I've got to spend £500 on myself, what to buy?

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I've got to spend £500 on myself, what to buy?

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Long service award is anything up to a value of £500 max and I haven't got a clue what to buy? I have all the tools I want. Bought a new lid and jacket last year. Errr.... :think: Any ides?
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Re: I've got to spend £500 on myself, what to buy?

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Drugs and hookers!

I'd buy an Arai Quantic or a Tour-X5, but you mention you've already bought a lid.
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Shandy :)
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Wine.
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Re: I've got to spend £500 on myself, what to buy?

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Its just gonna end up in the loft anyway, so I wouldn't worry too much.
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Mr. Dazzle wrote: Wed Mar 27, 2024 8:45 pm Its just gonna end up in the loft anyway, so I wouldn't worry too much.
Put it towards a bigger loft?

Or installation of a lift?
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Convert the loft into a wine cellar.
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Potter wrote: Wed Mar 27, 2024 8:31 pm
If it has to be an actual asset then maybe a nice Mont Blanc pen?
Yeah, or MB wallet/credit card holder, notebook holder etc. Their leather stuff is quite nice.
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Potter wrote: Wed Mar 27, 2024 8:31 pm Do they give you the money or do you have to choose a physical asset and they pay?

If you get the cash then I’d pay for as many of my family to attend a big Sunday dinner at a local pub. We do it a couple of times a year, about fifteen of us all go for a basic pub dinner and it’s cracking, we pick up the tab.

If it has to be an actual asset then maybe a nice Mont Blanc pen?
Something physical or it gets taxed apparently. TBH I take the family out and on holiday anyway, so that wouldn't really work. Hmmm, holiday... wonder if could get a tui voucher or such like. Could bag a weeked in seville or soemthing then?
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Count Steer wrote: Wed Mar 27, 2024 9:21 pm
Potter wrote: Wed Mar 27, 2024 8:31 pm
If it has to be an actual asset then maybe a nice Mont Blanc pen?
Yeah, or MB wallet/credit card holder, notebook holder etc. Their leather stuff is quite nice.
Not me at all tbh. It'd get put in the drawer of plenty never to be seen again...
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Re: I've got to spend £500 on myself, what to buy?

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A gimp suit
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A weekend break or two with the missus. Ferry tickets for the camper.
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I could come set something on fire for you?
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A tattoo of a cock and balls on your arse and back, each of your buttocks is tattooed as a hairy bollock and then the erect cock is tattooed up your spine.
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Le_Fromage_Grande wrote: Wed Mar 27, 2024 9:40 pm A tattoo of a cock and balls on your arse and back, each of your buttocks is tattooed as a hairy bollock and then the erect cock is tattooed up your spine.
Sounds like sir has admired one similar in times past... :silent:
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Spend it on learning something new. You will have a gift that will keep on giving and you can share it too.

Material stuff.....whatever
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Le_Fromage_Grande wrote: Wed Mar 27, 2024 9:33 pm A gimp suit
And convert the loft into ... ?
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Re: I've got to spend £500 on myself, what to buy?

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Ground anchor and big fuck off Almax?