What would you do with $50,000?

[Robb]

I mean, I'm not going to give it to you or anything. Just a starter question. :)

It's not a million dollars, it's not a hundred. What would you do, honestly? And go ahead and be me: I'd put it somewhere boring, plan for the future, etc. etc. :boring:

[Whoa_Nelly]

1. Buy a house

without a doubt :)

[LynzM]

2. Down payment on a house, probably.

So that we could afford to get a house we really liked, as opposed to one that "works for now."

Barring that, pay off school debt, and take a trip to Europe, and stash the rest in investments.

[LeftyMom]

3. better car (not new or fancy, but not 8 years old either,) school, move nt

[Droopy]

4. Pay off debt

That would pay off my truck loan, my school loan, and half of the mortgage on my house.

[ThomCat]

39. Agreed

I'd pay off most of my student loans.

[texanwitch]

5. I would pay off all my bills, and take a vacation.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. I have a good friend who could use a large sum....

I'd give some of it away......

Invest some.....

Play with some......

That's what I'd do with 50K......

:hi:

[Coventina]

7. Pay off my student loans & home repairs.

Boring, but much needed.

[SeattleGirl]

8. Pay off my debt with part of it

and save the rest of it until I figured out what I wanted to do with it.

[swag]

9. Go somewhere nice for breakfast.

[flvegan]

10. If it's a cap gains free $50k

I'd be very cautious on investing it. The housing market sucks, the DJ sucks. Probably put it in a conservative global fund and wait.

However, for fun, were I rich, and it didn't matter, $50k would go towards a great big stage, and Rise Against opening for the Beastie Boys on my birthday.

[jpgray]

11. Spend half on random music stuff, and then save the rest.

[Mikimouse]

12. Put it in a retirement account...n/t

[WeRQ4U]

13. I'd pay a frightening small portion of my law school loans.

And then I'd cry about it.

[laheina]

14. I'd start a farming co-op with some land that I have in

Guatemala. That 50k would feed a lot of hungry people.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

15. Use it to relocate to Hawaii.

Be a bartender or something once I got there.

[LSK]

16. a lot of little things

1 - roth IRA
2 - Buy some gold
3 - pad my emergency fund some
4 - put some in the stock market and see if i can make it grow fast
5 - maybe buy a new car

[Oeditpus Rex]

17. Put some into home improvements

Some into my truck.

And get these:





:bounce:

[Nicole]

18. Give it to my kid

My house is paid off & 50K would help pay her's off a lot sooner.

[Gold Metal Flake]

19. Buy farmland in Oregon.

I'd have to add to it, but it would be a good start.

[JVS]

20. writhing cocaine orgy!

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

23. I change my plan.

Relocate to Hawaii and have a writhing cocaine orgy. I used to do a lot of coke and I never had one of those. Now I feel like I missed out. Thanks JVS.

[JVS]

26. You can thank me by inviting me

:-)

[Initech]

21. Use it to relocate outside of America.

[Broken_Hero]

22. Pay off some debt...

we owe about 9,000 on our car, about 5,000 to Hague Water...hmm, about 1500 total on credit cards....and after that, get a few things for the house, and throw about 10,000 at our house, pay it down some, and put the rest into the bank....

[Robeson]

24. Easy. Pay off credit card debt.

[leftofthedial]

25. kids--college

[u4ic]

27. Pay off my student loan

buy a better car
buy some half decent furniture
spend 1k or so on indulgences
stash the rest

[radwriter0555]

28. Start up a new business.

Something fun... creative.

[Seabiscuit]

29. Invest it in stocks.

I know of several now that are about to take off and currently offer a 9-10% dividend.

[Robb]

30. Kick for the morning dreamers...

:kick:

[cobalt1999]

31. buy some land.

One of my dad's sayings was "they are always making more people, but they're not making more land".

[elehhhhna]

32. College fund for the gals and a family snorkelling trip to the Caymans

[no name no slogan]

33. Invest it with that Nigerian guy

and turn that $50k in $50 million

[Mutley]

34. Pay off my school loans. Put a down payment on a cute little house.

Help pay off bills and debt and such for my parents and siblings.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

35. Finish off my debt and downpayment on a house.

[skygazer]

36. Pay off debts, give my daughter a honeymoon

My daughter is paying for her own wedding and being eminently sensible about it which I'm so proud of. No starting off married life in debt for her. So I'd give her and her fiance a nice honeymoon and bank anything left over.

[Hugin]

37. Buy Lottery Tickets until it's all gone.

Then, I'd probably bug you for another $50,000 to try
to win it back.

*repeat ad infinidum*

[BreweryYardRat]

38. House down-payment

...preferably on one near arable land out in the NW somewhere.

[MissMillie]

40. pay off my debt and buy a new car.

the end.

[RedSpartan]

41. Invest it so I can retire earlier.

Compounding interest is a wonderful thing.

[mdmc]

42. Down payment on a house.

me thinks.
:)

[IHTFP]

43. Landscape my back yard

And put in a media room in the basement.

[Blue Diadem]

44. Finally get that $10,000 roof we need,

pay off some debt and perhaps get a newer vehicle.

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

45. Clear up all my debts and get a nicer car.

Maybe a Caliber. (Of course, that's my plan now, but it's going to take a bit longer to get there the way I'm doing it.)

Heck, I'd still have almot $20K left over after all that, so maybe I'd invest in Exxon.

Or invest it in something else...but I wouldn't go nuts. Nice and boring.

[DS1]

46. Buy a new pair of undies after being handed 50 grand

then, I dunno, it it was tax-free

put 40k of it away/invested immediately, buy myself a sweet new camera, maybe a trip across country, some nice clothes, little bit of work on my car, give some to family

[samplegirl]

47. Take a vacation

as I have'nt been outside of Ohio in 25 years.