# Fifty bucks? Still too much! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 30, 2001, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-bucks-still-too-much/96042 "2001-11-30T00:11:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2001, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-bucks-still-too-much/96042/1 "2001-11-30T00:11:00Z")
Tell us all, instead, what you would do with a fiver! ---
**Author:** ![Rasa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rasa/32/3578_2.png) [@Rasa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rasa)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2001, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-bucks-still-too-much/96042/2 "2001-11-30T00:12:02Z")
Buy a pack of smokes. ---
**Author:** ![JavaMaven1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@JavaMaven1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JavaMaven1)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2001, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-bucks-still-too-much/96042/3 "2001-11-30T00:14:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Rasa \* > \*\*Buy a pack of smokes. \*\* Fiend. [sub]That’s what Bryan always calls me when I buy a pack.[/sub] Same here. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![MrVisible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@MrVisible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrVisible)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2001, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-bucks-still-too-much/96042/4 "2001-11-30T00:22:38Z")
Buy twenty superballs from the local gumball machine, and distribute them liberally throughout the workplace, at high velocities. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2001, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-bucks-still-too-much/96042/5 "2001-11-30T00:25:17Z")
Depends on my mood and if I’m attached or not. Or, I’d go to **My Gay Boyfriend[sup]TM[/sup]**'s office with MY 20 superballs. ---
**Author:** ![Ross](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e274bd/32.png) [@Ross](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ross)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2001, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-bucks-still-too-much/96042/6 "2001-11-30T00:26:08Z")
Four-pack of Miller. ---
**Author:** ![Daowajan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@Daowajan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daowajan)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2001, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-bucks-still-too-much/96042/7 "2001-11-30T00:27:04Z")
FOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD. ---
**Author:** ![Kayeby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de0a6/32.png) [@Kayeby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kayeby)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2001, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-bucks-still-too-much/96042/8 "2001-11-30T00:27:11Z")
Probably buy $5 worth of preserved prunes. Or some flowers. ---
**Author:** ![tisiphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@tisiphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tisiphone)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2001, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-bucks-still-too-much/96042/9 "2001-11-30T00:30:39Z")
Buy fourteen sandalwood beads, make a necklace, and flog it for thirty. ---
**Author:** ![saepiroth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5ac83/32.png) [@saepiroth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saepiroth)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2001, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-bucks-still-too-much/96042/10 "2001-11-30T00:33:49Z")
i’d go to the drugstore and buy a pack of those little listerine oral care strips; you know, the ones that look like little pieces of plastic until you put them on your tongue, where they instantly dissolve and start melting your face because they’re actually painfully minty. then, i’d get some of them very slightly wet, barely even moist. then i’d stick them around the rim of the orange juice glasses. ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2001, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-bucks-still-too-much/96042/11 "2001-11-30T00:53:27Z")
I’d take myself out for lunch. ---
**Author:** ![Gut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@Gut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gut)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2001, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-bucks-still-too-much/96042/12 "2001-11-30T02:01:29Z")
Two slices of peperoni pizza and a coke from the cheapo supremo pizza place and I’d still have $1.50 left over for a slurpee. mmmmmmmmmmm slurpee. ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2001, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-bucks-still-too-much/96042/13 "2001-11-30T02:19:22Z")
5 lottery tickets Or a fast food lunch. Or maybe subsidize a meal at a nice restaurant ---
**Author:** ![Creaky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e68b1a/32.png) [@Creaky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Creaky)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2001, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-bucks-still-too-much/96042/14 "2001-11-30T04:22:28Z")
I’d put it in my secret hidden tin flour canister with the other “mad money” I clean out of my handbag each week. ---
**Author:** ![Sweet\_Sota\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@Sweet\_Sota\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sweet_Sota_Girl)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2001, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-bucks-still-too-much/96042/15 "2001-11-30T04:32:41Z")
Get a cup of hot cocoa from Caribou Coffee and a bag of fun size Snickers. ---
**Author:** ![Violet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ebca7d/32.png) [@Violet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Violet)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2001, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-bucks-still-too-much/96042/16 "2001-11-30T04:40:23Z")
Exchange it for euros in the not-too-distant future! ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2001, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-bucks-still-too-much/96042/17 "2001-11-30T05:09:47Z")
5 bucks for smokes! My god! The cheapest pack I’ve bought here was 6.10 I usually pay 6.46 and the most I’ve seen is 7.10. 5 bucks? I’d go get myself a happy meal on Sinday from Mickey Dees… and a lotto ticket… ---
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2001, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-bucks-still-too-much/96042/18 "2001-11-30T05:28:13Z")
Buy an extra loaf of the yummy cinnamon bread that I bring to work for my group every Wednesday. It helps tide us over between the free doughnuts and bagels each Monday and Friday. ---
**Author:** ![Badtz\_Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@Badtz\_Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badtz_Maru)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2001, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-bucks-still-too-much/96042/19 "2001-11-30T05:37:34Z")
A couple of years ago - get a couple of joints, maybe three if the dealer was feeling generous. These days - probably leave it forgotten in my wallet until the next time my wife asked me to get her a pack of cigarettes (Marlboro Light 100s in the box). ---
**Author:** ![chique](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2001, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-bucks-still-too-much/96042/20 "2001-11-30T06:04:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Obsidian Flutterby \* > \*\*5 bucks for smokes! My god! The cheapest pack I’ve bought here was 6.10 I usually pay 6.46 and the most I’ve seen is 7.10. > > 5 bucks? I’d go get myself a happy meal on Sinday from Mickey Dees… and a lotto ticket… \*\* :eek: !! Where the heck do you live?? ::crosses the answer off of her list of places to visit without a carton from someplace cheap:: [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-bucks-still-too-much/96042.md?page=2)