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News Type: Event — Thu Oct 23, 2008 6:27 PM EDT
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Much has been made of the incredible amount of money the RNC spent to wardrobe Palin and her children over the past few weeks, which has led me to daydream about what I would do with that same sum, were I to find it on the street.
I definitely wouldn't put it to clothes, I know how to dress well on a budget and refuse to pay full price for anything. Neiman is fun to walk through, but not really my style. My day to day work wardrobe of pants, shirts and the rare skirt I usually buy at Gap, Target (they have great bargains and cute stuff!) and even Old Navy. Shoes I do spluge on, mainly because I so rarely buy any (something it seems Obama and I share in common!)
I would absolutely use about a third of the largesse to pay off my student loan debt, thus giving someone at Sallie Mae a heart attack, given that I can barely pay the interest at the moment. My credit card debt would be vanquished, too. I might, might, buy a MINI Cooper, though I don't need a car. A top of the line MacBook. And I would send lavish, surprise gifts to close friends and family.
The rest would go into my rainy day fund.
So much to be done with all that money, it's a shame that Palin put it all to boring clothes.
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{"commentId":3659858,"authorDomain":"geejay"}
What would you do with $150,000?
{"commentId":3659858,"threadId":"397668","contentId":"2033613","authorDomain":"geejay"}
- 3 votes
#1 - Thu Oct 23, 2008 6:28 PM EDT{"commentId":3659992,"authorDomain":"arcanebliss"}
Give $19,000 to programs here in the United States that help those in poverty get back on their feet by helping out with placing them in a job, home and offer courses in personal budgeting.
Pay off the $20-30,000 in debt we've acrued.
Use the rest for schooling, home payments and savings for our future children.
{"commentId":3659992,"threadId":"397668","contentId":"2033613","authorDomain":"arcanebliss"}
- 6 votes
#2 - Thu Oct 23, 2008 6:36 PM EDT{"commentId":3660195,"authorDomain":"geejay"}
{"commentId":3702214,"authorDomain":"mistyshangrila"}
Well, I had $100k when Bush took office, then I was in an accident and couldn't work for a while and had medical bills. I guess I'd save it for the next time we have a Republican president and I'm strapped for cash.
{"commentId":3702214,"threadId":"397668","contentId":"2033613","authorDomain":"mistyshangrila"}
- 4 votes
{"commentId":3702837,"authorDomain":"martvol"}
So your accident was Bush's fault too. Man, that guy gets around. Did he run you down in the Presidential Limo?
{"commentId":3702837,"threadId":"397668","contentId":"2033613","authorDomain":"martvol"}
- 2 votes
{"commentId":3660181,"authorDomain":"clariflutist73"}
150K is a LOT of money. I would probably give some to the after school music program I work with, and pay off some bills. I'd save some for the kids, and maybe buy something I wouldn't normally buy for myself. I can tell you this though, I would not step foot into Needless Markups.
{"commentId":3660181,"threadId":"397668","contentId":"2033613","authorDomain":"clariflutist73"}
- 4 votes
#3 - Thu Oct 23, 2008 6:49 PM EDT{"commentId":3660233,"authorDomain":"geejay"}
{"commentId":3660185,"authorDomain":"rnjhyer"}
After a complete wardrobe change, I don't really know what I would do with the other 149,000. Guess I would probably have to let the wife buy something new, althrough I don't know why, she looks good in whatever she wears.
{"commentId":3660185,"threadId":"397668","contentId":"2033613","authorDomain":"rnjhyer"}
- 4 votes
#4 - Thu Oct 23, 2008 6:49 PM EDT{"commentId":3660208,"authorDomain":"geejay"}
{"commentId":3660250,"authorDomain":"rnjhyer"}
Hey, I'm a dude don't need much of a wardrobe, couple of shirts, pants, one pair of shoes, what else is there.
{"commentId":3660250,"threadId":"397668","contentId":"2033613","authorDomain":"rnjhyer"}
- 2 votes
{"commentId":3660432,"authorDomain":"geejay"}
{"commentId":3660631,"authorDomain":"rnjhyer"}
Yea, but as a male of the species, we really appreciate it when the female of the species makes that extra effort.
{"commentId":3660631,"threadId":"397668","contentId":"2033613","authorDomain":"rnjhyer"}
- 3 votes
{"commentId":3662802,"authorDomain":"MinnieApolis"}
Viva la difference, Roger... Oh, and might we female types persuade you to splurge on a nice aftershave or something like that? A day spa treatment for your hard-working muscles and bones??
