frivolous spending

[ChinaLama]

Well, I have relatively cheap tastes. the most expensive item i bought for mostly frivolous reasons was my laptop, using my dad's money, though. :D

it cost a bit under 1300, I think, and I said I needed it for school, but in actuality, what I REALLY wanted to use it for, in the main, was to hook it up to the ethernet in the library so i could d/l stuff.

the second most frivolous things i bought-- actually the MOST frivolous in terms of sheer uselessness, were dvds. again technically using my dad's money cuz he gave me a flat amount of cash my first year in grad school. total amount spend on that stuff was probably low hundreds?

and i occasionally buy cds. which is probably the most frivolous, since it's easy for me to dl mp3s and convert them into .wav file.

edit: i forgot to add: the most frivolous of all, perhaps. i had saved up YEARS of chinese new year money in hs, and then i blew it all on the senior prom! where i didn't even have a date. w0000t!


but for #2 and #3, i was sometimes hit by an anti-bootlegging conscience thanks to one of my friends. but those anti-bootlegging spells really last a short time. :)

and occasionally charities have guilt tripped me into giving thr phone calls, but I've decided i'm gonna be hard-hearted and just outright tell people no. cuz otherwise there's no end to spending money and i gotta take care of my needs first.

ok i know that's a pathetic way to start a thread on frivolous spending but when i make more money, i'll have more expensive things to spend it on. B)

[Craig]

I've wasted excessive money on (A) school and (B) a car.

[ChinaLama]

Originally posted by Craig@Apr 8 2003, 11:11 PM
I've wasted excessive money on (A) school and (B) a car.
forgot about school. yeah, uncle sam is gonna make me pay him back 20+ k dollars for that. :) and i'm relatively lucky cuz i got a lot of finaid in college.

[ren28]

I buy too much car stuff just to see what works and what does not. Wasteful hobby. I bought two Rolex watches within the past month but I know I can recover that money due to the excellent resale value.

[MellowDrama]

I have absurd runs of spending. For instance, I won't really buy anything for several months and them, during a week or several weeks I start throwing down hundreds on shit I don't need like an mp3 player, dvds, new shoes, or whatever. I'm a binge spender.

[thaite]

Dude, you could've taken your New Year's money and bought a date.

[myself808]

i tend to buy way too many clothes
and beer

[AliBabaIncorporated]

frivolous spending? well, not even mentioning school, in september I bought a shitty HP laptop for $1000; in december i took a trip to Japan (from HK, not from here!) at a total cost of about $500, just now I went back to Cali on a $200 plane ticket but then ended up spending money going out to lunch and dinner with friends like every day for a week. oh yeah and just last weekend we blew $150 buying alcohol for this party, but split between the 4 of us it was only like $40 a person. Oh well before now I never really spent that much money on trips or anything, didn't even own my own computer through all of high school and most of college (this laptop now is my first one), whatever of my paychecks didn't go into rent or food sat around in savings.

In high school my biggest expense was either my senior year trip to London (but the plane ticket still turned out to be cheaper than going home to Cali) or prom, once in junior year and once in senior year. I've always had occasional bursts of frivolous spending on clothes. And I'm usually buying books (books for class, books for fun, reference/tutorial books) every couple of weeks throughout the year.

[Uncle Tat]

Originally posted by thaite@Apr 8 2003, 06:30 PM
Dude, you could've taken your New Year's money and bought a date.
No he couldn't have. Believe me he would have had to spent enormous sums of money to get a girl that's willing to put up with him!

j/k ChinaLama

FYI: Lama and I are friends in real life...

*duck*

[ChinaLama]

Originally posted by thaite@Apr 8 2003, 11:30 PM
Dude, you could've taken your New Year's money and bought a date.
i was thinking of that but i don't like strangers.

[Rogmok]

bought a motorcycle... 2600

golf trips to CA and FL...

food..... when i'm not hungry

girls.. haha

[YuheiCarreau]

Originally posted by ChinaLama@Apr 8 2003, 07:44 PM
i was thinking of that but i don't like strangers.
For a fair price, she wouldn't be a stranger for long :lol: .

