.5 *****es. You could also smoke weed for whole year, or buy 10 grams of cocaine and shoot it up. You could get drunk and run from cops, pay them $600, and then go and spend the rest on 4 hot *****es, or 2 very hot HB 9.5 *****es. You could pay 3 months worth of rent, paint your car, install audio system, buy a TV, build a computer.

In a country where people buy mercedes and bentley after summer work, or when some burn case full of money while trapped with family in blizert, $1000 is not something that could impress.

 

[Night-hawk]

Two days boarding at Sunshine or Panorama.

 

[taiyuu_otoko]

I'm with Bible. I'd spend it on something that'd make me money, or at least save me money.

Or at the very least, something I'd use a lot that would last a while, like a semi decent mountain bike or something.

 

[VikingKing]

I'm with Bible. I'd spend it on something that'd make me money, or at least save me money.

Or at the very least, something I'd use a lot that would last a while, like a semi decent mountain bike or something.

If I could afford, I would as well.

 

[Mr.Positive]

I'd take that $1000 to the bank, so it can grow over time.

Invest in some mutual fund, foreign currencies....



And, it's gone. Poof.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DT7bX-B1Mg

 

[Bace]

One month in Bali

 

[zekko]

People keep talking about saving it or investing it, isn't that against the you must spend it rule?
Anyway, I could use a new washing machine and some new gutters, so there you go. Not very exciting, I know, but oh well.

 

[Fatal Jay]

gold coins

 

[BMX]

A .40 cal pistol, Outdoor Research foul-weather gear pants and a board.

 

[Zodiac]

I'd assemble a good 72 hour kit along with a few #10 cans of dehydrated food.

 

[n00bPimp]

Pay off credit cards

 

[Huffman]

I've had $1,000 in my pocket before and taken it to a mall with full intention of blowing it on nothing just because I could. I remember walking around a Kay's Merchandise, looking at everything, and thinking 'it's all crap. I'm going home.'

Exactly! When I came out of university, I took a relatively well-paying job. Suddenly I had over 1000 extra every month! I thought long and hard "what am I going to buy?"

A car? Designer furniture? F*ck that. I got a gym membership, took drum lessions and I can treat my pals to a beer without counting the pennies. Don't need much more to be happy!

 

[OzyBoy]

Extra spending money for holidays later this year. : :wave:

 

[Atom Smasher]

New gutters for Zekko.