What would you do if you sold a book and could afford to take a few thou of your advance and do something special with it? You know, after the taxes, after the adding to the retirement fund, after all the necessarys. . . what’s your little extra dream? What plan do you have in your back pocket for when you finally have that little extra bit of dough?
Kristy Dempsey 
I’m dreaming big, I know, but I really want a Lexus 450SL convertible. Dark blue, butter-colored leather seats. I can’t imagine a better way to roll up to my interviewees’ homes, or to rev up PCH.
*sigh*
Oh, wow. That is a big dream. But what a good one!
I’m dreaming big, I know, but I really want a Lexus 450SL convertible. Dark blue, butter-colored leather seats. I can’t imagine a better way to roll up to my interviewees’ homes, or to rev up PCH.
*sigh*
Australia. And if I had enough, New Zealand.
YES! I’ve heard you should definitely try to do both. If you’re already going that far. . .
I want to spend some more time in France, perfecting my language skills. Then i could be a translator of literature as well as a writer.
That’s a great idea!
Travel. Probably to Italy with my family.
Oh, I’d like to go to Italy too.
That’s a tough one…when things are tight (as they are now), we start to make a mental list of things that need to be done as soon as we have the money.
That means I’m not sure I’ll ever have a little extra 🙂 But if I do, I think I’d want…a steam shower (he-he) — they’re awesome, and I’d love to have one in my own house!
That sounds wonderful. I’m afraid I’m gonna want one of those!
I really want to endow a scholarship we set up for my mom when she died. We’re several thou short.
What about you? With your two advances coming? 😉
How wonderful. I’m hoping you’ll have the chance to do that.
Me? The first two advances are going exclusively to necessities: retirement, college fund, home repairs, etc. But a teeny, tiny part of the third (shh, it’s still mostly a secret)is going toward a trip to Disneyworld. 🙂
Disneyworld, baby.
I would go and live there for as long as my advance lasted, which I estimate to be only about 1.5 weeks. 🙂
Disney for me, too. Except I can only stay for 5 days!
I’M GOIN’ TO DISNEYLAND!!
Hee.
Not really. We’ve already been three times with our kid … that’s ENOUGH for awhile.
Hmm, this may not sound very exotic, but we’d probably go to Hawaii. My parents live on the Big Island, so we’ve gone there the past few times we’ve visited. If I had enough money and time, I’d like to spend some time on the other islands. Oh! And I would take my SIL and BIL, because they’re so fun and because we don’t get to see them often enough.
Great question. Although at first I thought it read, “What’s your thong?”
Oh, Hawaii’s a nice idea.
And, no, I don’t really need to know about everyone’s thong. 🙂
I’d take to some tropical island paradise for as long as the money lasted.
(that’s with my advance, not hers, btw)
Well, I guess that’s only fair, if she’s taking you to Disney. 🙂
I would like a new couch, one that doesn’t have yogurt stains and M&M stains and who-knows-what stains.
Yes, one of mine is in desperate need of s new slipcover.
Hmm…Vacation, new car. I need just about everything!
Not what you need, what you WANT!!
A cabin in the mountains.
a cabin…
of your very own?
Re: a cabin…
Just me and the skeeters.
Re: a trip?
I love Charleston. Please tell me you’ve been. If not, then you MUST plan it.
Oh, that’s a great idea.
Ooo, that sounds like fun!
A library. We are always talking about when we build ourselves a library. But between college loans and wedding plans for the kids, I wonder if we’ll ever get it.
sigh
That’ll be nice. One day…
I hear you. We looked at close to a hundred houses when we were buying and ended up buying what we did strictly because it had room for a library.
A new kitchen, a new front door. These aren’t necessities, but I’d love to have them. Also a visit to our kids in California and the others in South Carolina. (I need a big advance.) 🙂
Dh and I used to take little golf vacations before we had kids, so it would be great to do that again. It’s kind of a logistical nightmare to leave for too long, plus I’d miss the little bug bites, so it would be neat to bring them AND pay for a babysitter to come too. That way we could all have fun together or dh and I could sneak away when we wanted.
Such a hard question. We are so trained to think of “need to…”
A want? For me? My own want…not FOR someone else?
A tour of the world’s greatest art museums and museums of science and industry!
Wow. I sound all like, cultural and stuff. 😉
Oh, and congrats on the unmentionable third you know what.
Hawaii again
a VW bug for daughter and Mustang for son
tons of new clothes
a brand new sofa
a Plasma TV that is 50 inches
some RLM jewelry
a week at Shutters in Santa Monica
I’d put landscaping the backyard at the top of my list. We got the estimate on a new fence (which needs to be in before the landscaping) and that’s $7K. We can’t afford to do that, let alone put in the actual plants. I haven’t even seen the landscaper’s design but I know I’m going to love it and want it NOW, not 10 years from now. Sigh.