Showing posts with label money. Show all posts
Showing posts with label money. Show all posts

Thursday, March 10, 2011

List #438: Things To Do Now That I Own My Life

List #438: Things To Do Now That I (almost*) Own My Life

1.* Pay Back my Dad
2. More Charitable Giving (to alma maters and other good causes)
3. Take a Lady Out for a Fancy Dinner
4. New Glasses
5. Admit That Maybe Some of My Clothes are Starting to Get a Bit Worn Out
6. Save for a Trip/Trips
7. Save for My Own Steel-String Guitar
8. New Suit
9. Buy a Painting
10. Invest?

Saturday, February 26, 2011

List #426: Favorite Coins

List #426: Favorite Coins (U.S., in order)

1. Buffalo Nickels
2. Nickels
3. Pennies
4. Dollars (the new gold ones with the presidents)
5. Quarters
6. 50-cent pieces
7. Dimes

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

List #347: If I had a Million Dollars

List #347: If I had a Million Dollars (and I had to spend it, not save it)

1. 300,000 - Downpayment on house in Duluth (OR a larger amount to buy a house on Pike Lake)
2. 20,000 - Pay off all debts (car, grad school, undergrad)
3. 100,000 - Carleton College
4. 30,000 - iSchool
5. 50,000 - American Cancer Society
6. 50,000 - Multiple Sclerosis research
7. 50,000 - A Washer and Dryer for my Mom (and the rest at her discretion)
8. 50,000 - A corvette for my Dad (Because I owe him one)
9. 20,000 - PBS
10. 20,000 - Howard County Public Library
11. 20,000 - Duluth Zoo
12. 20,000 - Duluth Public Library
13. 20,000 - Pike Lake Presbyterian Church
14. 10,000 - Building a personal Comic and Graphic Novel collection
15. 10,000 - Guitars, Basses and Amplifiers
16. 30,000 - Suits and accessories(ridiculously nice ones)
17. 20,000 - My current place of employment
18. 10,000 - Comic Book Legal Defense Fund
19. 20,000 - Electronics: Computer, Stereo, TV, LCD Projector etc.
20. 10,000 - Super nice bed and mattress and sheets
21. 30,000 - Commissioned Artwork from some of my favorite artists
22. 100,000 - A super awesome party with a favorite band playing the music, and awesome food, as a charity fundrasiser.
23. 10,000 - A trip to somewhere cold like Lapland, or Alaska, or Antarctica(TBD)
25. 2,000 - Expensive Dinners at a few really nice restaurants
26. 2,000 - Towards completing my Heroclix collection
27. 2,000 - Car Maintenance
28. 2,000 - Kitchen supplies (incl. appliances, ingredients and beverages)
29. 1,000 - In an envelope, hidden in a library book with a note to the finder saying "Use half of this to do good for the world, and half to do good for yourself"
30. 1,000 - Shiny rocks

If I had A Lot more than a Million Dollars, I'd buy Camp Miller. The Y always wants money..

Thursday, September 3, 2009

List #215: Most expensive things I've ever purchased

List #215: Most expensive things I've ever bought
*denotes still paying for.
Does not include Service or Maintenance

1. MLIS ( $37K before interest)*
2. Car ($17K, including interest)*
3. My share of my BA ($16K)*
4. Computer, 2004 ($2,500)
5. Computer, 1998 ($2,200)
6. Guitar, 1997 ($650)

Saturday, July 11, 2009

List #161: Standing offers of money or goods for potential services rendered or goals accomplished

List 161: Standing offers of money or goods for potential services rendered or goals accomplished

1. Cousin Delaney -- 200$: Dunk a basketball either a) unaided or b)in a game (aided)
2. J.P. Zieger (or any Carleton friend) -- A Gas Grill: introduce me to my future wife
3. Ned Netzel -- 15$: eat an entire head of broccoli, uncooked, stem included (mom's permission required)
4. Everyone in the world -- my friendship for a day: give me one Nickel
5. Andrew Burtless -- 10$: Drink a bottle of A1