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Topic: I want a MacBook Pro.
Blindy.
Suicide (Also: Gay.)
posted 01-19-2006 01:36:50 PM
I want a MacBook Pro. I want it like I want my dick to stay firmly attached to my body, which is a long way to say "very much". The only problem is that I don't have any money with which to purchase one.

In the next 12 months, I plan to be
1) Getting engaged.
2) Paying off $4,000 in student loan debt.
3) Saving money with which to buy a house.
4) Paying off $2,000 in credit card debt.
5) Going on vacation.
6) Buying furnature for my apartment (to later be moved to my house)

A 2,000 expense doesn't fit into my budget.

So what can I do to make money? I'm taking suggestions.

-postroliphophus-
Pancake
posted 01-19-2006 01:40:52 PM
Not buy a MacBook pro.
Karnaj
Road Warrior Queef
posted 01-19-2006 01:43:23 PM
Desktop support at $20 an hour, minimum 2 hours?
That's the American Dream: to make your life into something you can sell. - Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. - John Kenneth Galbraith



Beer.

Blindy.
Suicide (Also: Gay.)
posted 01-19-2006 01:58:11 PM
quote:
If I had a nickle for every time Karnaj said:
Desktop support at $20 an hour, minimum 2 hours?

I guess I could get a second job. I just don't want to have any extra regular commitments beyond the ones I already have. I'm also going back to school for a MBA this year.

Karnaj
Road Warrior Queef
posted 01-19-2006 01:59:36 PM
quote:
Blindy. got served! Blindy. got served!
I guess I could get a second job. I just don't want to have any extra regular commitments beyond the ones I already have. I'm also going back to school for a MBA this year.

How long would it take you to earn 2 grand? If you can do it in a couple months of working weekends or nights, it might be worth it.

That's the American Dream: to make your life into something you can sell. - Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. - John Kenneth Galbraith



Beer.

Suddar
posted 01-19-2006 02:00:30 PM
Look, just don't get it. If you do, you're an idiot, and you know it.
Blindy.
Suicide (Also: Gay.)
posted 01-19-2006 02:19:52 PM
quote:
Suddar likes to scream this out during sex:
Look, just don't get it. If you do, you're an idiot, and you know it.

Uhm... why? I don't currently have a laptop, and the MacBooks are not only beyond sexy, they have everything I want in a laptop.

Alidane
Urinary Tract Infection
posted 01-19-2006 02:29:10 PM
Pay off your credit card debt, and use that to buy the MacBook.

Then you're just back to square 1.

Suddar
posted 01-19-2006 02:34:20 PM
quote:
Blindy. attempted to be funny by writing:
Uhm... why? I don't currently have a laptop, and the MacBooks are not only beyond sexy, they have everything I want in a laptop.

Because you're already in debt with more major expenses coming up?

Blindy.
Suicide (Also: Gay.)
posted 01-19-2006 02:37:54 PM
quote:
Check out the big brains on Suddar:
Because you're already in debt with more major expenses coming up?

Yep. But I'm not willing to sacrifice any of my year's goals to get the MacBook, so why am I an idiot?

Mod
Pancake
posted 01-19-2006 02:43:51 PM
Tell your future wife a sob story about African children working in diamond mines and show your sensitivity by getting her a 30$ ring from a carneval booth instead of a diamond one. Use the money you saved to buy a MacBook.
Life... is like a box of chocolates. A cheap, thoughtless, perfunctory gift that nobody ever asks for. Unreturnable, because all you get back is another box of chocolates. You're stuck with this undefinable whipped-mint crap that you mindlessly wolf down when there's nothing else left to eat. Sure, once in a while, there's a peanut butter cup, or an English toffee. But they're gone too fast, the taste is fleeting. So you end up with nothing but broken bits, filled with hardened jelly and teeth-crunching nuts, and if you're desperate enough to eat those, all you've got left is a... is an empty box... filled with useless, brown paper wrappers.
Blindy.
Suicide (Also: Gay.)
posted 01-19-2006 02:59:51 PM
quote:
If only Mod hadn't said this:
Tell your future wife a sob story about African children working in diamond mines and show your sensitivity by getting her a 30$ ring from a carneval booth instead of a diamond one. Use the money you saved to buy a MacBook.

I was just going to get her an artificial diamond (she approves), otherwise that plan would be brilliant.

Jackman
Racist Hermaphroditic Midget
posted 01-19-2006 04:16:54 PM
A wife is the most expensive thing that will ever own you. Best to save every penny you have in a secret account that she will never know about.

BTW dont buy the book, you don't need it you mearly want it.

In the next 12 months, I plan to be
1) Getting engaged.

OK CONGRATS
2) Paying off $4,000 in student loan debt.

Dumb to do first as these typicaly are low interest, and have plans to forebare if you fall on hard econmic times

3) Saving money with which to buy a house.

Good Idea.

4) Paying off $2,000 in credit card debt.

Good idea pay off higher interest ones first.
5) Going on vacation.

Fantastic

6) Buying furnature for my apartment (to later be moved to my house)

Bad idea, if you know you are going to buy a house latter dont buy furnature that wont work,fit or be "right" for your new home best to make due with what you have until you get close on your new home.

Jackman fucked around with this message on 01-19-2006 at 04:20 PM.

Peter: I'm not afraid of anything, I laugh in the face of Death. See HAHAHAHA.
Death: Oh great! Thanks a lot. As if it wasnt already hard enough to fit in.

Some people are like Slinkys... Not really good for anything, But they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down a flight of stairs.

Peter
Pancake
posted 01-19-2006 04:25:58 PM
Don't buy furniture? I mean unless you are rocking the bean bag and phone-wire-spool-as-a-table collection, wait till you move to get the stuff. you can better match the furniture to the rooms then, and not have to move a bunch of big heavy shit.
Callalron
Hires people with hooks
posted 01-19-2006 07:55:44 PM
Sell blood and semen.
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What? Not together.
Callalron
"When mankind finally discovers the center of the universe, a lot of people are going to be upset that it isn't them."
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Blindy.
Suicide (Also: Gay.)
posted 01-19-2006 08:01:27 PM
Well I guess I could get by without the furnature, but we lack a couch and I really would like to get a lazyboy.
Azakias
Never wore the pants, thus still wields the power of unused (_|_)
posted 01-19-2006 08:27:00 PM
quote:
Blindy. had this to say about Captain Planet:
Well I guess I could get by without the furnature, but we lack a couch and I really would like to get a lazyboy.

You'll have to make sacrifices of some things you want, in order to attain others. That is the nature of things.

"Age by age have men stood up and said to the world, 'From what has come before me, I was forged, but I am new and greater than my forebears.' And so each man walks the world in ruin, abandoned and untried. Less than the whole of his being"
Peter
Pancake
posted 01-19-2006 11:38:16 PM
quote:
The logic train ran off the tracks when Blindy. said:
Well I guess I could get by without the furnature, but we lack a couch and I really would like to get a lazyboy.

I have... a Love seat that I think is from the 70's....On the other-hand I have 2 Dinner tables and a hutch...yeah my parents decided that when I moved it was time to clean the basement. And the hutch is pretty good for hold booze.

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