Money!
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Topic: Money!
Posted By: Abstrakt
Subject: Money!
Date Posted: January 18 2009 at 12:12
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I've been collecting and recycling bottles for like 9 months now, and i've gotten tired of it and kinda stopped since i recently got a job. And by doing that, i've earned about $250 (Bit unsure due to the economic crisis and stuff), and i've been saving every penny since i started. (The money i've spent on music has come from other stuff) So what should i do with all this money?  |
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Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: January 18 2009 at 12:18
| Give it to winos. |
Posted By: Diaby
Date Posted: January 18 2009 at 12:18
Money doesn't make you happy. Burn 'em all!  ------------- yeah |
Posted By: Abstrakt
Date Posted: January 18 2009 at 12:29
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But i've been working my butt off to earn all this! You get 7 cents for a can, 8 cents for a glass bottle, and 14 or 28 cents for a bottle, depending on the size. And i've earned $250. That should give you an idea  |
Posted By: Abstrakt
Date Posted: January 18 2009 at 12:31
That's 3571 cans, 3125 glass bottles, 1785 small bottles or 893 large bottles. 
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Posted By: TheCaptain
Date Posted: January 18 2009 at 12:32
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Buy the smallest Zimbabwean bills you can find with it. $1 trillion Zimbabwe is worth about $33 on the black market. With this you could fill a pool up with it and swim in money, thus propelling you to the level of unsurpassed ballerness that only rappers can achieve.
------------- Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal. |
Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: January 18 2009 at 12:40
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Give it to me!!!!! |
Posted By: limeyrob
Date Posted: January 18 2009 at 12:40
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Personally I'd go and treat myself to something I have always wanted but couldn't justify it. Also what interests me is the environmental aspects of paying for recycling. I wish something similar would happen in the UK.
Here we go again, but when I was a lad jam jars where worth a penny and pop bottles had a returnable deposit on them. These days they just end up on the street along with all the other detritus from a grossly irresponsible society.
Well done anyway on your efforts. It is to be applauded.
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Posted By: Abstrakt
Date Posted: January 18 2009 at 12:43
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Yeah... Thanks! Alot of times i've been thinking that it's not worth it. Sometimes it's not. When you for example dig deep in garbage cans only to earn a few cents. It IS worth it however, when you find out that you're mum has $30 worth of bottles&cans at work that are just waiting to be taken care of.  |
Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: January 18 2009 at 12:43
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Don't buy drugs. In your position I'd get a bunch of albums. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ocellatedgod" rel="nofollow - last.fm |
Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: January 18 2009 at 12:47
Come here to Argentina for a couple of days, grab all of what you can see, return to your homeland, and "vualla!", you're a rich man |
Abstrakt wrote:Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: January 18 2009 at 12:51
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Money doesn´t make you happy. Give it to me
------------- "You want me to play what, Robert?" 
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Posted By: crimson87
Date Posted: January 18 2009 at 12:52
| With 250 American Dollars or Euros you can have plenty of fun in argentina. My advice is to save a little more and spend some holidays in our country. |
Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: January 18 2009 at 12:53
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Posted By: Abstrakt
Date Posted: January 18 2009 at 12:53
However... You only get a deposit from swedish bottles&cans. If that was what you meant. And i wouldn't bother flying to Argentina anyway. That would be like 12+ hours on a plane  |
Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: January 18 2009 at 12:58
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^ you got like 12 hours of Hard Rock/Metal music, why would that be a bore
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Posted By: Abstrakt
Date Posted: January 18 2009 at 13:00
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Cause i'd be stuck on a plane, that's why. A train would be better. Atleast then i can see where i am, and not just clouds. I think i'll invest them in CD's and vinyls. Filling gaps in my prog collection, and building a meaty Hard Rock collection!  |
Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: January 18 2009 at 13:29
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Good Lord. With all the beer I drink, I'd be rich. Oh wait. No I wouldn't. I'd buy more beer. ------------- https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays" rel="nofollow - https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays |
Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: January 18 2009 at 13:43
^ 
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Posted By: Leningrad
Date Posted: January 18 2009 at 13:59
| Take it into the middle of a busy square and burn all of it as a statement. |
Posted By: Syzygy
Date Posted: January 18 2009 at 14:39
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There are other alternatives.
