Tax Return Money!
Har_Har_the_Pirate
Join Date: 2003-08-10 Member: 19388Members, Constellation
Join Date: 2003-08-10 Member: 19388Members, Constellation
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<div class="IPBDescription">And what to do with it</div> Im gettin about 650 dollars in tax return money, and than i worked 20 hours overtime on my last pay check, so ill have roughly 900 dollars to spend extra this next friday or so.
So what should i spend it on?
1. Upgrade my comp so it can handle rome total war
2. Save it for next years college expences (meh)
3. Save it for a new car (im driving a ford taurus)
4. Give it away to NS forum goers (well no, im to big of a cheap bastard)
5. Get new clothes (im still use stuff from my sophomore year in highschool)
6. New games
7. Something else
So what should i spend it on?
1. Upgrade my comp so it can handle rome total war
2. Save it for next years college expences (meh)
3. Save it for a new car (im driving a ford taurus)
4. Give it away to NS forum goers (well no, im to big of a cheap bastard)
5. Get new clothes (im still use stuff from my sophomore year in highschool)
6. New games
7. Something else
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Brace for the economic recession we're currently headed in.
edit: to the point where you can play ANYTHING
Oh wait...
or if yah got enugh hookers and booze. (so what if you are at most 19 years old!)
I just found out I'm getting like $800 back on mine. Woot.
$500 though I'm giving to my mom though because she payed for college yet for some reason had the tax guy give me the $500 deduction, so I'm gonna be nice and give her the cash. That should keep her off my back for a month or so. :P
So what should i spend it on?
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Ahem...
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My computer only cost $500 (600 with extra, but unnecessary for Rome, RAM), and it runs R:TW pretty much flawlessly, as long as you don't expect huge unit sizes, with 8 simoutaneous armies and full graphics settings...
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I would suggest this, especially if you're not the one directly paying for your college right now.
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Fear my Ford Contour - IT WILL DESTROY YOU! Moving on...
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Definite yes <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> .
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So am I (if not earlier), aside from the occasional ****-rip or legs not fitting in pants properly predicament, I've found shirts stay comfy over the years (I have the same workable shoes I had in 9th grade, back at home...pffft, no one wants me to wear them - add that to the fact that they're hand-me-downs, makes them about 7 years old).
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Meh, not much coming out anymore. Maybe I'm just behind in my gaming (or poor, that could be too), but I think the big rush came from October-December.
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A trampoline! I would really (honestly) suggest retirement fund, you can't go wrong: more money when you're old (if economy doesn't get really, really bad with inflation). If it were me, I'd actually throw 600+ in a bank or stocks or something (...not really, I don't trust them with Bush in office, but maybe you do), and 300 on games.
[actually, 600 would go right to college, but you seem against that.]
1. Upgrade my comp so it can handle rome total war
2. Save it for next years college expences (meh)
3. Save it for a new car (im driving a ford taurus)
4. Give it away to NS forum goers (well no, im to big of a cheap bastard)
5. Get new clothes (im still use stuff from my sophomore year in highschool)
6. New games
7. Something else <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Save for college. Definitely college. Why? Well, from personal experience:
At college you can get computer parts and more cheap. There are <i>always</i> people nerdier than you, and said people are upgrading constantly. Enough so that at some colleges, there will be a "lost-and-found" like pile that's instead been labeled "free to a good home." I've gotten everything from coax cable for TV all the way up to desk chairs (that's right, <i>plural</i>) which besides from minor armrest/lumbar adjustment problems are far better than the ones normally in the dorm rooms.
A car is something you may not need or even want at college. Make friends, carpool with friends. Forces you to be social and saves money in the process.
Clothing is another thing you won't need at college. [I]College campuses give t-shirts away like candy[I]. Go to the bookstore for your textbooks? Great! Here's a t-shirt. Y'know what, we're competing with the bookstore across campus, so take two. Join a club knowing you'll never even go to the 2nd meeting? Take a t-shirt. Take a diagnostic test to see how good your math/computer programming/English skills are as a freshman? Great! Thanks for participating, take a t-shirt.
Oh, and when it comes to software, trust me: all the productivity stuff you'll ever need is provided to enrolled students at educational prices or free, and all the software you'll ever want to try can be borrowed from dorm buddies. That's right: as long as it's only installed on one computer at a time and no 2nd copies are made, it's legal by definition.
^^
a friend of mine got $4000 back from taxes
I would say invest in some new gently used clothes [THRIFT STOOOORES] and save for a new whip [car] or school
on second thought, do what pardzh says
Granted a 3000 GT VR-4 would be nice.. I don't think they are going to cost only 900... unless they are wrecked reguardless if you go with the 90-98 models <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Tsk on talesin for putting false hopes in such a nice car.
That's your solution to everything.
I like it.