Hypothetical situation

[jmaxley]

You get $100 this holiday season just to spend on girly/manly stuff.  What do you buy?

I've been wanting an Axe gift pack (the shower gel and stuff) which I'll see about picking up after the holidays when it's on sale.  A new pair of clippers is a must; I'm a miser and don't want to spend $15 every month or so on a haircut.  A new baseball cap.  A camoflauge jacket.  A new pair of pants, either khakis or camoflauge cargo pants.  The Harry Potter lego game set (okay that might be pushing it, but it looks really awesome).  A couple of t-shirts with funny sayings and today I saw a Thudercats t-shirt which I was absolutely drooling over.

[Colleen Ireland]

I'm dropping some serious holiday bux on a new pair of glasses, b'cuz the ones I'm wearing are "his".  Also some decent cosmetics, and maybe a new bra.  Some pantihose... new shoes?  Got lots of stuff to get... 

[regan]

You get $100 this holiday season just to spend on girly/manly stuff.  What do you buy?

I've been wanting an Axe gift pack (the shower gel and stuff) which I'll see about picking up after the holidays when it's on sale.  A new pair of clippers is a must; I'm a miser and don't want to spend $15 every month or so on a haircut.  A new baseball cap.  A camoflauge jacket.  A new pair of pants, either khakis or camoflauge cargo pants.  The Harry Potter lego game set (okay that might be pushing it, but it looks really awesome).  A couple of t-shirts with funny sayings and today I saw a Thudercats t-shirt which I was absolutely drooling over.

I've been told Axe is fine if you're 13 and that's about it.    I would bite the bullet and get your hair cut professionally, a DIY haircut looks like a DIY haircut unfortunately.

[Nero]

Wow I haven't had legos since I was 10 years old. Is the Harry Potter a castle set?

[jmaxley]

They do have (or did have) a Harry Potter lego castle.  I got several HP sets when they came out the first time.  I think they're supposed to be re-releasing some of them.

I'm a kid at heart.   

I'm dropping some serious holiday bux on a new pair of glasses, b'cuz the ones I'm wearing are "his". 

I know what you mean there!  I'm stuck wearing pink glasses for the next two years.  Why oh why did I get pink?  They're wire frames, so at least it's not too obvious.

[Janet_Girl]

I'm dropping some serious holiday bux on a new pair of glasses, b'cuz the ones I'm wearing are "his".  Also some decent cosmetics, and maybe a new bra.  Some pantihose... new shoes?  Got lots of stuff to get... 

Exactly, Colleen. Exactly.

[tekla]

a DIY haircut looks like a DIY haircut

QFT

[Tad]

Meh nothing wrong with DIY haircuts on bros. Half the college boys are doing it.

Hundredbucks eh? It'd all  go toward food. :/

[Michael Joseph]

Well my mom had to give me my christmas present early because im really tight on money this month, and i got exactly that, 100 dollars. It all had to go to bills, well that paid half of one bill. But if I got to choose what I wanted with it, it would have been a bottle of addidas moves because im all out, a new pair of DCs, and a winter jacket because I dont have one.

[Sada]

bye

[CaitJ]

$100 wouldn't go very far. My tastes are ludicrously expensive 

[Lee]

I really want to go to a chasing/reppousse workshop, but it's expensive as hell.  Here's some of the teacher's work:




The pattern's all hammered out using teeny tiny punches.  It's so hard to find a good teacher for it.

[lilacwoman]

a woman can never have enough pretty tops and skirts

[lilacwoman]

practice reppouse with one hammer and a cheap set of Chinese pin punches and use cheap aluminium tableware or such to practice on.  make a sandbag from an old leather handbag or jacket.
Got me thinking of taking it up again.
Lots of tools and leather cushion on ebay

[Aikotribs]

I'm with the glasses on this ones, but the other way around. Bought 2 pairs of manly glasses and I can't wait till they are ready 

[LordKAT]

good pair winter boots and ice fishing gear. I lost it all in the....change of lives.

[rejennyrated]

$100 - with luck I can just about buy one of my Joe Browns Tunic tops for that although I might have to chip in a few. As for anything else I might wear, shoes purses etc, sadly it all costs considerably more than that (even if it doesn't look like it!). 

Also I have some jolly expensive hobbies. Typically if am buying a "toy" (tool) for one of my hobbies the cost is going to be measured in thousands not hundreds. So if you asked me what I would do with $1000 the answers might be more revealing...

[Lee]

practice reppouse with one hammer and a cheap set of Chinese pin punches and use cheap aluminium tableware or such to practice on.  make a sandbag from an old leather handbag or jacket.
Got me thinking of taking it up again.
Lots of tools and leather cushion on ebay

That's awesome that you do reppousse!  I'd love to see some stuff you've done sometime, if you don't mind.  I have a pitch bowl and nab my dad's punch set from time to time.  Now all I need is technique.   

Jenny, may I ask what your expensive hobbies are?

[rejennyrated]

Jenny, may I ask what your expensive hobbies are?

Bear in mind I used to work as a BBC TV engineer (which I only gave us a few years back when I started seriously writing) So most of my hobbies are very techno:

Video & film making - my HDcam camcorder (not one of the amateur ones but the sort of thing a low budget TV company might use) cost over $1500 and for editing I use final cut pro suite which last time I looked was about $800

Serious Photography -  I have two Olympus Evolt DSLR cameras with full lens kits cost about $1000 each.

Hi end Audio & Hifi - a seriously serious audiophile system (think Quad, Linn, Roksan, Tag Mclaren etc) can easily cost in excess of $10,000.

I used to be into Electronics & computing - components and test gear like logic analysers and oscilloscopes and were never cheap. I am less into electronics now, but I am getting interested in alternative energy. I have already built one solar panel array to heat my swimming pool and now I am looking at constructing another PV array to provide off-grid electric light in our home.

Finally I would dearly like to get into vintage car restoration. I estimate that to equip my workshop with all the tools and source my first classic car chassis - probably a Triumph Stag, would probably set me back in excess of $10,000 which is why this one remains merely an aspiration.

[Northern Jane]

Only $100 ? That will be gone in a flash! LOL!

I need to get my hair trimmed and touch up my roots .... might be enough left of the $100 to get a coffee on the way home