GTKY: If you won $5000 ....

[fuzzylogic]

Lots of options:

Nursery furniture and a new bed for the master bedroom

Re-do the master shower

Have all the popcorn ceilings scraped

Pay off my credit card (and have loads left over)

[diamondsndaisies]

Jul 8, 2015 14:04:18 GMT -5 frankenboom said:

Jul 8, 2015 13:42:17 GMT -5 diamondsndaisies said:

DH went to Punta Cana for a friend's wedding a few months before we started dating and said it was amazing, but not to go off the resort. 

We went briefly off of the resort for an excursion and it definitely felt sketchy but nothing unsafe happened and we survived.

I wouldn't really see the need to go off-resort, especially at the AIs. There is nothing you need that you can't find there. The beauty of AIs in general.

We stayed at an AI for our honeymoon in Puerto Vallarta and I agree. We didn't leave the resort for anything but resort hosted/sponsored activities. I can't imagine ever wanting to vacation at anything but an AI resort again. It was amazing. 

[ugotstarbucked]

Jul 8, 2015 14:50:18 GMT -5 kelltothekell said:

Jul 8, 2015 14:46:21 GMT -5 Lollipop said:

I am not looking forward to that. I hate trying to find stuff I like.

Yeah it's going to be really hard for me. I have never decorated a house and don't feel like I have an eye for it. I'm trying to go slow with it and not get in a hurry or feel rushed. We may have empty rooms for a while.

I bought my house two years  ago - still furnishing everything. Start by at least painting a room or two, it makes it feel more like yours. We just have taken it a room at a time. Most recently we decided to toss our college era non matching bedroom things for real grown up furniture. 

[flippinchica]

The first chunk would go to a doula, then the photgrapher for newborn/maternity pics followed by a housekeeper.
Whatever was leftover would go to credit card bills.

[peaseblossom55]

Spend half on things for the baby and nursery, spend some on a small vacation somewhere.

[mosy]

Either do some work on our house, or hire a chef, personal trainer, and bump up the cleaning service to weekly for as long as I could afford it after DS#2 arrives.

[mosy]

Jul 8, 2015 14:50:18 GMT -5 kelltothekell said:

Jul 8, 2015 14:46:21 GMT -5 Lollipop said:

I am not looking forward to that. I hate trying to find stuff I like.

Yeah it's going to be really hard for me. I have never decorated a house and don't feel like I have an eye for it. I'm trying to go slow with it and not get in a hurry or feel rushed. We may have empty rooms for a while.

My MIL got an interior decorator to redo their master bed/bath. It looks incredible, and it's now my dream to somehow, someday hire one for every home reno project. Although I don't suck at decorating so much as H & I just can't agree because he only likes very neutral, bland things.

[sewfie2]

Mostly responsible- I'd take 4000$ and pay off some debt and use 1000$ for home improvements and a cabin vacation next fall.

[sunfrogger88]

It would go towards either paying down our student loans but more likely as an investment into our home. We have to have our chimney rebuilt which will cost us over $2k with the sellers check to offset a portion from when we bought a year ago. Plus we'd like to have some walls re-drywalled or some work done to update our sunroom.

Oh, maybe a new laptop and printer. We need those.

But probably the big things. We are on pace to buy a new SUV in the spring and also buy a new laptop around Christmas so theres no need to accelerate those plans

[anonymouseliza]

Well, that would go some distance directly on my credit cards. But I think we'd just go ahead and buy the baby stuff we need - not much, but some things like new car seat and base and a new stroller - and then some baby things I'd like (some new diapers and A&A swaddles), but that's not $5,000. So we'd buy our Christmas presents early and if there was any left (let's be honest. We're having a couple of really nice meals out), we'd probably see if we could pre-pay at the hospital.

[anonymouseliza]

Shit, someone said mattress. I've been hoping we'll have enough tax return money next year after paying off delivery bills and paying down credit card bills to consider a mattress next year (since we should just slide into claiming a second child). Now I want to take my fake money and buy a new mattress and I actually pouted about it for a minute because I don't think it's the most responsible thing to do with money we don't actually have and aren't getting. Lord I need to go to bed.

[Squishy622]

We're moving across the country after the twins get here. I'm already lobbying to splurge on movers (vs. a POD or Uhaul). That cash would go straight to an extra splurge for packers too.

[themrsjrd]

Fun game. We'd probably spend it on house projects. I'd maybe like to add an en suite bathroom to our room, which would be way more than 5k, but we have some small projects too like finishing our privacy fence, replacing some rotted wood on the exterior, maybe building a small deck, repairing our garage...

[ldubhawksfan]

I would put it toward new windows in the house (part since I'm sure it would cost more than $5k, and a new couch set.