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princess
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: soul of Asia
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 Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 7:37 am Post subject: The Most Money You Have Spent in a Day |
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| What's the amount and for what item/items??? |
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JMO
Joined: 18 Jul 2006
Location: Daegu
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| Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 7:47 am Post subject: |
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I love these threads. Money is way more interesting than pretty much everything else.
Most i spent one day is probaly a grand at christmas. Bought new sneakers, 3 jackets, a polo sweater, and a whole load of jeans, some hats
(baseball mainly), a watch and im not sure what else. I also went out that night. I didnt have time to go shoping alot of days so i did it all in one day.
I lost 2 grand in a day gambling but that be a different story. |
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crusher_of_heads
Joined: 23 Feb 2007
Location: kimbop and kimchi for kimberly!!!!
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| Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 7:57 am Post subject: Re: The Most Money You Have Spent in a Day |
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| princess wrote: |
| What's the amount and for what item/items??? |
I would like to spend a whole lot of money celbrating March 30.
March 30 is one of the best days of the entire year. |
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JMO
Joined: 18 Jul 2006
Location: Daegu
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| Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 8:01 am Post subject: Re: The Most Money You Have Spent in a Day |
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| crusher_of_heads wrote: |
| princess wrote: |
| What's the amount and for what item/items??? |
I would like to spend a whole lot of money celbrating March 30.
March 30 is one of the best days of the entire year. |
I'm going to regret this. Why is March 3oth one of the best days of the year? |
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Tarmangani
Joined: 17 Apr 2006
Location: the Calm
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| Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 8:22 am Post subject: |
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| Once spent thirty five thousand dollars on a down payment for a house. And when I sell the f-cker in a couple of years I'll be able to respond to the most money I've made in a day thread. |
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regicide
Joined: 01 Sep 2006
Location: United States
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| Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 1:52 pm Post subject: |
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| Tarmangani wrote: |
| Once spent thirty five thousand dollars on a down payment for a house. And when I sell the f-cker in a couple of years I'll be able to respond to the most money I've made in a day thread. |
That is not spending , it is investing, as you clearly pointed out.
What I would like to know, having met a lot of cheap ass fellow English teachers, having more disposible cash than they have back home, how
LITTLE the cheap bastards got a way with spending in one day. ( only to wire back a grand or 1500 that month), partially on my back , since they MOOCHED OFF OF ME during that month. |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 3:13 pm Post subject: |
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If we exclude investment purchases such as homes, then the answer for 95% of all respondents will be "car or motorcycle". Survey over. We don't care about the other 5%, the bunch'a deviants.
MODs, you may now lock this thread. |
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JMO
Joined: 18 Jul 2006
Location: Daegu
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| Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 3:19 pm Post subject: |
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| regicide wrote: |
| Tarmangani wrote: |
| Once spent thirty five thousand dollars on a down payment for a house. And when I sell the f-cker in a couple of years I'll be able to respond to the most money I've made in a day thread. |
That is not spending , it is investing, as you clearly pointed out.
What I would like to know, having met a lot of cheap ass fellow English teachers, having more disposible cash than they have back home, how
LITTLE the cheap bastards got a way with spending in one day. ( only to wire back a grand or 1500 that month), partially on my back , since they MOOCHED OFF OF ME during that month. |
I agree, there is nothing in this world worse than cheapness. |
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JMO
Joined: 18 Jul 2006
Location: Daegu
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| Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 3:20 pm Post subject: |
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| JongnoGuru wrote: |
If we exclude investment purchases such as homes, then the answer for 95% of all respondents will be "car or motorcycle". Survey over. We don't care about the other 5%, the bunch'a deviants.
MODs, you may now lock this thread. |
How about we exclude houses, cars and bikes. Lets talk about gambling losses or frivolous spending on watches and the like. |
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Wrench
Joined: 07 Apr 2005
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| Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 3:39 pm Post subject: |
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| 10k Uni Tution and room and board. |
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Cerebroden
Joined: 27 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 4:14 pm Post subject: |
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while not actually buying a bike. I did drop 5 k in mods on it in a single day. The (before she was) wife and I had a fight and I got pissed off.
