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.
What an interesting thread this is. I've been touched by many of the posts, so heart-felt. I posted it on a whim when I was feeling...um...severely frugal. I cannot believe I admitted to my friends here that I want blush that costs $200. Talk about frivolous.
Well, it's just nice to have a reminder that we won't always be living on our student budgets.
What a fun thread! I love the T-Rex flying the airplane...thanks, Bill Watterson, for giving us Calvin & Hobbes.
I will *hopefully* graduate in May. I'd like to be able to pay off mine and my husband's vehicles. Get my hair highlighted every 6 weeks instead of every 6 months. Take a summer vacation to Alaska and stay for two weeks! Put granite counter tops in my kitchen. A big flat screen TV in the bedroom. Put a fat wad into savings so the husband and I can eventually buy a sweet RV and travel all we want. Give all the money I want to cat rescues.
I also splurged on a Dyson vacuum cleaner when I finally started collecting a paycheck again! I own a dog who sheds like crazy so I needed this for my sanity.
Wow! Does it style your hair for you and tell you how gorgeous you look? Then it could replace my husband (who does neither and costs a lot more). :wink2:
Haha,I dont know but I want my hair done like when I leave a hair saloon with a new haircut,you know nicely styled,perfectly blowed dryed and I'm not planning to go back just for styling and blow drying job.Thank God my account at this moment is on the low side,cause God help me I would really buy it!:)However on the side note I dont believe in straightening irons they damage your hair too much,so I may as well invest in some rocking hair dryer,LOL.
I'm still in my last few pre-req's but having lived most of my life in a paycheck to paycheck family (my mom is a single mom who didn't always have the highest salary even as an LVN), I have often thought of what I want to do once I graduate and become an RN.
My number one priority is to plan a wedding! My boyfriend and I have been together for 5 years this May and I desperately want to get married! And go on a honeymoon to Europe (maybe not but oh it would be amazing)
Both of our cars are slowly dying so I think we will definitely have to look into new cars for both of us. ( My bf is going to be a radiology tech graduating just before me so we will have two nicer incomes!)
Then I want to pay off all of my student loans and start saving to buy a house. We want a cute smaller home with character we can fix up... after we get a house we are getting the other thing I want the most, a DOG (a boston terrier actually).
After that we want to travel as much as our time and money will allow (and I want to take my mom somewhere nice!)
and then after that I want to settle down and have our one child. hehe
I'd like to rescue a brother or sister from a shelter for my golden retriever, go on vacation in Hawaii, and buy a Toyota Prius (Just because I hate Big Oil!!!)...and one day move into a solar powered house in AZ or CA...I know I may sound like a nature fanatic based on my last 2 requests, but I swear I'm not.
I just received my RN on Dec. 31 2008 and I am starting my new job tomorrow.. so we will see how it goes... keeping my fingers crossed... and no dino's.. the kids are scared of them.. :)
How exciting !! I wish you the best with your new job ! I can't wait until I can say that I am officially an RN, 3 semesters left!
My two girls (teenagers), my husband and myself are going to take an awesome two week vacation somewhere in the U.S. We will stay in nice hotels and have our meals in classy restaurants. It will be our "Congrats, we made it" vacation. They will deserve it as much as I will for all the support they have shown me during school.
I also watched a Saint Jude's commercial a month or two back and made a promise to myself to donate regularly to them after I graduate. They are a wonderful organization.
I cannot believe I admitted to my friends here that I want blush that costs $200. Talk about frivolous.
Yeah, but the NARS set really is excellent. I wont say that you can't find something on the same level for less, but it is a great product.
Haha,I dont know but I want my hair done like when I leave a hair saloon with a new haircut,you know nicely styled,perfectly blowed dryed and I'm not planning to go back just for styling and blow drying job.Thank God my account at this moment is on the low side,cause God help me I would really buy it!:)However on the side note I dont believe in straightening irons they damage your hair too much,so I may as well invest in some rocking hair dryer,LOL.
I'm assuming you're talking about the T3, thats the only one I can think of in that price range. A co-worker of mine invested in one, and I have to say, I wasn't that impressed. For that kind of money, I'd go with the Bio-ionic dryer [more like $200 retail]. I use one at work, and it make me smile.:)
[i've been doing hair for the past 5 years, and its currently paying my way through nursing school. Even when I'm done, I'm probably going to try to stay in the Salon 1 or 2 days per week. Best. Job. Ever.....although financially unreliable in times like these. ]
I wanted to add.... a kick-ass party for my graduation and my hubby's retirement (from the military). Pig roast, big tent in the back yard, dj and lots of alcohol!!! Yeah baby!
Oh this is fun. I would first like to pay off my loans so I don't have that on my mind. Then I would like to buy either a Saturn Sky or a Mini Cooper. A Coach purse would also be nice because I'm obsessed with purses, lol. Lastly, save up for graduate school (!) and a house.
!! I wish you the best with your new job 
! I can't wait until I can say that I am officially an RN, 3 semesters left!
I am loving everyone's responses!!
Talk about frivolous. 
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What an interesting thread this is. I've been touched by many of the posts, so heart-felt. I posted it on a whim when I was feeling...um...severely frugal. I cannot believe I admitted to my friends here that I want blush that costs $200.
Talk about frivolous.
Well, it's just nice to have a reminder that we won't always be living on our student budgets.