I'd probably make that $10,000 into $50,000 through various investing strategies.. and then spend all that 50 k on some toys 
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My plans are to buy a mac Pro before the end of the year. I would buy it rightaway with the best processor, screen and memory.
With £100000 I would buy:
A new 8GB iPod nano
A new 80GB iPod classic
A new 16GB iPod touch
A black MacBook with everything fully upgraded
A 24" iMac fully upgraded
The ultimate gaming PC
A 30" Apple Cinema Display
A 60" Philips Ambilight TV for my room
Surround speakers for above TV
Loads and loads of new clothes
A BMW 1 Series with all the options (I'm starting driving lessons in a few weeks)
My next 2 years at college
With the remaining money I will invest half, and give the other half to friends and family.
And I know I cheated by giving myself £100000 instead of $100000, but everything costs twice as much here.
A new 8GB iPod nano
A new 80GB iPod classic
A new 16GB iPod touch
A black MacBook with everything fully upgraded
A 24" iMac fully upgraded
The ultimate gaming PC
A 30" Apple Cinema Display
A 60" Philips Ambilight TV for my room
Surround speakers for above TV
Loads and loads of new clothes
A BMW 1 Series with all the options (I'm starting driving lessons in a few weeks)
My next 2 years at college
With the remaining money I will invest half, and give the other half to friends and family.
And I know I cheated by giving myself £100000 instead of $100000, but everything costs twice as much here.
Prius decked-out $40k
+ plug-in upgrade $10k
Solar power for my house $10k
CFL+LED lights upgrade for my house $5k
2 Segways (one for me and one for the ball and chain ) $10k
Carbon offsets $5k
Trees and bio-safe landscaping $5k
A bunch of Macs and techno geekery $10k
A night out on the town for me and my friends $5k
+ plug-in upgrade $10k
Solar power for my house $10k
CFL+LED lights upgrade for my house $5k
2 Segways (one for me and one for the ball and chain
) $10kCarbon offsets $5k
Trees and bio-safe landscaping $5k
A bunch of Macs and techno geekery $10k
A night out on the town for me and my friends $5k
The standard answer: Knock down some debt.
I would need way more than that to spend it on something fun
I would need way more than that to spend it on something fun
$7k Short-term debt payoff
$3k To my parents
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$10k
OR
$7k Short-term debt payoff
$5k To my parents
$84k Towards private student loan payoff
$2k HDTV
$2k Other random slurges
------
$100k
...And of course this is assuming its tax free, ha!
$3k To my parents
------
$10k
OR
$7k Short-term debt payoff
$5k To my parents
$84k Towards private student loan payoff
$2k HDTV
$2k Other random slurges
------
$100k
...And of course this is assuming its tax free, ha!
$10,000
I would probably put it all into collage.
$100,000
$20,000 would go to collage.
$50,000 would go to charity
Then I would buy a black MB, maxed out with RAM and HD space. (I don't like MBP's.)
A new PC for games.
Endless microwave pizza's(I'm addicted to those things.)
And whatever's left would be put into a bank for retirement/emergency fund.
I would probably put it all into collage.
$100,000
$20,000 would go to collage.
$50,000 would go to charity
Then I would buy a black MB, maxed out with RAM and HD space. (I don't like MBP's.)
A new PC for games.
Endless microwave pizza's
(I'm addicted to those things.)And whatever's left would be put into a bank for retirement/emergency fund.
i would
buy 10,000 worth of porno movies in china for 1 and then sell them here for 5 dollars make make alot
buy 10,000 worth of porno movies in china for 1 and then sell them here for 5 dollars make make alot
$3k for propane-fueled generator to electrical panel with auto cut-in and monthly self-testing. Electrical outages in winter are a drag because my woodstove's in the kitchen but the water pipes are in the cellar, so... it gets dicey sometimes if I haven't been burning wood already for quite awhile when the juice goes out. I'd hook up the furnace, the fridge and a couple outlets for recharging my Apple toys
$2k in a separate bank account to replace expended emergency propane
$5k for next rat car. i don't want to wish my life away but it will be fun eventually not to have to shell out for cars. well i hope it will be fun?!
wow. that's $10k already. Sigh....
$2k in a separate bank account to replace expended emergency propane
$5k for next rat car. i don't want to wish my life away but it will be fun eventually not to have to shell out for cars. well i hope it will be fun?!
wow. that's $10k already. Sigh....
Donate it to the Republican Party for the 2008 elections.
and you're from Ann Arbor? good grief, please don't do that.
All I see are people dreaming of buying stuff! Maybe that's all the use you people have for money nowadays, but you should really expand your horizons and acknowledge the kinds of opportunities you have with a surprise 10k! If you're not already meeting ends, go help somebody else meet their's, or take a trip to a developing country and have a life-altering experience, it would probably cost you less than $2k for 2 months! With that kind of rate, do it five times and spend nearly an entire year changing your's and other people's lives!
Donate it to the Republican Party for the 2008 elections.
Careful or we might have to move this thread here!
Nice LCD TV, replacement Mac Mini(I'd wait for the next model), PS3, some games for my other video game system(and for the PS3 I'd buy), controllers for those systems
Invest the rest
Invest the rest
Well, that is a little bothering. With my list, I'm helping myself and my friends get around (I often give rides but I don't have a very carbon-efficient car), helping the environment by reducing carbon footprint, buying offsets for what I use, planting trees, using Segways, expiring less energy in my home, and reducing dependence on the power grid. Then I'm also throwing a big party for me and a few dozen of my friends, so again I'm trying to share the experience here. I do feel bad that I didn't put charity at a higher regard in my list, but I'm helping in the ways I know how. I give to charity regularly anyway, and that would not change--it would probably be even easier to give more if I just knocked out some of these expenses (which I'm planning most of anyway, other than the party, lol). But then I see others that could give half of their $100k to charity and I feel bad. Then, not many gave to charity with their $10k, and all I'd buy with $10k is a couple of MBPs and one Segway so I'm just as selfish.
That's not even counting the tax I'm giving the government for public social services...
Prius decked-out $40k
+ plug-in upgrade $10k
Solar power for my house $10k
CFL+LED lights upgrade for my house $5k
2 Segways (one for me and one for the ball and chain
Carbon offsets $5k
Trees and bio-safe landscaping $5k
A bunch of Macs and techno geekery $10k
A night out on the town for me and my friends $5k
and you're from Ann Arbor? good grief, please don't do that.
All I see are people dreaming of buying stuff! Maybe that's all the use you people have for money nowadays, but you should really expand your horizons and acknowledge the kinds of opportunities you have with a surprise 10k! If you're not already meeting ends, go help somebody else meet their's, or take a trip to a developing country and have a life-altering experience, it would probably cost you less than $2k for 2 months! With that kind of rate, do it five times and spend nearly an entire year changing your's and other people's lives!
The jokes on you, it's called sarcasm...
