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How to spend 20,000 euros

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    #11
    Originally posted by Moscow Mule View Post
    Whenever I get an unexpected windfall, I save half and spend half.

    Spend the 10k on what ever floats your boat. For me it would be a new (well secondhand) boat.
    Nice idea. A jet-ski could be fun. Any recommendations? I want a 2 seater type that’s fairly quick but easy to drive; I don’t need to do lots of clever tricks on it, but just blast around a bit with Mrs Tester.
    And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014

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      #12
      I heard that with buy-to-lets you never lose money, so there you go...
      I've seen much of the rest of the world. It is brutal and cruel and dark, Rome is the light.

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        #13
        Originally posted by Mich the Tester View Post
        Nice idea. A jet-ski could be fun. Any recommendations? I want a 2 seater type that’s fairly quick but easy to drive; I don’t need to do lots of clever tricks on it, but just blast around a bit with Mrs Tester.
        I'm more into sailing than jet-skis, but have a browse around here.

        €10k should get you a fairly top-spec jetski with a trailer and all the safety gubbins no problem...

        Edit: This jetboat looks cool. I'd buy that.
        Last edited by Moscow Mule; 19 August 2009, 10:36.
        ‎"See, you think I give a tulip. Wrong. In fact, while you talk, I'm thinking; How can I give less of a tulip? That's why I look interested."

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          #14
          spend it all on some crap.

          Then have fun with the taxman when he wants his part
          "Condoms should come with a free pack of earplugs."

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            #15
            Is there some country or city that you've always fancied visiting? Bit of 1st class travel is great fun and nice for Mrs Tester 10k Euro would get plenty of that.

            Activities like learning to dive, ride, climb?

            I'd spend half on something indulgent and save the other half for rainy day - we've had a couple of crap weeks so now we do something fun type funds.

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              #16
              Treat the client to a good nosh up meal, as way of a thank you for paying.

              Then pay off some bills or debt whatever, and save a bit left over for a few shared treats with the missus.
              Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

              C.S. Lewis

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                #17
                I'd be going for the most sensible option for me, which would putting most, say £18k into my mortgage.

                Then spend the rest on a nice holiday

                boring **** that I am!

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                  #18
                  Simples...

                  Get tickets, flights and hotel booked to see U2 in New York with Muse as a support band...

                  What a night that'd be...
                  'elf and safety guru

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                    #19
                    Originally posted by TykeMerc View Post
                    Is there some country or city that you've always fancied visiting? Bit of 1st class travel is great fun and nice for Mrs Tester 10k Euro would get plenty of that.

                    Activities like learning to dive, ride, climb?

                    I'd spend half on something indulgent and save the other half for rainy day - we've had a couple of crap weeks so now we do something fun type funds.
                    Orient Express - not just the traditional one through Europe, but Scotland, Peru and South East Asia.

                    Blue Train, South Africa (sh!te too much Flash web site warning)

                    My parents did one of these trips (not sure which one) in Norway, and were suitably impressed:
                    The Rauma Line
                    Geiranger & Norway in a nutshell

                    I've no idea what any of these cost (I'm a bit busy today).
                    Behold the warranty -- the bold print giveth and the fine print taketh away.

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