Two Post Tuesday: What Would I Do With Another $5000

I had to borrow a table saw from a friend from work to finish my kitchen. It was a nice table saw. It probably retails for $500-$600. When I brought it back I went down to look at his laundry room that I helped him put the plumbing in. The cabinets he put in his laundry room were the same cheap stock cabinets I put in my nice new kitchen. It looked like he spent as much on cabinets in his laungry room as I did in my kitchen. I felt so poor.

He’s a couple years older than me and his wife is a nurse, and they don’t have kids. I was thinking to myself what I would do with another professionals salary, another $4500-$5000 a month. I manage to get by paying off a substantial amount of debt and still having a little money left over every month.

These people must be swimming in money.

I guess I’d have a nicer house, that would take another $600-$1200 a month away. I heard a dude I work with talk about buying a new house. 300K was a bit above what he wanted to spend. 300K? Holy shit! My house cost $104,500. Two professionals though, no kids.

I suppose I’d have more expensive cars rather than two Hyundai’s. That’s be another $500-$600 a month in higher payments, gasoline costs, and insurance costs.

I’d buy NEW tools, not factory reconditioned ones for 60-80% off, I’d buy a Playstation 3, a big TV, die cast tractor models. I’d end up buying more things. Maybe I’d have some sort of big savings account in case something catastrophic happened.

I’d shop at a real grocery store instead of Walmart, buy good meat from a meat market and produce from a fresh market.

I’d have to pay something like $500-$600 a month to have Carter in daycare so he could get all kinds of new and interesting viruses to give me.

I get by though, I’m pretty content with the things I have. Plus I have Carter for entertainment and excitement, and one more on the way.

And in the immortal words of Tyler Durden “The things you own, they end up owning you.”