Hypothetical Friday

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What would you do if given:

• $1
• $10
• $100
• $1,000
• $10,000

Minds killing time on a Friday want to know.

Comments

[hellsop.livejournal.com]

$1 : two games of pinball? A dollah don't buy much, in spite of fast food commercials.

$10 : That'll get a nice steak from the grocer.

$100 : Keggerator needs fillin'

$1000 : DAT72 drive and a handful of tapes for the machines in the basement.

$10000 : No clue. Buy a used Colorado pickup or something maybe.

[pixirae.livejournal.com]

* $1 - stick it in my change jar.
* $10 - probably buy myself dinner.
* $100 - take Mike and I out for dinner.
* $1,000 - throw it at my credit card, probably reserving $100 for dinner.
* $10,000 - pay off my credit card and put the rest in savings for the house and honeymoon, reserving $100 for dinner.

boring

[lil-m-moses.livejournal.com]

$1: pocket for a future random cash need
$10: that and maybe get a tasty snack first
$100: buy myself something nice (probably books/CDs/DVDs) or put into my hot tub fund
$1000: put in my hot tub fund or throw at my debt
$10000: do a needed home improvement (foundation piers, plumbing overhaul, or window and door replacement)

[starrai.livejournal.com]

$1: Buy a snack or keep it handy for small accruing of random singles.
$10: lunch/breakfast money for the week
$100: Try to save it with good intentions but blow it on middling indulgences.
$1000: Force myself to shove a chunk of it over to savings, indulge in a couple of large expenses (furniture, clothing).
$10000: Student loan debt

[starrai.livejournal.com]

Or I'd just buy a bunch of Fluevogs and surrender my tomboy card once and for all.

[ilcylic.livejournal.com]

$1: Scrounge for enough change to supplement the dollar, and buy lunch.

$10: Buy lunch.

$100: Buy lunch, and reloading / metalworking supplies

$1000: Buy lunch, and a bunch of reloading / metalworking supplies.

$10,000: Buy lunch, pay off some credit cards, and a bunch of reloading / metalworking supplies.

[felisdemens.livejournal.com]

$1: Offer it as a bribe. "I'll give you a dollar if you eat the Failpie."

$10: Buy a lip gloss I've been pondering.

$100: Get my mom the god-awful Thai silk jacket she likes.

$1,000: Buy J that god-awful gold brocade suit he likes. Remnants go toward the credit card.

$10,000: new doors all around! Remnants go toward credit card.

[elixxir.livejournal.com]

$1 - lose it
$10 - get smokes
$100 - new skinny jeans
$1,000 - new designer skinny jeans. ha.
$10,000 - new kitchen

I'm VERY boring

[auroara.livejournal.com]

$1 Put it in my wallet.
$10 Get a half a tank of Gas.
$100 Pay part of my phone bill.
$1,000 Pay my college back and pay tuition for upcoming semester.
$10,000 All of the above plus I would prepay my insurance for a year and buy staple items for my warddrobe (Four pairs of jeans, 2 black, fitted, button up shirts, One pair of sneakers, one pair of black dress shoes, 2 black turtlenecks, various fitted sweaters, one comfy all occasion hoody, several ladies undergarments, 5 fitted T shirts, and a watch with a black band and a silver face with numbers on it.) I'd also get the kids new sneakers ans school uniforms, of course.

[critus.livejournal.com]

$1 - Candy Bar
$10 - Lunch
$100 - Credit Cards
$1,000 - Credit Cards
$10,000 - Credit Cards

[netgoth.livejournal.com]

$1 - glazed doughnut
$10 - Credit Cards
$100 - Credit Cards
$1,000 - Credit Cards
$10,000 - Credit Cards with a side of student loan repayment

[happygoth.livejournal.com]

$1: Woo! Ice cream sandwich time!
$10: That's 10 ice cream sandwiches! Who am I kidding, though? I'd use it to buy coffee.
$100: Whew! I don't have to think about the gas bill anymore. Thank goodness.
$1000: That goes into savings to be used for car repairs, thin months, etc (and possibly some for a wii)
$10,000: Credit card debt, begone! Plus a little left over for a new laptop.

[smaugchow.livejournal.com]

$1 - get a ticket for MegaMillions (big ass jeckpot tonight)

$10 - Luch at Buffalo Wild Wings next Monday

$100 - a bottle of Scotch (about half of it) and tuck the rest away in saving for a graphics card.

$1000 - 2 bottles of Scotch, have a family heirloom loose diamond set into something nice for the wife for X-mas (just a solitaire,) and a nice graphics card for the PC which shipped today!

