Be reasonable, things you eventually plan to have.Like I waited about 2 years for this one.
I managed to get one of those things, a CD recorder, but Iøm still waiting for the tax refund that inspired this spending.
I haven’t been here much, so as a way of explaining, my posts may have æ ø ö ä because I use 3 keyboards and ’ is where ä and ø are.And I guess we still can’t edit?
I honestly eventually plan to have a Ferrari 512 BB, preferably a carburettor version (the 1976-1981 series). But as it looks now, that might take at least 7 or 8 years.
My own helicopter. Right now, I’ve been looking at Scheizer/Hughes 269/300 series. http://pw1.netcom.com/~heliboy/n61413crop.jpg Cheapest I’ve found is a 1961 Hughes 269A for $55,000. A new Schweizer 300CB costs around $200,000. Some day…
(Of course, I could always win the lottery. I wonder how much a Blackhawk costs?)
Um a new walkman (one of those neat Sony ones) soon as I get my first paycheck. (my old one has gone fubar… it did good for me for 5 years and put up through a helluva a lot though)
My drivers lisence and a car. (soon as I can put away enough to pay for it all myself)
and contacts (though my new glasses are really neat)
I want a red convertible new Beetle (when it comes out).
I want a Palm Pilot.
I want Antonio Banderas.
I want an alphasmart. They’re like little word processors, but weight 2 lbs and are roughly the size of a 3 ring binder. AND they store up to 60 pages of text. Hook that puppy up to your desk top at the end of the day. Total cost? $200. A bit more cost effective than a lap top.
I love my new (as of April) apartment. I do. But I HATE the wood panelling that is in my livingroom and bedroom. I’d like to take it down, put up drywall and paint it. However, I rent, and I’m not gonna sink money into a rental.
I’d like to get another Siamese. My cat now is used to living with other kitties, and is very lonely. But I am a cat snob, and adore the Siamese personality. Total cost? $400.
I’d like to quit my job and go to school full time. But I am NOT moving out of my fabulous (although wood-paneled) apartment.) So I’d need $5400 a year to be able to just pay rent. I figure I could work part time for the rest of my expenses. That’s about it.
I want a wearable computer. A really good one, with excellent processor and LOADS of ram and a huge hd. And a decent HUD. I want to be able to play GAMES on this thing. And still sew it into my clothes. grin
-Elthia
yes, it IS possible, I just can’t afford it.
I want a Winnebago. A big one. I want to drive it all over the country, and sleep whenever and wherever the hell I want to. The price for this fabulous item, configured as I would like? $120k.
Barring that, I would be happy with the supercharger I want for my truck.
Nyaah.
I’d like a baritone saxophone.
I could probably get an old beater for something like $1,500. But I’d like one that you don’t need to formulate an array of alternate fingerings to play because it leaks in fifteen different places.
(I just had my tenor sax overhauled and it has done WONDERS for my ego. For months I sat around despondently thinking “I’m a shitty sax player.” Nuts. It was the horn. NOW, the damn thing does everything but run across the floor to me when I whistle for it. I can set it down in the corner and snap my fingers and it’ll give me six choruses of “Scrapple from the Apple.”)
I don’t want or need a NEW baritone saxophone. A nice used horn, 40-80 years old (they KNEW how to make instruments back then, by cracky), in good shape, would suit me fine. That’ll probably set me back around 2,500-3,000 bucks.
A whopper with some cheese on it.
I want to take Shayna out for dinner.
A BMW Z3, or even better, a Z8. <sigh> I’m actually fully able to buy the former (and probably the latter), but I’m too cheap to go out and do it. I don’t need money, I need a brain overhaul that will allow me to spend it without continually thinking “It’s not practical. I could be investing this $$ and making a bunch off of it. I could be giving more to charity.” bleah bleah bleah.
<off to go look at the BMW web page yet again…>
I want the most impossible thing in the world: An affordable apartment in San Francisco.
Thanks to the internet boom the prices for housing in the Bay Area is CRAZY! $2000 a month for a one bedroom in a nice area is a steal. A tenderloin apartment (the crummy part of town) is hovering around $900 a month.
I just want my own place. I live in a shared house with a bunch of other dot-communists and I’m sick of everybody drinking my milk.
About a millions things for the house…furniture for the porch, a new comforter for the bed, pictures for the walls, more decorations in general, area rugs, and a surfboard for my husband!
If you stop by between 10 and 6 I’ll hook you up. 
Now, as for what I want but can’t afford.
- A stereo for my car.
- My own computer.
- New contacts.
- To get those pictures I had blown-up, framed.
- To go to Calgary and visit my Shebo.
A house.
A convertable.
More realistic righ tnow: To get my crap motherboard replaced, and eventually upgrade my machine.
Lasik surgery. That’s the one big, big thing I would love to have right now but I just cannot justify the $4400 price tag to myself. I need a new car, mine is on it’s last legs, but I do not need fixed up eyeballs… but I soooo want to not wear contacts or glasses anymore… 
A new airplane. Sorry, you asked.
We have a little 4-seater Beech Baron right now but “test flew” a Queen Air several months ago; seats 8 people and is so much nicer to fly in, with all the luxuries (except stewardess).
Oh, I want a speed boat. I love the warm weather, and there is nothing better than hanging out on a boat all day. I would water ski and drink beer all day long! (Of course, I would have a designated driver for my boat!)
You all are invited once I get it!!