If I could find it, my mom's old station wagon.
Also me and the wife went to a great steakhouse and spent $260 on dinner. I thought it was more than worth it but others I've told are beyond shocked. Glad to see people here agree with me
If I could find it, my mom's old station wagon.
Also me and the wife went to a great steakhouse and spent $260 on dinner. I thought it was more than worth it but others I've told are beyond shocked. Glad to see people here agree with me
In reply to Antihero :
A great steak is always money well spent!
Frogs and plants, I'll spend more then I probably should.
Everyone's definition of stupid money varies with their ability to come up with it. Given my age, and minimal preparation for retirement,, it's certainly stupid of me to participate in any motorsports, period.
I think these are a bargain at any price, but we probably won't spend the money this year. We're tightening our belts where we can.
King Grove Farm organic blueberries. About $10 a pound if you pick them up.
Appleseed said:Postwar Lionel. If you know, you know. If you don't, youll be shocked.
I know, and I'm still shocked at times.
Medical care for pets.
Fortunately it's been a few years since anything really big has cropped up. A couple months into having the dog, we had like an emergency room trip, several follow up visits, and like 2 or 3 surgeries for what they thought was a cataract or detached cornea, but turned out to be an eyelash growing the wrong way.
Everyone's concept of "Stupid Money" is personal. What does that mean? Is $400 for a Rogue barbell stupid money? Is $100 for a nice bottle of whisky stupid money? Is $800 for a subwoofer? $30 for a used record? I don't really know.
Stupidest money I ever saw someone spend, was watching someone drop $1000 on a bottle of bourbon that retails for under $100 but is rare and hard to find. *That* was definitely stupid money.
jamscal said:
It's not "stoopid money" but maybe stupid money for cherries...until you taste them.
1000%
I'm spending stupid money to get an early retirement. Yeah, technically, it's an "investment", but nowadays, uncertainty is so high, I wonder if I should spend money on more fun, and resign myself to having to work as long as I am physically/mentally capable to, just maybe at a reduced rate.
I really wish I was mentally able to drop a huge chunk of change on a fun car, versus working on cheap stuff, but every time I've bought a nice car on payments, I start thinking about whether the cost to fun ratio is good enough. I'm at a point where I could have potentially dropped cash on a used late model performance car, before shortage pricing hit. Still could I guess, but paying 30K on a Mustang/Vette/WRX STi/etc, seems ridiculous, when that money would have bought a much nicer version a couple years ago, and might again in a couple years.
Curtis73 (Forum Supporter) said:I just placed an order for canned food. Two 12-can cases for $197.98. That's $9 per can on a bulk discount. They're normally $12-17 a can.
And it's junk food. And worth every fkn penny.
Thanks for the reminder! I'll be buying a bunch of Loma Linda cases this month!
Big Franks
Little Links
Fri Chik
Tender Rounds
At some point, I will pay stupid money for a Herman Miller Eames Aluminum Group lounge chair in Ultramarine.
Gonna need the Ottoman too, for an additional $1,095...
Financial stability
I am with eastsideTim on this one. If I could calculate how much money (considering the future value of money) I have saved over the years only driving old cars, it would be huge!
Jay_W said:In reply to Curtis73 (Forum Supporter) :
I'm... morbidly curious about them canned franks now..
Freakishly good. My favorite way of eating them is straight from the can. Maybe warmed in the nuke, but as soon as you try to make them like a REAL hot dog (like frying them or cooking them over the fire) they lose some of their joy. You can't substitute charred flesh with anything. You just get charred vegetable protein and that doesn't do it for me.
Jay_W said:Islay singlemalts.
Lagavulin or die
Antihero said:If I could find it, my mom's old station wagon.
Also me and the wife went to a great steakhouse and spent $260 on dinner. I thought it was more than worth it but others I've told are beyond shocked. Glad to see people here agree with me
I would give my left nut to find Dad's old 68 El Camino. He's gotten over it, but there were many moons that he had that lament of "crap, I had kids and I need a rear seat" thing. Of course he chose the kids and doesn't regret it, but that was the one thing he really missed about a child-free life.
I don't mind paying big money for a good meal. When I lived in L.A. I would go to Vibrato about once every couple months. My [now ex] wife's boss was married to the sommelier there and we usually got a little bit of red carpet, but the place was owned by Herb Alpert and every night there was live jazz... and we're not talking some up-and-comer piano player, I've seen Charlie Biddle, Jeff Goldblum, Chris Thile and Sarah Jarosz, Natalie Cole, and Diana Krall on stage there. None of them were billed, announced, or advertised as a marketing hook, either. You just paid your big money for the food and "oh look, Harry Connick Jr is playing tonight." For me and Kim a meal with appetizers (usually courtesy of the house), a couple drinks, an entree, and dessert was easily pushing $750. Four of us went one evening and it was just shy of $1400. The lobster and filet was always listed as market price and I never asked. I do recall that it was over $200 though. And worth every damn penny.
