Well, more like almost $5000.
Long story short, husband and I sold two junk cars for $750 cash and then we got a check from our mortgage company saying that there was a huge overage in our escrow account. Before I deposit that check, though, I'm confirming with our mortgage company that the overage actually existed and we're not going to be in a shortage problem when real property taxes and insurance come due.
But if all of a sudden you find yourself with a windfall of unexpected funds, what would you do?
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Bank it because I don't like to work.
Hookers and blow.
That's always thr right answer, right?
That's always thr right answer, right?
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One day I'm going to fly to Canada and open the curtains in your office.
I recently received $3000 from one source and $4000 from another. Its sitting in the bank to cover upcoming moving expenses. Dull, but necessary.
Since I'm a keeping up with the Jones' type guy, probably pay down some bills. Or spend it on upgrades to the house. I wouldn't blow it on random crap though, because I could always pay down some bills and rack them back up by blowing it on random crap.
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I told Ray that we need to make a wishlist of what we want to do. I've realized that we're horribly pathetically responsible adults.
We have new toilet seats on our list.
We just came back from the store and bought a movie to watch and a game to play. That's about our indulgences.
Oh and I ordered sushi.
We have new toilet seats on our list.
We just came back from the store and bought a movie to watch and a game to play. That's about our indulgences.
Oh and I ordered sushi.
Vacation to Europe.
Jophiel wrote:
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Buy the $750 controller module for the CNC mill I am building, then use the rest for a vacation or maybe start the back deck project. or jumpstart the schedule for installing chunks of the never to be sufficiently damned PVC fence crap that is mandatory and bloody expensive.
That or blow it all on an EVGA SR-2 motherboard, two hexacore Xeon processors, another 12GB ram, and 3 Geforce 480 GTX cards!
That or blow it all on an EVGA SR-2 motherboard, two hexacore Xeon processors, another 12GB ram, and 3 Geforce 480 GTX cards!
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I'd pay off the remainder of my credit card and blow the rest on strippers. I don't keep much debt, nor do I keep much money, outside of my 401k and IRA.
We'd probably chuck it straight into our sons account. He's gonna need it so that he can support us in our dotage.
"If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders". Carlin.
But if all of a sudden you find yourself with a windfall of unexpected funds, what would you do?
I'd remember that money is fungible and not use it as an excuse to waste $5,000 on something I wouldn't have spent it on otherwise.
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But if all of a sudden you find yourself with a windfall of unexpected funds, what would you do?
I'd remember that money is fungible and not use it as an excuse to waste $5,000 on something I wouldn't have spent it on otherwise.
Smash. Always putting the fun in fungible. :)
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I would pay some bills.
publiusvarus wrote:
we all know liberals are well adjusted american citizens who only want what's best for society. While conservatives are evil money grubbing scum who only want to sh*t on the little man and rob the world of its resources.
That money would go straight into our solar panel fund.
Toss it on the investment pile, I suppose.
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
Bribe some officials.
I'm getting about 4k from insurance. Going to buy new refrigerator, and fix the roof.
Well, the movie we bought sucked, but it was a movie that Ray really wanted to watch. After 20 minutes, I had to go to sleep to avoid the rest of that movie.
We had to run some errands and bought a couple of books, some workout stuff and had some junk hauled.
I call our mortgage company tomorrow to see what the accounting was for the payment for an overage in our escrow account that I'm almost positive is a mistake on their part.
We had to run some errands and bought a couple of books, some workout stuff and had some junk hauled.
I call our mortgage company tomorrow to see what the accounting was for the payment for an overage in our escrow account that I'm almost positive is a mistake on their part.
Heh. What movie?
publiusvarus wrote:
we all know liberals are well adjusted american citizens who only want what's best for society. While conservatives are evil money grubbing scum who only want to sh*t on the little man and rob the world of its resources.
Kavekk the Ludicrous wrote:
Bribe some officials.
Thereby bringing in more windfalls of cash?
Thumb, take a vacation to go tornado chasing... 
Put the money in the bank for a rainy day. Be very wary of the suprise you paid to much return money. It always seems that the next time they goofed and want it back. At least use it to pay off some of your house payments.
I would use it like a responsible adult and rush to my local camera store to buy new lenses and other equipment the second it hits my account.
Debalic wrote:
Heh. What movie?
Clash of the Titans.
It was such a waste of money. Man, Ray was pissed after the movie was over.
I've been on hold with the mortgage company for the last 20 minutes about this. They're telling me that I had over $6,000 in my escrow account, hence the refund of $4,055.51. We're current on all bills and paid ahead on some of them.
So, now I'm looking over our wishlist and trying to figure out what we're going to do with this unexpected windfall.
So, now I'm looking over our wishlist and trying to figure out what we're going to do with this unexpected windfall.
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Debalic wrote:
Heh. What movie?
Clash of the Titans.
It was such a waste of money. Man, Ray was pissed after the movie was over.
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