I’d pay off all of our credit cards and debts and put a down payment on a (needed) second car.
hrh
First I’d groan in pain while clutching my testicles, especially if it were in quarters.
Put a down payment on a house, buy a mini-DV camera, and make a movie.
DAMMIT! If I hadn’t been the OP, that’s what I’d have said!
hrh
Student loans. Still wouldn’t be paid off, 25K would make a big difference.
Vegas baby!!!
NOT! 
Considering both DH and I bought new vehicles within 2 months of eachother to the tune of about $34,000 dollars in the last 6 months, I think I’d be for paying mine off, and making a good size dent in his loan.
Yup. Assuming it’s $25K tax free/after taxes, I would pay about one-fifth of my student loans.
I might invest it instead.
Buy the timeshare in Lake Tahoe we recently looked at, replace some of the windows in our house with the new Anderson Frank Lloyd Wright art glass windows I just saw in a magazine ad. Rip up carpets and put in wood floors, use the remainder (if any) to pay down our mortgage.
Put it toward a down payment on a condo or house. Sadly, it wouldn’t be enough for the whole down payment, in this part of the world. ::sobs quietly::
Christ, it sure isn’t. My wife and I just moved to the Central Valley from San Fancisco. Median house price in SF is just under half a mil. Our fabulous house with fruit trees and an acre and a rental house on the side was recently appraised at $150,000.
Sorry, just excited, not trying to be a jagoff…
hrh
Score an 8 ball, book an overnighter witha Pr0n Star escort, go to a fancy bistro and do the shrimp cocktail ala Blues Brothers, get about $1000 in quarters and feed parking meters so people won’t get tickets, and spend the rest on bail or something…
Pay off credit cards and car loan; put the rest away in one of the retirement accounts.
Pay my parents the money they gave me for medical expenses. They told me it was a gift, but I feel like a sponge.($7000)
Indulge myself buying a bunch of books in hardback that I already have in paperback, put about $5000 in the bank, and take a trip to Alaska.
Actually, I’d probably just use the money for home improvement…
Probably buy myself a decent car and conservatively invest the rest.
Just pay off debt. What a great feeling that would be!!!
:: runs off to buy lottery ticket ::
Pay off my car and student loans and then maybe even a biggie sized value meal of some kind.
Pay my mother ($800), my grandparents ($1000), my in-laws (several grand, not sure exactly how much), and my friends ($400 & $100) the money I owe them all. Then I’d start paying off my defunct bank account (about $400), my student loans ($5000), my library fee ($80), and all of the little magazine subscriptions/book clubs we joined and then realized we couldn’t pay for (about $200).
How much is that? Around $8 grand? Cool, I could still pay for the car we are buying from my in-laws ($3000) and the van we have to buy to accomodate the 4th child we are having in September ($1500). There would probably also be other little debts that I have forgotten that I would pay off. I hate owing people money. It feels like I am stealing food from their kids’ plates.
Books, books and more books! Twenty-five thousand would buy me a hell of a lot of “brain food.”
I’d pay off the $2K that is owing on my credit cards, and the $3K (or so) on my Jeep. The rest would go towards paying down the mortgage on the house.