It’s Friday! Maybe you just got paid. You could use that money for boring stuff like bills, rent, and food, or you could act like a wonderfully impulsive consumer and spend it on any number of products. Here are some ideas to get you started based on your taxable income bracket.
10% ($0 to $8,375)
At your pay scale, it’s the little things in life that should get you out of bed in the morning. Perhaps being the only person out of your group of friends to own a pen that’s also a pair of scissors would help. The PenCut runs just $7.80 but, for some reason or another, has to be ordered from a Japanese site that apparently specializes in adult products.
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15% ($8,375 to $34,000)
You’re moving up in the world but you’re not quite making enough money to attract a companion, yet. What about fish?! This $20 USB-powered aquarium can sit on your desk at work. It’s not just any ordinary aquarium, either. There’s also a pen holder, alarm clock, weather thingy, calendar, lamp, and a whole bunch of other arbitrarily-added features.
25% ($34,000 to $82,400)
Nothing says "ironic hipster" like an MP3 player that looks like an old, pink Walkman, unless that MP3 Walkman is priced at roughly $70 and makes you supply your own memory card since there’s no storage built into it.
28% ($82,400 to $171,850)
You fall squarely into the income bracket of people who are savvy enough to understand technology, yet have enough money to buy everything Apple makes without giving it a second thought. As such, when someone presented you with the iArm Forearm Mount for your iPad, you were thrilled!
Too bad it’s just a fake gift box. That being said, the desire to mount your iPad on your forearm is stronger than the sadness that fell over you when you found out the product doesn’t exist. The solution? Make your own! An even better solution? Pay someone else to make one for you!
Look at that guy on the box. He looks like if Brett Favre loved Apple products and worked in an office. That could be you!
33% ($171,850 to $373,650)
Oh, to have your ashes placed in a Star Trek urn. The price on this urn is to be determined, but you know you’ll pay just about anything for it. You’ll be dead! I can hear the eulogy now:
"Darrell always loved Star Trek. He asked that his ashes be placed in a Star Trek urn and jettisoned out the Enterprise into deep space. He’s dead now, so we sold his urn to another Star Trek lunatic and decided to put him in this Folgers can instead. Please join us outside immediately following the service, where we’ll shoot him into the woods with a water balloon launcher."
35% ($373,650 and up)
Having as much money as you do gives you the license to act like a complete weirdo. Hell, it’s expected! Show everyone you mean business by purchasing this $4,700 dining room set. Why pull your chair out from under the table like a common Neanderthal when you can sit in a swing while you eat?
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