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$100 windfall

spiderlashes5000spiderlashes5000 Registered Users Posts: 17,898 Curl Virtuoso
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If you came into a cash gift of $100 that you had to spend on yourself in a week, what would you spend it on? Cannot be used to pay existing bills.

What's the best personal use of $100?

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  • sew and sewsew and sew Registered Users Posts: 3,443
    Best as in what you would figure is most prudent?

    It would be best that I just put it in my savings account. However I'd probably get that blouse I want and feel more okay with dropping money on it being that I don't technically need it. Then I would hit up a farmer's market and buy fruit that I also don't need (could eat more stoic options at home) but enjoy...and then the rest goes into savings. Or I switch out the fruit with $20 to just be on hand for coffee and a meal while out socially.
    “It was only a sunny smile and little it cost in the giving but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald

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  • PigletPiglet Registered Users Posts: 1,451 Curl Neophyte
    If I needed a hair cut, I would spent it on that and would have money left over for something to wear. If I wasn't due a hair cut, I would buy clothes. Alternatively, I might look into one of those inch loss wraps. I'm not sure if they work, but I like the idea of them.
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    No, it was NOT me who cried 'wee wee wee wee wee' all the way home.
  • scrillsscrills Registered Users Posts: 6,700
    Can I buy more time? no?

    A custom dress. I have the fabric. I would ask someone to make me a dress with this fabric I've been hoarding

    New makeup

    New hair, LOL

    Hair products

    Clothes. a dress from shabby apple

    New comforter
  • spiderlashes5000spiderlashes5000 Registered Users Posts: 17,898 Curl Virtuoso
    Massage or reflexology session and a really good cup of iced tea from the overpriced tea shop.:flower:
    sew and sew wrote:
    Best as in what you would figure is most prudent?

    funnest!


    sew and sew wrote:
    It would be best that I just put it in my savings account. However I'd probably get that blouse I want and feel more okay with dropping money on it being that I don't technically need it. Then I would hit up a farmer's market and buy fruit that I also don't need (could eat more stoic options at home)

    more stoic fruit options? LOL

    sew and sew wrote:
    but enjoy...and then the rest goes into savings. Or I switch out the fruit with $20 to just be on hand for coffee and a meal while out socially.

    All has to be spent w/in a week.

    Yes, scrills, a week!
  • sew and sewsew and sew Registered Users Posts: 3,443
    Ah yeah...you did say 'have to spend on yourself'...I remember reading that. Doh.

    And yes...stoic fruit options :DAlways only either apples, bananas and oranges at home.

    So I'd amend this to that blouse + some other item I'd be sure to get lots of use from, from ASOS to reach $40 and get free shipping.

    Fruit ;) and/or a rug.

    eta: I picked up some cherries and mangoes at a farmer's market recently...made my week, or at least the couple of days I gorged on them.

    “It was only a sunny smile and little it cost in the giving but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald

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  • JosephineJosephine Registered Users Posts: 14,408 Curl Connoisseur
    Clothes or travel. Travel would cost more so right now I would probably spend it on one of these:
    -bikini
    -shoes - dressy heels or wedges
    -coverup(swim
    -wristlet if I could find one
    -sunglasses, although the really good ones would be more
  • CurlyCanadianCurlyCanadian Registered Users, Curl Ambassador Posts: 10,904 Curl Connoisseur
    Sephora or a massage.
    I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.
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  • AngelaE8654AngelaE8654 Banned Users Posts: 1,099 Curl Neophyte
    scrills wrote: »
    Can I buy more time? no?

    A custom dress. I have the fabric. I would ask someone to make me a dress with this fabric I've been hoarding

    New makeup

    New hair, LOL

    Hair products

    Clothes. a dress from shabby apple

    New comforter

    I second the makeup and hair products. That's what I would do as well as get a pedicure. :)
  • NvmbrCurlssNvmbrCurlss Registered Users Posts: 732 Curl Neophyte
    Sunglasses or massage.
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  • cailincailin Registered Users Posts: 928 Curl Connoisseur
    I'm way to practical for my own good. I'd use it on Handyman services. Someone to come to my house and fix all the little stuff I haven't got to yet. Or a house cleaning service.
  • eveumeveum Registered Users Posts: 744 Curl Neophyte
    Probably makeup, although I'm so bad at spontaneously buying makeup/hair products. Like part of me wants to research it and read reviews online, and another part is just saying buy it woman! 😤

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  • curlypearlcurlypearl Registered Users Posts: 12,231 Curl Connoisseur
    Mani/pedi, makeup and some sort of ice-cream sundae or ice-cream soda.
    2/c Coarse hair med. density.
    Highly porous. Color over grey.
    I love all the Curl Junkie products. Still experimenting with gels and curl creams. Still hoping for 2nd day hair....
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  • StarmieStarmie Registered Users Posts: 7,169 Curl Virtuoso
    Some jewellery - silver bangle or some such.
    3b in South Australia.
  • scrillsscrills Registered Users Posts: 6,700
    cailin wrote: »
    I'm way to practical for my own good. I'd use it on Handyman services. Someone to come to my house and fix all the little stuff I haven't got to yet. Or a house cleaning service.

    Nope! I'm counting that as an existing bill (handyman) :-)
  • jeepcurlygurljeepcurlygurl Registered Users, Curl Ambassador Posts: 20,731 Curl Virtuoso
    I would spend it on food - farmer's market, roadside veg/fruit stand, local meat/eggs.
    --I'm located in Western PA.   --I found NC in late 2004, CG since February 2005, joined the forums in May 2005, started going grey in late 2005.   --My hair is 3B with some 3A, currently at mid back length when dry,  texture-medium/fine, porosity-top is low, middle is medium, ends are porous, elasticity-normal.   --My long time favorite products are Suave & VO5 conditioners, LA Looks Sport Gel, coconut oil, honey, vinegar.   
    --My CG and grey hair progress -  
    http://www.naturallycurly.com/curltalk/going-gray/179328-jeepys-grey-hair-progress.html   
    --My article at NaturallyCurly about going grey - 
    https://www.naturallycurly.com/curlreading/color/how-i-went-completely-gray-and-loved-it
  • TRBLTRBL Registered Users Posts: 5,294 Curl Connoisseur
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