You were just given $500...

I could use a nice new suit.

A $500 Amazon gift card, just to sneak around all your restrictions. :slight_smile:

New phone.

A tablet, because I don’t really want one. Anything I really want I can get.
Or some really good classy wooden jigsaw puzzles. They go about $100 each.
Would a really high end dinner, with expensive wine, count.

L. Ron Hubbard (yeah, him) had a similar story in Unknown in the early '40s, where a guy was cursed by having to spend $100 a night in Manhattan, and was not allowed to buy things with it.

Really nice, used vintage Mickey Mouse Watch.

Snowblower.

(And I promise to clear the sidewalks on my street and all my neighbours drives!)

Assuming it can be spent in sections:

MTB upgrades (roughly $100)
Used BMX bike ($200-ish)
Biking accessories - new gloves, etc. ($75ish)
Scotch (guilty pleasure #1) ($100)
Beef Jerky (guilty pleasure #2) ($25)

Mostly bike stuff, but two things just for kicks. :slight_smile:

Brendon

A new Behmor 1600 coffee roaster. Mine’s busted and I can’t be arsed to fix it again.

Fly rod

Books :slight_smile:

A bunch of new home brewing equipment. I’ve got a lot of stuff that needs replacing and/or upgrading, so I never want to use it…but since I never use it, it doesn’t seem worth the money to replace it…

This.

Or this.

Guess I’ll have to flip a coin.

Can you make it $500.25?

Haircut and color. That’d only be like $120 but I need it so bad and I haven’t been able to afford a cut all year. I am dying under my hair mop.

I’d also get this star projector from ThinkGeek. I guess I’ll spend the rest there, too.

A new bike. Or given what the damn things cost, maybe that’s half the bike.

I could get some stuff for the house, but that’d be for both of us, so per the OP it doesn’t really count.

Bookcases. :slight_smile:

I’d probably add navigation to the existing system in our car. Yeah, we’ve got a stand-alone GPS, and we’ve got our phones, but sometimes I’d like it to just be built-in to the damn car.

A bottle of Highland Park 25 year old Scotch.

As good a bottle of single malt scotch as $500 would get me.

High grade chocolate and a nice shopping spree at my favorite used book store.

Two really good netstreaming devices.