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[Closed] What to do with a small windfall?

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My dear old Mum has bunged me a few quid because that's the kind of son I am

I could spend it on sh*t we don't need for the house
I could spend it on a family weekend break or a short holiday
I could save it
Or I could spend it on some new Boxxers that I seriously don't need

I'm hoping you well-balanced unselfish people can help me put things into perspective - what would you do


 
Posted : 28/06/2012 9:10 am
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Rainy day. If you don't need anything; squirrel it away.


 
Posted : 28/06/2012 9:11 am
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family break.

your mum shared with you only fair you share too.


 
Posted : 28/06/2012 9:12 am
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Morzine! 😀


 
Posted : 28/06/2012 9:13 am
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I could spend it on sh*t we don't need for the house

New bike bits then


 
Posted : 28/06/2012 9:14 am
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I'm sure that when you search deep in your soul, you'll realise that you really need those Boxxers


 
Posted : 28/06/2012 9:14 am
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Morzine?


 
Posted : 28/06/2012 9:22 am
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Family break


 
Posted : 28/06/2012 9:26 am
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Cheap Boxxers on Merlin now.

It was meant to be.


 
Posted : 28/06/2012 9:32 am
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Cheap Boxxers on Merlin now. It was meant to be.

Yes I had noticed...


 
Posted : 28/06/2012 9:49 am
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compromise

Family biking holiday?


 
Posted : 28/06/2012 10:03 am
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Harrods Beer?


 
Posted : 28/06/2012 10:08 am
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Save it - you buy those boxxers and a month from now your frame will crack/boiler will explode.


 
Posted : 28/06/2012 10:15 am
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I completely misread that as "What to do with a small windFARM?"

maybe you should install a turbine in the backgarden?


 
Posted : 28/06/2012 10:41 am
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come on fellas 🙂


 
Posted : 28/06/2012 10:44 am
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Family holiday gets my vote....*
If only because I spent with last wee windfall on a trip to Oz.... a little bequest from my grandad, whose working life was spent as a travel agent, just seemed the right thing to do.... that said, it was just me on that trip 🙂

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*thereby making a healthy deposit in the Royal Bank of Brownie Points for when you next require new Boxxers, or a lads weekend away - a wise investment, if ever there was one.


 
Posted : 28/06/2012 10:50 am
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family break . . .


 
Posted : 28/06/2012 11:33 am
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Hookers n drugs 🙂


 
Posted : 28/06/2012 12:02 pm
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I thought you were looking for (another!) new frame? You should buy one of those cheap Nukeproof Megas and bin off that dated Yeti you keep riding. 🙂

Dropper post, crash-cam, new pyjamas, stuff like that? If you order enough things then it's like an extra Christmas when it all arrives!


 
Posted : 28/06/2012 12:05 pm
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split it 3 ways. spend some on fun (bike stuff) some sensible (house stuff) some on 'stuff you wouldn't have done with out the money' (holiday).

job done.


 
Posted : 28/06/2012 12:08 pm
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what about a 1978 vinyl-caped Jawa Star Wars figure?


 
Posted : 28/06/2012 12:22 pm
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Bull semen


 
Posted : 28/06/2012 12:28 pm
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Morzine and promise her lots of photos of you ENJOYING her gift to her.

Think of it this way, if I (or you) gave money to someone you'd love it if they went onto enjoy it. Not just 'oh yes I bought a Skoda Fabia mum with the money'. Wow, mundane every day stuff. Forks she cant understand either.

If I gave someone money and they bought a XR2000 Carbon fishing set up I'd be like err whats that? Knowing someone went away, had good clean fun with lots of pics would do it for me.


 
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^^ the voice of reason

I guess you're right several hundred pounds is a preposterous amount of money to spend on some bicycle forks


 
Posted : 28/06/2012 12:56 pm
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Hora the voice of reason?Perhaps you need to pay for a few visits to a psychiatrist.


 
Posted : 29/06/2012 1:15 am
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Send it to me and I'll send your mum pictures of me enjoying it


 
Posted : 29/06/2012 5:23 am
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True though. I've no idea what fancy fishing kit is. Mrshora hasn't a clue what a bike bit does or what pleasure it gives. Its just 'bikes'.

Me grinning, raising a pint, looking dusty, sat in a Jacuzzi, etc etc with me saying wow it was bloody brilliant - would really put a smile on the persons face though 🙂


 
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Me grinning, raising a pint, looking dusty, sat in a Jacuzzi, etc etc with me saying wow it was bloody brilliant - would really put a smile on the persons face though

That does sound good. I'm smiling just thinking about it.


 
Posted : 29/06/2012 7:05 am
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Nearly a page of posts, and nobody has suggested converting it to £20 notes, throwing it on the bed and rolling about in it naked ? This forum is getting way too grown up...


 
Posted : 29/06/2012 7:07 am
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I suggest spending it on cheap whores. just take one & if it doesn't work call me in the morning


 
Posted : 29/06/2012 7:56 am
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How about a compromise?

Buy the Boxxers, go to Morzine, and take loads of photos of you enjoying the shit out of the new forks? Everyone's a winner.


 
Posted : 29/06/2012 8:04 am
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Take the family down the bookies and drop it all on a 50:1 nag.

That way they get a day out and if you win, bonus.


 
Posted : 29/06/2012 9:39 am
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morgage ?


 
Posted : 29/06/2012 9:43 am
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Personally, I would get my whole lounge and its contents gold plated. If you've got it, flaunt it...


 
Posted : 29/06/2012 9:58 am
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Reduce debt.
Reduce debt.
Reduce debt.


 
Posted : 29/06/2012 11:00 am
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What if one doesn't have any debt ?


 
Posted : 29/06/2012 11:04 am
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Add a few bob to it, then you could insure a teenage driver to drive a fiesta for a couple of weeks 🙂


 
Posted : 29/06/2012 11:31 am
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Clear any short-term debt, then a family break.


 
Posted : 29/06/2012 11:35 am
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If you like spending time with the family, then family break

If not, then go with the boXXers


 
Posted : 29/06/2012 11:42 am
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[mcmoonter answer] take my chainsaw up there, cut it into lengths i can fit on my trailer, take it home and add it to my log pile [/mcmoonter answer]

can't believe no one's done that yet.


 
Posted : 29/06/2012 11:51 am
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spend
spend
spend


 
Posted : 29/06/2012 6:52 pm
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There's a couple of new-model Boxxer Teams on pinkbike for around the £400 mark btw.


 
Posted : 29/06/2012 7:45 pm