what to spend a 11700$ bonus.
For real I served my 4 and they couldnt have given me enough to stick around. Is that bad? F em, I served my four right! Anyways thanks for your patronage.
a road track membership and an extra set of wheels and tires.
nothing will satisfy you more than driving your car the way its meant to be driven, and in that case, rally soec coil overs and rally crossing.
nothing will satisfy you more than driving your car the way its meant to be driven, and in that case, rally soec coil overs and rally crossing.
How old are you? I recently saw a piece of financial advice that said that someone who saves $1000 per year from age 30 to age 40 (ten years) then stops, will have about 30% more at age 60 than someone who saves $1000 per year from age 40 to 60 (20 years). No matter what the $ value you save is - $1k per year, $10K per year - the end result is always the same: the sooner you start saving the more you will have in the end. For example - if you invest $10,000 at age 30 and get 10% return per year, at age 60 you would have almost $200,000. If you invest $20,000 at age 40 and get 10% return per year, at age 60 you will only have around $150,000. . . that 10 years makes a HUGE difference. . . now just imagine if you had started at age 20!!!
But there is the flip side - when you are 60 would you rather have saved all your money and be rich and never had any fun in your life, or would you rather be poor but had a lot of amazing experiences when you were young? And there is a lot of middleground between those extremes. We each have to decide what is most important to us . . .
Not knowing your whole situation all I can do is offer a general recommendation - do what I do anytime I get a good chunk of $$ - take half and pay off any debt and save or invest anything you have left over from that half. Take the other half and spend it on something you and your family will most enjoy. If your wife has a decent job, then spend it on the EVO. If you wife is a housewife - spend it on something she will enjoy as much as you. . . (probably NOT the EVO!
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But there is the flip side - when you are 60 would you rather have saved all your money and be rich and never had any fun in your life, or would you rather be poor but had a lot of amazing experiences when you were young? And there is a lot of middleground between those extremes. We each have to decide what is most important to us . . .
Not knowing your whole situation all I can do is offer a general recommendation - do what I do anytime I get a good chunk of $$ - take half and pay off any debt and save or invest anything you have left over from that half. Take the other half and spend it on something you and your family will most enjoy. If your wife has a decent job, then spend it on the EVO. If you wife is a housewife - spend it on something she will enjoy as much as you. . . (probably NOT the EVO!
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Last edited by EVOlutionary; Oct 21, 2008 at 09:22 PM.
Ah another guy re-enlisted. I cant wait till I get out and get real job.
I'm getting out because my job in civilian get paid about 5 times what I get right now. I did my 3 years and still have 2 years to go.
Army is not what I thought its going to be.
They just throw away ranks and have to listen to dumb asses higher ranking than you.
I thought its going to be all high speed but there is no discipline.
Most E5 and above has beer belly and sits around and let soldiers do the work. Soldiers learn from these e5 and do the same thing.
anyways I've saved up almost 20k from this tour and planning to use 2k on my car.
If your car is stock, I recommend getting some bolt-ons and max out stock turbo first. TBE,pipes,255walbro,mbc,tune
Going to get me some blings(jdm rear with voltex)
I'm getting out because my job in civilian get paid about 5 times what I get right now. I did my 3 years and still have 2 years to go.
Army is not what I thought its going to be.
They just throw away ranks and have to listen to dumb asses higher ranking than you.
I thought its going to be all high speed but there is no discipline.
Most E5 and above has beer belly and sits around and let soldiers do the work. Soldiers learn from these e5 and do the same thing.
anyways I've saved up almost 20k from this tour and planning to use 2k on my car.
If your car is stock, I recommend getting some bolt-ons and max out stock turbo first. TBE,pipes,255walbro,mbc,tune
Going to get me some blings(jdm rear with voltex)