For example, a lot of my money has been spent on sick and lame horses over the years.
I must admit, though, that if I had known they were lame or sick I probably wouldn't have bet on them in the first place  .------------- 'Like so many of you I've got my doubts about how much to contribute to the already rich among us...' Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom |
Posted By: Visitor13
Date Posted: January 18 2009 at 14:40
| Save up until you can afford a genuine (or close enough) Viking noble's helmet (you know, one of these with cool eye protectors), buy the helmet and then send it to me. |
Posted By: The Pessimist
Date Posted: January 18 2009 at 15:27
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Spend it all on alcohol and have a party. Isn't it obvious?
------------- "Market value is irrelevant to intrinsic value." Arnold Schoenberg |
Posted By: fusionfreak
Date Posted: January 18 2009 at 15:40
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Buy Augusto Croce's book on Italian Progressive Rock and cd's you've been wanting for a long time! ------------- I was born in the land of Mahavishnu,not so far from Kobaia.I'm looking for the world of searchers with the help from crimson king |
Posted By: Abstrakt
Date Posted: January 20 2009 at 09:06
| BUMP!!!! COME ON! |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: January 20 2009 at 09:57
| Buy ten (10) copies of Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson by G. I. Gurdjieff. |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: January 20 2009 at 10:09
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Of course I'd be spending it all on music. Maybe get a nice dinner out, too. If it's in the form of paper currency, you could always burn one of the lower value ones for fun.
------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Posted By: Abstrakt
Date Posted: January 20 2009 at 10:39
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When i recycle Bottles&Cans, i usually get loads of coins. But when i've earned another 100kr (about $15), i exchange them for a 100kr bill.
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Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: January 20 2009 at 10:45
| If you've got a lot of coins, why not build a cathedral out of them? |
Posted By: Abstrakt
Date Posted: January 20 2009 at 10:55
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Because i don't have alot of them now. If i never would've exchanged coins for 100kr bills, i might've been able to do it, though! |
Posted By: crimson87
Date Posted: January 20 2009 at 11:53
Wait until you see our trains!
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Posted By: Jozef
Date Posted: January 21 2009 at 10:58
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I'd say keep 50 for a CD buying spree and put the other 200 away for safe keeping. You never know when you'll need some extra cash.
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Posted By: TheCaptain
Date Posted: January 21 2009 at 13:22
We don't take kindly to your sensible suggestions here. Or maybe that's what we're supposed to do. I dunno. If we are supposed to be sensible, then I'd say invest it in stocks. The sooner the better because the DOW isn't likely to go much under 8000. My suggestion is, if you aren't worried about losing some money, buy the stock DDR. It's cheap and quite risky but it's likely to make you some decent money in at least a few months. ------------- Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal. |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: January 21 2009 at 13:24
| Put it all on horses. |
Posted By: Abstrakt
Date Posted: January 21 2009 at 13:38
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I spent roughly $70 on 6 CD's and 8 Vinyls. See details in the Recent Purchases thread.
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Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: January 21 2009 at 13:48
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Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: February 01 2009 at 14:14
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Take the $250 to the bank and have it converted into 25,000 pennies. Then throw the pennies on your front lawn and roll around naked in them proclaiming maniacally, "Bwahaha! I'm rich! all of you thought I wouldn't make it. But who's laughing now? Bwahaha! I could buy and sell you all like cattle!"
