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.
2. To gradually (but not quickly enough, due to other wants) pay off any outstanding debt.
3. To buy my daughter the cool toys that she wants that I never had.
4. To buy a BRAND NEW WARDROBE!!! I haven't had the money to buy new clothes for almost 4 years!
5. To buy a car that I WANT!!! not one that someone gave to me
6. To move to a warmer state!!!! (i'm thinking AZ)
7. To take my daughter to Disneyworld, since I've never gone myself and I had to miss the trip with my family last year due to lack of money.
But most importantly, I'd like to be able to work a job with hours that allows me to be home with my daughter more often and still be able to pay the bills.
OMG!!! What a coincidental post!!! About 6 months after working as an RN I went out one weekend to test drive a Mini Clubman, and let me tell you, that was the MOST fun I've ever had driving!!!! If it wasn't for my underlying practical nature, I would've bought that bb then n there! But...need to work a few years and get all my bills paid, then maybe a nice new car with a vanity plate 'RNROX' or something like that! ;-)
Everything I own is second hand except for the recliner that our kids and myself bought my husband for X-mas. With that said, I'd buy a new sofa (replacing the futon) and a matching love seat. Also would by a bedroom set to replace the set we picked up at a hotel sale. Maybe even a computor chair to replace the one that my 2 sons pieced together from 2 chairs they found in a dumpster after hurrican Ike. That's about it for now.
A small house (with wood and stone floors and a huge kitchen), a baby grand, a nice car........and a real live dinosaur. Seriously. I'll have my research team get right on it. Cower before my might! No power in the universe can stop me!! hee hee. Ha ha ha. AHHH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!! Sorry... I don't get as much sleep as I used to...
When I'm done with nursing school I want to get the eye surgery, not lasik but the other kind so that I don't have to wear these stupid glasses or contacts anymore. I can't wait for the day I can fall asleep watching TV or wake up and see the time without having to put on my glasses. Eye doctor already says I'm a good candidate, now I just need the funds :]
autumn_twilight
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More or less in order..
1. To catch up on my bills
2. To gradually (but not quickly enough, due to other wants) pay off any outstanding debt.
3. To buy my daughter the cool toys that she wants that I never had.
4. To buy a BRAND NEW WARDROBE!!! I haven't had the money to buy new clothes for almost 4 years!
5. To buy a car that I WANT!!! not one that someone gave to me
6. To move to a warmer state!!!! (i'm thinking AZ)
7. To take my daughter to Disneyworld, since I've never gone myself and I had to miss the trip with my family last year due to lack of money.
But most importantly, I'd like to be able to work a job with hours that allows me to be home with my daughter more often and still be able to pay the bills.