Yet another $$$ delima for me.

[Viking 0]

My 22end b-day is coming up and i am trying to decide what i should do, spend it on my gear, save it towards my car, take a $700 trip to the white mountains for a photo retreat. I can't decide

I swear you must have footprints on the back of your helmet - chicagoskydiver
My God has a bigger dick than your god -George Carlin

[Derekbox 0]

1/2 for gear
1/2 save for car
Then sell some bodily fluid, get tuition loan to cover rest.
Derek

[AggieDave 6]

Option3: Spend it on AggieDave's gear fund...

What is more important to you, or what is needed the most?

--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline."

[Viking 0]

if i split it like that i won't have enough to get anything. I plan on buying a Hornet 210 which i can get for roughly $700. The car option would be just a start to save around $3500. The photo retreat is somthing that my grandmother offered to pay for but i am not sure i want to go. If i don't i would like to have that $ go towards one of the two above causes. Good thing i don't work tommorrow or i would never get this sorted out.

I swear you must have footprints on the back of your helmet - chicagoskydiver
My God has a bigger dick than your god -George Carlin

[Viking 0]

Dave if you look at it like that the trip is somthing that i don't need at all. The Chute is not something i need very badly but would bring my jumping costs down quit a bit. The car is not somthing a need bably either b/c i have use of a car but i would really like to have my own car to use and not have to worry about my mom needing the car.

I swear you must have footprints on the back of your helmet - chicagoskydiver
My God has a bigger dick than your god -George Carlin

[AggieDave 6]

In that case, Canopy, definately canopy.

With the $$ you save jumping, you can put that in your car fund.

--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline."

[MiataDRM 0]

You are asking the wrong group of people..just take the money & deposit it at your home DZ! I do like the idea of going on a get-away vacation...having said that, I took the money I was going to spend on airlines & hotels & spent it at SD Orange!....go figure :-) Put my vote down for gear!

Okay, Okay...what do you want us to tell you?

I'm a Pschydiver!
Majdi E.

[drenaline 0]

Gear, you will save a lot of money if you have it.

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[skymama 37]

The mountains will always be there. If you have a way to get around with someone else's car, I say go for the gear because renting gear is such a killer on the bank account.

She is Da Man, and you better not mess with Da Man,
because she will lay some keepdown on you faster than, well, really fast. ~Billvon

[Dumpster 0]

Definitely gear- Like as mentioned above, the mountains will always be there, and at 20 bones a jump to rent gear (that what it costs here-) you'll save more than enough make payments on a car, depending on how much you jump-
Of course, asking any skydiver how to budget money gets only one answer- JUMPING!
Blue ones!

Easy Does It

[PhillyKev 0]

Dude...you could get a high class hooker to take care of your "problem" for that kind of money

[wlie 0]

I've worked out the perfect scam for ya. Here's what you do (I'll explain how it works afterwards):
1. Identify say 20 individuals
2. Approach each person as ask to "borrow" $1
3. Repeat the following week with a different set of individuals
4. Repeat the following week with the original set of individuals.

(Scam may be modified by expanding the number of people in each sample, the number of sets, etc. depending on how fast you want raise the fund.)

Here's how it works:
Most people might forget about lending someone an insignificant amount of money. In the case of $1, they might even fall for the same scam twice. In the event that the loan is remembered, one's likely too embarassed to chase after it.

Give it a try. It works best when the possibility to encounter one another is infrequent. Example: church (3++ opportunities a weekend - friday night, saturday evening, possibly 2 sessions on sunday - and the crowd's likely to be different each time).

[Jasmin 0]

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The car is not somthing a need badly either b/c i have use of a car but i would really like to have my own car to

This is kinda embarassing to say but, at one point, my rig was worth the value of my car 7 times over...the best bit was that it wasn't even my car.....

xj

"I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with the earth...but then I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with a car either, and that's having tried both."