wilky9 Posted April 23, 2007 Share Posted April 23, 2007 If you had $500 (no more) to spend on something for your self, what would you buy? For fun, no "I'd save it" or "Invest it in ..." What would you purchase? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Cassil Posted April 23, 2007 Share Posted April 23, 2007 Can you get a PS3 for $500? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CHE Posted April 23, 2007 Share Posted April 23, 2007 an iPhone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ernest Burden III Posted April 23, 2007 Share Posted April 23, 2007 375 bottles of Bass Ale. In truth, I would need four bottles and the rest would go to a hospital. $500 gets you one night at the Bryant Park Hotel in NYC. Take your wife and its worth every penny. Money is best spent on experiences, not things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJLynn Posted April 23, 2007 Share Posted April 23, 2007 Red Sox vs. Yankees at Fenway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexg Posted April 24, 2007 Share Posted April 24, 2007 First, I would buy $100 worth of LOTTO ! With some luck it will get me another $$$ The other $400, I will take hot air balooning tour, some say it's fantastic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STRAT Posted April 24, 2007 Share Posted April 24, 2007 one of them - http://www.promenademusic.co.uk/details.asp?sku=5099 one of them - http://www.promenademusic.co.uk/details.asp?sku=5098 and the change on some of them - http://www.badapplegraphics.com/octbeerbuild/pictures/bass%20ale.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koper Posted April 24, 2007 Share Posted April 24, 2007 ps3 - got it and its well worth spending the money, every penny of it;) fo me,... a very wide angle lens for my 20D, oh they are so sweeeeet to use, but i'll probably would have to add another $500:( Strat, make sure you get the first two on your list before you go for the last one:D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ernest Burden III Posted April 24, 2007 Share Posted April 24, 2007 If you had $500 Et tu? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommy L Posted April 24, 2007 Share Posted April 24, 2007 yeah, Im assuming Chris Wilky has got $500 and he doesnt know what to spend it on. Hows about we meet you at a bar and help you spend it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilky9 Posted April 24, 2007 Author Share Posted April 24, 2007 Et tu? Well, I don't know. I was hoping to get some inspiration from the ideas of others. I like seeing what other people are in to, outside of arch-viz. My wife and I inherited some money, enough to payoff the credit cards and invest a little, and decided to split $1000 to have fun with. So, I am trying to think of something fun, but not wasteful to do with it. I'd like to put it towards a new bike, but I don't have room for another one. I'm thinking an xbox360; I always enjoy having friends come over and drink beer and play. Just have to see if the price is going to drop when the new one comes out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilky9 Posted April 24, 2007 Author Share Posted April 24, 2007 yeah, Im assuming Chris Wilky has got $500 and he doesnt know what to spend it on. Hows about we meet you at a bar and help you spend it. Thanks for the offer Tom! Next time I'm in Chicago, we'll go to Goose Island Brewery Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Cassil Posted April 24, 2007 Share Posted April 24, 2007 Just have to see if the price is going to drop when the new one comes out. The new what? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilky9 Posted April 24, 2007 Author Share Posted April 24, 2007 The new what? New Xbox 360 Elite. http://www.xbox.com/en-US/hardware/xbox360elite/default.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Homeless Guy Posted April 24, 2007 Share Posted April 24, 2007 $500 should buy a skydive jump for you and your wife, then a nice dinner and bottle of wine after to talk about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilky9 Posted April 24, 2007 Author Share Posted April 24, 2007 Oh good lord no! There is no way I'd ever get her to do that. I know it's a pretty safe activity, but I can't risk breaking a bone again this summer. That sucked enough for one year. It looks exciting though. Have you done it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ernest Burden III Posted April 24, 2007 Share Posted April 24, 2007 We have two votes for a PS3 and two votes for Bass Ale. Beer beats sore thumbs any day. If you're careful with the flights, and get the weekend special at the Bryant Park Hotel I mentioned, you and your wife can have a New York weekend that you will remember the rest of your lives. You might even have a few bucks left over for Bass Ale. There are now a bunch of bars with Bass on tap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devin Johnston Posted April 24, 2007 Share Posted April 24, 2007 I'm voting for the Xbox360 I've got one and love it! In reality although the PS3 has more raw processing power it's video card is under powered and because the coding for the games is so difficult they haven't been able to take advantage of the Cell processors power. Unless you really like PS games the XBox is a better buy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Homeless Guy Posted April 24, 2007 Share Posted April 24, 2007 ....i have heard people tell me in the past that i am never going to lay on my death bed, and wish i had worked more. i am guessing the same can be said for playing ps3. if i am wrong, then you can cheap shot me in the gut the next time we cross paths. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koper Posted April 24, 2007 Share Posted April 24, 2007 hope this doesn't turn into a ps3 xbox fight:D but i realy have to give my opinion i had the 360, bought the ps3 and sold the 360 2 weeks later. If you are looking to have some serious fun with friends then you definately need to go for the ps3 and 'Virtua Tennis, it has the motion control of the wii and kick @ss grafix, but the gameplay is serious serious fun, guys diving girls sliding, hmmm, sounds like a song:D the 'Elite is just an attempt of Microsoft to get back into the game, so they make it black to look like the ps3 (hoping to fool un-informed people, heheh) and give it an HDMI port for HD The Internet play is for free on the ps3, and (I am not sure how) but you can atcualy partition the hard drive and install another Operating System. So the ps3 is more like a computer like we know it. (there are loads more cool stuff, more than the xbox ever can handel) - here is one that most people don't know about - http://uk.playstation.com/games-media/news/articles/detail/item61734/PLAYSTATION-3-helps-further-medical-research/ ok ok, i know but just one last thing and now i will be speculating a bit the upcoming GTA4 gives exclusive download rights to xbox but what they don't say is that the ps3 uses 50GB DVD's which can hold 10x more data than what the xbox uses, so ofcoarse the xbox players will have to download most of the game;) ok, i'll quit ranting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrianKitts Posted April 24, 2007 Share Posted April 24, 2007 I think i would head in Ernest's direction if it was my money, although if I would be more a fan of slipping away to steamboat springs for a weekend of skiing before the snow disappears. You can even have your bass (bottle) in the hot tub at a resort with the wife and have a good trip to remember when you get back.... That is unless you hate your wife would rather wrap a long day of working on a computer by staring at a video screen all night and kissing your sex life goodbye! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keylitho Posted April 24, 2007 Share Posted April 24, 2007 One vote from me for the PS3 got mine a week after release (and no lines) Just a lucky soul standing in the return and someone brought it back. So I guess I would Buy myself a new Helicopter. WoooHooo!!! Trex 450 SE $450.00 Minus electronics (but I already have thoes) ~Erik Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ernest Burden III Posted April 25, 2007 Share Posted April 25, 2007 Your $500, plus $25 million, will get you a short trip into space. For only another $25 million you can bring your wife. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IC Posted April 26, 2007 Share Posted April 26, 2007 I've never skydived but for my birthday, my wife paid for me to have a day's glider flying. I was probably in the air for less than 90 minutes in total but I'd do it again in a minute. You'll regret buying the XBox in 2 months when it's lying gathering dust. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesTaylor Posted April 26, 2007 Share Posted April 26, 2007 a day's track racing, the only problem being that you'll have to find another $500 dollars to again ASAP!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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