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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,529 ✭✭✭TomCo


    rawmish wrote:
    ... buy some imagination? :D

    LSD?

    Get a new computer, a suit and a really expensive hair cut.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 25,004 ✭✭✭✭Sleepy


    Driving lessons and your first car?

    [EDIT: it's far too early in the morning, no way 2k would get you a first car taxed and insured in this country!)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,821 ✭✭✭Archeron


    eljono wrote:
    If I had 2 grand to blow, I'd buy myself a really good armchair that reclines electronically and massages your back and neck. My friend's father got one a few years back and it is the nicest chair I have ever had the pleasure of parking myself in. It has a load of other functions too and I think he said it cost around 2k.


    Hmmm. My dad bought one of those as well, and it spun around. He liked spinning around in it, and kept crashing into the wall. Now he has broken the springy parts in it, and it reclines at immense speed by itself at random intervals, flinging him across the living room.

    Perhaps spend one thousand on the chair and the other thousand on a safety net.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,230 ✭✭✭scojones


    2 chicks at the same time.


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,948 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    sjones wrote:
    2 chicks at the same time.
    I reckon you could hook that up too, with that kind of money.

    hahaha

    What about a pool table? And a bigger apartment to put it in.
    I always wanted a pool table, one of those jukeboxes that looks vintage but in fact plays a vast library of mp3's and an old style arcade machine, but throw a ps2 in there or something? And u need a neon sign for that sort of ****. Or have u ever seen Fear and Loathing? U could get that suitcase!!! Or have u ever seen Pulp Fiction? U could get THAT suitcase!
    But dont take them on a plane. Not today anyway.
    But if u dont want a holiday, dont play video-games, arent interested in drugs or vice and dont want a new pc, or to pimp your house out like a bar, or to buy a new car, why in the **** did u bother your hole saving that much money?

    Or u could buy your mammy a lovely new teapot. Made of gold. Stolen from leprachauns.
    Adiddley-aye-dadidle-aye-dadiddley-aye-da-didle.
    *starts dancing a jig*


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  • Posts: 81,308 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Riya Spoiled Gynecologist


    Tusky wrote:
    What should I buy ? Coming into some money soon and want to buy something nice. Any ideas ?

    1k penny sweets


  • Posts: 24,798 ✭✭✭✭ Vincent Enough Oats


    Build and Stock a bar in your home...


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,119 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    I think he may get more than that...


    I would buy a piano. :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,808 ✭✭✭Dooom


    bluewolf wrote:
    1k penny sweets

    But €2000 = 200000 penny/cent sweets, although considering the things now cost 2c each, it'd be 100000 of them...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,725 ✭✭✭zilog_jones


    6,666 Macaroon Bars... if they're still 30c... though I suppose you'll save if you buy in bulk (Musgraves FTW!)


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,808 ✭✭✭Dooom


    I heard if you do that, Satan comes along and demands a 50% surcharge.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 291 ✭✭imeatingchips


    1) if havent got one already, get a new phone. get one with a decent camera and a flash (you use you're phone all the time. it's worth getting a decent one)
    2) get some new clothes
    3) go to waldarfs just off on o'connell bridge and get a hot towel cut-throat shave and a haircut
    4) go to the elephant and castle in temple bar for the savage chicken wings
    5) buy a present or two for a someone or two (not randomers!)
    6) buy some good earphones like the shure e2c ones (they are well worth it)
    7) buy a bottle of southern comfort and drink it with coke (you'll be glad you did)
    8) go out on the pi$$
    9) buy a couple of rounds (above and beyond your mandatory ones of course... plus, do it early in the night when it'll be appreciated!)
    10) give ur ma and da 50 bobs each
    11) put €100 in a "hail mary" envelope in the bottom of a drawer - you'l remember it if you ever really need it
    12) have a look in big book shop and get any books that you've been meaning to

    damn i wish i had 2 grand


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 661 ✭✭✭CountryWise


    If you have a girlfriend id get her a rampant rabbit :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,187 ✭✭✭Mrs_Doyle


    Tusky wrote:
    What should I buy ? Coming into some money soon and want to buy something nice. Any ideas ?

    You are a jammy so and so.
    I am €1000 over drawn and have a €1300 loan to repay.
    I can't imagine hvaing €2k to spare - sounds like a wonderful fluffy dream to me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,374 ✭✭✭Gone West


    bluewolf wrote:
    1k penny sweets
    bw, arent you a Mathematical Physics postgrad?
    :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,529 ✭✭✭TomCo


    I have €5,500 to spare. Im only talking 1k out for a new computer and thats it.

