If I Gave You $100 and the Day Off, What Would You Do?
Of all the things I’m horrible at in life, hypotheticals top the list of things I am not good at. I’ve learned recently that this is a really horrible thing to be bad at when married to an attorney. He could ask me hypotheticals all day long about a hundred different things and I rarely, if ever give him a straight answer.
“Would you rather jump out of a plane or off of a cliff into the ocean?”
“Am I strapped to someone? How cold is the ocean? How hard would it be to swim to shore? What would I be jumping out over?”
“IT DOESN’T MATTER, JUST ANSWER WHICH ONE!”
If you’re anything like me then you’ll know that those things DO matter. If I’m going to be jumping of a cliff in the Arctic Ocean? No thank you. If I’m jumping out of a plane into the ocean? Also, no thank you.
I recently thought up a hypothetical for my mom friends. Every answer was different, but I learned right away that moms need some serious specifics when it came to making their decision. (My kind of ladies.)
If I gave you $100 and the day off from your kids and/or work, how would you spend it? The moms needed more specifics so I came up with these details:
- Your house would be clean.
- Your work would be done.
- Your kids would be cared for by a very responsible individual for 24 hours away from your home. You wouldn’t have any parental responsibilities or fallout from grumpy, whiny children when your regular duties resumed.
- You may take anyone you’d like with you.
- The $100 has to be spent that day and cannot be spent on bills (boring.)
There’s the guidelines, can you think of more specifics? If so, you’re my kind of people.
Here’s my day…
- Sleep in.
- Shower.
- Head to my hair girl and get a blowout. ($30)
- Go window shopping at the mall with my best friends.
- Get my makeup done while at the mall.
- Probably buy a new nail polish or lip gloss. ($10)
- Lunch with friends. ($15)
- Go out to dinner and a movie with my husband. ($45)
The only thing that could make a day like that better would be a nap around mid afternoon.
What would your day be like?
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I too would sleep in…
Get hair and nails done,
Lunch or dinner with friends,
Nap,
Shop for a good book,
Relax drink a couple beers and read the new book,
Go to bed early,
Now that sounds like a nice day,
but who will give me kisses all day?
With those being the parameters (and yes, I would have had to ask a zillion questions like that. The one I’m left with is, can I spend a few extra of my own $$ to make it a better day? I’m gonna assume not, since I don’t have any LoL so, with that…) I think I might
sleep in until noon.
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get a manicure (since 100$ wouldn’t quite cover a spa trip)
Take a walk downtown at an adult pace. (and window shop too)
Eat a nice dinner with the dh including a fabulous dessert with an adult beverage. (I am assuming calories from this don’t count right?
We have a zillion coupons floating around, so if I’m allowed, I’d use one of those to go see a movie, IF anything good were playing at the time.
and then.. more zzzzz’s for this sleep deprived momma!
Sleep in, nails, lunch, nap, shop, eat, relaxing bath with book, music, beverage(s), candles, and then bed.
Housework is already done? Yippee!
I’d sleep in (because the stores don’t open until 9 or 10am anyway)
Go spend quite a bit of that shopping at a craft or yarn store
Grab a quick lunch on the way home
Lock myself in my craft room (which hasn’t seen much of me lately)
Oh, and I’d make sure I saved enough money to pay for dinner out or delivery-in, since I won’t feel like cooking that night.
My dream day (with the $100) would be:
Sleep in as late as I wanted.
Head to Starbucks with a good book. ($5 for coffee)
Pedicure ($30 with tip)
Lunch with friends ($15)
Haircut ($40)
Matinee ($10)
Maybe I’ll do this for myself soon, because that sounds like a freakin’ awesome day. I actually have a Groupon for a massage soon, so maybe I’ll incorporate that into my day of awesomeness.
Ohhhhh, the possibilities are endless… but I would probably….
get up at my normal time and drink my normal coffee and eat my normal breakfast, but THEN!! I would take a verrrrrrrryyyyyyy long , extremely hot shower.
I would walk downtown,
buy a magazine ($5)
go to my favorite coffee shop, get a coffee and some kind of delicious coffee shop treat ($10ish)
read the entire magazine at a leisurely pace and enjoy every sip of my coffee and every bite of treat (all to myself)
Get an express pedicure ($35)
Window shop the fun, hippy, downtown stores
Go home and nap
Watch adult tv all afternoon
Until it was time to order sushi with my husband (that again, I don’t have to share any of MY food!!) ($40)
Spend the rest of the night on the couch, NOT talking or answering a million questions, while enjoying a nice glass (bottle?) of wine. (I only have ten bucks left for the wine, so its gotta be a cheap bottle!!)