{"commentId":3662802,"threadId":"397668","contentId":"2033613","authorDomain":"MinnieApolis"}
- 3 votes
{"commentId":3682085,"authorDomain":"rnjhyer"}
MinnieApolis
I went the aftershave route, and couldn't keep the women away, which wsn't a problem for me, but the wife got kinda angry. The day spa thing doesn't sound bad through.
{"commentId":3682085,"threadId":"397668","contentId":"2033613","authorDomain":"rnjhyer"}
- 2 votes
{"commentId":3683840,"authorDomain":"MinnieApolis"}
Oh, your wife shouldn't have gotten angry. The other ladies just wanted to smell you. You might be a novelty in your area if you wear aftershave -- that doesn't say much for the other guys there, hey?
{"commentId":3683840,"threadId":"397668","contentId":"2033613","authorDomain":"MinnieApolis"}
- 3 votes
{"commentId":3660874,"authorDomain":"ppflock"}
I would buy some very nice single malt scotch 100 years or older.
I would get my teeth fixed.
I would change my name so that my relatives could not borrow the money.
{"commentId":3660874,"threadId":"397668","contentId":"2033613","authorDomain":"ppflock"}
- 6 votes
#5 - Thu Oct 23, 2008 7:32 PM EDT{"commentId":3677517,"authorDomain":"snotrag-dave"}
Ditto the scotch.
{"commentId":3677517,"threadId":"397668","contentId":"2033613","authorDomain":"snotrag-dave"}
- 1 vote
{"commentId":3679897,"authorDomain":"jackson-kittilea"}
Ditto the name change
{"commentId":3679897,"threadId":"397668","contentId":"2033613","authorDomain":"jackson-kittilea"}
{"commentId":3661115,"authorDomain":"onlynow99"}
Make some repairs and maintenance on our house--$10,000. Pay off my mortgage--$80,000. Go visit my daughter in Idaho--$1000. Go visit my grandson in Virginia--$800. Buy some things for the soon to be granddaughter--$200. Put the rest in savings--$58000 for travel and gifts later.
{"commentId":3661115,"threadId":"397668","contentId":"2033613","authorDomain":"onlynow99"}
- 3 votes
#6 - Thu Oct 23, 2008 7:44 PM EDT{"commentId":3664723,"authorDomain":"geejay"}
{"commentId":3673457,"authorDomain":"onlynow99"}
Yay! I'm very excited.
{"commentId":3673457,"threadId":"397668","contentId":"2033613","authorDomain":"onlynow99"}
- 2 votes
{"commentId":3661740,"authorDomain":"own-theory"}
My loved one and I would more than likely:
Pay off all of the loans we have.
If there was any $ left I'd buy two new cars.
And if ther was any more left I dont know. - Keep it? Maybe, not sure :)
{"commentId":3661740,"threadId":"397668","contentId":"2033613","authorDomain":"own-theory"}
- 2 votes
#7 - Thu Oct 23, 2008 8:19 PM EDT{"commentId":3661792,"authorDomain":"tasarlai"}
I'd spend it on 320 acres of Wyoming and park a motor home
{"commentId":3661792,"threadId":"397668","contentId":"2033613","authorDomain":"tasarlai"}
- 5 votes
#8 - Thu Oct 23, 2008 8:22 PM EDT{"commentId":3664820,"authorDomain":"geejay"}
{"commentId":3665318,"authorDomain":"tasarlai"}
got any money left over?
{"commentId":3665318,"threadId":"397668","contentId":"2033613","authorDomain":"tasarlai"}
- 3 votes
{"commentId":3677866,"authorDomain":"geejay"}
{"commentId":3678178,"authorDomain":"tasarlai"}
Done.
See Bill at the Mile 270 Stop n Go for directions
{"commentId":3678178,"threadId":"397668","contentId":"2033613","authorDomain":"tasarlai"}
- 2 votes
{"commentId":3682820,"authorDomain":"tasarlai"}
and please bring me a rc cola ... put it on my tab
{"commentId":3682820,"threadId":"397668","contentId":"2033613","authorDomain":"tasarlai"}
- 1 vote
{"commentId":3683916,"authorDomain":"MinnieApolis"}
Excellent plan, Jeremiah. Will it look a little bit like the bit o' heaven shared by another Viner (Spikgarys pics of Adirondacks haven)?