------------- https://www.last.fm/user/Tapfret" rel="nofollow">  https://bandcamp.com/tapfret" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp |
Posted By: moreitsythanyou
Date Posted: February 01 2009 at 14:15
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFKz-OsUUoY - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFKz-OsUUoY
-------------  <font color=white>butts, lol[/COLOR] |
Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: February 04 2009 at 16:11
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I buy way two much beer. Averaging one and a half to two cases a weekend (36-48 beers..), but also on loads of new music, although I've got way too much to listen to currently. ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: crimhead
Date Posted: February 05 2009 at 17:17
| Buy some GOLD........or some of them unaltered seeds that I keep hearing about for when the governments go under. |
Posted By: aapatsos
Date Posted: February 09 2009 at 14:53
Agree with crimson here, go on a nice trip, get educated, amazed, crazy... whatever suits you best |
Posted By: Gustavo Froes
Date Posted: February 09 2009 at 15:04
| yeah,sure,go on a nice trip.....just wherever you go don't come to Brazil....is just a waist of money,despite what people would have you think. |
Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: February 09 2009 at 19:15
Why? Can you explain me better your reasoning?  ------------- Guigo ~~~~~~ |
Posted By: darkshade
Date Posted: February 09 2009 at 20:19
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buy Dark Side of the Moon and skip to track 5 and put on repeat
------------- http://www.last.fm/user/MysticBoogy" rel="nofollow - My Last.fm 
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: February 09 2009 at 21:36
He might just be talking about the Brazil in the Terry Gilliam movie. ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Posted By: Pnoom!
Date Posted: February 09 2009 at 21:46
| http://www.theonion.com/content/video/in_the_know_should_the_government - Obviously you ought to uphold this fine American tradition |
Posted By: darkshade
Date Posted: February 09 2009 at 22:13
was that real? what is the money hole? ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/MysticBoogy" rel="nofollow - My Last.fm
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Posted By: Gustavo Froes
Date Posted: February 10 2009 at 10:28
Let's face it,buddy,out city(and all others as it seems) is in decadence.Despite the fact that you just might walk out of an elevator and get a bullet in the head,I'm afraid were paying the depths are beloved polticians leave when they put all our money in their pocket.There was this guy on the news just the other day,who actually lived in a CASTLE bought with stolen money.... |
Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: February 10 2009 at 11:06
Considering that we have an area 8,514,000 sqkm and a population of 190 million people there is too many space here for visitors to choose the best place to go.
About the man in the CASTLE... do you believe that these silliness only happens in Brasil and the rest of the world is a pink heaven? Then check here what people from other countries say about their politicians and their politics. We're not alone in this fate, unfortunately. ------------- Guigo ~~~~~~ |
Posted By: Pnoom!
Date Posted: February 10 2009 at 11:10
It's the Onion. It's the greatest source of comedy in the world today. That was just a satire of the U.S. government's tendency to waste money. |
Posted By: Passionist
Date Posted: February 10 2009 at 11:12
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You don't want to go investing it, it's just such a small amount still to be invested, that you probably wouldn't get anything back, what with the current economy crisis and all that jazz. But what's a really good investment at this age is vinyl recordings. You see CDs are getting out of date and people are buying mp3s through the net. But LPs have gone from cheap to woohoo expensive in such a short period of time. It's the antique value for collectors. Just with the right buyers, you could get it all back double after say, 20 years, when all the music ever made has lost its quality, and all that's left are these poisonous disks found in a cave somewhere, smelling like weed. Take my advice for it man, you won't regret! |
Posted By: Gustavo Froes
Date Posted: February 10 2009 at 11:26
yeah,you're right,there are places you could go and enjoy,I guess.....just far away from civilization |
Posted By: fil karada
Date Posted: February 10 2009 at 17:18
Damn right you arent ! ------------- 
Some people find joy in knowledge. Some people find joy in ignorance. Some people just enjoy music. |
Posted By: Eraserhead
Date Posted: February 28 2009 at 10:50
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CD shopping spree!
------------- In heaven, everything is fine |
Posted By: progvortex
Date Posted: April 08 2009 at 23:36
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I say grab that cash with both hands and make a stash
------------- Life is like a beanstalk... isn't it? |
Posted By: The T
Date Posted: April 09 2009 at 10:23
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If you're in the US, spend the money here buying whatever sh*t you want... The country desperately needs every penny! If you're not in the US, go online (if you're reading this you already are) and buy something from any US-Internet Store... We desperately need the money.. and anyway, if the US makes it out of recession, is for the benefit of the whole world!
 Now if you're a selfish b*****d, buy some very obscure albums (read: prog) and wait some 30 years till they're vintage stuff... then re-sell them to fools hanging around an internet forum based on prog-rock music at 10 times the price... and then you can actually travel! (maybe to the US... if we're not a province of China by then...) ------------- 
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