# What are you saving up to buy? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 22, 2002, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-saving-up-to-buy/110231 "2002-05-22T03:10:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Kayeby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de0a6/32.png) [@Kayeby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kayeby)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2002, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-saving-up-to-buy/110231/1 "2002-05-22T03:10:03Z")
At the moment, I’m saving up to buy a nice digital camera. I sell on eBay and currently use my boyfriend’s digital, but I’d like to have a camera handy. My boyfriend is chipping in about $400 as a present, but I’m trying to save as well. So far, the cameras in the running are: Kodak DC215 Kodak DC3800 Olympus Camedia D-370 Fuji Finepix 2600 Nikon Coolpix 775 So what are you saving up to buy? ---
**Author:** ![Hanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b3f665/32.png) [@Hanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hanna)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2002, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-saving-up-to-buy/110231/2 "2002-05-22T03:17:17Z")
I’m saving up to buy a laptop. I don’t know why I want one so bad, but I do. I just got a new desktop computer a few months ago, but I am really wanting a laptop. That and a motorhome, I would love to go travelling with my laptop and motorhome, that way I can bring my dogs with. ---
**Author:** ![VitrolicBump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a587f6/32.png) [@VitrolicBump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VitrolicBump)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2002, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-saving-up-to-buy/110231/3 "2002-05-22T03:33:23Z")
I’m saving up for my trip to Disneyland. One week and 5 days! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! _excited happy dance_😃 ---
**Author:** ![tigergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3e96dc/32.png) [@tigergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tigergirl)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2002, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-saving-up-to-buy/110231/4 "2002-05-22T03:38:11Z")
I actually have a list at the moment. 1. new Badminton racquet 2. Prescriptives - Flirt perfume (bigger things I’m saving for) 3. House extension 4. Sliding wardrobe doors. The only thing worse than having a messy wardrobe is having to look at it every time you go into the bedroom 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2002, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-saving-up-to-buy/110231/5 "2002-05-22T04:18:22Z")
Freedom from debt. ---
**Author:** ![NightRabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbce88/32.png) [@NightRabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NightRabbit)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2002, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-saving-up-to-buy/110231/6 "2002-05-22T05:04:53Z")
Law School! Also, so I never have to live with my parents again, EVER. But, more immediately, a bus ticket down to NYC to visit a friend, and an opera ticket at the met 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Essured](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Essured](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Essured)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2002, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-saving-up-to-buy/110231/7 "2002-05-22T05:17:46Z")
I’m also saving for a digital camera (plus an underwater housing) 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Lok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@Lok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lok)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2002, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-saving-up-to-buy/110231/8 "2002-05-22T05:18:39Z")
1. Trip to Glasgow, Scotland. 2. Probable trip to Tokyo. 3. Eventual return to Australia. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2002, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-saving-up-to-buy/110231/9 "2002-05-22T05:35:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kayeby \* > \*\*At the moment, I’m saving up to buy a nice digital camera. > > I sell on eBay and currently use my boyfriend’s digital, but I’d like to have a camera handy. My boyfriend is chipping in about $400 as a present, but I’m trying to save as well. So far, the cameras in the running are: > > Kodak DC215 > Kodak DC3800 > Olympus Camedia D-370 > Fuji Finepix 2600 > Nikon Coolpix 775 > > So what are you saving up to buy? \*\* * * * The DC215 is nice, IMHO–especially since I won mine in a sweepstakes. 🙂 It was worth about $400 at the time, in 2000. I am saving for a Visioneer one touch scanner, or something similar, that is compatible with Win XP. Also saving to buy another Sentry fire safe. And a repair job to fix the chronic main engine seal leak in my car. The labor will, of course ,cost more than the dang seal. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Caught\_Work](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/919ad9/32.png) [@Caught\_Work](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caught_Work)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2002, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-saving-up-to-buy/110231/10 "2002-05-22T05:39:49Z")
I am saving to buy a scanner, a new digital camera and a color laser printer (in that order). For the non-geek related stuff, I am also saving up to buy a garden shed so I get my car back into the garage and enough to pay a landscape gardener/designer to come and look at the backyard. It’s nothing but grass and pool and is tooooo boring. ---
**Author:** ![leechbabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@leechbabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leechbabe)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2002, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-saving-up-to-buy/110231/11 "2002-05-22T06:42:54Z")
I’m saving for: DVD Player DVD’s to put in DVD Player (preferable Buffy related) Weekend away with Leechboy at a 5 star hotel with _roomservice_ ---
**Author:** ![Tortuga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c4cdca/32.png) [@Tortuga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tortuga)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2002, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-saving-up-to-buy/110231/12 "2002-05-22T06:55:51Z")
A motorcycle and a puppy. ---
**Author:** ![Ooner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/c67d28/32.png) [@Ooner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ooner)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2002, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-saving-up-to-buy/110231/13 "2002-05-22T06:59:30Z")
For the long term: A Canon XL1S MiniDV Video Camera. For the short term: Furniture for a new apartment: Everything from couch to table to matress. And I need it by August. ---
**Author:** ![freckles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47c2d/32.png) [@freckles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckles)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2002, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-saving-up-to-buy/110231/14 "2002-05-22T08:24:37Z")
I am saving to buy a world trip, staying mainly in Australia for most of the time. I plan to go in October and I can’t wait!! ---
**Author:** ![Dieter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@Dieter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dieter)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2002, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-saving-up-to-buy/110231/15 "2002-05-22T10:04:23Z")
I’m saving for a Yamaha DX1 synth. The only problem will be finding one. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2002, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-saving-up-to-buy/110231/16 "2002-05-22T10:55:13Z")
A Hughes TH-55, Schweizer 300CB or Robinson R-22 helicopter A Cessna 172 airplane A house to rent out A house to live in Helicopter? Insurance is the killer. Airplane? It’s been years since I’ve flown a fixed-wing. Rental house? Home? It’s hard to find one when you’re 1,200 miles away from where you want to buy one! ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2002, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-saving-up-to-buy/110231/17 "2002-05-22T11:35:28Z")
Rather unambitiously - I’ll save for more RAM for the computer! A computer that believes it only has 28 meg is , um, just a bit sad! (Although saving up for next 'phone or electricity bill is just as likely!) 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Nenya\_Elizabeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ea5d25/32.png) [@Nenya\_Elizabeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nenya_Elizabeth)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2002, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-saving-up-to-buy/110231/18 "2002-05-22T12:05:31Z")
A chemistry course, and a plane ticket home from school at Christmas time. ---
**Author:** ![ratatoskK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ratatoskk/32/2987_2.png) [@ratatoskK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratatoskK)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2002, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-saving-up-to-buy/110231/19 "2002-05-22T12:53:20Z")
I need and SHOULD be saving for: 1. A new(er) car. 2. Painting the house 3. New rugs But since I can survive without them, I keep putting it off… ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2002, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-saving-up-to-buy/110231/20 "2002-05-22T12:55:20Z")
> [@](#): > > and a plane ticket home from school at Christmas time. You could save up for your own plane and fly yourself home. I know where there’s a Cessna for sale in Chilliwack. 😃 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-saving-up-to-buy/110231.md?page=2)