I kind of miss my days making lotsa money... but then I remember what it was like and suddenly my terrible salary feels pretty good. I still eat like that from time to time, just a lot less frequently.
Beer Baron said:Medical care for pets.
Fortunately it's been a few years since anything really big has cropped up. A couple months into having the dog, we had like an emergency room trip, several follow up visits, and like 2 or 3 surgeries for what they thought was a cataract or detached cornea, but turned out to be an eyelash growing the wrong way.
Everyone's concept of "Stupid Money" is personal. What does that mean? Is $400 for a Rogue barbell stupid money? Is $100 for a nice bottle of whisky stupid money? Is $800 for a subwoofer? $30 for a used record? I don't really know.
Stupidest money I ever saw someone spend, was watching someone drop $1000 on a bottle of bourbon that retails for under $100 but is rare and hard to find. *That* was definitely stupid money.
Notice, though, that I used the colloquial "stoopid". Meaning crazy, big, extra, excessive. As opposed to "stupid" meaning unwise, foolish, ridiculous.
aircooled said:Financial stability
I am with eastsideTim on this one. If I could calculate how much money (considering the future value of money) I have saved over the years only driving old cars, it would be huge!
Agreed. I have never had a car payment in my life.
Porsche 356 Outlaw coupe. I'm 73, so I will offer up both nuts if the seller will take them. 
Curtis73 (Forum Supporter) said:Notice, though, that I used the colloquial "stoopid". Meaning crazy, big, extra, excessive. As opposed to "stupid" meaning unwise, foolish, ridiculous.
Yeah. But what is stoopid? What is crazy and excessive?
I don't think $90 for Lagavulin is excessive. I think that's appropriately cessive. Someone else might.
::Glances at table covered with premium whisky::
Okay, my whisky collection as a whole probably qualifies as stoopid money, even if no individual bottle does. Ditto my record collection.
As mentioned, everyone's definition of "stupid money" is relative.
I spend an incredible amount of money on my bicycle hobby. To the point any one of my bikes cost more than either my Triumph GT6 or Spitfire. In the case of the Spitfire - by a LOT. But riding bikes is what keeps me sane. More so than my car or my guitar hobbies.
Beer Baron said:Curtis73 (Forum Supporter) said:Notice, though, that I used the colloquial "stoopid". Meaning crazy, big, extra, excessive. As opposed to "stupid" meaning unwise, foolish, ridiculous.
Yeah. But what is stoopid? What is crazy and excessive?
I don't think $90 for Lagavulin is excessive. I think that's appropriately cessive. Someone else might.
::Glances at table covered with premium whisky::
Okay, my whisky collection as a whole probably qualifies as stoopid money, even if no individual bottle does. Ditto my record collection.
I think the "what is stoopid" is left to individual choice. I'm just asking what's your (in the general sense) splurge. My splurge might be someone else's norm.
I don't think $90 is crazy for Lagavulin either. I do think that $30 is crazy for Jack when Evan Williams is 90% as good for $20. :)
Already did, GForce1320 rear end assy for the 'V'
In reply to Gary :
Just don't open with that offer. Wait until later in the conversation.
Curtis73 (Forum Supporter) said:Jay_W said:Islay singlemalts.
Lagavulin or die
Laphroaig is pretty great too.
I had a good Highland Park at the steakhouse too
Beer Baron said:Curtis73 (Forum Supporter) said:Notice, though, that I used the colloquial "stoopid". Meaning crazy, big, extra, excessive. As opposed to "stupid" meaning unwise, foolish, ridiculous.
Yeah. But what is stoopid? What is crazy and excessive?
I don't think $90 for Lagavulin is excessive. I think that's appropriately cessive. Someone else might.
::Glances at table covered with premium whisky::
Okay, my whisky collection as a whole probably qualifies as stoopid money, even if no individual bottle does. Ditto my record collection.
I wish Lagavulin was cheaper but I'm still fine with $96 here.
The same friends that thought the steak was expensive also consider it to be far too expensive to spend even $45 on Laphroaig when it was that price here.
Personally I think there's more to life than holding on to all my money and/or not using it to better my life however I choose
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