    What ever happened to saving for the sake of saving?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,374 ✭✭✭Gone West


    TomCo wrote:
    I have €5,500 to spare. Im only talking 1k out for a new computer and thats it.

    What ever happened to saving for the sake of saving?
    Irelands nouveau-riché can't save for the sake of saving.
    Its just impossible for them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,098 ✭✭✭✭Tusky


    FuzzyLogic wrote:
    Irelands nouveau-riché can't save for the sake of saving.
    Its just impossible for them.

    This is true. Im really good at saving if I know what im saving for..but I cant save for the SAKE of saving. Sure thats just mental.

    Like alot of the ideas being thrown around, some great ones!

    Cheers.
    If you have a girlfriend id get her a rampant rabbit :)


    If I had, I would!


  • Posts: 36,733 CMod ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Tusky wrote:
    What should I buy ? Coming into some money soon and want to buy something nice. Any ideas ?

    I could use a new laptop. Please send me your money. Promise to continue wasting my time on boards if you do!:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,326 ✭✭✭Zapp Brannigan


    I've got it!

    Put 1K on black AND 1K on red. You can't lose!!
    ;)


    EDIT:
    7) buy a bottle of southern comfort and drink it with coke (you'll be glad you did)
    God no!! Southie and coke is absolutely horrible. Only thing ya mix southie with is either Red or White Lemonade.
    JD and coke on the other hand is good.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,736 ✭✭✭OctavarIan


    Get a fantastic sound system and spend the rest on cds.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,339 ✭✭✭✭tman


    Buy a Pioneer DJM800 for me ^_^

    Remember that DVD I posted to you out of the goodness of my heart???????
    Payback time.

    /edit
    come to think of it, €2000 is about the right price for none of your future girlfriends to find out just what was on that DVD....... ¬_¬


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 34,808 ✭✭✭✭smash


    buy a lot of centipede killer


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,106 ✭✭✭Pocari Sweat


    Two grand ... mmm ... lets see,

    Holiday in Caymen Islands, helicopter lessons, muther fúcking lcd tv, one month budget euro rover trip, flight in a russian mig jet, hire a dead fit personal trainer to put you through your paces, book a ski holiday, american fridge stuffed to the gills with designer beers, rent a posh flat for partying complete with tasty polish house maid, hire a power boat and try setting a new speed record on the shannon, golf holiday with pro tuition, hot air ballooning with built in bungy and rope ladder to get back up - spare parachute if it goes pear shaped, chauffeur driven pub crawl as far as you can make it with posh hotels, buy an unfeasibly large engine and pay to fit it into an unfeasibly small car, offer it as a deposit on a ferrari but just keep going on ferrari test drives in different car showrooms and say they are a bit underpowered and you'll wait until the new model comes out, (guilt kicking in) - buy a water well for a village in africa, work in africa helping build houses for a month, offer to give it to a good cause if other sponsors offer you another 2 grand to match it, (ok guilts gone) go to las vegas for major blowout - see how long you last, hire a tank and do some proper off road, buy an old car and parachute and drive the old bangor off a cliff and deploy the parachute in good time, hire a balloon in someone else's name and buy web linked gps unit - and parachute out of the balloon setting the gas on full blast and track how far it gets, after helicopter lessons do the same with gps / parachute - setting copter on auto pilot in direction of the yanks, book a holiday to Finland and hire 10 naked ladies to pull your sleigh around in the miles of snow - keep whipping them when the slow down, dress up as an arab and hire ten fit floozies dressed in harem garb and book a posh hotel for a weekend - and disappear on the last night spending your spare cash in a casino, hire a loose curtain sided luton van and buy a load of self inflating rubber dingys - keeping the van's curtain hitches loose and attach string pulls to all the dingy's inflator cords - and drive into the carpark of a company that has given you the crappiest service you have ever witnessed - then pull the strings and let them all off from the back of the van causing traffic chaos - and try to look innocent as the cops take you down to the cells, and stuff.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,788 ✭✭✭eljono


    Sorry for dragging up this old thread but I'm just wondering what the OP did with the two grand...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 331 ✭✭EWheelChair


    Well he certainly didn't give it to boards in an effort to speed things up abit.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,128 ✭✭✭Gileadi


    you can start by giving me my 50 :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,252 ✭✭✭Funkstard


    2k on 2nd column. You win twice over.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,006 ✭✭✭✭Flukey


    Spend some and save and invest the majority of it.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,773 ✭✭✭Binomate


    I bet you couldn't turn that 2k in to 4k in a month. Try invest it in something and double your money. Think of it as a challenge.


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