I recently came into about $300, i never buy anything fun for myself. Need some ideas on how to spend it….gadgets or whatever seems like something fun to buy.
Something Fun to Buy? (Budget $300)
mwblink86 on 27/06/2020 - 16:24
Last edited 27/06/2020 - 19:49 by 1 other user
Last edited 27/06/2020 - 19:49 by 1 other user
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First result as of now: Crockpot for $153.
Get 2 for just $6 over budget.
over budget
SPEAK NOT THE FORBIDDEN WORDS, HEATHEN
As you are living in Victoria OP I'd suggest some warm clothing should be high on your list.
Have plenty of clothes
reuseable face masks and goggles because practice round for COVID is over.
Id rather be doing fun things that get me hot and sweaty that don't require clothes, that's free though, not $300.
Running naked?.
Hah, though running naked now (winter) still wouldn't warm me up LOL
That gets you about 1 Hour.
Kettlebell
my kettlebell makes a great doorstop
Fortnite skins
Commonly called ForSkins
One! Two! Three! Foreskin!
Lots of enelopes
Are they a type of antelope?
I think it's a type of eloping?
Pretty sure it's something to do with posting letters
No, it's a way of NOT eloping.
@baskinghobo: I don't like to interlope but I don't want to come off as being a misanthrope for just contributing to a conversation about cantaloupe whilst having to pay $1 for a stamped envelope.
Shall we see what this line of conversation will develop.
i am actually looking for some 9v rechargables! know where i can get some for cheap?
gadgets
Apple Watch Series 3 is currently available for $319 with $20.30 cashback ($298.70) @ Cashrewards (7% cashback at Apple ends tonight 11.59pm).
Gives you something with a tonne of settings and things to play around with I guess.
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What's your hobby? How about LEGO?
Wow that is epic
a knife set & lots of alcohol…toilet paper if you can find any
Knives and Alcohol….hmmm I don't see this ending well.
Hush…
Let's see how this plays out.
I'd say a watch or maybe a fancy writing instrument like a Parker with a solid 18k gold nib :)
Do people still use pens these days?
Some do for a bit of "fun" 😆
I put money into fountain pens and never turned back. A great hobby
@GJT: Don't ever buy parkers full price is my personal recommendation.
And the used market is a great way to score a bargain
A Nintendo Switch
Already have one
So you do buy fun things for yourself… you said you never do.
Could be bought for him buy other people. Or he stole it.
Maybe a few games for it?
Zelda gave me hours and hours of fun
Currently playing Animal Crossing, no end in sight!
Maybe a drone.
$300 = 30min fun here, or 9 consecutive night fun in south east asia.
Just hold on to it…$300 is like $1000 in stocks after some time
You sound like fun.
So $300 in airline stocks then?
Please define some time based on the average return per annum
I was being sarcastic, of course don't put it into stocks but don't save it for Asia either, our economy is doing poorly and the last thing we need is everyone saving up their cash to spend it somewhere else
@[Deactivated]: Because the average Asian is just thriving right now…
I get the government being obsessed with putting Australia first because it's their job, but I've always found the obsession of believing ONLY Australians deserve help rather unsettling (and very American).
By all means focus the majority of your efforts there, it is our community after all, so you'd be helping yourself in the process (which is, perhaps pessimistically, what I've always thought the true intention of that philosophy is). But feeling this strongly about the possibility of someone possibly making a relatively small one-off purchase that might help someone who isn't Australian…
@callum9999: Do you think ego22 was thinking about all those Asians when he made that comment? I'm not saying only Australias deserve help at all but in a situation where every country is struggling, looking after our own is always going to be first priority. We can only help others for so long while suffering ourselves. I'm sorry but I'd rather kickstart our own economy than someone else's. I'd probably even argue they might be better off, who knows what Australia is going to look like once jobkeeper ends. You just can't simply rely on the government to fix this whilst trying to save all the money you can for Asia.
