What are you going to do next ......

moneywolf

With all the money problems of this week , I am going to have a rethink of what to do with some of my cash when i get it back from ICESAVE.

we came close to losing the lot.

Rather than having money just saved all the time, I am gonna spend a bit & buy myself a track car for using when i go to the nurburgring again & a Rolex watch. I have finally realised that there is more to life than just having money stacked in the bank for no reason.

Has anyone else had a rethink ?

colin79666

Not going to stop saving but it's put me off internet accounts for a while!

DawnW

pay as much as possible (without incurring an erc) off the mortgage, and stash most of the rest in a bog standard account in C&G (with whom we have the mortgage).

Coolfonz

Moneywolf - Yeah it's funny the same things have occurred to me as well. Lots of stuff about my background as well and why I really save. Psychological things from this have been quite intense. But good I hope.

manhattan

Put 30k in Premium bonds until i need it for a house deposit.

Coolfonz

Oh and I'm opening an NS&I account...premium bonds etc...

edit: hah snap

manhattan

Or put the whole lot on a horse.

sadabbott

manhattan wrote: »

Or put the whole lot on a horse.

:rotfl: :rotfl: LOL

frames1_uk

yeh it's made me think too... what am I actually saving for? nothing I can think of, it's just the way I'm made. Wish I actually had a longing for something, so I could just got and get it, my tastes are so minimal

moneywolf

Coolfonz wrote: »

Moneywolf - Yeah it's funny the same things have occurred to me as well. Lots of stuff about my background as well and why I really save. Psychological things from this have been quite intense. But good I hope.

I grew up in a hard working skint family with no money. I said I would never be like that, my position is the total opposite of how i grew up. But I think i have just been scared of not having money, but now i have realised how easy it is to lose the lot in one day.

Maybe its time for a rethink , thats all.

Maybe life is to short to worry about money all the time & if you have it maybe you should use it to make yourself a bit happier.

nzseries1

frames1_uk wrote: »

yeh it's made me think too... what am I actually saving for? nothing I can think of, it's just the way I'm made. Wish I actually had a longing for something, so I could just got and get it, my tastes are so minimal

I know that feeling. I almost want to go spend my money now just for the sake of it.