I could bring the RC's. And a whole bunch of books.
{"commentId":3683916,"threadId":"397668","contentId":"2033613","authorDomain":"MinnieApolis"}
- 4 votes
{"commentId":3686245,"authorDomain":"tasarlai"}
I dunno about the bit o' heaven part of Spikgarys pics of Adirondacks haven, The link provided up above will show you it's a desert area of Wyoming with scrubrush and free-roaming herds of animals.
It's hot in summer. It's cold in winter. and it's several hundrd miles away from the border patrol and their "No Constitution Free Zone"
Books are welcome, don't forget to bring CD's and DVD's and a Hughesnet connection - winters can be deep.
{"commentId":3686245,"threadId":"397668","contentId":"2033613","authorDomain":"tasarlai"}
- 3 votes
{"commentId":3662262,"authorDomain":"ladybug331"}
Give some to charity right off the top...
Then I'd pay off my credit cards and never use them again.
Then I'd put the rest away for my kids education.
There - that was easy.
{"commentId":3662262,"threadId":"397668","contentId":"2033613","authorDomain":"ladybug331"}
- 3 votes
#9 - Thu Oct 23, 2008 8:49 PM EDT{"commentId":3663017,"authorDomain":"MinnieApolis"}
For a mere $5K, one can buy/donate The Heifer Gift Ark and make a huge difference in some lives with a donation to Heifer International at http://www.heifer.org/. Five thou will buy 15 pairs of animals (ducks, geese, sheep, water buffaloes, camels sheep, cows, etc etc).
Only $145 thou more. Hmm. Well, for $100 or so I could buy and donate a bunch of toys to poor kids who will really appreciate them.
I could use some new walking shoes. I would like a better apartment, with built-in washer-dryer. Maybe start my own business(?), since loans are drying up for everything. Most of my bills get paid off in full each month, so I am not carrying a whole lot of debt due right now. Do not want a house -- can't handle the upkeep and all the headaches a house brings with it. Could maybe splurge a thou on clothes or whatnot, maybe a couple thou on trips to wherever for the winter...Maybe visit a couple NV friends for a day?
{"commentId":3663017,"threadId":"397668","contentId":"2033613","authorDomain":"MinnieApolis"}
- 9 votes
#10 - Thu Oct 23, 2008 9:40 PM EDT{"commentId":3664783,"authorDomain":"geejay"}
{"commentId":3666085,"authorDomain":"alkimija"}
Heifer is my favorite charity as well. I think I'd buy four or five of those arks. There would still be enough left over to buy a couple of hundred fertile acres in central British Columbia.
{"commentId":3666085,"threadId":"397668","contentId":"2033613","authorDomain":"alkimija"}
- 5 votes
{"commentId":3673502,"authorDomain":"onlynow99"}
Glad to hear folks know about Heifer Society. Some years my family and I forgo gifts and buy some animals instead.
{"commentId":3673502,"threadId":"397668","contentId":"2033613","authorDomain":"onlynow99"}
- 3 votes
{"commentId":3683981,"authorDomain":"MinnieApolis"}
You are all cool people. Maybe this will spark a new Christmas tradition for a few families?
{"commentId":3683981,"threadId":"397668","contentId":"2033613","authorDomain":"MinnieApolis"}
- 4 votes
{"commentId":3663375,"authorDomain":"sizzlynsamoan"}
Geez 150 grand is ALOT of MOOLAH....I would pay off my mortgage and then put the other 100 grand in the bank for kids college I imagine..and she said she was MIDDLE CLASS....tsk tsk SARAH....
VETERANS FOR OBAMA
{"commentId":3663375,"threadId":"397668","contentId":"2033613","authorDomain":"sizzlynsamoan"}
- 6 votes
#11 - Thu Oct 23, 2008 10:00 PM EDT{"commentId":3664794,"authorDomain":"geejay"}
{"commentId":3663805,"authorDomain":"ronkemper"}
I would pay off credit card debt...13,000.00 Then pay off car loan...20,000.00....Then pay off my heating bill for this winter...7,000.00.....Then pay off part of mortgage with the rest...110,000.....I'd need about 145,000 more to pay off house......But my bills would be less than my income for the first time in years.....maybe I'd quit my 2nd job.....God that would be nice, then I'd enjoy my 9 yr old before he's grown.aaaaaahhhhhhhhh dreamin.............