You have to also look at what he's saying, hold onto the money for God knows how long when OP clearly wants something now and if he's happy to put it into the Australian economy then why try to dissuade him? He's going to get something, the place he got it from is going to get something, it's a small transaction but if everyone does it, we could be far better off.
@[Deactivated]: I genuinely don't know how to respond to someone who says "I'm not saying only Australians deserve help, I'm saying they should only help Australians".
A pretty disgusting attitude in my book, though I accept, one that the majority of this country seems to hold.
And note: I made no attempt to dissuade them from buying Australian. In fact, I very clearly stated that the majority of effort should be focused there. YOU are the one dictating where money should and should not be spent. Why are you being dishonest? Feeling a bit of shame?
@callum9999: If you think that Australians and Americans are the only ones that hold that attitude then you're wrong, dead wrong. If you think we should just be giving and giving you're going to be left in the dust. There is nothing wrong with prioritizing your country first. It's not disgusting, if anything SE Asians hold that belief the most. Australians and Americans provide huge amounts to other countries so again, I don't know what your argument is. Look, a year ago save your money and go to Asia if you want when things were normal, it doesn't matter and yeah it would be great to help them out. When I travelled SE Asia, I gave very generous tips, bought heaps of souvenirs I didn't need and ate out all the time. Why? Because Australia was doing moderately fine. But now? I'm gonna spend in Aus whenever I get the chance and I was just making a sarcastic comment at someone who clearly doesn't care and happy to hold onto money to get better bang for his buck in the future. Would you criticize me if I prioritised my family over strangers if they were in need?
You either agree with me that the $300 should be spent in Australia or you agree with ego22 that he should just save it for a few years and spend it somewhere else when our economy is suffering.
@[Deactivated]: Jesus Christ, I give up. It's like trying to have a discussion with a toddler… Virtually every single argument you make "against" mine is EXACTLY THE SAME as my stated position. The majority of the rest are things I haven't actually said and you just blindly assume I believe.
Why on Earth do I bother. This is probably the worst site I've ever used for this kind of rubbish.
@callum9999: You hardly made an argument, you say my arguments are the same as your stated position but then you say it's a disgusting attitude? My point isn't it's going to help someone else, it's that the money has to held onto for probably at least a year when it could do some good now.
No one here ever said ONLY Australians deserve help, it was just a belief you brought out of no where and said it was disgusting, hardly anyone would refute that and to be honest, I've never heard anyone say that.
You then agree that the majority of efforts should be here but then blame me for dictating where the money should be spent? A bit of a double standard there.
@[Deactivated]: No, I very clearly said MOST of your arguments were the same of mine. Which you seem to be suggesting you already knew - so why did you pretend otherwise? To help you out:
"If you think that Australians and Americans are the only ones that hold that attitude then you're wrong, dead wrong" - I don't think that, didn't say that nor even remotely hint it.
"If you think we should just be giving and giving you're going to be left in the dust" - I don't think that, didn't say that nor even remotely hint it.
"There is nothing wrong with prioritizing your country first" - I don't think that, didn't say that nor even remotely hint it.
"Australians and Americans provide huge amounts to other countries so again, I don't know what your argument is" - that it's not enough.
You, and others, have completely fabricated my entire argument because you couldn't be bothered to argue against it as it was. Which was completely unnecessary because it's not exactly difficult to make a legitimate argument against my ACTUAL beliefs.
It's not a double standard because it's an opinion, not a proclamation on how people should spend their money. If someone chooses to spend a tiny fraction of their money outside Australia, I don't make sarcastic comments like "yes let's all funnel our money into asia".
I've heard many, many people say it - are you living under a rock? Gizdonk in this very thread being the perfect example. And they are also the perfect example as to why I find that attitude disgusting - they use the exact same concept (not helping "the others") and extend it to Aboriginal Australians, arguing that they have it TOO GOOD and white Australians are a victim of racism because of it. I'm sure that you don't share that horrific attitude, but in my mind (and I'm very open to being corrected on this point - it would make me sleep a lot better if I was wrong!), the "Australia first" attitude legitimizes it.
