Debt.
Same that would pay off all my debt.
It would cover about 20% of mine
Wouldn’t cover the rest of my house, but it could knock out everything else and that would make a world of difference.
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.
I guess if it was a few hundred, I would just put it in the bank with the rest of my money where it would go towards food, bills, and any other day to day expenses. Probably anything over $1000 would go directly towards debt.
EDIT: I forgot about the by the end of the day rule. I can’t just save it for later. We’d do a Sam’s club run and put the rest towards a bill.
It’d have to be less than a hundred for me personally. A grand less debt? That’s a nice feeling
I think 1000 or 2000 for me. I know it’s optimal to put it on my mortgage but that’s an amount I would use the excuse of “having to spend it” to spend it on myself. 20k in cleared debt is like 1.4k yearly expense reduced which really moves the needle. If you pay off 1k a month you’re effectively increasing the payoff rate by 12%.
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.
How big are the coins?
*Diameter:1.287 inches (32.70 mm) for 1 ounce coin which is a little less than $5k
You can add value by minting them with a Labubu relief.
What if I just melted them into some dubai chocolate and ate it instead? /s
Totally could, but you’d basically just be throwing it in the trash. Big sad, much depress.
Hammering it into gold leaf and covering cheap chocolate bars with it and you could probably at least double your money.
.2 oz troy of gold makes just over a half square meter.
:O Labubu chocolate bars would add at least 20% more.
about 24 loonies if you know what a Canadian dollar coin looks like.
otherwise, it’s about 18 us dollar coins.
I’m not familiar with either.
Like 15 abortions. God I love abortions.
I do not understand that, in my country abortions are free
(ok, not actually free. You need to pay 15 euro for the blood test, a 30 euro tax, 2 euro for the hospital parking fee and around 10 euro to buy the painkiller or antibiotics after the operation)
Dude, I wish I lived in a civilized country. My cancer treatment would have cost somewhere in the range of $5 million without insurance. Healthcare is a human right
Dude, I just got the post-exposure rabies vaccine. Was four trips to the ER at $125 USD co-pay a pop… however, without insurance, I learned it can be as much as like $15k if you don’t qualify for assistance and/or Medicaid.
We really need to take to the streets.
oooOOohh look at mr big spender here with their fancy thousand dollar abortions.
Would make the world a better place than any other kind of charity, tbh.
Two chicks at the same time
No, I don’t think they are
Fuckin A, man.
In this economy?
Especially in this economy.
What are you going to do with the remaining 19880?
Debt, then idk. Maybe a burger or something?
Look at Mr. Humble Brag here with only $19,980 in debt. Oooooo. So fancy.
;)
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.
Many years ago, I worked at a fish market and one of the guys who sold us fish during the summer won a big fishing tournament one year where he got a brand new truck and a bunch of money. When they asked him what he was going to do with the money, he said, “Keep fishing until it’s all gone.”
can I just throw it on my mortgage?
Technically you’re using it to buy a house, so I guess that qualifies as spending it?
Seriously this. Like imagine taking a chunk out of principal like that, you would save thousands in interest!!!
I actually did do that, the advantage of having rich grandparents. It’s amazing how once you get a bit of money the system just throws advantages at you. Capitalism really is broken.
Because I was able to get together enough money to be able to buy a house and put down quite a lot in collateral, my mortgage repayments aren’t very much, considerably less than I was paying monthly in rent, even when you take into account that the rent included water bills.
Same, but substitute rich grand parent with being hit by a car in suit happy South Florida.
Shares.
Better answer than “debt” unless that debt is at a high interest rate.
Don’t discount paying off a modest 6-7% car or student loan. That’s a guaranteed and tax free return on investment. Historically the stock market returns about a 7% annual ROI. Not having a payment every month can make a big difference for liquidity and peace of mind
I would count that as “high,” especially when, as you suggest, you consider risk-adjusted rates.
Basically, just don’t prematurely pay off your mortgage if you have one of those 3% ones from a decade ago.
Laser hair removal, car, estrogen
Which one?
I think I could fit them all in if the car is cheap
Fool. I’d get laser hair installed!
Cat > car
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.
I’d buy it as well. That 1900 house - AND the 1931 house were built with virgin lumber and chances are no drywall, but plaster and lath walls. Solid construction and NO modern building supplies outgassing chemicals.
There MIGHT be lead paint and asbestos pipe lagging insulation, but both can be dealt with in a pinch by encapsulation until you get the funds to have removal.
Yep it’s all lath. Can be a bitch but it literally took a 12ga buckshot blast with no damage to anything on the other side.
Thick solid wood siding too.
That is SO glorious.
I’ve been in the trades since 1980, and I won’t have a house built after the mid-80’s. That’s when the last of the mature timber lumber supply ran out. Now homes are built with selectively bred loblolly pine that gets 30 years worth of growth in 20 and it’s light like balsa. It’s garbage and part of why so many developments and new homes put up since the mid-90’s are now falling apart. I see SO much sheetrock slips, cracks, nail pops and settling it’s scary.
The list never ends yours is just longer 🤣
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.
Yeah I could probably spend almost all of that on just Ubiquiti gear
Ooh sensors would be nice
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?
Shh! Don’t give them ideas.
yes, i think that’s actually what’s happening over there. It’s madness. the scenes. blood everywhere.
Zydrate comes in a little glass vial . . .
A little glass vial?
A little glass vial. And the little glass vial goes into the gun like a battery.
Gold
The only correct answer
Silver or any other somewhat stable precious metal is probably okay too.
I have some silver but it is not faring well compared to gold :(
Put it on my mortgage.
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.
I’ve learned reading these comments that way too many people don’t know just how little 20k is.
I could spend 20k in one cart full of items at my local computer store.
It’s not much money, but in Russia I could live decently for ~3.5 years with that kind of money. :)
