If you won/inherited 50,000 what would you do?S

PandaPoo

fergus1001 wrote: »

On the first plane to turkey to have a hair transplant

Avoid the Prince William look

Hey my husband did a prince William a few months ago and he looks sexy AF.

Although I do have a massive think for bald men

fergus1001

PandaPoo wrote:

Hey my husband did a prince William a few months ago and he looks sexy AF.

And I envy your husband for having the balls to do it, it's a big change for me (black hair)

RobbingBandit

Contract on my enemies money well spent

riemann

PandaPoo wrote: »

Then paint the whole interior of my house, and get new floors in most rooms.

You could just do that yourself now for a few hundred quid

namenotavailablE

€5k each to self and spouse to spend as we wish (more or less).
Balance against mortgage to reduce outstanding term.

PandaPoo

riemann wrote: »

You could just do that yourself now for a few hundred quid

More like thousand! 3 bedroom house, upstairs and downstairs, hall stairs and landing...

I got a cheap job when we moved in and it looked like Stevie Wonder did it so I'll pay the big bucks this time, but I'd like it all done together. Paint, new interior doors, new floors etc.

wheresmahbombs

If I were to inherit €50K, all I'd probably do outside of donations, college and ambiguous future investments, is to get a new laptop, and upgrade my existing PC or build a new one.

Mountainsandh

Family holiday, modest home improvements, and the rest would bring us very close to paying off the mortgage

bear1

Open 2 accounts for my daughter's and put 5k into each and let it stay there for the next 18 years - I'd add to it every month from my own salary.
Really regret that I'm not in the position to do it now puts a downer on me sometimes.
Clear the credit card, pay off the car loan.
That would leave me 33.5k so 20k into the savings acc and the rest on a nice holiday, prop up the current account and some expensive spa weekend for the wife.

Ush1

I'd get an ironed shirt.

Archeron

Deleted User wrote: »

Surely it depends on what you're inheriting 50,000 of.

Money? Go on a huge holiday.

Puppies? Be confused as to what to do with 50,000 puppies.

Piles of sh1t? Wonder what I did to deserve 50,000 piles of sh1t.

If you inherit 50,000 puppies you're gonna have a lot more than 50,000 piles of sh1t

Permabear

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andekwarhola

Knock it off the mortgage.

I would have had myself taken out and executed 15 years ago on grounds of old fartdom.

Ursus Horribilis

It'd have to mostly go towards the mortgage, boring and all as it is. I'm still in the relatively early days of mine so the mortgage payment is still high enough. Much as I'd love to change the car, take an expensive holiday and do work on the house, I wouldn't in all conscience be able to do that.

CIP4

I would probably save 40k of it with the aim of it going towards a house deposit. Then just spend the other 10k on whatever I wanted, holidays, shopping for things I don’t need etc etc.

david75

10k on prize bonds then probably slowly chip away at the other 40 foolishly until one day at the atm it tells me I’ve no money and I’m left wondering whisky tango foxtrot happened to it.

heroics

What are all the other answers so sensible?? In fairness while I said spend it all on a new car my wife might disagree so instead

I’ll get https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201801162799342?make=LOTUS&model=ELISE&r=2 keep my current car as a daily and put the rest into kids education fund. Fair compromise I think 😂😂

Ursus Horribilis

It goes to show how old and boring most of us are

Mountainsandh

Ursus Horribilis wrote: »

It goes to show how old and boring most of us are

Or just grown up, like.

david75

Mountainsandh wrote: »

Or just grown up, like.

To put it in context I think all of us are old enough to remember 50k being a fvckin sh!tload of money.

My folks mortgage on a new house in d7 in 1986 was 30k. A massive amount at the time to us.

Buy more Vechain and Icon, and turn it into a real wedge of cash.

Ursus Horribilis

david75 wrote: »

To put it in context I think all of us are old enough to remember 50k being a fvckin sh!tload of money.

My folks mortgage on a new house in d7 in 1986 was 30k. A massive amount at the time to us.

