An Idle Question
18/1/06 11:27![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
madrobinsSo there I was, putting plastic over a couple of the windows in order to keep the drafts at bay. Really, we should replace the windows, which are a mix of old aluminum frame single-pane windows and wood-sash single-pane. We even got a couple of quotes for re-windowing the whole house. Unfortunately it would be in the neighborhood of $11,000 for the cheaper bid, and guess what? We don't have that right now. We'd save money on fuel, certainly, but not $11,000-worth! There'd be the nice ecological buzz of doing the right thing, but see above about not right now. Sigh.
I'd also like to redo the front bathroom (which has old, icky yellow tile) and the kitchen, which has appliances from 1978 (the oven is always somewhere between 25 and 50 degrees off...but in which direction? Ah, that's the question) and no dishwasher. Probably doing all this stuff would run us about $50,000, which is not much in the cosmic scale of things, but plenty when you don't have it to spend.
People ask: what would you do if you got/won/were given a million dollars tax free? I don't really need a million dollars--I mean, it would be nice, security-wise, and there are college expenses coming up and stuff. But $100,000 would be very handy. $100,000 is a more real-world sum--large enough to get big things done, but not oppressively huge.
What would you do with $100,000?
I'd also like to redo the front bathroom (which has old, icky yellow tile) and the kitchen, which has appliances from 1978 (the oven is always somewhere between 25 and 50 degrees off...but in which direction? Ah, that's the question) and no dishwasher. Probably doing all this stuff would run us about $50,000, which is not much in the cosmic scale of things, but plenty when you don't have it to spend.
People ask: what would you do if you got/won/were given a million dollars tax free? I don't really need a million dollars--I mean, it would be nice, security-wise, and there are college expenses coming up and stuff. But $100,000 would be very handy. $100,000 is a more real-world sum--large enough to get big things done, but not oppressively huge.
What would you do with $100,000?