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)
I know $55 seems like a lot to spend on a hat and face warmer, but winter’s coming up and you know what they say: dress for success. "My, what a handsome beard! What’s that? It’s a combination knitted hat and face warmer? Even better! Please accept this high-paying job."
15% ($8,375 to $34,000)
Universal remote? Bo-ring. Universal remote shaped like a magic wand that costs $90? Interesting.
Best of all, instead of simply pushing buttons to change channels, you’ll now have to perform specific and intricate arm movements.
25% ($34,000 to $82,400)
You promised (either out loud or in your heart, it doesn’t matter) to purchase everything that Apple makes. While the company doesn’t officially make the $128 Steve Jobs Bust, you’ll feel like you can’t breathe unless it’s sitting on your desk tersely staring back at you as if you lost an iPhone prototype.
28% ($82,400 to $171,850)
Do you not have any real-life friends anymore? Me neither! Kinda pointless now that the internet’s in full force, huh? Except if you want to play ping pong.
Whup, spoke too soon. This $150 Table Tennis Trainer is more friend than a real-life person could ever be. As a bonus, it’ll help train you for that real-life ping pong tournament that you’ll never enter because it’d mean leaving the house.
33% ($171,850 to $373,650)
Finally, a home endoscopy system that doesn’t cost a fortune. Peer into any of your various holes in the privacy of your own home. Oh, nice, it comes with a carrying case, too. Take it on vacation or to a friend’s house.
35% ($373,650 and up)
Some may say that toting around a $460 Iron Man 2 briefcase is unprofessional. Chances are, the people that say that don’t have as much money as you do. You run the company, what the hell do you care what anyone thinks? Swing by the design and IT departments with that thing to build up some geek cred while you’re at it.
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