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You have to be frivolous -- what do you do?

by R Hagel
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Here's a twist on Kurt's question about spending $5k in your favorite store...

If I gave you a $5000 gift certificate that you could spend ANYWHERE, where would you spend it?

But here's the rule: It can't be something you'd normally buy or do.

For example, you can't say, "I'd go to Paris" if you have actual plans to go to Paris some day. It has to be something you probably wouldn't normally do or buy because you consider it frivolous.



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for me:

I'd probably go someplace like the Skylofts at MGM Grand (Skylofts at MGM Grand Las Vegas - a world of possibility at Skylofts). The hotel picks you up at the airport in a Maybach car. You get a butler who comes in various times per day to iron your clothing and give you fresh fruit. And in the off season prices start around $700/night for the 1br loft (and easily go into the thousands during the high season).

Totally frivolous.
  • Profile picture of the author barbling
    Originally Posted by R Hagel View Post

    Here's a twist on Kurt's question about spending $5k in your favorite store...

    If I gave you a $5000 gift certificate that you could spend ANYWHERE, where would you spend it?
    Don't even have to think about it twice.

    Buy the 5K massage chair that's at Brookstone.


    OSIM uHarmony Massage Chair Recliner at Brookstone. Shop Now!

    Totally frivolous.
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  • Profile picture of the author Laura B
    Buy a karaoke system for the house.
    Buy everything in my iTunes shopping cart (around $300 at the moment).
    Have my teeth professionally whitened
    Is that $5,000 yet?
    Buy an iPhone.
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  • Profile picture of the author Michael Motley
    I would cash it all out into 1's, buy a huge bucket of honey and strip naked. pour the honey over me then roll through the bills and head to the local strip club.
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    • Profile picture of the author R Hagel
      Originally Posted by Michael Motley View Post

      I would cash it all out into 1's, buy a huge bucket of honey and strip naked. pour the honey over me then roll through the bills and head to the local strip club.
      Now I know how I'm going to fund my weekend at the Skylofts.





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      Great answers, everyone. Keep 'em coming.
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  • Profile picture of the author John Willer
    $5,000 in nachos!
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    • Profile picture of the author Lloyd Buchinski
      Originally Posted by Michael Motley View Post

      I would cash it all out into 1's, buy a huge bucket of honey and strip naked. pour the honey over me then roll through the bills and head to the local strip club.
      Originally Posted by John Willer View Post

      $5,000 in nachos!
      Both of these guys are thinkers. Enjoyed both of them.

      best wishes, lloyd
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  • Profile picture of the author Patrician
    First I would buy a jacuzzi as I have always wanted my own.

    Then I would go somewhere and live on the beach and spend every day staring at the ocean, listening to the ocean, smelling the ocean, etc.

    I would be decadent just to the point where I would eat giant scallops, Chilean Sea Bass and other seafood and not worry about the cost. Wash it down with extra dry champagne.

    ... I would do just that for as long as the money lasted.

    hic.
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  • Profile picture of the author HeySal
    Something I wouldn't normally do? Hmmm. I think I'd go to a spa for a day of pampering, then buy a new real girly wardrobe and go out to someplace like a casino.
    It's the type of thing I might have done when I was young, but not something I would normally do now.
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    • Profile picture of the author markbrown0316
      Originally Posted by HeySal View Post

      Something I wouldn't normally do? Hmmm. I think I'd go to a spa for a day of pampering, then buy a new real girly wardrobe and go out to someplace like a casino.
      It's the type of thing I might have done when I was young, but not something I would normally do now.
      I think I wanna do that too, pamper myself once in a while. I love to do that.
      When can I get my $5000. lol
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  • Profile picture of the author CDarklock
    Buy a painting.

    I love art, I really do, but I simply can't bring myself to spend money on it. I see things and say "ooh, that's nice" and then I just walk away because there are so many more practical things I could buy.

    So if I had to be frivolous, I'd buy a painting.
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  • Profile picture of the author R Hagel
    Butlers. Massage chairs. Jacuzzis. A day at the spa. Looks like we're leaning towards pampering.

    Of course maybe CDarklock has the right idea -- a gift that he'd enjoy with the bonus of having a good resell value.
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    • Profile picture of the author Karen Blundell
      I would go out and buy a Les Paul Hollow-Body guitar, a really good microphone, some amps, then invite my musician friends whom I haven't seen in several years, and have a jam session
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      • Profile picture of the author ConcordeWarrior
        I would go to Valentino in Monaco and buy me a smart outfit. I always loved this fashion designer.

        I would not need to spend much on transport as I am just 10 minutes down the road from there. I would spend all the money in the store.

        Until now I have only looked in from the outside.
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  • Profile picture of the author haikuangel
    I attended a strict and conservative catholic boarding school for 8th to 12th grade, so if I had $5000 to spend I would probably donate an espresso machine, a lazy boy and a foot massager for my old highschool's faculty lounge so that I can be invited to speak at the graduation ceremonies and there, I shall unveil a massive poster of my nakedness soaked in a tub of one dollar bills with the biggest "F* You kiss my a** for ruining puberty with your bulls**t" !
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