Yesterday I was looking for a receipt so I went scavenging through my junk drawer. I pulled everything out and put it on my bed. I didn’t find what I was looking for but I DID find a surprise. Two crisp, brand new, hundred dollar bills! Obviously I put them away a while back and completely forgotten about them.
So I need your help here… what should I do with the cash?
1 – Go to an expensive meal with friends.
2 – Go to a Broadway Show
3 – Give it to YOU, (and if you vote this, I want to know what you are going to do with it!)
4 – Use it to pay bills.
5 – Go shopping at the Apple Store.
6 – Put it in the bank and save it
7 – Go to Mohegan Sun or Atlantic City and gamble.
8 – Other.
Help a girl out, people!
Well if you give me one of them, I’ll send you 10 copies of my new CD. Autographed. Or you could just save it for a rainy day. That would be my preference.
Don’t give it to me, I would probably use it towards buying a new camera! Maybe you could open up an ING Account with it or something. Buy some stock. Save it for a flight somewhere $200 more than you would normally spend….OR, I read this somewhere…buy a bottle of vintage wine from your birth year – although it may cost more than $200 and drink it at a certain milestone. So many options!
You’ve got some great options there. I think if you don’t really NEED the money to pay bills, go to a show with a friend!
I’d say give it to The Breast Cancer 3-Day!
Or go out and have dinner at some fab place with friends! Maybe Deni, even. But no talking about blogging.
- Buy several Roman coins, then the next time you are in Italy, use them to buy dinner, saying “What, my money is no longer good?”
- Buy $200 worth of paper mache supplies and make giant versions of the bills. Then dance around them singing “My money grewwww, my money grewwww!”
- If not those, then I vote for the broadway show!
NOT bills
oops – hit “add my comment” too quickly!!
use them for something completely frivolous and fun – I mean you weren’t missing them before, were you?
(or you could buy me a present ….)
Hello? Shoes!
I’m with Kathryn and others: Your own found money MUST be spent on something that brings you happiness.
I’m inclined to say, use it for something totally different from anything you’d ordinarily do. Maybe 10 percent to charity off the top, but if that isn’t your style, don’t worry about it. And then I thought, if you choose to go to Mohegan, stop by here on the way and take me with you!
I’m loving your suggestions
I’m sorry but I am usually quite sensible when it comes to money. I’d probably say option 4 or 6.
I say #7. Put it on black at the roulette table and let it ride.
L’Empress needs to git outa mah hayed, ‘cos that was EXACTLY what I was going to say.
Now I have to make up something else.
Throw yourself a Cavort Day party. Buy everything you need for a relaxing day (spa? strawberries? books?) and tell everyone you can’t help them with their idiocies, because it’s against your religion.
I think you need to spend it on a ticket to New Orleans so you can check out my new digs! How’s that for an idea?
OK, I’m gonna go ahead and give you two choices:
Give it to me, and I will put it in the bank and save it for my eventual dog-mushing needs.
OR…
Go to a Broadway show!
Why not take Jan (was that her name?) out for a really nice meal someplace? I’m sure that she’d love it. =+)
Splurge one and hide the other somewhere so you can find it again!!!
Hello. If given to me, I would donate it to the Breast Cancer Walk that my coworker is participating in. Each participant must raise $2200 and we have been holding bake sales and sponsoring lunches for sale to help her reach her goal.
Otherwise, I’d say go for a fab dinner with a friend!!
Found $$ !!! Cool
I’d definately do somthing memorable with it, but not pay bills or any have-to purchases, etc. Or maybe I’d put it toward a piece of artwork of some type… or a musical instrument to play with… a Digidiroo or a Mountain Dulcimer would be fun
Go to Mohegan Sun and I’ll meet you there! We’ll hang out!
you must be making bank baby because i would NEVER misplace two hundred dollar bills. i would rip the joint apart looking for them.
Give it to me and *I’ll* go to the Apple store?
It’s lucky money. I would say gamble with it. Lucky money should generate more lucky money.
I suggest you donate it to Autism research. As it happens, the Wife and I are doing a walk for Autism research and looking for people to sponsor us with donations. Worthy cause and all! And I’m not asking for it for me. Grasshopper is asking. And he’s to cute to resist, is he not?
Can you send me a drawer like that too?
Leave them in the draw together and see if they procreate.
drawer, sorry
I say donate it HERE: goodsheila.blogspot.com
What’s Ally Da Pup getting out of this?
If you give me one, I can pay my speeding ticket w. it. Orr……. you can spoil Ally… orrr…. you can re-hide them for another day… orrr… you can spoil yourself, I mean, you forgot about them, right? Not like you’d be missing them now!
Spend half and save half, I say. That’s what you call a compromise.
do what any good new orleanian would do… put them in your freezer.
spend some, and give some to some place you know will use the funds to actually help someone.
I wish I had your junk drawer!
I would say have fun…. Atlantic City is just a hop, skip and a jump away. When you get there bet the whole $200.00 on Black double your money keep the original $200.00 and play with the rest!
My vote is for Lisa B. to treat herself to a night with good friends and have some left over for a rainy day!!!!
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I love this. Here you’ve got a chance to do something for yourself and you’re letting “strangers” suggest some other scheme. Here’s my plan: Spend $100 on drinks and dinner. Put the other $100 in your sock and keep it until you can’t stand it, then spend it on drinks and dinner. Problem solved. I am so good at this.
You can give it to me so I can pay a few extra bills and bide my time a bit longer before choosing a boring real job to live on.
But honestly, if you have no immediate pressing need for a couple of hundred dollars (no urgent bills, no sick puppy bills, etc.) then you should either save it or spend it on something fun and useless for yourself. I’m sure you deserve a little pampering.
Pay bills. It’s a no brainer. (Unless you have no debt/bills, in which case, enjoy the feast!)
Ticket to New Orleans to check out Se7en’s new digs and make it for next weekend so you can go to Rising Tide too, that is if Dean doesn’t get in the way. If not, put it somewhere “safe” and forget it again so you can find it again when you really need it.
Buy me a few XBox games??
I know what I’d do — I’d give it to you! so maybe you should… ya know…
Treat yourself to a great meal. Or invest in pork futures and see what happens.
Either way, you can pig out.
– david
Hmmmn. Let’s see. You’re a beautiful single woman living in NYC, who’s just discovered a $200 windfall in her drawer.
How much would a couple of “It’s Just Lunch” lunches cost?
@ Annie… Hear that sound? That’s me dragging my feet.
Harumph
And thanks for the kind words!
In the city…there must be PLENTY of other things you can do with the money!!
D~
SHOPPING….a girl can never have too many shoes.
Holy Crap!! Usually when I find money, it’s in the pocket of the coat I wore last winter, and its a loonie or a twonie… TOPS (uh that’s 1 dollar, or 2 dollars, here in Canada). What a find!! Put it back in the drawer… in another few years it will be worth…. uh still $200… uh, nevermind (that’s why I quit working at a bank!)
Hookers and blow…