# I've got $50. What should I buy? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 16, 2006, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-got-50-what-should-i-buy/340219 "2006-01-16T14:53:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2006, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-got-50-what-should-i-buy/340219/41 "2006-01-16T20:42:31Z")
> [@Winston Smith](#): > > I’ve always had trouble self-gifting. From the guy who gave himself botox injected into his testicles? Yes I’d say you trouble 🙂 . I vote for tickets to something. Concert, play, exibit. Whatevers showing where you are that you wouldn’t go to to otherwise. Nothing like a new experience. I mean unless it’s having botox injected into your testicles. (The tittie bar is a good idea but somehow I suspect that not a new experience??) ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2006, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-got-50-what-should-i-buy/340219/42 "2006-01-16T20:59:05Z")
> [@betenoir](#): > > From the guy who gave himself botox injected into his testicles? Yes I’d say you trouble > 🙂 . > I vote for tickets to something. Concert, play, exibit. Whatevers showing where you are that you wouldn’t go to to otherwise. Nothing like a new experience. I mean unless it’s having botox injected into your testicles. (The tittie bar is a good idea but somehow I suspect that not a new experience??) Snicker. Ahem. Not a bad idea. Andre Rieu will be in Boston in May. Hmmm. Something to think about. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Harmonix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonix)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2006, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-got-50-what-should-i-buy/340219/43 "2006-01-16T23:19:40Z")
a pair of memory foam pillows from costco. or… some nice sheets. ---
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2006, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-got-50-what-should-i-buy/340219/44 "2006-01-16T23:22:03Z")
May I suggest you have a local businessperson detail your car? Keeps the $$ in the local economy & makes your car smell really good. ---
**Author:** ![ioioio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ioioio/32/316_2.png) [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2006, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-got-50-what-should-i-buy/340219/45 "2006-01-16T23:52:57Z")
A monkey! ---
**Author:** ![Creaky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e68b1a/32.png) [@Creaky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Creaky)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-got-50-what-should-i-buy/340219/46 "2006-01-17T00:04:22Z")
This probably doesn’t quite fall into the category of “buying” something, but in a way it does. Take the cash and put it in a jar under your bed or sink or something. Just keep doing it with any extra cash you have. Over time, if you keep doing that, you’ll of course have filled the jar. Now put your other “found” cash in other things: shoeboxes, dresser drawers, etc. It may sound lame, but just knowing you’re squirreling away cash can buy lots of fun fantasies about what you’ll eventually do with it (even if you never do, better if you don’t and then you can just keep making things up in your head to buy), or just a whacko Depression sense of security, which is also fun for its sheer funky anachronism-ishness. The total \*entertainment \* of all of this (at least for me; you can guess that I do this), is the best gift of all. I gather however that you actually wanna spend the dough. In that case I sadly have no suggestions. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-got-50-what-should-i-buy/340219/47 "2006-01-17T00:20:51Z")
> [@Creaky](#): > > This probably doesn’t quite fall into the category of “buying” something, but in a way it does. > > Take the cash and put it in a jar under your bed or sink or something. Just keep doing it with any extra cash you have. Over time, if you keep doing that, you’ll of course have filled the jar. Now put your other “found” cash in other things: shoeboxes, dresser drawers, etc. It may sound lame, but just knowing you’re squirreling away cash can buy lots of fun fantasies about what you’ll eventually do with it (even if you never do, better if you don’t and then you can just keep making things up in your head to buy), or just a whacko Depression sense of security, which is also fun for its sheer funky anachronism-ishness. The total \*entertainment \* of all of this (at least for me; you can guess that I do this), is the best gift of all. > > I gather however that you actually wanna spend the dough. In that case I sadly have no suggestions. I do this with seasonal clothing. I love the thrill of finding $10 or $20 in a jacket I haven’t worn in a year. Just like freekin’ christmas! ---
**Author:** ![Amblydoper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/fbc32d/32.png) [@Amblydoper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amblydoper)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-got-50-what-should-i-buy/340219/48 "2006-01-17T00:38:26Z")
How about a nice new reading lamp for your study? Or a new bookcase for all those books of yours? ---
**Author:** ![Nic2004](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4491bb/32.png) [@Nic2004](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nic2004)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-got-50-what-should-i-buy/340219/49 "2006-01-17T01:53:28Z")
Okay, a simple dinner with titty dancers 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-got-50-what-should-i-buy/340219/50 "2006-01-17T01:56:00Z")
> [@Sefronia777](#): > > The George Orwell Reader, then some Mad Dog 20/20, a PE album and a Flan O’Brien book. > Sefronia > mama’s worry was a burden > they had seen her everywhere > and since her little one was now a dead man > they patted his back > and she thought > why did she let them? > [Sefronia777.com](http://Sefronia777.com) > 2/8/06 > Let’s evolve together MD 20/20, eh? Hmmm. ---
**Author:** ![Madd\_Maxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Madd\_Maxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Madd_Maxx)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-got-50-what-should-i-buy/340219/51 "2006-01-17T13:08:49Z")
Save the $50 until spring. Then go on a charter fishing trip. Fishing is fun, manly and it will give you something to look forward to until the weather gets nicer. Plus you can invite the MIL over for dinner that evening and tell her that tonights dinner was your catch of the day and her christmas present to you. ---
**Author:** ![indecisive1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/41988e/32.png) [@indecisive1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/indecisive1)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-got-50-what-should-i-buy/340219/52 "2006-01-17T15:31:38Z")
> [@Madd Maxx](#): > > Save the $50 until spring. Then go on a charter fishing trip. Fishing is fun, manly and it will give you something to look forward to until the weather gets nicer. Plus you can invite the MIL over for dinner that evening and tell her that tonights dinner was your catch of the day and her christmas present to you. Nice idea! You could take some tittie dancers with you. They’ll need some throw pillows for their bare bottoms, though. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-got-50-what-should-i-buy/340219.md?page=2)