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Vacation home or exotic car?

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Dr. Detroit said:
Go on a real vacation and get out of high end hotels and concierge butlers. Go on Safari in Africa, go for a trek around NZ, hit up Peru & Chile in South America? Galapagos Islands? Corsica-Sardegna-Siciliy? Go hike the Dolomites in Italy - hire a guide!
Buy an ultralight backpacking kit and get to the back country - pack rafting in Utah. Take a 2-week hiking and rafting Grand Canyon river trip.

Buying more shit is pointless unless you do something with it.
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So that's what that is! True story I once looked at the raw data on a hard drive and it all looked like gibberish ASCII except 1 word stood out: Dolomite. I had no idea what that meant or what it stood for. I thought it sounded like a nickname for a pimp.

Now that I know what that is I'm envisioning some dude wearing a purple fedora with a feather in it and a purple suit jacket working at Microsoft that everyone at the office nicknamed Dolomite because he couldn't stop yapping about his trip to Italy and one day he sneaks his nickname into the software in plain text just for kicks to see if anyone will ever notice it. I noticed it Dolomite you better not have put any nefarious software in my box other than all of Windows itself. I'm on to you.
 
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Seems like neither one would bring you actual enjoyment. Have you considered finding something that will? A hobby perhaps like wood working, sculpting, or painting. It doesn't have to be those they are just ideas. FYI something other than shopping.

If I had to choose between the two you listed I would probably go with another property. It will most likely hold value longer than a car and depending on where it is located go up in value.
 
disappoint said:
So that's what that is! True story I once looked at the raw data on a hard drive and it all looked like gibberish ASCII except 1 word stood out: Dolomite. I had no idea what that meant or what it stood for. I thought it sounded like a nickname for a pimp.

Now that I know what that is I'm envisioning some dude wearing a purple fedora with a feather in it and a purple suit jacket working at Microsoft that everyone at the office nicknamed Dolomite because he couldn't stop yapping about his trip to Italy and one day he sneaks his nickname into the software in plain text just for kicks to see if anyone will ever notice it. I noticed it Dolomite you better not have put any nefarious software in my box other than all of Windows itself. I'm on to you.
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Dolomite is also a mineral, CaMg(CO3)2, named after the Dolomites.

Dolomite-100mm-Tsumeb.jpg


OP, collect minerals. They aren't cheap and are very prestigious. I could sell you some super-duper expensive specimens to get you started.
 
Darwin333 said:
Hookers and blow
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To do Hookers and Blow the right way takes much, much more money than even the balliest of ATOT ballers has access to.

It's still a good idea though, OP just has to limit himself to a nice tranny and some meth.
 
Dr. Detroit said:
Time to get off your ass and actually do something in your life other than work and collect shit -

You have hundred of guns, do you ever fire them, are you able to break them down, clean them and modify them yourself? If guns are your hobby then pay someone to teach you how to become a better shot by taking classes at the range.

Cars - you enjoy driving or just saying "look at me and my status symbol" Take them to track days, learn to be a better driver? Buy a Jeep - buy parts for Jeep - learn to work on jeep, make jeep a fun rock crawler? Buy the tools and the lift and have someone teach you how. How about buying a classic car you idolized as a child and make it a restoration project?

Take some classes - learn how to scuba-dive. Learn how to kiteboard, windsurf, or surf? Paraglide? Thought about getting a private pilots license and learning to fly?

Go on a real vacation and get out of high end hotels and concierge butlers. Go on Safari in Africa, go for a trek around NZ, hit up Peru & Chile in South America? Galapagos Islands? Corsica-Sardegna-Siciliy? Go hike the Dolomites in Italy - hire a guide!
Buy an ultralight backpacking kit and get to the back country - pack rafting in Utah. Take a 2-week hiking and rafting Grand Canyon river trip.

Buying more shit is pointless unless you do something with it.
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Wise words.
 
Wait, so you're into legos and guns right?

Buy that multi 100 acre property and build a shooting range out of lego! Like have lego towers to shoot from and stuff. Build lego robots that you shoot at.
 
Red Squirrel said:
Being paid not to farm that is an interesting one. I guess there are too many farms already? I would buy it just for that, 40k per year just to hold on to land? I imagine there must be a catch though?
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I looked the program up, and I had some of my facts wrong. It's called the Conservation Reservation Program:

"In exchange for a yearly rental payment, farmers enrolled in the program agree to remove environmentally sensitive land from agricultural production and plant species that will improve environmental health and quality. Contracts for land enrolled in CRP are 10-15 years in length."

While the thought of owning hundreds of acres is cool, I don't know what I'd ever do with hundreds of acres of farmland in a state I've never visited.
 
ponyo said:
I vote another vacation home. But I think you also need another collecting hobby besides Legos and guns since those two are clearly not enough.
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I've tried several other hobbies.