{"commentId":3663805,"threadId":"397668","contentId":"2033613","authorDomain":"ronkemper"}
- 3 votes
#12 - Thu Oct 23, 2008 10:28 PM EDT{"commentId":3664098,"authorDomain":"gnja"}
Pay off credit card debt, pay off home line of credit, pay off cars. Then I guess I would have enough leftover for a bottle of cheap champagne to celebrate :)
{"commentId":3664098,"threadId":"397668","contentId":"2033613","authorDomain":"gnja"}
- 2 votes
#13 - Thu Oct 23, 2008 10:45 PM EDT{"commentId":3664805,"authorDomain":"geejay"}
{"commentId":3665453,"authorDomain":"purplereign12010"}
Wow...is Roger Hyer sweet or what?
{"commentId":3665453,"threadId":"397668","contentId":"2033613","authorDomain":"purplereign12010"}
- 1 vote
#14 - Fri Oct 24, 2008 12:10 AM EDT{"commentId":3682129,"authorDomain":"rnjhyer"}
Thanks Sheri
{"commentId":3682129,"threadId":"397668","contentId":"2033613","authorDomain":"rnjhyer"}
- 1 vote
{"commentId":3665666,"authorDomain":"pdeuth"}
For that amount of money I could pay off my mortgage and have enough left over for a new car. A brand new car. Not a big, fancy car like any self-indulgent Republican might drive, but a good, new, serviceable high-mileage car.
{"commentId":3665666,"threadId":"397668","contentId":"2033613","authorDomain":"pdeuth"}
- 2 votes
#15 - Fri Oct 24, 2008 12:26 AM EDT{"commentId":3666660,"authorDomain":"caroaber"}
Not to rain on your parade, but I don't even think that's a lot of money.
My better half could use it more than I.
{"commentId":3666660,"threadId":"397668","contentId":"2033613","authorDomain":"caroaber"}
- 2 votes
#16 - Fri Oct 24, 2008 2:07 AM EDT{"commentId":3666748,"authorDomain":"Zoilus"}
Cancel my suicide and pay off my student loan.
{"commentId":3666748,"threadId":"397668","contentId":"2033613","authorDomain":"Zoilus"}
- 3 votes
#17 - Fri Oct 24, 2008 2:19 AM EDT{"commentId":3666907,"authorDomain":"rosered262"}
Yeah, I'd postpone my suicide too. Pay off my debts and credit card approx. $18,500. Pay off my car $6,500. Sell my house for whatever I could get since I'm almost in foreclosure. I'd downsize my life to a small apartment. I'd pay my sister back some money she loaned me. (Hey, I wasn't ever a debtor until I got too sick to work for a living). Then I'd try to use some of the money to help other people going through the tough financial times, foreclosures, homeless. That's about all...I'm too sick to really do anything else. It's fun to think about something positive for a change.
{"commentId":3666907,"threadId":"397668","contentId":"2033613","authorDomain":"rosered262"}
- 2 votes
{"commentId":3667007,"authorDomain":"Zoilus"}
Sick of being sick.
{"commentId":3667007,"threadId":"397668","contentId":"2033613","authorDomain":"Zoilus"}
- 4 votes
{"commentId":3666752,"authorDomain":"carrie-robison"}
I'd pay off student loans, the car. I'd put money aside to pay for next year's grad school payments.
I might buy a bookshelf. I could really use a bookshelf.
{"commentId":3666752,"threadId":"397668","contentId":"2033613","authorDomain":"carrie-robison"}
- 4 votes
#18 - Fri Oct 24, 2008 2:20 AM EDT{"commentId":3666755,"authorDomain":"tasoldano"}
If you're speaking about Palin
She said those close she wears go to charity, the close are not hers.
Stop causing trouble.
{"commentId":3666755,"threadId":"397668","contentId":"2033613","authorDomain":"tasoldano"}
- 2 votes
#19 - Fri Oct 24, 2008 2:20 AM EDT{"commentId":3668695,"authorDomain":"arcanebliss"}
close?
{"commentId":3668695,"threadId":"397668","contentId":"2033613","authorDomain":"arcanebliss"}
- 3 votes
{"commentId":3673797,"authorDomain":"tasarlai"}
close?
