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As per title really based on the following senario.
1/ No mortgage to repay.
2/ No other debts to repay.
3/ No desire to change car.
Just a bit of fun really and interested to hear why you would do with it what you say you will?
Amuse me please 🙂
Given that scenario, it's in the bank for a rainy day for me.
Neither need nor want anything at the moment, so tuck it away for when the time comes that I do!
the usual
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I've got first call on coke & strippers!
the usual
go fishing for type 2 diabetics?
You forgot
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Balls, beaten to it
1.5m cola bottles.
[i]What would you do with £15'000?[/i]
First off, I'd get the comma and apostrophe buttons on my keyboard swapped over 😉
Invest it for retirement.
wwaswas, top marks! 😀
Balls, beaten to it
Verb? Nasty.
Probably be sensible and get the double glazing on the house done and a new kitchen sorted.
God. That is depressing.
Stash it for retirement.
Or Lego.
If it really was surplus to requirements I guess I'd use it to plan a massive ski holiday with a load of people who wouldn't normally go because of cost. Then hopefully have a bit left over to be charitable with.
I'd spend it on champagne to celebrate the mysterious disappearance of my mortgage.
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And some other stuffs.
Same thing. Lego is the ultimate investment!Stash it for retirement.Or Lego.
A year off travelling.
I'd do the grand divide.
That's the sort of money that wouldn't change your life in any long term way but could allow you a bit of space to do something that you'd remember for the rest of your life.
As a professional pimp, I have access to more coke and hookers than I know what to do with.
Probably spend it on an attic conversion....
Bank it, or have a dabble on the stock market.
Buy a bike and go to Whistler.
Buy a Snap-On tool cabinet for the garage!
I would buy all the retro Bontrager tat in existence.
Buy a Snap-On tool cabinet for the garage!
It's only £15k. You might have to settle for a 10mm spanner....
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I'd quit my job and go bikin.
Northwind, it's "bikini"
and, POIDH
holiday
spend on a bit on the house - extension probably
garden 'den' for my wife
get my Citroen 2CV up and running
buy enough Rapha stuff to be invited to buy some 'Imperial Works' clothing 🙂
another road bike
bank the rest
Finish the back garden and house decorating which has been a WIP for 2 1/2 years since moving in.
Keep the rest to fund 'number19' who is due 8th May!
probably a cnc lathe
Keep the rest to fund 'number19'
Does her living in number 18 know then?
Boring but I'd not really want to splash out on anything at the moment. I'd probably sandbag the money and treat myself to things as I see them.
Last year I saw a really nice strata abarth for 3.5k, I'd pick up things like that 🙂
Retirement, double glazing, rainy day funds, jeeeeezus, what is the age range here? Fair play for still being able to ride bikes!
I would probably blow 2 or 3 grand putting on a club night in Bristol for my freinds, then go snowboarding in USA or canada for a month. I would have bought a new snowboard and would definitely need to get a decent bike too. Would probably head to Morrocco or some other African country for a month or so too to make the most of the last of the money, or perhap fly down to Mexico rather than Morocco seeing as I'd be over there anyway.
Why? To have fun and remember what it's like to be alive!!
A really good sausage sandwich
I'd be looking for a safe, low-risk investment in these troubled times. Get down the bookies and heave 15G on the canny Scots saying no to independence, currently at 1/7.
Dirtycrew
Done all the stuff already 🙂
Done all the stuff already
Me too but I've forgotten a lot of it!!
Yunki - was that just another euphemism for drugs and hookers?
Done all the stuff already
Me too but I've forgotten a lot of it!!
Good man, if you remembered it you weren't doing it properly 🙂
split it three ways - £10k to the kid for the bank, £3k to the wife for shoes and shit, £4k for me for new bike bits and maths lessons
brakes - how are the maths resits going?
Put in bank and eventually hand it over to some third rate institute of higher education so my worthless offspring can gain a pointless qualification.
Then shoot myself.
If it were my wife she would give it to the nice kitchen man thats round our house now... 🙁 ...
Probably spend it on an attic conversion....
Having seen the man cave 15k is not going to be enough!
If I had to actually spend it then a garage rebuild/extension to include an area in which my wife is not permitted to put anything ever especially if it's come from the garden and needs to go to the tip.
I inherited exactly that amount when I was about 15. I invested it, over the years some of it went on 6 months in NZ, the odd car insurance when times were hard and it ended up going on house deposit.
With £15k I'd like to take over the world.
Guitar, amp, and lots of lessons.
Air travel.
Give me an interest free loooooooooooong term loan? 😉
Start another business
Buy a long thin bit of woodland and build some cow free singletrack?
http://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/what-would-you-do-with-a-windfall
It went towards buying a bigger house, and banked some to pay for a 'bucket list' holiday, touring parts of US on motorbike currently top runner (we do 'big' riding, diving and boarding holidays regularly so something different).
Love some of these ideas especially taking over the world. I wonder how much of a cruise missile i could get for £15k!!
wwaswas is there such a thing as cow free singletrack now days?!
The girlfriend has said if it were to happen then I should spend it but given that, like most of us, I've never had that much cash before I think I'd find it hard to blow it all. Just not that way inclined.
Quite fancy a 2 week holiday in Barbados for us both and her two boys without having to fly cattle class.
I'd put a 7% deposit down on a pair of Holland & Holland Royal Double Rifles (c. £103,000 each).
Police FEO: "And what is your reason for wanting these rifles Mr. TuckerUK?"
TuckerUK: "They are a work of art. I mean, have you seen the quality of the woodwork?"
New slippers for me
I'd buy 7,500 lottery tickets, then with the millions I won I'd invest it into the mikewsmith's idea (setting aside some to cover the funeral arrangements)
You, Sir, need a microlite!
Some kit to start frame building with.
A big ride, maybe USA, maybe see some European cities I've missed out on so far. I'd like to say a big Healey, but I fear a decent one is a fair bit over £15k these days. More realistically, I'd pay someone to finish the renovation on midlifetowers as I've lost the mojo on the task.
Solar panels, underfloor heating, new boiler, small generator for when the lights go out (obviously not mine)........We're all doomed!
That Canadian multi day race in this months Singletrack mag. I want to do that soooooo much.
Homer Simpson once said,
with 10,000 dollars we'd be millionaires!!
Hope this helps....
Im here all day
[i]You, Sir, need a microlite! [/i]
He's a big lad. Do they make Maxilites?
Spend it on Curlywurly's and sherbet dib dab's 8)
[url= http://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/drivers-killing-cyclists-the-system-really-is-broken ]loathsome person[/url]I'd pay a hitman to break this lawyers kneecaps
You, Sir, need a microlite!He's a big lad. Do they make Maxilites?
Oi I resemble that remark! 😉
On the subject of hitmen does anyone know how much a decent no questions asked one is now days as I may have a little "job" which needs doing!!! 😯
Double post 😳
New slippers for me
Mine were £7.99 from TK Max yesterday. Memory foam footbeds and everything. Only £14992.01 to go.
Might get the car windows tinted which will eat up about £500 if i get them both done.
God I'm crap at spending money!!
Race entries and flights - transalp, trans savoir, bc bike race, holiday in bc afterwards.
Anything left probably buy another bike I don't need to use in them.
Either that or do something to annoy people who like football.
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Kimbers has the best idea yet. The commute to work would be mental!