[golden_buns]

Originally posted by myself808@Apr 8 2003, 03:37 PM
i tend to buy way too many clothes

me too, all my money (the little I have) has been going to the cash register at Diesel.

I bought a pair of $300 sunglasses that have such a light shade that it doesn't work to protect your eyes from the sun

I bought a pair of jeans at guess for $90 and only used it about three times and it's now left in the closet

I used to buy a hole bunch of stuff from the grocery store (back in college) that I would use once or maybe twice and then throw away. Stuff like a new Shampoo, new conditioner, new brand of hair gel, air freshner, a new type of chocolate or candy, crap like glow in the dark goo, etc, etc...

And I've been buying a pack of cigarretes pretty much everyday for the last 2 years, which in the course of 1 year it's a huge expenditure.

[lethal]

I bought a pair of Bruno Magli's last month...that and expensive dinners and clothes and electronics are my major frivilous expenditures...but then again...broke law students can't really afford too many of those things luckily...

[mr. x]

umm, didnt kasia have a similar topic?

oh well, if band s like the white hives and the stripes and the transplants can do it....

[VV o n g B a]

my dad called me selfish for not wanting to teach sunday school cuz i hated teaching those unruly ungrateful little bastards. so i showed him how selfish i could be and bought myself a $1300 entertainment system the next day. but of course, i used my own money so i didn't really show him anything now that i think about it. <_< :lol:

[tvbdude]

I spend my money wisely...not like you guys

[moschikat]

i should not be on this thread . . . .

but then again, it's all uhm, relative as to how ONE person might define frivilous compared to another . . . .

fuck me shoes = $430 .... not frivilous.
logo emblazoned purse = $1600 . . . frivilous.

:P

[teaz0r]

Originally posted by moschikat@Apr 10 2003, 09:58 AM

logo emblazoned purse = $1600 . . . frivilous.

NO!

i'm two months away on the waiting list till i get the birkin bag. in RED.
compliments of mummy and daddy. MUAhaHAHa.

bras = $90 ... not frivolous
things i bought without using my own money ... not frivolous
shoes are NEVER frivolous.


birthday presents for other people ...frivolous

[YuheiCarreau]

They have waiting lists for bags? I thought that was just an urban legend.

[Rogmok]

do bras... usually cost $90?

[golden_buns]

Originally posted by Rogmok@Apr 9 2003, 07:45 PM
do bras... usually cost $90?
what a waste, they should all go topless. Plus I always feel like I've gotten ripped off when a chick wears wonder bras

[angel nympho]

I bought a guitar. 1 year later, I still don't know how to play it.

[teaz0r]

Originally posted by YuheiCarreau@Apr 10 2003, 10:30 AM
They have waiting lists for bags? I thought that was just an urban legend.
for the hermes birkin bag? yah!

i mean they sell it on ebay for US$9500
nine-thousand. no joke. -> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...item=2822222364 (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2822222364)

so i figured, why not wait a couple months
and save some $$. =)

[YuheiCarreau]

Originally posted by pipSy@Apr 10 2003, 12:24 AM
for the hermes birkin bag? yah!

i mean they sell it on ebay for US$9500
nine-thousand.&nbsp; no joke. -> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...item=2822222364 (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2822222364)

so i figured, why not wait a couple months
and save some $$. =)
Jesus Fuck. It's not even that good-looking.

[Craig]

People are willing to spend all of this money, yet nobody wants to spend more than $1.25 for an external HP CD Writer drive ?

http://forums.yellowworld.org/index.php?ac...ST&f=37&t=7378& (http://forums.yellowworld.org/index.php?act=ST&f=37&t=7378&)

[iris]

Dinner at Aquavit (http://newyork.citysearch.com/profile/7143693/). Bill: $400.

[moschikat]

Originally posted by tazadar@Apr 10 2003, 08:42 AM
Round-trip ticket to NYC, $300.

Reservations at Aquavit, $400.

A date with Iris, priceless.
:lol:

for everything else - there's AmEx black.

