Treating yourself with bonus

What do you guys plan on treating yourself with when bonuses hit for analyst? I get mine in August, plan to save most but want to treat myself to something. Maybe good seats at a Football game or something, not sure yet

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i am conservative but bought a Seiko watch. decent peice prospex but anything more is not necessary if you actually could use the money or might need it. for example, i would be kicking myself if i had went and bought a rolex and wasted it all at once just to impress people that will resent you for it

 

Just starting this year so I have never recieved a bonus but I spent some of my signing bonus on a $200 booster box of magic the gathering cards that I intend to keep sealed up and give to my kids one day. Been a player since I was a kid so I figured it would be a cool gift. I'll do the same with additional bonus checks.

I thought about doing this with firearms as well since they dont really depreciate in value but they will take up too much space.

 

I feel like a 2 day/night getaway would have to be relatively local (i.e. half day travel distance), personally wouldn't want spend half of that time just getting to the place. I'm big on outdoor type stuff, so one of the things my GF and I did last year was a National Park binge (Chicago based so pretty easy to get to everything). Now that things are returning back to normal, we want to do an international trip - looking at Colombia mainly.

 

Omega speedmaster is so classy and not as pretentious as a rolex imo. Not sure how well it goes with a suit tho

 

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