Like 15 abortions. God I love abortions.
I do not understand that, in my country abortions are free
(ok, not actually free. You need to pay 15 euro for the blood test, a 30 euro tax, 2 euro for the hospital parking fee and around 10 euro to buy the painkiller or antibiotics after the operation)
Dude, I wish I lived in a civilized country. My cancer treatment would have cost somewhere in the range of $5 million without insurance. Healthcare is a human right
Dude, I just got the post-exposure rabies vaccine. Was four trips to the ER at $125 USD co-pay a pop… however, without insurance, I learned it can be as much as like $15k if you don’t qualify for assistance and/or Medicaid.
We really need to take to the streets.
oooOOohh look at mr big spender here with their fancy thousand dollar abortions.
Would make the world a better place than any other kind of charity, tbh.
can I just throw it on my mortgage?
Technically you’re using it to buy a house, so I guess that qualifies as spending it?
Debt, then idk. Maybe a burger or something?
Look at Mr. Humble Brag here with only $19,980 in debt. Oooooo. So fancy.
;)
A quintessentially American scene I want to see is, a guy wins a flamboyantly decorated game show to the applause of hundreds of thousands of people. The host leans in to ask him what he’s going to spend the money on. He replies all he can do with it is pay off half of his grandmother’s medical debt, and then go to his night shift to work on paying for the other half.
Many years ago, I worked at a fish market and one of the guys who sold us fish during the summer won a big fishing tournament one year where he got a brand new truck and a bunch of money. When they asked him what he was going to do with the money, he said, “Keep fishing until it’s all gone.”
I’ve learned reading these comments that way too many people don’t know just how little 20k is.
I could spend 20k in one cart full of items at my local computer store.
It’s not much money, but in Russia I could live decently for ~3.5 years with that kind of money. :)
Stocks
Easy. Second hand electric car with a big range.
$20,000 worth of low-fee S&P 500 index fund
How is this even a question. If you have a mortgage you pay off your mortgage, or at least as much as they let you, anything else would go on a new car.
I would like to get my house renovated but that’s going to take more than a day.
If you’re american, probably pay 10% of your medical debt or some shit like that.
Or just refuse to pay it.
What are they gonna do? Reposess your organs?
Shh! Don’t give them ideas.
yes, i think that’s actually what’s happening over there. It’s madness. the scenes. blood everywhere.
Zydrate comes in a little glass vial . . .
A little glass vial?
A little glass vial. And the little glass vial goes into the gun like a battery.
Boring answer but with the 1974 built house I have that 20k disappears into the renovations void.
Take your pick: furnace, central A/C, driveway repairs.
I see your 1974 and raise you a 1931
My rented house was built around 1900 and I can see into the unfinished basement through a small hole in the floor by the front door. I’d still use that 20k for a down payment to purchase it.
I’d buy it as well. That 1900 house - AND the 1931 house were built with virgin lumber and chances are no drywall, but plaster and lath walls. Solid construction and NO modern building supplies outgassing chemicals.
There MIGHT be lead paint and asbestos pipe lagging insulation, but both can be dealt with in a pinch by encapsulation until you get the funds to have removal.
Yep it’s all lath. Can be a bitch but it literally took a 12ga buckshot blast with no damage to anything on the other side.
Thick solid wood siding too.
That is SO glorious.
I’ve been in the trades since 1980, and I won’t have a house built after the mid-80’s. That’s when the last of the mature timber lumber supply ran out. Now homes are built with selectively bred loblolly pine that gets 30 years worth of growth in 20 and it’s light like balsa. It’s garbage and part of why so many developments and new homes put up since the mid-90’s are now falling apart. I see SO much sheetrock slips, cracks, nail pops and settling it’s scary.
The list never ends yours is just longer 🤣
Mortgage, no question.
Gold
The only correct answer
Silver or any other somewhat stable precious metal is probably okay too.
I have some silver but it is not faring well compared to gold :(
Invest it/ simply convert it to another currency
And that, children, is why the rich get richer.
Wait you mean that in capitalism, the people with a lot of capital have it easier?
Almost as if the more of it you have, the easier it is to make more of it, but if you have none, then you’re shit out of luck and have to agree to be someone’s slave.
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gold coins at the local coin shop
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I clear out the grocery store canned and boxed goods aisles and donate everything to the food bank
I love the sentiment! Food banks/pantries are such a good way to directly help people in need.
But… I had heard that it’s usually better to give cash to food banks/pantries rather than food, that way they can buy what they need generally* at better prices than we can get. But I’m not directly involved in food banks/pantries, so please correct me if I’m wrong.
Of course, if you can get mega deals on real food* with coupons or whatever, then of course that’s better.
**I’d also heard that food pantries get so much cranberry sauce donated during November, but cranberry sauce is nutritionally deficient, and that if you donate food, make sure it’s real food.
Crypto is faster. Even if you believe it’s a scam, you can always just buy $20K worth of ETH and then just cash it out immediately. Would take less than 2 minutes.
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I have a car dealership right next to my office. And I’d really love to retire my 20yo car
Car is the easy answer. I don’t drive much anymore as a commuter so I’m buying as much hauling strength as 20k will get me.