[537]

$1200 on a Tattoo. - not frivolous.

$50 on an N64.... frivolous!

[VV o n g B a]

Originally posted by pipSy@Apr 10 2003, 01:24 AM
for the hermes birkin bag? yah!

i mean they sell it on ebay for US$9500
nine-thousand. no joke. -> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...item=2822222364 (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2822222364)

so i figured, why not wait a couple months
and save some $$. =)
:o :!

is that stuff made of endangered animal skin or something? insane...

[teaz0r]

Originally posted by VV o n g B a@Apr 11 2003, 01:17 AM
Originally posted by pipSy@Apr 10 2003, 01:24 AM
for the hermes birkin bag? yah!

i mean they sell it on ebay for US$9500
nine-thousand.&nbsp; no joke. -> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...item=2822222364 (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2822222364)

so i figured, why not wait a couple months
and save some $$. =)
:o :!

is that stuff made of endangered animal skin or something? insane...
nah. my mink wrap costs less than that.

[YuheiCarreau]

Originally posted by pipSy@Apr 10 2003, 12:28 PM
Originally posted by VV o n g B a@Apr 11 2003, 01:17 AM
Originally posted by pipSy@Apr 10 2003, 01:24 AM
for the hermes birkin bag? yah!

i mean they sell it on ebay for US$9500
nine-thousand. no joke. -> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...item=2822222364 (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2822222364)

so i figured, why not wait a couple months
and save some $$. =)
:o :!

is that stuff made of endangered animal skin or something? insane...
nah. my mink wrap costs less than that.
So, what's the attraction then? Does it have a lifetime warranty or something?

[amietron]

Originally posted by YuheiCarreau@Apr 10 2003, 10:33 AM
So, what's the attraction then? Does it have a lifetime warranty or something?
It's the name. Hermes.

[teaz0r]

Originally posted by amietron@Apr 11 2003, 01:40 AM
It's the name. Hermes.
:luv: you are the perfect child.
let me spoil you with the gold i have dug.

[amietron]

Originally posted by pipSy@Apr 10 2003, 10:44 AM
:luv: you are the perfect child.
:luv: :luv: :luv: and you are the perfect mumsies.
let's find rich men to buy us an island for us to live on.

[teaz0r]

Originally posted by amietron@Apr 11 2003, 03:23 AM
:luv: :luv: :luv: and you are the perfect mumsies.
let's find rich men to buy us an island for us to live on.
baby, i already have an island.
lets find a rich man who will give us his country to run.

[537]

...women.

[moschikat]

Originally posted by pipSy@Apr 10 2003, 12:32 PM
Originally posted by amietron@Apr 11 2003, 03:23 AM
:luv:&nbsp; :luv:&nbsp; :luv: and you are the perfect mumsies.
let's find rich men to buy us an island for us to live on.
baby, i already have an island.
lets find a rich man who will give us his country to run.
:lol:

we already have that too silly!

*smacks you over the head w/ her Sanrio purse*

[teaz0r]

Originally posted by moschikat@Apr 11 2003, 04:52 AM
Originally posted by pipSy@Apr 10 2003, 12:32 PM
Originally posted by amietron@Apr 11 2003, 03:23 AM
:luv: :luv: :luv: and you are the perfect mumsies.
let's find rich men to buy us an island for us to live on.
baby, i already have an island.
lets find a rich man who will give us his country to run.
:lol:

we already have that too silly!

*smacks you over the head w/ her Sanrio purse*
*harder* grr baby grr.

just because daddy runs the country doesn't mean he owns it.
he just.. partially owns it.
then i'll have to split it up with my brothers and sister.

i want a man who will give me the whole country!
i'm thinking monaco? start with something small?
incase we get bored.

[VV o n g B a]

Originally posted by pipSy@Apr 10 2003, 04:59 PM

just because daddy runs the country doesn't mean he owns it.
he just.. partially owns it.
then i'll have to split it up with my brothers and sister.

:confused:

your dad partially owns a country? are u related to royalty?

