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[–] Catsrules@lemmy.ml 54 points 1 year ago

Probably just throw it in the bank / Invest it.

I know not the most exciting answer but there you are.

[–] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 42 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pay a bunch of tax on it then wonder what to do with my extra 580€ a month

[–] procrastinator@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Ah fellow Dane lol

[–] aggelalex@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Save and buy a home. I'm tired of paying fat fucks to live under a roof

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[–] Fleppensteijn@feddit.nl 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Quit my job and find a place where I can live off 1000 a month

[–] ladicius@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Quit my job and live in the place I am.

[–] Tenshi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You still need food, clothes, Internet etc

[–] abbadon420@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

The place I'm going, I only need food

[–] Fleppensteijn@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago

I've traveled on far less than a 1000 eur a month. With that kind of money, I can still save up.

[–] banana_meccanica@feddit.it 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Maybe leave the parents house and begin a life in an apartament, at 40 years old.

[–] SubWoofer@catgirl.pub 2 points 1 year ago

Good luck to you

[–] Jackthelad@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Complain that it's not in pounds.

[–] xeddyx 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Support open source projects, such as Wine, KDE, Wayland, LibreOffice etc.

[–] original_ish_name@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

This guy is based

[–] filister@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (5 children)
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[–] random_character_a@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Probably find a way to waste it without affecting anything.

I make 1000€ per month more than 5 years ago. Didn't affect anything. You always seem to increase your monthly expences with equal ammount. Buy slightly better clothes, more expensive food, get a new pet, etc. and it all just disappears.

[–] HumbertTetere@feddit.de 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is being able to afford these things really not affecting anything?

Especially the pet sounds like quite a difference to me.

We already had a pet, so it was to make the pet happier, but it was a bad example.

For example in food you can buy the cheap tortured chiken or organicly grown outdoor chiken. It's still the same chicken. You just feel a bit better when you think about it.

Little improvements like this are a money sink and you can easily sink a 1000€ per month without really changing you everyday life.

[–] ExLisper@linux.community 11 points 1 year ago
[–] DrQuint@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

1000€ is not nearly enough for me to change my lifestyle

[–] LoreleiSankTheShip@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 year ago

It's so interesting to me how money can have such a different value for different people. I live in the EU yet I make less than 1000€ a month even though prices are at EU levels. This would more than double my income and it would mean I could finally afford new clothes, I wouldn't have to worry about having money for food, bills would be paid on time and I could even save up a meaningful ammount! It would be a literal life-saver.

[–] Extrasvhx9he@lemmy.today 7 points 1 year ago
[–] Rocky60@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

Pay my house off faster

[–] Chai@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Fix my teeth and go to med school. In that order

Privat med school in Germany costs a bit over 12k a year depending so I'd just work and save for a year or two first, then enroll

I'd rent an apartment closer to my work. I'd also pay off my car and probably get a new one. Maybe a new mustang or something like that.

It'd definitely be enough to let me live comfortably, at least comfortably enough to really enjoy my hobbies.

[–] ArtisinalBS@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Save up for:

  • Upgrading the A/C
  • Preping my vehicle for selling and buying electric
  • Cooking class
  • Starting therapy again
  • Switching back from the budget supermarket to the fancy one
  • Dental
  • Personal trainer
  • Gym equipment

Pay my bills

[–] OldFartPhil@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Buy a newer car and increase my 401k contribution. Maybe I could retire a couple of years earlier than I plan to.

[–] lemmybenny@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago
[–] abbadon420@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] redballooon@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Soon it’d feel then as if you live as before.

[–] OrdinaryAlien@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

I would buy more money. πŸ€“

Edit: No, Iym nut spootid.

[–] spiderman@ani.social 4 points 1 year ago

a good set of clothes would be the first thing.

[–] MayonnaiseArch@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

Have less stress, buy books. Is it extra if I make less than that now?

I kinda make that extra 1000 a month. I am a disabled vet and pretty much get UBI for the rest of my life, and I gotta saaaay it's pretty nice. Definitely lowers stress in a huge way. No matter what, mortgage is always paid. I really wish this could be a thing for everyone. Or, you know, businesses would be forced to pay workers a minimum wage based on profits or something, I don't know.

NFTs, cheap gin and scratchers.

Real answer: pay off my car as fast as possible and throw the rest in savings

10k in dental work needed. 2k in car repairs needed. Whole wardrobe of 10yo clothes desperately needs replacing.

Probably 50% on the car and 50% on new clothes

[–] ahzidaljun@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I'm south american so converted I could live like a king and never work again for the rest of my life. Uh, or start financing a way out haha

[–] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If everyone else also gets it? Nothing; rent and food prices would increase and eat it up.

If everyone else doesn't get it? Avoid homelessness slightly longer than everyone else; rent and food prices would still increase and eat it up, but everyone else would run out of money and become homeless.

Relax and invest a bit more wildly, knowing I'll never be destitute

[–] Bicyclejohn@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

10% spending save rest

[–] pacoo2454@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago

Learn to fly an airplane.

[–] SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago

I’d be able to pay off the debt collectors pretty quick. Then I’d be able to get a car, one that doesn’t feel like it will die at any moment. I might even have enough leftover to throw a hundred or so into a savings account.

Right now, none of that is possible. Eventually I’d like to be able to make enough to do some of those things, but that day is pretty far off.

[–] Nemo@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

sick it into savings and stay the course

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