@callum9999: The Americans are the most charitable people in the world. The government gives plenty of foreign aid, refugees, immigrant visas, their family visas, schedules trade deals to help the pacific islands, etc.
How much foreign aid do the rich Arabs give? Why are there more millionaires in China than the US but so much poverty across the country? Why are most Inidians defecating on the street while Modi enriches his mates? The Average Asian doesn’t help the poor Asian. Look at Charity donation rankings. The US is number one and China last.To say that not helping other countries is very American is dead wrong. The Chinese being communist is the biggest propaganda lie ever.
Why should Australia help poor Asians when the rich Asians won’t?
This also fails to recognise just how many Australians are doing it tough. Homeless, hungry, kids not going to the dentist. I won’t be happy giving money to foreign countries until no Australian child lives in poverty.
You are either a recent immigrant who has confused allegiances or the typical rich racist greens voter who thinks white rich coloured poor.
@Emerald Owl: I was going to refute that point by point, but if you genuinely think Americans are the most charitable people in the world then that's a complete waste of my time.
Though given this has nothing whatsoever to do with charity, your entire post is redundant anyway.
Lovely to see you refuse to help poor Asians because that's the job of "other Asians" though. The EXACT attitude I was describing…
@callum9999: Please refute this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Giving_Index
How does this have nothing to do with charity?
You insulted America and Australia but not rich Asians. Why?
Most foreign aid goes to rich Asians via corruption.
@Emerald Owl: Well, aside from the fact that it DOESN'T put the US as number 1… If you took the effort to actually look at the figures instead of blindly putting them in size order, it would tell you a lot more… Of course a high percentage give to charity - they're a gullible population and so are easily convinced to donate to their churches and it's tax deductible. Only 12% of donations actually go towards "human services" - with a huge proportion being in "foundations" used like personal slush funds by the rich. Not to mention my entire point was about helping other countries - a huge proportion is spent providing basic services to Americans which are given as standard in countries like Australia. Even with the atrocious way Australia has treated the Aboriginal population, poverty is demonstrably FAR worse in the US, despite it being a richer country (a perfect indication as to why it's not as generous a country as you've been tricked into believing…).
Because they are deciding on a product/service to buy for themselves, not which charity to donate to…
Because they were the two relevant countries… I don't see the point, but I'll happily say rich Asians are often immoral if it's so important to you.
Most foreign aid does not go to "rich Asians via corruption". That's a moronic statement to make, so I sincerely hope you're being hyperbolic.
@callum9999: Your argument that giving to churches doesn’t count is ridiculous. Which country is less gullible than Americans? Ok the US werenumber 1 in 10, 11, 12, 13, etc but #2 one year, ok they are the 2nd most charitable in the world some years but #1 on average.Note Australia is #3 yet has more government services. Yes Bill Gates is so uncharitable. The Chinese and Arab billionaires are so compassionate.
How was America relevant?
Your post said that Australia has a disgusting attitude towards helping other countries and that that is very American. Now America and Australia are actually the two most charitable countries in the world. A correct point would be that not helping other countries is very Chinese or Qatari. My point is that you are degrading America and Australia as selfish and unethical when they are the farthest from that. You could have said we should do more than we already do but you didn’t. You made it out as though the rest of the world are so much more kinder and compassionate when that is not true. Maybe that should have been the focus of your time?Now youre into the Australia is racist to aboriginals argument. Yes, they are racist in helping them more than non-aboriginals. Is Aborginals receiving higher Centrelink rates than everyone else atrocious and racist? How about native title, which gives them free land, which they then sell to the Chinese?
Please tell me which countries are the most charitable?
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals…
@Emerald Owl: It's ridiculous for your argument, yes. It's not for mine. I'm somewhat sick of people who FLAT OUT REFUSE to actually read an argument properly and instead decide to make their own version. It's hardly a surprise that the world is so messed up when the majority seem to struggle to form even a single coherent argument.