Even now, 50k is a sh!tload of money to me. I'd love to get my hands on that sort of money and lop a load off my mortgage. Then I'd have more spare cash to blow on things I don't need

wheresmahbombs

Ursus Horribilis wrote: »

Even now, 50k is a sh!tload of money to me.

The same applies to me.

david75

Its a massive amount to me too. I’d squander it tho no doubt about it

the_syco

Lilmiss82 wrote: »

but to others it is a hell of a lot

And they shall spend it the fastest.

It’s strange, it feels as though 50,000 euro went from being worth “a sh’itload” to “not that much” very quickly. It doesn’t seem to have lingered in the middle ground for very long. Probably nothing compared to how quickly money seemed to lose its value between the 70s and 80s I suppose. It’s going to be strange in the future when everyone is a millionaire without it meaning that they are “rich”.

worded

A few weekends of fun or one weekend of sheer lunacy

cripesonfriday

If it was an expected inheritance I'd be as dull as most, pay off part of a mortgage or fund the kids going to college.

But an unexpected inheritance from an estranged aunt or a big win on a scratch card?

I'd buy myself a watch, a Submariner, then another couple of watches. Then another on the way out (near the register, impulse buy).

Ten grand on watches, five grand to charities, €35 balance towards my kids' future.

Dancewithme

I have researched how much it would cost me to go back to college yo study midwifery. €40,000 is what I need. € 50,000 would be class. With the leftover €10,000 I would go to Alaska for a holiday.

Riddle101

Buy a nice reasonably priced car and then put the rest of it away and save it. €50,000 is nice, but it's hardly a million euro. I'd rather save for when I feel I really need it.

splashuum

XRP

Irish_rat

Pay off a chuck of the mortgage would be nice. I'd take it off the monthly payments so I could spend a bit more from my actual earnings

Lu Tze

I unexpectedly inherited a slightly lower but still sizeable amount, at the end of a period I spent abroad in a much higher paying job when I was putting most of it away into savings. Both combined allowed me to put a deposit down for a house with reasonable mortgage payments while on the lower wages back in Dublin. That was 3 years ago, just slid under the 50%LTV at the end of last year, hoping to be done with it in 10-15 years.

Mountainsandh

david75 wrote: »

To put it in context I think all of us are old enough to remember 50k being a fvckin sh!tload of money.

My folks mortgage on a new house in d7 in 1986 was 30k. A massive amount at the time to us.

Ursus Horribilis wrote: »

Even now, 50k is a sh!tload of money to me. I'd love to get my hands on that sort of money and lop a load off my mortgage. Then I'd have more spare cash to blow on things I don't need

It's strange how I can relate to both viewpoints.

Beasty

Probably buy another 3 decent bikes....

fergus1001

I'd do an MBA then double my money in two years of employment

SimpleDimples

€40k towards house and €10k to flitter away on enjoyment, holidays, fancy meals, some art, jewellery etc. You only live once so couldn't be sensible with all of it.

BBDBB

Hector Bellend wrote: »

Pay my bills.

Have a ****.

Yeah, like thats the order you'd do them in!:rolleyes:

notsoyoungwan

I think I’d blow 5k, save 15k and pay 30k off my mortgage.

Mint Sauce

About 25-30k off the the mortgage. Nice 2nd hand car, 2014/15 reg, rest towards some home improvements, and a nice gadget or two.

Steve F

Still can't believe it!!!
91 comments in and I'm still the only one who has said Crisps n Sweets!!!
Whats wrong with yiz all and yer fancy notions of Cars,Holidays and Mortgages

wheresmahbombs

Steve F wrote: »

Still can't believe it!!!
91 comments in and I'm still the only one who has said Crisps n Sweets!!!

Oh boy, don't get me started on crisps.

Steve F

wheresmahbombs wrote: »

Oh boy, don't get me started on crisps.

The big bags of Walkers Sensations!! Do they lace them with Cocaine do you think? Ha

wheresmahbombs

Steve F wrote: »

The big bags of Walkers Sensations!! Do they lace them with Cocaine do you think? Ha

I just loathe the smell of crisps. There's no cocaine in them .