Madison MoneySports - Personal Finance Thread

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This is a bit like asking the shoeshine boy, but I've been reading a few articles on the subject of individual investment strategy lately. I thought this might make for some interesting thread reading.

How would you invest $5,000/$35,000/$75,000 if you had it in cash right now?

5k: a nice dinner with fancy bottle of wine
35k: almost finish off "our" student loans
75k: finish off student loans, pay hospital for baby, AND nice fancy wine dinner!

A little surprising to hear that for 35k...i would have thought your loans would have already had most of the interest paid by now

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5k: Generator for my house OR drop it on my HSA account for when I'm retired and I don't want to spend retirement income on my doctors visits (5,600 is the annual max contribution, compound it over 23 years)

35k: I'm almost with RJ on this, a 911 might pay even bigger later... but I'd do $35k in 1 gram gold bars to physically have... any profit is tax free in the long run.

75k: With this lump sum, there are two ways to go with it... index funding it OR find your local craft brewery and buy in. they will actually need it now and if they manage it well, they will survive the bubble. There will be a bubble, not everyones liver can survive this life style AND there wont be many people with good livers to donate.... maybe you should invest in liver replacement research?

It seems like cider places might be the next wave to ride.  I have a buddy that's planning to open one in PA. I think he also bought an orchard too,  but could be mistaken on that part.