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 $8,500)
For the impoverished elite looking for a classier way to dine while simultaneously protecting various ink-based interests, there’s the $9 Dine Ink set. Your salary may be pedestrian and boorish, but that’s no reason your pen caps have to be, too.
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15% ($8,500 to $34,500)
You work hard. Okay, you work. Okay, you go to a workplace. Give people the impression that you’re always on the go with your many tools always at the ready. They’ll be none the wiser that you’re really wearing $20 pajama pants adorned “with a photorealistic set of tools, gadgets and a tough leather toolbelt.” Unless they get within 100 yards of you, of course.
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25% ($34,500 to $83,600)
You’re finally making enough money to comfortably afford an iPhone and its requisite voice and data plan—BUT!—there are too many people who can’t afford an iPhone, yet have one anyway. Distinguish yourself from lesser socioeconomic classes with the $169 Rokform Rokstand and make sure anyone who sees it knows that it’s “a mechanical piece of art.”
If they stare at you blankly just blurt out, “One hundred and sixty nine dollars!” That’s the classy way to handle things.
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28% ($83,600 to $174,400)
The sweaty sleeping season is right around the corner. How much would you be willing to pay for a self-cooling bed? Not an entire bed, mind you, but a cushion that goes on top of your existing bed and circulates cool air through itself. If you said $546 plus $84 for shipping, then you’re right on the money. And right IN the money, too, apparently. Whatever the case, resist the urge to buy five air conditioners for your bedroom instead.
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33% ($174,400 to $379,150)
Oh, so you stand up when you waterski? That’s adorable! How quaint.
Those with cool sounding things like “liquid assets” and “investments” and “savings accounts where the account balance is more than just two digits to the right of a decimal point” like to ski smarter, not harder. And this $800 Waterskiing Chair does the trick just fine, thank you.
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35% ($379,150 and up)
An iPod Nano that doubles as a watch with the help of a wristband accessory? That’s cooler than cool, as we all know. But an $18,000 diamond-encrusted version? That’s ICE COLD, my main man.
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