I saw a Rolex Submariner on the wrist of the guy interviewing me at GS. I felt like a peasant with my Fossil.
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/in before someone calls you a peasant not because you were wearing a Fossil but because you think a Submariner is decadent
Seems like a silly question, what's the point.
Definitely don't understand some of the extremely deep-rooted insecurities which come out on this website.
Yeah seriously, I was thinking the same thing and saw you wrote it - haha
Tangentially related to your question, but there are decent automatic watches that won't break the bank (well, they might if you're a student, but otherwise they're quite affordable if you make a middle class living) - off the top of my head, solid $200-$400 dress watches include the seiko cocktail time, tissot visodate/le locle, hamilton is in the price range too
Probably your post about not wanting to live near anyone less privileged than yourself. Oh wait, you said someone on Wall Street, guess that means it wouldn't include you then....
you're so sad. can't even see I'm a troll lol.
those mobile dog grooming services.
as if Fido couldn't be bothered leaving the estate.
Dumbest Splurge (Originally Posted: 05/09/2012)
All the monkeys up in this like to stack a bit of dough here and there.
Some save, others don't.
Let's here some "major regrets" or "best purchase" stories from all the wannabe baller shot-callers..
Any of the following?....
Russian > weird rash
Club > Kobe sighting > pretend you're in the same league > bottle > bankrupt
Range Rover > bouncin' on 24z
Bangkok > massage > gun touching forehead
I wanna get a feel for how everyone's rollin'
I know a guy that recently got a Nissan GT-R. Not sure if he regrets it, yet. LOL.
Regards
Bought a 1-year-used Ford Mustang when I turned 16. Still under factory warranty. 0-60 in 5.7 seconds.
Last time I ever splurged on anything. And thus IlliniProgrammer was born.
what is the NPV of the price difference between that and an early model honda 4-banger?
see, now you're going to die poor.
Bottles. (seriously.)
I bought a 135i after graduating college. Still pay the loan and I don't even keep the car with me in NYC. Drive it once every other week or so. I'm huge into cars, would do it again and don't consider selling it. Extra couple hundo a month is tempting though.
I justify by telling myself I don't have any student loans..
told my wifey she gotta stop splurgin, she said well then you gotta stop sploogin and i'm like damn bish dont u know its a recession?
You're not married nor are you sploogin on anything then the bedroom floor you still live in at mummy and daddys house
i ate a bunch of mushrooms and took a taxi from Central Park to Grant Park...all because i had the munchies for jelly beans
Spending hundreds of bucks on bottles is always fucking stupid.
I paid an obscene amount of money to swim with sharks and there were no sharks around to swim with. 3 years later, it still stings.
Strippers and drinks at the Four Seasons (~$25 a cocktail). Primarily work-affiliated activities, but still money I wish I could take back.
Las Vegas-> Marquee nightclub bottle service followed by a night at spearmint rhino. Still makes me think twice before i use my credit card anywhere
hahha ive had a similar night
I bought the first ipod that could play video, $400... I think I might have TRIED to watch a video on it once, and the battery could hold a charge for more then 3 hours while listening to music. I think I have it somewhere still, but I doubt it turns on. First and last Apple product I ever buy.
swagon makes this site.
swagon that was hilarious lmao
In all seriousness my biggest splurge was getting a private school education lol
Last Weekend in Miami @ LIV, Tiesto was playing, Awesome night but dropped a pretty penny.
too much finnnneeeee B.C. Weeed, don't remember everything except for the part where I rode the dragon.
Bought a Porsche Cayman after leaving banking. Nothing was regretted.
Saw some NFL players at a bar one time and spent $300 to keep up with them and act like I was some 6th string WR.
$11k on a Blancpain Villeret that I wear only a few times a month...but damn it's nice.
Opened a nightclub called the Double Deuce...ended up spending more money than ever on my Cooler...but he did cut costs by firing a bunch of people
$5000 up front and $500 a night. I thought he'd be bigger
Bottles at a strip club in vegas, night cost me all my winnings from that day....
Why are strip clubs like yuppie version of crack, we know it's bad for you and a complete waste of money, but it's so tough to turn down.
That bag of Reese's Pieces I just ate isn't sitting very well, I kind of regret that.
I don't know who this Reese girl is, or what club you picked her up from, but we could have all warned you that munching on her pieces wouldn't sit well...never does.
Regards
Worst splurge: Like so many before me; Dropped 3/4 of my first paycheck on eastern european strippers and "champagne". Turned out to be $20 per bottle Cava sold as $200 champagne. Went straight from living large to living like a college student for a month.
Best splurge: Bought my then gf a $700 braclet which she lost two months later. Resulted in me being single.
^ totally understand. i thought i was paying top dollar for russian strippers but they were just a bunch of guidettes and polaks from weehawken.
live and learn, you know.
This just in:
Never buy a girl a new pair of tits. Just move on.
Is trader's £200k bar splurge the most expensive ever? (Originally Posted: 03/07/2012)
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4174266/Is-traders-200k-bar-s…
A BUSINESSMAN blew £200,000 on what's believed to have been the most expensive round ever.
The epic outlay included £125,000 on a bottle of the world's priciest bubbly — a 30-litre double Nebuchadnezzar of Armand de Brignac Midas.
Weighing a whopping 45kg, it had to be carried to the trader's table at Liverpool club PlayGround by two members of staff.
He also shelled out over £60,000 on other drinks for himself and ten pals. His mammoth order included 40 regular-size bottles of the expensive bubbles as well as two 4.5 litre bottles of Grey Goose vodka at £2000-a-pop.
His final bill of £203,948.80, included an £18,540 TIP.
http://www.google.com/imgres?q=Largest+Bar+Tab&hl=en&sa=X&rls=com.micro…
Why would you pay $3200 for a little over a gallon of Grey Goose? That is beyond stupid
http://www.wallstreetoasis.com/forums/23-year-old-trader-drops-%C2%A320…
Anyway as posted in the other thread it seems like a publicity stunt (the guy knows the club owner)
What a shitty tip...that around 10%
People tip differently in London you fool.
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