Ok, I know we should be frugal after we graduate and invest in retirement, pay off debt and student loans, etc. However, for a little fun, what kinds of things do you look forward to buying after you graduate and are working as a nurse?
For me: a Dyson vacuum cleaner ($500) and a set of NARS blushes ($200), the best blush on the planet. I've also been fixated on buying a Mini Cooper:
I suspect I'll buy the Dyson and NARS, but the Mini Cooper may just not be a good financial choice.
My goals are small at first... Move into an apartment or house that is above ground. We have been in basement apartments for 4 years and I just can't take the gloom much longer. Purchasing decent insurance through work is going to be a great use of my money. Helping my husband get through his schooling. I would like to get a car someday soon that was made in this century. I am not too picky though. Just one where all the doors open and that I might not to have repairs done 5 times a year. I will start a college fund for my little one (who is still a fetus at the moment). I want to buy all the healthy food at the grocery store that I want! I want to buy my family Christmas and birthday presents again. The most wonderful thing it will buy me is 4 days off a week! Fabulous.
I think I would blow my first pay check on whatever my kids and I wanted! Then, I would start to pay off my loans and get a place of my own. But.......if I could dream a little dream for a brief moment I would:
Take a long summer vacation with my children that involves going somewhere by plane
Buy an expensive hand bag
Always wanted a huge flat screen
A new car with all wheel drive
Kick my no good cheatin, low down dirty pig of a man to the dump! (This will actually be reality)
Guess that means I'd like my very own cute little home or huge mansion type, doesn't matter as long as its mine
Oh, I would also like to fall asleep at night without thinking of all the nursing school stress stuff that's been haunting me for 4 yrs now. Can you all imagine that!
I don't know, for some reason, Corvettes scream "man in mid-life crisis" to me---kind of like I will always associate Caddy's with the elderly population---a stigma stuck in my head!
A car is definitely somewhere on the list, but I really want to get Lasik. Hopefully by the end of the year I won't have to wear glasses/contacts anymore.
I love mini coopers too! Cute and economical! I already have a house and since I'm doing my RN part time (over 7 years!-one and a half years to go!) I won't have any debt to pay off, so I'm looking forward to days off with no schoolwork! I would really like to get a dog - brown mini pinscher and having a couple of kids, of course a relaxing beach vacation before all that.
I want to go to Paris - with my girl friends and eat lots of cheese, not feel guilty, and then go to the Italian Riviera and have someone bring me breakfast in bed. Then I want to have a massage, and sleep uninterupted by small people, or husbands or phones, or cats or my charge nurse asking me to come in early.
thats all.
oh and a lifelong supply of good chocolate for PMS sx.
The main thing I want after working some overtime shifts is a new laptop (had this one for 4 yrs and am ready for a new one). I would also love to buy an LCD TV at black friday
I'm blessed - I have a husband who (knock on wood) actually still has a job, so I'm not able to go out all the time or anything, but we have our necessities while I'm in school.
But what I want - I want a trip to Europe - 2 weeks, actual hotels!
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My goals are small at first... Move into an apartment or house that is above ground. We have been in basement apartments for 4 years and I just can't take the gloom much longer. Purchasing decent insurance through work is going to be a great use of my money. Helping my husband get through his schooling. I would like to get a car someday soon that was made in this century. I am not too picky though. Just one where all the doors open and that I might not to have repairs done 5 times a year. I will start a college fund for my little one (who is still a fetus at the moment). I want to buy all the healthy food at the grocery store that I want! I want to buy my family Christmas and birthday presents again. The most wonderful thing it will buy me is 4 days off a week! Fabulous.