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Solfrid Cristin
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Message 25 of 41

09 May 2011 at 9:29am | IP Logged

[QUOTE=patuco] I'd probably be really boring and put it in the bank.

QUOTE]

Hey, this is cheating :-)

There are strings attached - you have to spend it - preferably on something remotely language related.
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Message 26 of 41

09 May 2011 at 10:40am | IP Logged

Solfrid Cristin wrote:

patuco wrote:

I'd probably be really boring and put it in the bank.

Hey, this is cheating :-)

There are strings attached - you have to spend it - preferably on something remotely language related.

And you know what happens if you don't spend it - your car dies, the fridge carks it, your son needs braces and your daughter wants a saxaphone, and it's all gone anyway !
;-)
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Message 28 of 41

09 May 2011 at 5:52pm | IP Logged

Solfrid Cristin wrote:

The thing is that I recently found out that one of my friends spent 10 000 dollars on a new sofa. Had he been a
rich man, I would not have battered an eye lid, but he is not. However, for him, having the perfect sofa, was
something it was worth saving for a long time for. For me that is incomprehensible. My sofa costs 500 dollars,
and is comfortable, which is what I need it to be.

Dear god, 10,000 dollars on a sofa. I honestly cannot comprehend that. No offence to your friend in anyway and
if he enjoys it every day and is happy with his purchase then all the best to him, but that to me just seems like the
biggest waste of money imaginable. Imagine all the travel one could do! And all the new experiences one could
encounter! Anyway... I hope that sofa somehow promotes telepathay or the ability to photosynthesise or
something.

I believe I would buy myself a new lense of somesort and do a travel/language/photography trip through Poland,
The Netherlands, Iceland and Spain. Or perhaps add another 10,000 of my own money and add on a few other
countries in there like Finland, Sweden, Norway and Scotland. Or maybe just spend 6 months or how ever long
the money lasts in one of them and get to know the country well, learn the language to the best of my abilities
and enjoy the culture and people. That would be nice. Many things one could do with 10,000 dollars.
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Message 30 of 41

09 May 2011 at 6:53pm | IP Logged

Vos wrote:

that to me just seems like the
biggest waste of money imaginable. Imagine all the travel one could do!

A couple of years ago, I spent approximately a month in Bhutan. It was heavenly.
However, it cost more than the price of the sofa mentioned in this thread. No doubt the
owner of the sofa would say "you are crazy, you could have a new sofa for the price of
that vacation!".

In fact, my mother said "You could have bought a car for the price of that trip!" and I
replied "Whenever I see a new car driving down the road, I think 'What a waste - he
could have gone to Bhutan for a month for the price of that car!'"

"One man's meat is another man's poison".
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Message 32 of 41

09 May 2011 at 7:22pm | IP Logged

Solfrid Cristin wrote:

... this is actually not even a flashy, or particularly beautiful sofa. It is a good quality, light grey, very average looking sofa.

Wow. An average-looking sofa that costs $10,000 _must_ be frigging good!

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I would never have deared to buy something like that even if I had had the money for it, as I know that 5 minutes after we had brought it into the house we would spill ketchup or blueberry jam on it, and ruin it forever.

Nonsense. I'm pretty sure an average average-looking sofa really worth these $10,000 must come with some sort of liquid-repelling cover.

Either that, or it cleans itself and does some more house keeping on its own. Or maybe the sofa features a detection system that kicks you out of it when you're about to spill something. Then it cleans for you :)

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patuco wrote:

I'd probably be really boring and put it in the bank.

Hey, this is cheating :-)

There are strings attached - you have to spend it - preferably on something remotely language related.

Are you sure it's not you who is cheating? I thought Barry Farber had taught us all How to learn any language: Quickly, Easily, _Inexpensively_, etc. and that this forum was a corrected and augmented version of that. So you're basically forcing us to spend money in a gazillion languages I won't have the time to learn, OR put the money somewhere else, like the plane tickets ;)

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