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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
$5, $50, $500, $5,000 and $50,000
What would you do with the money if you had it
$5 - A bagel breakfast sandwich tomorrow morning. I've been craving one.
$50 - nice dinner out
$500 - wadrobe update (some for now and save 1/2 for spring)
$5,000 - Disney vacation with the family (hopefully had enough leftover for a long weekend with TH)
$50,000 - all of above, new windows, pay a handyman to finish up small projects around the house, pad savings, and girls college fund.
Re: $5, $50, $500, $5,000 and $50,000
$5 Some fancy coffee drink and (to stay with the theme) 5 minutes to myself.
$50 fun light for the kitchen
$500 clothes (me too!) and shoes; not allowed to spend it on the kids for clothes.
$5000 western national parks roadtrip
$50000 drop the price of our home to sell quicker, and the rest a down payment and any repairs/updates needed on a new house
$5 - a Pumpkin Spice Latte from Starbucks.
$50 - new tennis shoes (and the will to use them for running lol)
$500 - A new camera lens
$5,000 - family vacation to probably Disney. With my sister and her family.
$50,000 - Pay off my car, pay down the mortgage, get lasix surgery, put money into Ben's savings fund.
$5--a Big Mac meal from McDonald's (how disgusting is that :P)
$50--A Wayne*Law hoodie for $25 and a bottle of wine or two with the remaining $25
$500--A really fabulous pair (or two) of shoes. Maybe some Christian Laboutins or Giusseppe Zanotis
$5,000--either rent for an apartment for the next year or tuition (does tuition count if I'm going to be paying it anyway?) or new clothes--suits and such will be needed for summer work.
$50,000--rent a really great apartment over the next three years (I hate the RE market in Detroit), and use $10K of what would be left to pay off my undergrad SLs, and use ~$5K on 2week vacation after I take the bar and the last $5K on a new work wardrobe (definitely to include that pair or two of super fab shoes!). Anyone want to give me $50K?
$5- Yummy Coffee drink.
$50- Date night!
$500- 100 would go towards a sleep monitor for J (cause I am that worry wart mom), 100 towards a new bra and nursing tank, 100 towards a yoga membership, and the rest towards some new clothes.
$5,000- Family vacation. I don't know where though. Maybe somewhere out west?
$50,000- Finish the basement, J's college fund and some trees for our backyard.
$5 - bagel and cream cheese and an OJ
$50 - 2 new shirts
$500 - buy some wall art for my livingroom.
$5,000 - book our trip to Ireland.
$50,000 - buy another rental house and put a new roof on a current rental house.
$5 - Pumpkin Spice Latte from Starbucks (great minds, freeburger).
$50 - A nice dinner out.
$500 - New clothes!
$5000 - Europe vacation.
$50,000 - Down payment on a new house? I don't know.
I had one of these yesterday. It was my lone consolation while enduring traffic hell.
$5 - Hot Caramel Apple Cider from Biggby
$50 - Date night with Ben
$500 - Shopping just for me!
$5,000 - Fly to Disney instead of drive & have some extra spending money (ok, lots of extra spending money)
$50,000 - Down payment on a house
$5- Pumpkin Spice Latte
$50- New dress for a wedding coming up
$500- Curtains for the living room, a hair cut, a nice bottle of wine, and maybe a new outfit.
$5,000- New furnace and A/C
$50,000- All the above, pay off the car, college fund for Renee, new bedroom set, underground sprinkling, new living room rug, new countertops, backsplash, and fridge
Oh, good one. I'm adding that to mine.
$5 - Rice bowl from What the Truck before a Street Team shift (I'll be doing this anyway)
$50 - Clothes shopping
$500 - Put towards a new MacBook (supplemented by selling current old one)
$5,000 - Go visit my sister in Australia
$50,000 - Pay off some (yes, some) of our student loans
Love that idea. That is usually what we end up doing. Selling our MBP to a client and get a new one. We've done that for the last 3 years.