I won 10k - what should I do with it?

Pictures Of Lilly

I won it two months ago and I've been bored since I've finished college this year. I don't necessarily feel the need to celebrate, it's just I'm bored. Maybe I could spend some of it on a cheap holiday on my own or something! Or would there be any way I could use it to make more money?

What would you do?

mzungu

Pictures Of Lilly wrote: »

I won it two months ago and I've been bored since I've finished college this year. I don't necessarily feel the need to celebrate, it's just I'm bored. Maybe I could go on a holiday on my own or something! Or any way I could use it to make more money?

Is there anything you would really like to do? No point in going on a holiday if your only doing it out of a sense of misplaced duty. You could just save the money and spend it whenever you come across something you really want.

Solomon Pleasant

Start a pension fund with it, you'll definitely need it.

howdoyouknow

Lend it to me and I'll definitely make you more money from it. I've been in a predicament lately where I've won the Nigerian lotto but I've to lodge 10000 euros to cover legal fees and security and transfer of my winnings to my account. I dont have 10000 so I had almost given up on the hope of getting my winnings. If you lend me your 10000 I'll split my winnings with you 50/50

Steve

Donate it to the boards moderators beers fund... it would cover about half of this summers outing :D:D

Stheno

Steve wrote: »

Donate it to the boards moderators beers fund... it would cover about half of this summers outing :D:D

There's a boards mod outing this summer?????????

Guy:Incognito

Solomon Pleasant wrote: »

Start a pension fund with it, you'll definitely need it.

He could be dead by then. Coke and hookers.

jimmycrackcorm

Solomon Pleasant wrote: »

Start a pension fund with it, you'll definitely need it.

If you have a pension at work then pay the maximum AVC's and replace the gap in take home pay each month until the 10k is gone. That way you'll have not only gotten 10k tax free but (at the marginal rate ) effectively have an additional 20k in your pension

Steve

Stheno wrote: »

There's a boards mod outing this summer?????????

If we get 10k and make Pictures Of Lilly a mod then yea...

greencap

Rent a room inside the M50 for a month with it.

babi-hrse

jimmycrackcorm wrote: »

If you have a pension at work then pay the maximum AVC's and replace the gap in take home pay each month until the 10k is gone. That way you'll have not only gotten 10k tax free but (at the marginal rate ) effectively have an additional 20k in your pension

Ah the way the country has been the last 10 years I'd stay clear of that. My da paid into his avcs only to hear Charlie MCcreevy drop 7 years down to 2 a month before he retired. By the time we retire there could be no such thing as avcs

Pictures Of Lilly

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

hookers.

I would if I felt they deserved my money!

jimmycrackcorm

babi-hrse wrote: »

Ah the way the country has been the last 10 years I'd stay clear of that. My da paid into his avcs only to hear Charlie MCcreevy drop 7 years down to 2 a month before he retired. By the time we retire there could be no such thing as avcs

I've no idea what you're talking about but if you had a pension invested in an example Irish fund over the last ten years then you'd have had 40% growth. So after ten years that 20k would be worth 28K. Not only that but another fund would have turned it into 47k.

Pherekydes

What was your time?

TheQuietBeatle

Invest it in Bitcoin or Etherium and turn it into millions in a few years time.

Surreptitious

Subscribe and get a new username.

Beanntraigheach

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

He could be dead by then. Coke and hookers.

Now you're talking!

Samaris

Buy a camel.

BAAA RAM EWE

jimmycrackcorm wrote: »

If you have a pension at work then pay the maximum AVC's and replace the gap in take home pay each month until the 10k is gone. That way you'll have not only gotten 10k tax free but (at the marginal rate ) effectively have an additional 20k in your pension

Way things are going, op won't be able to access it till he's 75 and it'll have been raided and only have a tenner left in it, no point in pensions anymore.

RoYoBo

Pictures Of Lilly wrote: »

I won it two months ago and I've been bored since I've finished college this year. I don't necessarily feel the need to celebrate, it's just I'm bored. Maybe I spend some of it on a cheep holiday on my own or something! Or any way I could use it to make more money?

What would you do?

Buy a chicken farm?

Pictures Of Lilly

RoYoBo wrote: »

Buy a chicken farm?

i dont see the connection between a cheap holiday and a chicken farm?

RoYoBo

Pictures Of Lilly wrote: »

i dont see the connection between a cheap holiday and a chicken farm?

Look at your post - cheep holiday!

tomwaterford

Buy and a car and insure it??

Arghus

Give it to me. I'd really appreciate it and you'd feel good about it.

Guy:Incognito

Samaris wrote: »

Buy a camel.

**** it, go crazy. Buy a whole packet.

Shove it up your hole. Nobody will take it off you then

-=al=-

Anything you definitely need right now?

Followed by anything you want?

Or just put 10k on black :pac:

Personally if it was me, I'd go travelling for a month

con___manx1

Pictures Of Lilly wrote: »

I won it two months ago and I've been bored since I've finished college this year. I don't necessarily feel the need to celebrate, it's just I'm bored. Maybe I could spend some of it on a cheap holiday on my own or something! Or would there be any way I could use it to make more money?

