What did you buy with your first decent bonus?
Did you invest it all? Bought watches, clothes, cars, wine, holidays, etc.?
Interested to hear how varied the answers might be.
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A $6,000 per month studio apartment in the cheapest part of nyc and some stale bread from a bakery that I found in the trash can
First banking bonus - saved all of it - spent a little more on buckets of beer for the boys on a couple nights out.
Second banking + first PE stub - ~5k on new golf clubs and wardrobe upgrades, left a couple k in checking for upcoming bachelor party/wedding trips, saved rest.
Some bitcoin and index funds
A new job
Bitcoin
Saved / paid off debt as I was broke AF post b-school…
Rolli
Paid off debt I had accrued during years past to smooth consumption
My freedom from student loan debt.
Same, I paid Sallie Mae back and then they trolled me with a Maybach video
A 2001 Dodge Ram 2500 Diesel to live out my high school redneck dreams... best and worst use of money I could think of
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Put it on Warriors to win the nba championship last year
Result: it cashed
In the money
I bought some Facebook options and blew 20k at blackjack.
Very degen of you. But they must comp you rooms all the time
I ended up dumping 500k at the borgata over a summer about 7 years ago and still get room offers to this day lol.
Botox
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