{"commentId":3673797,"threadId":"397668","contentId":"2033613","authorDomain":"tasarlai"}
- 1 vote
{"commentId":3676234,"authorDomain":"own-theory"}
I think they meant clothes.
Anyways I dont think Palin will give them away.
{"commentId":3676234,"threadId":"397668","contentId":"2033613","authorDomain":"own-theory"}
{"commentId":3676573,"authorDomain":"tasarlai"}
Palin will give away the close? Palin is now a fortune teller?
{"commentId":3676573,"threadId":"397668","contentId":"2033613","authorDomain":"tasarlai"}
- 3 votes
{"commentId":3696712,"authorDomain":"melonhead"}
LOL
{"commentId":3696712,"threadId":"397668","contentId":"2033613","authorDomain":"melonhead"}
{"commentId":3700623,"authorDomain":"Zoilus"}
Everyone is naked under their clothes.
{"commentId":3700623,"threadId":"397668","contentId":"2033613","authorDomain":"Zoilus"}
- 2 votes
{"commentId":3701575,"authorDomain":"a0ted"}
Well, the facts are showing now that Sarah Palin did not visit the store, others in the RNC went shopping for her.
{"commentId":3701575,"threadId":"397668","contentId":"2033613","authorDomain":"a0ted"}
{"commentId":3702166,"authorDomain":"mistyshangrila"}
Sarah had a pimp daddy pay for them and now they're debating who gets the tax deduction if they're donated to charity.
BTW, I think the red leather jacket looked better on Michael Jackson in the 80's.
{"commentId":3702166,"threadId":"397668","contentId":"2033613","authorDomain":"mistyshangrila"}
- 1 vote
{"commentId":3708109,"authorDomain":"a0ted"}
Oh, please. Peggy Noonan and Maureen Dowd that are getting old prunes and not having been in the spotlight for a long time and for sure the red jacket that the Governor was wearing would not look good on them.
Michael Jackson? I don't remember him.
{"commentId":3708109,"threadId":"397668","contentId":"2033613","authorDomain":"a0ted"}
{"commentId":3666878,"authorDomain":"kylemix"}
No more credit card debt, really nice photography equipment to start my business with, and then I would travel for three years working on my portfolio. God that would be fantastic.
{"commentId":3666878,"threadId":"397668","contentId":"2033613","authorDomain":"kylemix"}
- 2 votes
#20 - Fri Oct 24, 2008 2:36 AM EDT{"commentId":3667596,"authorDomain":"daytoncple"}
pay off IRS, credit cards and car loan, buy some land in the mountains and spend a bunch on the grandkids, save the rest or maybe invest some in our home business, depending on the state of the economy
{"commentId":3667596,"threadId":"397668","contentId":"2033613","authorDomain":"daytoncple"}
- 2 votes
#21 - Fri Oct 24, 2008 5:52 AM EDT{"commentId":3667684,"authorDomain":"nigeriawhatisnew"}
I will give $1@ to 150,000 viners to help vote this story to the top.
{"commentId":3667684,"threadId":"397668","contentId":"2033613","authorDomain":"nigeriawhatisnew"}
- 3 votes
#22 - Fri Oct 24, 2008 6:19 AM EDT{"commentId":3667934,"authorDomain":"a0ted"}
Getting my family back to visit friends in the Middle East country that we lived during 26 years, in first class, with the help of the travel points in my charge card. My kids grew up there and we keep warm memories.
{"commentId":3667934,"threadId":"397668","contentId":"2033613","authorDomain":"a0ted"}
- 3 votes
#23 - Fri Oct 24, 2008 7:14 AM EDT{"commentId":3669666,"authorDomain":"SonOfLIberty2008"}
I'd find somebody that needed a mortgage.
{"commentId":3669666,"threadId":"397668","contentId":"2033613","authorDomain":"SonOfLIberty2008"}
- 2 votes
#24 - Fri Oct 24, 2008 9:46 AM EDT{"commentId":3669667,"authorDomain":"chumsuet"}
I would pay off my debts
I would give $20000 to Kiva in microloans to help others
I would treat all my famility and there are lots of them to a holiday in the sun and with what was left I would throw a huge party for friends and family just for the heck of it!
and by the way I think it is obscene the amount that gets spent on clothes and make up etc by so called celebrities - thats why they lose touch so quickly with the average person.
{"commentId":3669667,"threadId":"397668","contentId":"2033613","authorDomain":"chumsuet"}
- 2 votes
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