I collect/collected:

- comics (60 long boxes)
- DVDs/BR (8000+ discs)
- action figures (several thousand)
- CDs (4000+ discs)
- headphones (hundreds of them)
- computers / tablets (over 35 computers and 25 tablets)

I'm looking for something that doesn't take up more space. I'm realizing how my possessions own me.
 
madoka said:
I've tried several other hobbies.

I collect/collected:

- comics (60 long boxes)
- DVDs/BR (8000+ discs)
- action figures (several thousand)
- CDs (4000+ discs)
- headphones (hundreds of them)
- computers / tablets (over 35 computers and 25 tablets)

I'm looking for something that doesn't take up more space. I'm realizing how my possessions own me.
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Precious metal stored in safety deposit boxes.
Rhodium, Palladium, Platinum, Iridium

and if those don't drain your account, try Californium.
 
madoka said:
I've tried several other hobbies.

I collect/collected:

- comics (60 long boxes)
- DVDs/BR (8000+ discs)
- action figures (several thousand)
- CDs (4000+ discs)
- headphones (hundreds of them)
- computers / tablets (over 35 computers and 25 tablets)

I'm looking for something that doesn't take up more space. I'm realizing how my possessions own me.
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Burn all that shit in a giant fire. See how that makes you feel.

Wait a year.

If the itch is still there, buy it all again.
 
Humpy said:
To do Hookers and Blow the right way takes much, much more money than even the balliest of ATOT ballers has access to.

It's still a good idea though, OP just has to limit himself to a nice tranny and some meth.
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Meth can be fun but I'm just going to have to take your word on the trannies.
 
madoka said:
I looked the program up, and I had some of my facts wrong. It's called the Conservation Reservation Program:

"In exchange for a yearly rental payment, farmers enrolled in the program agree to remove environmentally sensitive land from agricultural production and plant species that will improve environmental health and quality. Contracts for land enrolled in CRP are 10-15 years in length."

While the thought of owning hundreds of acres is cool, I don't know what I'd ever do with hundreds of acres of farmland in a state I've never visited.
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Versus what you would do with all the other crap that you have collected?
 
Another option is to start a small space program and build rockets. Buy a BMW and send it in space. You'd be the first to put a BMW in space, that would be pretty baller. Just try to pick a different orbit than the ISS to avoid accidents that result from lack of proper signal usage. 😛
 
Red Squirrel said:
Another option is to start a small space program and build rockets. Buy a BMW and send it in space. You'd be the first to put a BMW in space, that would be pretty baller. Just try to pick a different orbit than the ISS to avoid accidents that result from lack of proper signal usage. 😛
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madoka said:
I've tried several other hobbies.

I collect/collected:

- comics (60 long boxes)
- DVDs/BR (8000+ discs)
- action figures (several thousand)
- CDs (4000+ discs)
- headphones (hundreds of them)
- computers / tablets (over 35 computers and 25 tablets)

I'm looking for something that doesn't take up more space. I'm realizing how my possessions own me.
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Look man - you might need to see a therapist. You are clearly not a collector, you are a hoarder. You have a compulsive disorder in which you buy to buy. You clearly get a "high" off buying shit you will never use.

You just happen to have a high income so you buy expensive shit rather than5 for $1 paperbacks from the local Goodwill.

Hobbies - buying/collecting shit is not having hobbies!

Perhaps we are all fools posting in a Madoka thread while he trolls us.......
 
madoka said:
I've tried several other hobbies.

I collect/collected:

- comics (60 long boxes)
- DVDs/BR (8000+ discs)
- action figures (several thousand)
- CDs (4000+ discs)
- headphones (hundreds of them)
- computers / tablets (over 35 computers and 25 tablets)

I'm looking for something that doesn't take up more space. I'm realizing how my possessions own me.
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All that takes up too much space. Even cash takes up too much space compared to gold. You won't make money faster than you can stack gold coins. There's no space issue with gold.
 
ponyo said:
All that takes up too much space. Even cash takes up too much space compared to gold. You won't make money faster than you can stack gold coins. There's no space issue with gold.
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There's even fewer space issues with cryptocoins. You can fit an infinite number of coins in the space of a deck of cards.
 
madoka said:
I've tried several other hobbies.

I collect/collected:

- comics (60 long boxes)
- DVDs/BR (8000+ discs)
- action figures (several thousand)
- CDs (4000+ discs)
- headphones (hundreds of them)
- computers / tablets (over 35 computers and 25 tablets)

I'm looking for something that doesn't take up more space. I'm realizing how my possessions own me.
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You should have an epic garage sale. And let ATOT know when it is
 
madoka said:
I've tried several other hobbies.

I collect/collected:

- comics (60 long boxes)
- DVDs/BR (8000+ discs)
- action figures (several thousand)
- CDs (4000+ discs)
- headphones (hundreds of them)
- computers / tablets (over 35 computers and 25 tablets)

I'm looking for something that doesn't take up more space. I'm realizing how my possessions own me.
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Fishing or SCUBA. You can even plan vacations around them.

I've personally never really been into collecting tangible things other than when I was a kid collecting baseball cards and stuff.
 
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