[teaz0r]

Originally posted by VV o n g B a@Apr 11 2003, 05:55 AM
Originally posted by pipSy@Apr 10 2003, 04:59 PM

just because daddy runs the country doesn't mean he owns it.
he just.. partially owns it.
then i'll have to split it up with my brothers and sister.

:confused:

your dad partially owns a country? are u related to royalty?
you don't need to be royalty to own part of a country. you can just have yourself a lil' coup d'tat. and voila! it's yours!

[amietron]

Originally posted by pipSy@Apr 10 2003, 01:59 PM
i want a man who will give me the whole country!
i'm thinking monaco? start with something small?
incase we get bored.
And then eventually, maybe the whole world. :D

[moschikat]

Originally posted by pipSy@Apr 10 2003, 01:59 PM

i want a man who will give me the whole country!
i'm thinking monaco? start with something small?
incase we get bored.
mmm. principality . . . not a kingdom . . . but it has a good yacht club . . .

okay. fine. monaco it is! :P (for now!)

[Azn Retribution]

i smell a threadjacking...

as for frivilous..
i think its been my cars...
too much money spent on my toys..

http://www.pointblankdev.com/retribution/albums/album17/untitled.sized.jpg
2003.5 Infiniti G35 Coupe/Navi - 37,813

Valentine 1 Radar - $399
K&N Filter - $49
Winter Tires and Rims - $1599

http://www.pointblankdev.com/retribution/albums/album02/DSC01464.jpg
2002 Honda Accord Coupe V6 - 23,481

Valentine 1 Radar - $399
Injen Intake/Apexi Filter - $150
Supersprint Exhausts - $950
Unorthodox Pullies - $300
OBX Headers - $300
V-AFC - $200
CL Type S Cams - $800(including labor)
H&R OE Springs/Shocks - $400
CL Type S Sways - $200
CL Type S Steering Wheel - $50

Hm Oh yea.. n my sager laptop n rolex... 7000 for a stinkin watch.. i wanted a supercharger or a third project car.
ooo well I loveeee my toys. :luv: :luv: :luv:

but they are frivilous cuz i could have just stuck wit my corolla. :unsure:

[Adaon]

Originally posted by 537@Apr 10 2003, 12:44 PM
...women.
You know what they say. "Can't live with them. End of sentence."
:rolleyes: Any wonder I'm still single..... :rolleyes:

[Fireblade]

Originally posted by angel nympho@Apr 9 2003, 08:50 PM
I bought a guitar. 1 year later, I still don't know how to play it.
same here. I even got dvds, replaced the strings, took and untook a class and even got guitar for dummies.

I spend too much time drawing... :cry:

[tommyhtown]

azn_ret,

That's a good deal for G35 coupe. is that MSRP? I recall it was higher than that. where did you buy it?

Last year, I bought $300+ round-trip ticket to 'Vegas for my ex-gf. She canceled at the last min. 'cause she's afraid her bf would find out. ;)

[angel nympho]

Originally posted by Fireblade@Apr 11 2003, 05:27 PM
same here. I even got dvds, replaced the strings, took and untook a class and even got guitar for dummies.

I spend too much time drawing... :cry:
Werd, i got all the books and shit like that... but at least you spend your time doing something else. I spend my time on the freakin' internet... or like, watching tv or playing video games.

[Azn Retribution]

Originally posted by tommyhtown@Apr 11 2003, 09:40 AM
azn_ret,

That's a good deal for G35 coupe. is that MSRP?&nbsp; I recall it was higher than that.&nbsp; where did you buy it?

Last year, I bought $300+ round-trip ticket to 'Vegas for my ex-gf.&nbsp; She canceled at the last min. 'cause she's afraid her bf would find out.&nbsp; ;)
yeah.. its MSRP.

Navi Coupes are around 37 - 38k MSRP

n infiniti dealers arent supposed to do any markups(they already make a ton on the car. I heard the invoice was around 30 or 29)

so lucky cause usually there's a waiting list.

I dont like the white or blue colors they have in the G35..
Silver is too common too...

i dunno I just like black cars. cuz they look the best.