Pay off bills for the year. Donate the rest to food pantry. Fuck money.
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I would invest in something useful, for example, put aside a few dollars for expensive treatment if they are needed in the future, donate small pieces to projects or organizations that are interesting to me, or open source programs, if I really like the program, the rest of the money would be spent on things for my work, like a good computer, and other all sorts of necessary things, and I would also invest in crypto, which is reliable in cold wallets 😀
Buy enough solar and batteries to become energy independent for the rest of my life.
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- Buy 1 month of Trump’s Truth social access early for $10,000
- front run whatever industry he decides to fuck next for $40,000
- profit?
A perfect 3 part explanation of the corruptive influence of capital
Renovat my bathroom, install an air conditioning system, use the rest to pay the mortgage.
It's not quite enough, but I need a new truck. So I'd pull out another $20k and get one with no payment. I haven't had any debt other than my mortgage in years and I'm trying to keep it that way.
Slap in a bank account and feel a little more secure but still nowhere near being able to retire.
It's crazy to think this is no where near that for some people
If you want a roof over your head, most places have property taxes of $3-4k per year even if you own it outright. If you want to ever leave your house a car costs about $5-10k per year. If you aren't living on rice and beans food costs about $3-6k per year. This doesn't include any clothing, taxes, medical expenses, hobbies, travel, or other bills like water, natural gas, electric, etc.
If you're incredibly frugal and quality for public assistance, $50k might last you a few years in the US.
Key point here in the US, where i live 50k dollars is enough to be a rich investor +house +car + years of necessities
How relaxed or strict are your immigration laws? I paid $40 just to park my car for a few hours a few days ago.
If you're american you can literally just drive down to mexico and nobody checks or cares
Oh uh am in what you call a third world country, it's nice to visit but idk if you'd want to live here , also 40 dollars is what a regular person like me make in a month, it's actually crazy to hear that you pay that just for parking parking costs like ~0.2$ to 0.39$ max
I'd take time off work and travel europe for 6 months with my wife
Buying the best bed possible, paying off my whole debt, and going to sleep for a long time.
Luxury beds can run above half a million dollars. How much bed money would you have left bafter paying off your debt?
!?! 1400 max here, I have not seen another.
It's just dumb rich people stuff. Hand sewn camel hair and silk and stupid stuff. They don't have to sell them everywhere, they sell at a handful of elite shopping locations. The champs Elyse, the Koenigsallee. They go hand in hand with $200k watches and yachts.
Oh I see! I now know how to earn that 50k...
probably give my 10 favorite people $5k. id do it anonymously too.
Pay for new teeth, up my Patreon subscription for my favorite artist by factor 5 and then back some great projects made by human artists on Kickstarter.
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