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)
Mmmm, cupcakes! Now you can relive the magic of special occasions any time thanks to advanced effervescent flavoring technology. No need to save up for a trip to the bakery, as you’ll just need $4 for these Fizzy Cupcake Drink Tablets and plain old tax-supported tap water.
15% ($8,375 to $34,000)
You’re looking to class up the homestead for the holidays, but classic Nutcrackers are so stuffy and boring. These $25 to $32 Star Wars-themed Nutcrackers say, "I recognize the importance of providing my guests with a fun method for cracking nuts, and had I bothered to buy nuts, we’d all be clamoring to use the Darth Vader Nutcracker."
25% ($34,000 to $82,400)
While it’s nice to be able to finally afford heat, you can’t help but wonder if there’s something more to life than simply keeping your home at a steady 68 degrees all winter long. Thankfully, you can stuff your night time wearables in the $40 Pajamas Warming Pouch.
"Some people just wear their pajamas to bed," you can say to anyone who will listen. "I pre-heat mine to 118 degrees in a satin sack. To each his own, I guess."
28% ($82,400 to $171,850)
No better time than the present to finally get around to learning what your dog is trying to say to you. The $86 Bowlingual Dog Voice Translator promises to make sense of your dog’s barking but only translates things into Japanese. How’d he learn to speak Japanese all of a sudden?
33% ($171,850 to $373,650)
Try as you may, you just can’t seem to find a truly obnoxious way to show off your iPhone as it recharges. Might I suggest a $265 silver hand something-or-other?
35% ($373,650 and up)
At last, the ultimate way to spend over half a million dollars on a one-year calendar! Get ready for 2011 with the solid gold Miffy calendar, priced at just over $650,000. What will you do with it once 2012 rolls around? Who cares?! By then, you’ll have invented your time machine!
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