If you won $1000 cash, you would...

SweetSailor
SweetSailor Posts: 81 Member
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If you were awarded $1000 in a cash gift card, and expressly told you had to spend it on something wonderful, what would you do with it?

This happened to me and my spouse says I can only spend it on myself. I won it as a bonus at work for performance.

I am thinking I might buy treadmill. Unless there is something better that I haven't thought of.
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  • Micahroni84
    Micahroni84 Posts: 452 Member
    oooh! Congrats on the money! I would probably buy a nice treadmill too. Or a new couch.
  • LiziAB
    LiziAB Posts: 55
    Infinity ring
  • sbbhbm
    sbbhbm Posts: 1,312 Member
    New wardrobe, definitely.
  • erinxo13
    erinxo13 Posts: 892 Member
    I'm not sure, maybe a vacation or plane tickets, or theatre tickets, jewellery, a spa day. something that I would really like.
  • SnazzyTraveller
    SnazzyTraveller Posts: 457 Member
    I would put it in my After-I-graduate-I'm-going-somewhere-cool savings account
  • aaronisaranger
    aaronisaranger Posts: 101
    Soup up my fast car just a little bit more!
  • BoomstickChick
    BoomstickChick Posts: 428 Member
    Hmm. I would buy all the baby stuff I still need for this baby. I'd save the rest for new clothes after he/she is born.
  • Lleldiranne
    Lleldiranne Posts: 5,516 Member
    Clothes and shoes!

    Although, really, I would probably buy something for my kids too.
  • LetsMakeupXtina
    LetsMakeupXtina Posts: 627 Member
    new wardrobe.. or, if you have not met your goal yet, save it for when you meet goal and then buy a whole new wardrobe. something to work for :)
  • chauncyrenayCHANGED
    chauncyrenayCHANGED Posts: 788 Member
    Treadmill sounds great! You might be able to find a great one on craigslist and then use the leftover money for something else. :)
    A mini-vacation would be fun, too!
    Congratulations.
  • kr1stadee
    kr1stadee Posts: 1,774 Member
    I'd pay off our Disney Cruise that we're going on next year!

    If I had to spend it on ME, I'd be torn.. maybe save it until I lose more and restock my closet? That's a hard one!!

    Congrats on the prize!!!
  • TeachTheGirl
    TeachTheGirl Posts: 2,091 Member
    That's so difficult because I have so many things I'd want to spend it on, but wouldn't necessarily just be for me...

    So I'll go with a range of kettlebells. <3
  • RetroRob
    RetroRob Posts: 58
    I won an Easter egg once :ohwell:

    Buy yourself a luxury item something you have always wanted?
  • panano
    panano Posts: 62 Member
    I would set it aside as money for all the clothes I would buy once I got to my goal weight! :)
  • laserturkey
    laserturkey Posts: 1,680 Member
    I think it would be wonderful to have all the medical and dental bills paid off for me and my kids, so that's where it would go. Any excess would go toward wonderful groceries or wonderful gasoline for my husband's car.
  • _the_feniks_
    _the_feniks_ Posts: 3,412 Member
    Ink
  • cheerforsteelers
    cheerforsteelers Posts: 686 Member
    I would save half and spend the other half on something fun for me/spouse...or just me.
  • horsewhisper91
    horsewhisper91 Posts: 456 Member
    Well you could either spend it all, spend half of it and save the other half, or spend money on something you really want/need and save the rest.

    I'd probably end up saving it. Though my saving tend to get to a nice amount then I blow it on going on a long vacation. XD
    Last time was a full x-country by train to CA and back. Stayed in LA for 4 weeks. Then traveled back in 11 days touring the rest of the country. :D
    Next up....England and Germany!
  • Shock_Wave
    Shock_Wave Posts: 1,573 Member
    Partying, gambling,strip clubs, and buy some stripes on my was brand new in 2012 Generation 5 Camaro(Bumblebee)
    :happy: :drinker:
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  • aquapup
    aquapup Posts: 81 Member
    I got 500 bucks the same way and spent it on a Playstation 3
  • poedunk65
    poedunk65 Posts: 1,336 Member
    use it towards the $4000 surgery i have to have for my puppy
  • amysteri
    amysteri Posts: 197 Member
    a vacation! :happy:

    but if my dog ever needed it i'd definitely give it to her! kudos to you above me for thinking of your best friend!
  • _JamieB_
    _JamieB_ Posts: 417 Member
    Hawaii, without a doubt!!!!!!!
  • Going4Lean
    Going4Lean Posts: 1,078 Member
    pay for personal training sessions
  • Barbellerella
    Barbellerella Posts: 1,838 Member
    1 trip to Sephora would knock it out for me =)
  • laurynwithawhy
    laurynwithawhy Posts: 385 Member
    Hmmm if fitness related I'd say HRM, fit bit new workout clothes, or treadmill. Otherwise, clothes, shoes, wine, maybe a spa day or a night out with the girls?
  • Shock_Wave
    Shock_Wave Posts: 1,573 Member
    Hawaii, without a doubt!!!!!!!

    LOL Jamie $1000 wouldn't even buy the round trip plane ticket. :tongue:
  • em3120
    em3120 Posts: 154 Member
    I would use it to help pay for a trip to Italy! Or maybe on one big shopping spree :)
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 48,992 Member
    Deposit it in my IRA account.

    A.C.E. Certified Personal/Group FitnessTrainer
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    Been in fitness for 30 years and have studied kinesiology and nutrition
  • _JamieB_
    _JamieB_ Posts: 417 Member
    Hawaii, without a doubt!!!!!!!

    LOL Jamie $1000 wouldn't even buy the round trip plane ticket. :tongue:

    True true...but it would sure help!!!!!

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