Have you ever spent a sinful amount of money

Mailman said:   unnamedny said:   and nobody mentioned apple products.... that's sad....
Actually, hkgfnt did mention the Lisa and the Mac earlier in the thread...

I'm actually too young to know what he meant, my mistake.

Not uncommon for many young Asian gamblers .

$1.51 on a costco dog.

Isnt paying for a wedding the opposite of sinful ways to spend money ?? you're making her an "honest woman"

(not that I believe any of that BS , but that's the old saying)

I spent $50 on mystery boxes off the internet. After ordering them I felt like an idiot.

jimates said:   bjy20716 said:   I paid $1600 for a 42" HDTV in 2007. Now they are $200-$400.I remember buying a CD burner for my computer in 1998 for $400.

NEC external SCSI CD-ROM reader cost me $900 in 1993. But then again the 486/DX2 66MHz computer it was purchased for cost near $3000. But at least it gave me some fun times with Wing Commander 2, its expansion packs, X-Wing, Tie Fighter, Doom 2.

unnamedny said:   Mailman said:   unnamedny said:   and nobody mentioned apple products.... that's sad....
Actually, hkgfnt did mention the Lisa and the Mac earlier in the thread...

I'm actually too young to know what he meant, my mistake.

Just to confuse you further. This old man also paid $700 for a 640K Apple Newton PDA in 1993 and still got no lipstick mark for it either.

hkgfnt said:   unnamedny said:   Mailman said:   unnamedny said:   and nobody mentioned apple products.... that's sad....
Actually, hkgfnt did mention the Lisa and the Mac earlier in the thread...

I'm actually too young to know what he meant, my mistake.

Just to confuse you further. This old man also paid $700 for a 640K Apple Newton PDA in 1993 and still got no lipstick mark for it either.

You could probably resell it for $7k if you kept it in the box unused.

ubermichaelthomas said:   jtroye32 said:   I remember getting an 8x Plextor burner in high school for over $800 and then, being the only one having one for 2 or 3 years, making a few thousand burning mixes for people. Those were the days.

The MPAA may have a few questions for you.

The law has a statue of limitations, the internet does not:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/08/tiffani-webb-new-york-h...

Don't apply for a job that does a background check or run for office., or this thread might come back and bite you.

macosx said:   ubermichaelthomas said:   jtroye32 said:   I remember getting an 8x Plextor burner in high school for over $800 and then, being the only one having one for 2 or 3 years, making a few thousand burning mixes for people. Those were the days.

The MPAA may have a few questions for you.

The law has a statue of limitations, the internet does not:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/08/tiffani-webb-new-york-h...

Don't apply for a job that does a background check or run for office., or this thread might come back and bite you.

I think the word is statute of limitations. Not a sculpture of limitations

yaijic said:   bippie said:   Recently spent $1,100 on dinner for two with wine pairings at Alinea in Chicago. Amazing experience and I've no regrets about this luxury. I now understand why this is often listed as the best restaurant in the USA and one of the top 10 in the world.I'm wanting to go there for my upcoming 35th birthday. I think you just sealed the deal for me. Please tell me more about it. Either on here or on pm.Been there... worth the money. Want the full tasting menu (~25 courses) and the wine pairings? Multiply the above figure by about 2. Just be sure to ask the waiter/presenter to tell you when the wine flights are "obsolete" (aka how many courses) or else you will end up with a table covered with half-full wine glasses.

Crazytree said:   miqie said:   CptSavAHo said:   Two biggest bills I've ever run up was dinner for 4 on Christmas Eve at French Laundry, $6800 including tip. Food was ~$950/person and wine was very reasonable, same as retail. Tip was included in the bill. Second was $6200 in Vegas at the opening night of Surrender at Encore. It doesn't sound that bad, but $6200 was the tip on the bill after the casino comped the entire check of $34,000.
Why the freak do you hang out on FW? Oh, I get it, you save so much money through FW, that you can splurge like that.I want to know how much money they gave to the Casino that management would happily comp a $34k dinner bill.

In Vegas its more about who you know than how much you spend. Its definitely the case for the group of friends that goes every year. We all used to live there and have friends at various levels of upper management in different properties, mostly MGM and Wynn/Encore. I will say that even for only $6200 with all the damage we did, I wouldn't have considered it worth it. The room at Skylofts and the transport in Maybachs for free is way better than racking up a ludicrous bar tab. This last summer we toned it down a lot with the bar tabs, our totals were under $6500 a day, so roughly $700 in tips a day depending on where we were.

Also definitely not Asian.

unnamedny said:   bjy20716 said:   I paid $1600 for a 42" HDTV in 2007. Now they are $200-$400.

I paid $550 on 17'' LCD monitor in 2001 now you can find one on the side of the streets =)

Wow. You got a good deal! I bought 2 17" Samsung LCD screens for a dual monitor setup and it cost me $2,800! This was 2000. Outpost.com so I got free shipping and no tax. Yeah baby!

They now tell you how many courses each wine covers when you order the pairings at Alinea.

We got a mispriced deal through Vegas.com to drive a 458, gallardo spider, and jaguar - usually it's about $700 pp but we got it for $250

http://www.photobucket.com/albums/v644/fwfinance/0DC5DB09-482B-4FAB-9BCA-5A1AFC956F46-129-0000002DF10E7B3B.jpg

macosx said:   ubermichaelthomas said:   jtroye32 said:   I remember getting an 8x Plextor burner in high school for over $800 and then, being the only one having one for 2 or 3 years, making a few thousand burning mixes for people. Those were the days.

The MPAA may have a few questions for you.

The law has a statue of limitations, the internet does not:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/08/tiffani-webb-new-york-h...

Don't apply for a job that does a background check or run for office., or this thread might come back and bite you.

I didn't know burning mixes of people's cat pictures was illegal

Crazytree said:   Young Asian gamblers are also a key demographic in my business. Usually as named defendants in civil fraud and embezzlement cases.

They generally fall into two categories and I am generalizing here:

1. Have a lot of corrupted money from Daddies and Mommies with high positions as comrades in Mainland China, or...

2. A high percentage of gambling addiction amongst Asian immigrants who work long hours and seem to enjoy the casinos and the make-believed fantasy while splurging at the table. They never tell me about their losses and only about their free meals and hotel rooms. I know of at least two persons that lost their restaurants to the casinos.

The large 5 figure check I had to write to the taxman when an ISO exercise triggered the AMT. Owing taxes even when I haven't made/earned a penny is sinful.

$170k on current car, but most sinful was probably the $30k I spent on Supercharging last car, but I paid for that with my unemployment money

RS4Rings said:   $170k on current car, but most sinful was probably the $30k I spent on Supercharging last car, but I paid for that with my unemployment moneyHow much were you spending on the pills and punani?