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The Government gives you $950. What do you do?

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tania:
every three months, for reasons i'm still not sure about but which i'm guessing are related to the fact that i'm in school, the government of ontario sends me $60. i don't really know why. how's $20 a month supposed to help me in any significant way? i put it in my bank account and eventually it goes toward food to hold off dying of starvation a little while longer.

for the purposes of this thread, i'll say i'd put that $950 toward a new laptop. this thing's six years old and has gotten so unbearably slow it'll probably go any day now.

est:
Currently my financial situation is such that the $950 will hardly make a difference.  I mean, I know there are a lot of people who are presently worse off than I am, but at the moment my rent is doubling (to encompass half my pay) due to my room-mate moving out, I need to buy a fridge and a dryer to replace the ones he'll be taking with him, and I owe about 5k in various bills, due over the next month or so.

Eris:
I probably won't get any because I am unemployed and have never been able to get any sort of government assistance, which is a whole other kettle of fish that I will rant about if given the chance.

The $950 would probably have gone towards food and bills and car registration and other boring things like that. Or I would put it toward the eminent textbooks that need to be bought for uni. I would like to spend it on clothes that are a bit more classy and grown up than what I wear now, because I keep looking in shops or online and wanting to buy pretty things, but I can never afford to.

Hell, who am I kidding, I would go and get a kitty from the RSPCA so I had a kitty at home again. Then I would take photos of it and plaster them all online for everyone to be jealous of. I want a kitty, dammit!

Christophe:
1. Approx. $200-$450 for an extravagant purchase (mixing console, recording interface, geetar, etc, musics).
2. Save the rest for day-to-day expenses.

ViolentDove:
Yeah I will probably blow half on an extravagant purchase (probably a zoom H4 digital recorder for freelance radio-work and also to record some jams at home), and put the other half in the bank.

I have been toying with the idea of using it for a trip to indonesia and malaysia, though, which would be all kinds of awesome.

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