Two chicks at the same time
I’ll buy $20,000 of gold. :3
i ran the numbers, and i was surprised to find that $20K would get you about 5 gold coins.
I’ve learned reading these comments that way too many people don’t know just how little 20k is.
It’s not much money, but in Russia I could live decently for ~3.5 years with that kind of money. :)
Boring answer but with the 1974 built house I have that 20k disappears into the renovations void.
Take your pick: furnace, central A/C, driveway repairs.
I see your 1974 and raise you a 1931
My rented house was built around 1900 and I can see into the unfinished basement through a small hole in the floor by the front door. I’d still use that 20k for a down payment to purchase it.
The boring but truthful answers of “I have bills that can easily soak it all up without an issue (mortgage, student loans, car, etc)” have been said, so assuming I cannot use it to repay any debts, and I have to make actual new purchases, I’d buy things that I could pay for now but enjoy for a long time. 3-year VPN plan, multi-year phone plan, gift cards to restaurants (especially with a bulk discount like at a Costco), etc. Upgrade my cockatiels to a cage that goes wall to wall with real plants hanging out and all that. The little things that cost enough that I don’t get them but not enough to be a life-changer. Probably be a good amount left, I’d get a moped or electric bike of some kind, and I’d upgrade my laptop to a stupid powerful one.
Yeah, paying off loans.
Alternatively and less boringly, upgrade my desktop and peripherals, new laptop for me and my wife, get nice homelab/server stuff, smart home stuff/sensors, surround sound system for my family room and office/gaming room, proper furniture for my office, new matresses for almost every bed in the house. That would most likely eat most of it, give or take ~$2,000.
Debt, then idk. Maybe a burger or something?
A quintessentially American scene I want to see is, a guy wins a flamboyantly decorated game show to the applause of hundreds of thousands of people. The host leans in to ask him what he’s going to spend the money on. He replies all he can do with it is pay off half of his grandmother’s medical debt, and then go to his night shift to work on paying for the other half.
I’d pay to get my roof fixed and if there’s something left I’d buy some tools and maybe upgrade my PC.
Kinda difficult to get your roof fixed in one day.
Bitcoin, gold, silver, and/or other hard assets.
Invest it/ simply convert it to another currency
And that, children, is why the rich get richer.
Wait you mean that in capitalism, the people with a lot of capital have it easier?
Almost as if the more of it you have, the easier it is to make more of it, but if you have none, then you’re shit out of luck and have to agree to be someone’s slave.
Debt.
Out of curiosity, how low would that dollar amount have to be for you to opt to spend it on something else? Would it still go to debt if it was only 1,000 or something?
It’s probably highly specific to how much money somebody makes. If my monthly paycheck is $2000, and you give me $1000, I would use that to get ahead by a half a month. If I make $10k a month and you give me $1000, getting ahead by a tenth of a month won’t do much. So hookers and blow all day.
If you’re american, probably pay 10% of your medical debt or some shit like that.
Or just refuse to pay it.
What are they gonna do? Reposess your organs?
yes, i think that’s actually what’s happening over there. It’s madness. the scenes. blood everywhere.
