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| timark_uk wrote: Return airfare to London and a couple of nights stay in a cheap hotel there. | |
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| Author: | JJW009 [ Wed May 12, 2010 2:30 am ] |
| Post subject: | £10 a week |
If you were to suddenly gain £10 a week for one year to be spent exclusively on personal luxury, what would you buy? That's £10 a week every week, or you could save for something more expensive less frequently or spend the full £520 in a years time. Some examples I can think of: 5 cheap cigarettes a day, or a smaller number of higher quality tobacco products. 2 glasses of whisky down the pub on a Friday night, with just enough left over for a bag of nuts. A nice pie and a few ales A fancy take-out meal for two once a week. A fairly posh restaurant meal for two once a month Upgraded Sky TV package A very decent bike An exotic holiday An iPad A very shiny new computer A big-screen home entertainment system It occurs to me that the cost of imported hi-tech luxuries once thought the domain of the rich are now on a par with less exotic things such as a return train fare to London and a cup of tea. That doesn't seem quite right somehow... |
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| Author: | l3v1ck [ Wed May 12, 2010 4:06 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: £10 a week |
A monthly trip to the snowdome for a snowboarding session. |
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| Author: | veato [ Wed May 12, 2010 7:37 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: £10 a week |
Hmmmm, options. Maybe one if the following.... 1 new Xbox game a month A couple of new Blu Ray movies a month (would have been cinema trips but with the baby and all......) A couple of lomo cameras and several rolls of film and processing throughout the year Subscription to Sky HD A new Sigma 10-20mm f3.5 at the end of the year (or a Tamron 28-75 with change for a Lensbaby) Obviously those are purely selfish choices. I could say a romantic meal, gifts for my baby, etc etc |
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| Author: | timark_uk [ Wed May 12, 2010 7:40 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: £10 a week |
Return airfare to London and a couple of nights stay in a cheap hotel there. Mark |
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| Author: | TheFrenchun [ Wed May 12, 2010 7:41 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: £10 a week |
Food. Or a bus pass... |
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| Author: | jonlumb [ Wed May 12, 2010 8:13 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: £10 a week |
It would go straight into the hi fi fund. |
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| Author: | timark_uk [ Wed May 12, 2010 8:15 am ] | |||||||||
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| Author: | okenobi [ Wed May 12, 2010 10:02 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: £10 a week |
Probably save it for/towards travel/holiday of some kind. "Stuff" is meaningless ultimately. Although I'm just as bad as everybody else. |
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| Author: | Angelic [ Wed May 12, 2010 10:27 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: £10 a week |
Food ^_^ |
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| Author: | TheHobgob [ Wed May 12, 2010 10:30 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: £10 a week |
I would save it towards a holiday. Mmmm....holiday. |
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| Author: | Bluespider [ Wed May 12, 2010 10:36 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: £10 a week |
save up for the year: a shiny new quad core server to run esx on with as much ram as i could get for the money... |
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| Author: | veato [ Wed May 12, 2010 10:44 am ] | |||||||||
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Everything is meaningless ultimately as when you're 6ft under none of it matters. Until I get there though the cameras, games and gadgets entertain me 
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| Author: | pcernie [ Wed May 12, 2010 12:20 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: £10 a week |
Save it for the inevitable mortgage  , though I'll be a lot happier when I'm away from my idiotic family 
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| Author: | tombolt [ Wed May 12, 2010 1:13 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: £10 a week |
I'll have to give this some thought, now I've cancelled my veg box delivery, I do have that spare. I'll probably spend it on council tax. |
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| Author: | okenobi [ Wed May 12, 2010 1:55 pm ] | ||||||||||||||||||
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Not true. Experiences and people are far more valuable than stuff. But perhaps you count entertainment as an experience? |
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