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[freckles_and_doubt]

Purists insist you're not allowed to call them memes, but here's one anyway, courtesy of everymoment. It's a particularly interesting exercise, actually: the reality versus the fantasy, so to speak, and very revealing about the priorities concerned.

Three things I am willing to spend too much on:

1. Books. Lots and lots of shiny new books from Amazon or Exclusive, or tottering piles of dusty second-hand tomes. If, as frequently happens, I end up with two weeks left of the month and only a hundred rand or so to my name, I am perfectly capable of spending some or all of it on books, recking not the consequences. Books are one of the primary aggressors in the continual war taking place across the embattled expanses of my credit card.

2. Food. In the sense of exciting ingredients for interesting new dishes I really want to try, or weird-looking sauces or spices, or hitherto unknown vegetables. And, of course, chocolate. Although I have to admit the guilt about spending too much money on chocolate is not quite as extreme as the guilt about actually eating it, on grounds of health/weight.

3. Fabric. This is the equivalent of everymoment and scroob's thing for knitting supplies. I have an entire chest full of fabric, mostly bought because it looked like something I might someday use/make into something/wear, and because if you don't buy it, obviously you'll sooner or later wish you had. I have to admit, the SCA has been very bad for this particular vice. Of course, if I had unlimited time I might actually get to make more than a fraction of it into actual clothing, but hey. This is a money-meme.

Three things I would spend unlimited amounts on if I had unlimited amounts to spend:

1. Property. I want a large, rambling house of my very own in Cape Town, and a cottage in Franschoek, and a villa in France, and a smallish manor house in the south of England somewhere, and then I want enough money to furnish them with duplicates of every book and movie I own, and to commute at whim. If nothing else, this might actually solve the Cape Town heatwave crisis every year.

2. DVDs. Since my movie-watching habit entails a fairly all-or-nothing love-or-hate relationship with films, I spend a lot of time comfort-rewatching old favourites. I want to own the special, preferably extended, edition of every movie I have ever wanted to see again. I'm not much into the consumer mode, but I also darkly suspect that if I had lots of money I'd very soon own a very large home theatre system with a massive plasma screen, surround sound, and a tendency to get updated every year or so with new and shinier bits.

3. Really high quality kitchen knives, and a minion to sharpen them obsessively.

It was a bit of a toss-up, there, what made it into the third slot. If I had unlimited amounts to spend I would be very likely to spend a lot of it on CDs, computer upgrades, world travel, computer games and inordinate amounts of expensive scent and luxurious bath additives, but I think the knives have it in the no-limits stakes. I'm not entirely sure what this says about my character.

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[ex-wytchfyn.livejournal.com]

Three things I'm willing to spend too much on:

1. Eating out. My biggest financial weakness. Especially with so many new places to try out, and the prospect of taking good friends along to try them with me.
2. Privacy. If getting out of the house at the right time takes spending money to go see a movie or something else I can't afford, I'll do it nonetheless. I will pay almost anything to be alone with my thoughts.
3. Gadgets. After much hand-wringing, admittedly, but the contents of my shoulderbag are probably worth more than the computer I'm typing this on.

Three things I'd splurge my millions on:

1. My parents, who would never have to make a decision under financial constraints again.
2. A really sweet laptop, because it's all I've ever wanted in a computer, and
3. Some bizarre acts of altruism, because I feel badly for so many people I know who struggle to afford the more interesting lives they deserve.