Other than that it would be either a bike or car, or the couple grand I shell out every month for grad school tuition. |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 5:15 pm Post subject: |
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| JMO wrote: |
| How about we exclude houses, cars and bikes. Lets talk about gambling losses or frivolous spending on watches and the like. |
Cool with that.
Gambling
My biggest gambling hit was dropping nearly 1,500,000$00 Portuguese escudos (€7,481) at Casino Estoril over two days. That was an entire year's rent for me at the time, it gutted my holiday funds, and it hurt like hell. I've also won there, but we're talking only losses here. I lost about KRW5 million (worth far, far less then than today) at Walker Hill over the course of 10~12 hours, surrounded by Japanese farmer-types who'd each pissed away upwards of KRW50 milliion and who didn't seem all that broken up about it, kidding around and very jovial the whole time.
Watches
Never cared for wristwatches one bit. I don't like wearing them and I especially don't find them attractive. Particularly the ones with the big, clunky, metal bands -- Good God, those are some kind of fugly. Fugly in a raunchy, 1970s, hideous-American-pornstar-with-sideburns sort of fugliness. Nothing screams "I've got a small penis!" louder than a genuine Rolex, so I'm clearly not their target customer. Asian business tycoons, possibly. Me, no.
I do own two very inexpensive wristwatches that look rather elegant and which I wear for meetings or special "cuff links & all" dinner engagements, but only then. I've always liked pocketwatches, though for the past 10 years my mobile phone has been my main timepiece.
A/V Gear
Home-theatre is a big hobby of mine. I don't think this requires further elaboration.
Art, Antiques, Stone Statuary, Oriental Carpets & other Interior Decor
I once spent KRW27 million on certain of the above items in one afternoon (though the deal took many days to negotiate). Some of those I can certainly sell for more than I paid, but that wasn't the point, so I don't regard them as investment purchases.
Spending/Losing obscene sums in one day takes no special talent. Age & stupidity has been my secret. Sometimes I long for those simpler, carefree days when I used to carry 10W coins in an old sock down to Itaewon for my celebratory 2 mugs of OB per week. *sniff* (Yeah, the *beep* I do!!  ) |
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princess
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: soul of Asia
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| Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 6:13 pm Post subject: |
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| regicide wrote: |
| Tarmangani wrote: |
| Once spent thirty five thousand dollars on a down payment for a house. And when I sell the f-cker in a couple of years I'll be able to respond to the most money I've made in a day thread. |
That is not spending , it is investing, as you clearly pointed out.
What I would like to know, having met a lot of cheap ass fellow English teachers, having more disposible cash than they have back home, how
LITTLE the cheap bastards got a way with spending in one day. ( only to wire back a grand or 1500 that month), partially on my back , since they MOOCHED OFF OF ME during that month. |
The policy of Princess: Never let people borrow money and don't borrow it yourself. No problems. No one forces these cheapies to send all their money home, and then moan for the rest of the month about how they have no money. Yeah right, they are saving theirs, and they want to bum off of everyone else. Don't let them! |
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SuperHero
Joined: 10 Dec 2003
Location: Superhero Hideout
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| Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2007 1:28 am Post subject: |
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cars should only be allowed if you didn't get a loan for it - cash down.
I paid 8 mill cash for my car. biggest one day purchase. I'll almost be repeating taht later this year when I pay for my airfare back to Canada - around 6.5 mill for the family. |
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ajuma
Joined: 18 Feb 2003
Location: Anywere but Seoul!!
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| Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2007 2:44 am Post subject: |
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| JongnoGuru wrote: |
If we exclude investment purchases such as homes, then the answer for 95% of all respondents will be "car or motorcycle". Survey over. We don't care about the other 5%, the bunch'a deviants.
MODs, you may now lock this thread. |
I pay more for my airfare to the States than I paid for my car!!  |
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