$10,000 - Honesty, I'd sit on most of it due to economic fears, but if I had to spend it I'd do the above, and then have a contractor redo my powder room into a 3/4 bath.

[trystbat.livejournal.com]

$1 - that'd buy me a bagel at work, but alas not with cream cheese

$10 - a Grey Goose cosmo at some fancy bar

$100 - pay off my credit card bill

$1,000 - save it for Feb/March Europe trip

$10,000 - insulate the house & do all the other energy-saving stuff we'll find out we need on 12/19; or if those end up being cheap, rip out the lawns & landscape w/native plants & a small deck

[silentq.livejournal.com]

$1 - chocolate bar
$10 - lots of chocolate bars!
$100 - take someone out for a nice dinner
$1,000 - C15 fund!
$10,000 - all of the above, and then save the rest toward a big vacation (sailing across the Atlantic, probably)

[arcsine.livejournal.com]

$1 - tip the bartender
$10 - Muffuckin' burrito, baby!
$100 - Buy a PS3 game, pocket the rest
$1,000 - Save it
$10,000 - Buy shares of Wynn and LVMH for when the economy improves

I'm boring. And indebted.

[angledge.livejournal.com]

$1: buy a can of Dr. Pepper.
$10: put it in my pocket & consider it payment for the tickets I bought for tonight's concert
$100: send that on in to Bank of America towards paying off my loan.
$1,000: send that on in to Bank of America towards paying off my loan.
$10,000: send that on in to Bank of America towards paying off my loan.

[kyra-ojosverdes.livejournal.com]

$1: put it in my pocket, forget I'd ever seen it, blink at it curiously before putting my slacks into the laundry, put it in my change jar, forget it was ever there, never miss it when one of my kids takes it.
$10: put it in my wallet, be vaguely aware there might be cash in my wallet, be really glad for it when I need $10 cash, have no idea where it came from.
$100: get the kids' Christmas gifts and oldest kid's birthday presents mostly taken care of.
$1,000: three student loan payments.
$10,000: pay off my car, put $1000 in savings, put the rest toward student loans.

[naeelah.livejournal.com]

$1 - stick it in my wallet or pocket and forget about it until I need a few dollars in cash.

$10 - Put it aside for weekend entertainment, or, given what month it is, put it in my Christmas fund

$100 - right now, probably use it to pay an application fee. Otherwise, it would be fun spending money so I can leave my bank account alone.

$1,000 - pay off credit card

$10,000 - put it in my new cello fund. Combined with the value I'll get for trading my current instrument in, this would almost totally pay for a new cello and save me from taking out that loan.

As you can see, I lead an exciting life right now.

side note: interesting how no one puts anything charitable down. If I were not currently spending more than I have on applications and debt, I'd probably use the $1000 for charity.

[etcet.livejournal.com]

I am more than slightly flabbergasted that a cello costs as much as my car.

[naeelah.livejournal.com]

The sad thing is that even at $15K it's still only considered an intermediate instrument. Much better than student, but 10s of thousands cheaper than, say, a professional orchestra musician would have.

And that's just the cello. *facepalm* Don't get me started on bows.

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[maelstromsl.livejournal.com]

$1 through $100 would go to my savings acct.
$1,000 - half would go to savings, other half would go to towards repainting my acura matte black, OR more likely setting up 2nd merchant account and hiring out payroll for the new biz.
$10,000 - half into savings, the rest into a complete recording studio redo including the limited edition Neumann mic and that stupid little Roland electronic drumset, new mixer, etc. etc. etc. I won't continue to bore you.

[i-renovated.livejournal.com]

Still playing on a Saturday...

$1: get inspired to buy a 'sspro drink on my ATM and tip the latte boy.

$10: This would prolly get lifted by my kids in the form of two fives so they could blow it on utterly meaningless (but fun) crap at the Farmer's Market.

$100: Mmmm...date night, definitely. With a sitter, good food and alcohol.

$1,000: buy the coffee grinder I want but can't justify paying for and park it next to my new 'sspro machine that (somehow) I *could* justify if I got the grinder for 'free'. Sick.

$10,000: I want to say something sensible like pay off debt, but I think it would go in the 'fuck, I live in LA and have to scrape up a downpayment the size of most people's mortgages' savings fund.

What would YOU do?

[whomajigi.livejournal.com]

I'm late to the party. I need to read my friend's page more often.

$1-Buy some Dr. Pepper.
$10-Buy myself and someone else lunch.
$100-Buy some video games.
$1000-Pay off my credit card, then buy clothing that actually fits.
$10000-Pay off a large chunk of college debt.



Alternate answers: Buy X quantity of Dr. Pepper