What would you do?

How did you win it do u mind me asking? If I was you I'd buy myself a nice car ; )

Put it in the bank and forget about it.

I saved up more than that a couple of years ago to do something but decided not to do it. Never touched it and now it's gonna come in useful over the next few months when I finally have need for it.
Whereas a few years ago, a friend got a 15k payout after being attacked (he deserved more because he had to drop his life and move country for proper treatment) and he spent it all within 6 months of recovering on crap. Now, he's fairly broke and I'd say he regrets the ridiculous things he wasted it on.

Something about winning or getting money in a lump sum makes it disappear so quick. Try and be wise.

mr_edge_to_you

Pictures Of Lilly wrote: »

Or would there be any way I could use it to make more money?

What would you do?

Invest in avocados. People are gone mad for the things.

Armchair Andy

mr_edge_to_you wrote:

Invest in avocados. People are gone mad for the things.

You mean Mikados surely? Mikados OP, the only way to go.

A Neurotic

Pictures Of Lilly wrote: »

I won it two months ago and I've been bored since I've finished college this year. I don't necessarily feel the need to celebrate, it's just I'm bored. Maybe I could spend some of it on a cheap holiday on my own or something! Or would there be any way I could use it to make more money?

What would you do?

Finished college, bored, and just landed with 10K - how could you not go travelling in this situation?

diomed

Learn poker quickly.
The World Series of Poker Main Event $10,000 entry fee is starting on Saturday 9th July in Las Vegas.
Top prize was over $8 million last year (6,737 starters)

OldGoat

Monorail!

cbyrd

Buy crypto currency or gold/silver. Sit on it until you do know what to do with it.
Or go mad and buy a puppy.:)

donegaLroad

Pictures Of Lilly wrote: »

I won it two months ago and I've been bored since I've finished college this year. I don't necessarily feel the need to celebrate, it's just I'm bored. Maybe I could spend some of it on a cheap holiday on my own or something! Or would there be any way I could use it to make more money?

What would you do?

are you arty in any way... need a business idea?

flazio

Pherekydes wrote: »

What was your time?

Glad I'm not the only one who thought the O P had won a 10 kilometre Road race instead of the obvious 10 thousand euros.

Kimbot

OP, I will hold on to the money for you. I promise to spend it only on coke and hookers that are worth it

SEPT 23 1989

I would buy shares in Cairn Homes plc

Pictures Of Lilly

diomed wrote: »

Learn poker quickly.
The World Series of Poker Main Event $10,000 entry fee is starting on Saturday 9th July in Las Vegas.
Top prize was over $8 million last year (6,737 starters)

As a game, poker never seemed any more entertaining than scrabble. And most certainly something you couldn't learn quick.

Pictures Of Lilly

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

I would buy shares in Cairn Homes plc

They don't trade on the ise! Where do they trade?

I was thinking of maybe putting 1k into ryanair.

Pictures Of Lilly

A Neurotic wrote: »

Finished college, bored, and just landed with 10K - how could you not go travelling in this situation?

What would you do, and how would you plan your money?

Are Am Eye

Armchair Andy wrote: »

You mean Mikados surely? Mikados OP, the only way to go.

My recommendation is for a mixed portfolio.
Divest into Coconut Creams and Kimberleys.

RobbingBandit

Give it to me in brown envelopes and I'll spend it on wondrous things in your honor.

Or use it to put a contract out on your enemies, we all have enemies and such.

miezekatze

I would go on a holiday, but save at least half of it. Or is there anything you want but couldn't really afford, like a car or something?

omb0wyn5ehpij9

If I won 10k now, I would put it towards a deposit for a house, or else buy a new car

Pictures Of Lilly

miezekatze wrote: »

I would go on a holiday, but save at least half of it. Or is there anything you want but couldn't really afford, like a car or something?

The only reason I'd need a new car is because the insurers are pretending the old one is more of a risk.

A Neurotic

Pictures Of Lilly wrote: »

What would you do, and how would you plan your money?

Pick a continent. Pick a timeframe. Let's say South America for 2 months. Read up for a few days and put together a rough itinerary. Book a one-way flight and take it from there. Fly home if you're done after that, or continue on elsewhere if you're liking it.

Sam Kade

RoYoBo wrote: »

Look at your post - cheep holiday!

What's the connection between chicken and cheep?

Sam Kade

BDJW wrote: »

If I won 10k now, I would put it towards a deposit for a house, or else buy a new car

What kind of a new car will you get for 10k?

harry Bailey esq

mzungu wrote: »

Is there anything you would really like to do? No point in going on a holiday if your only doing it out of a sense of misplaced duty. You could just save the money and spend it whenever you come across something you really want.

That's sensible advice in fairness,that being said it's not the advice I'd give. If the OP were to take councel (and wise counsel it would be) in my mind at least, the 10 large wouldn't last pissin time. It's hardly a life changing amount after all, 2-3 months salary to most. Question for the op,are you single? If so,go on the lash, preferably in a different country and inject some prime Irish beef into maidens from as many different nationalities as possible. I've crossed a few off my list,still haven't nailed an Eskimo but I will someday. Mark my words.