Qatar donate far more of their income in foreign aid than almost any other country on the planet, so that's a rather moronic point to make. Given I neither know any Chinese languages, nor know much about Chinese culture, I'm not going to say Australia is like China. Though this is an incredibly bizarre thing to pick up on given you've just been banging on about how similar the US and Australia are (but how DARE you compare them!).
All I said was Australia has treated the Aboriginals atrociously. That is an irrefutable fact that is not up for debate. The horrific argument you just made for that is so vile that I have no interest in ever talking to you (or the others who all agree with you) again. And to think, you're trying to convince me how incredibly amazing and kind Australians are towards "others". Disgusting.
@callum9999: Projecting.
Qatar are at the bottom of that very stat, you are flat out misinformed.
Horrific and vile to say Aboriginals receive higher Centrelink rates? They do. Is that atrocious?
Why would you have to know Chinese languages to see how much they give to charity?You said it is very American to not give to charity when they give more than anyone, you are not listening. Who is more charitable?
You wonder why the world is messed up but you keep calling people disgusting and moronic. You won't talk to me ever again and you wonder why the world is messed up?
@Emerald Owl: Development assistance as a percentage of GNI they don't do so well on:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_development_aid_countr…
Dude the fact you say $300 is like $1000 in stocks is crazy. Could you please break down how it is 27 nights in Asia? I wish I could do that. Do you mean in some sketchy hotel and eating boiled rice?
Clear sarcasm aside, 12 years at 10% per annum return, risk it in something that could blow up. Ego said $300 is 9 nights in SE Asia so it stands to follow in the same conditions you can get at least 3 times that.
They're not referring to hotels and a meal mate… well, it could be a "meal" I guess…
If you have to ask ozbargain what to spend your money on, you shouldn't be spending it as there isn't anything you want obviously. Put it in your wallet or in the bank, and when there is something you want or need, you won't feel guilty.
An old PlayStation is maybe 120 bucks, and good games are cheap. On eBay.
Own a gaming pc , ps1-4 , Nintendo switch
Put it towards a PS5 in couple months?
If not, do a boating course and get a license. It'll enable you to rent powered boats in summer.
Get a PSIO for $149AUD (https://ps-io.com) which allows you to load in PS1 games from SD card into your original PS1 console.
sex toy
Rockmelons are around $2 right?
Same with warm apple pies.
And pineapples
Careful, they’re hot. Clearly says on the packaging. My uh.. friend had to visit the ER one day.
I went for an interview many months ago in an Adult shop, the very first question the lady asked me is whats the most popular male sex toy on the market right now?
Obviously I didn't know so didn't get the job……….But I did learn the most popular male toy for the last few years is called: Tenga Flip Hole……
Learning something everyday……………lol
A lego Porsche.
In my opinion the lego Porsche model (GT3RS) just don't appear right to me. The curves and proportions just don't seem to suit lego.
The lego veyron is pretty good though.
Lego Chiron :)
And I agree, the Chiron was so much fun to build too!
Haven’t really been a lego person, might look into some of them
Chiron. That's it. Not really a Bugatti fan but definitely a Porsche fan.
And if you're not put off by the moral aspect of buying dupe lego you can get the Chiron for much cheaper by buying the knock of versions, they're actually very good, the one by "DECOOL" is supposedly the best quality, and it's $180 instead of $500-$600 for the real thing. My dad found an Aussie seller for $150 and he had a blast building it, not sure what seller he bought from though. The link below is a reputable seller.
https://www.yourwobb.com/products/decool-3388a-b-c-the-bugat…
There's reviews etc of the product on youtube etc if you're interested.
stocks and make it $900 and use it for some fun
Clearly I need some pointers because I’d be lucky if I could turn $300 into $400 :(
near expiry OTM options
Index funds and a long term attitude.
VAS?
@Aerith-Waifu: That's a good one. I personally have a mix of VAS, and VGS to diversify away from Australia.
Weekend ski trip. Might be closer to $800 though.
Or cheap QLD trip.
Won’t be allowed into QLD , the boarder is closed to non residents.
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/deals