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      12-21-2008, 11:23 AM   #1
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What should I do with this money?

Ok so I just found out and I am almost positive I will be getting around $2,500 in January along with a $500-700 tax return I believe. I am in College and I don't have a car but what I do have is pointless debt that I created for my self VIA credit card and crap. I will not be able to work as much once I start back up school again because of school and ROTC. I will be getting paid $350.00 per month with ROTC as well as my E-5 drill pay $240.00 or so. I have the following bills to take care of per month (not much, but too much for a college student at a Big Ten school I think)

Credit Card: $1,500 or so... I have not used it in almost 2 years because I have been paying it down, it is closed out and I have payments set up to be directly withdrawn from my account @ $40.00 a month, it isn't really getting rid of the balance but it is maintaining it. Not a huge hit to my monthly income but having it off my back entirely would be nice

Military Star Card: $900 or so... I don't use it unless I am on base but really don't need it even if I am. Payments are $90.00 a month

Jewler Account: $700 or so, useless... I hate these guys but could I do something more usefull with this money than pay these DB's off?

Settlement: Now this is a big hitter, $3,800 over 18 months and I have paid 2 payments so far @ $217.00... I could pay my payments ahead for months and almost be done with it? I would have $217.00 less to worry about for quite a while and then forget it all. I sold my car because I couldn't afford this and my payment/insurance/gas

Those are my debts and these are the scenarios I came up with:


OPTION 1:

Pay off
-Military Star
-BOA Credit Card
-Jewler Card

so that I only have the recording industry settlement payment to worry about and my cell phone bill monthly.

OPTION 2:

Pay off
-a good portion of each? Pay a solid chunk on everything/spread it out

OPTION 3:

-Buy a solid daily driver, having a car really does make life harder/suck... it would be paid off and I know how to shop well for a solid higher mileage or good daily driver car. Now I will have a car again but it won't be one I make payments on until I graduate and can buy whatever I want.

OPTION 4:

-Pay some of my debt, get a couple things for my self and feel good that I have a couple new toys and I paid off some stuff? I heard that it's a bad idea to dump all of a new lot of money into one thing because it makes you much less likely to do it again.

OPTION 5:


-Buy a riskier car ($1,000) and then apply the rest to debt? But the car may be more of a pain in the ass than what I am getting out of it...

Any other suggestions would be great. I don't want to regret what I do with this money and to be frank I'm tired of being the college kid that has to pay out more than anyone else while in school... Please though, don't get all mutual fund on my ass getting too deep into future planning and what have you. I am just not that guy who counts on life being there way down the road, you are never guaranteed a tomorrow so mix that with some responsibility lol.

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      12-21-2008, 11:33 AM   #2
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      12-21-2008, 11:38 AM   #3
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Pay off the cards. Cancel the Military Star card, it sucks and you dont need it anyways.
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      12-21-2008, 11:39 AM   #4
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Pay off the cards. Cancel the Military Star card, it sucks and you dont need it anyways.
So pay off the cards even though they really aren't a huge hit on my monthly income while in school?
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      12-21-2008, 02:06 PM   #5
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Dude, just pay it off in the order of interest rates. Whatever has the highest rate, pay it off first. Simple.
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Sorry to ask, but you got caught downloading music? How much were you downloading!

Oh and what ATC330i said, highest interest first.
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      12-21-2008, 02:23 PM   #7
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Sorry to ask, but you got caught downloading music? How much were you downloading!

Oh and what ATC330i said, highest interest first.
I know people that got hit with it using all kinds of services and regardless of volume.
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I know people that got hit with it using all kinds of services and regardless of volume.
Wow. I usually steal my neighbor's wireless internet when I am going to download music. That way it is traced to his IP

Good new is they are stopping lawsuits: http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/R...Lawsuits-99761
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Wow. I usually steal my neighbor's wireless internet when I am going to download music. That way it is traced to his IP

Good new is they are stopping lawsuits: http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/R...Lawsuits-99761

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      12-21-2008, 02:48 PM   #10
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RIAA FTL! what, may i ask, p2p program were you using at the time? i'm going to guess limewire...
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I would put 800-1000 of this money in a savings account, and take the rest and payoff one bill off and spread the rest out to the others.

My opinion is its gonna get rougher after the holidays, you must have a little nest-egg put back in case of an emergency.

I was kinda in the same boat with about 3k, I could have paid bills off, but i'm comfortable making the payments and would sooner have some cash set back in case something pops up. You never know what can happen and the economy has not seen the worse yet.
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      12-21-2008, 03:05 PM   #12
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paypal it to me dawg.

that, or get 3k single dollar bills. hit up a strip joint.

in all seriousness, option 1 ftw.
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      12-21-2008, 03:17 PM   #13
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RIAA FTL! what, may i ask, p2p program were you using at the time? i'm going to guess limewire...
Not meaning to jack the thread but Blake is right. P2P is shit.

I quit using it years ago and switched to Bit Torrent. It was great, more secure but still a hassle sometimes. Since a year ago, I have switched using only the web sites which gives you links for fast downloads through Rapidshare, Depositfiles, etc. (mostly Russian/ East European sites). The bad part is that you have to pay to subscribe to Premium service to get +300k/s download speed and also have more than one account if they are on various sites. The best thing about it is downloading a 2CD album in less than 5 minutes and no f'ing RIAA on your ass.

If you are into Chill/ Chillhouse, Nu-Jazz, House music, this Russian site is one of the better ones : http://mp3.uzhgorod.name/

BTW, getting back to OP's question, I'd pay whatever has the highest APR first i.e, the credit cards. Good Luck.
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      12-21-2008, 04:35 PM   #14
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Wait so it is not safe for me to download music via Limewire anymore? Even though I don't share?

Sorry I can't really help with this Forged...
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Wait so it is not safe for me to download music via Limewire anymore? Even though I don't share?
no, RIAA trolls limewire all the time. they'll bait you by sharing files intentionally just to gather your IP address and then proceed to fuck you over. this is why you see banned IP options in those programs...but getting a new IP is easy when you have the resources of the RIAA. NEVER use limewire or any gnutella variant anymore unless you want to get owned. turning sharing on there is even more deadly...i have over 12,000 music files and if i shared all of them, pick your poison, RIAA would get me eventually. i use torrents exclusively (piratebay) and if you know how to configure it right, you'll get faster downloads (i average 1.3MBp/s on my torrents) than you ever would on any gnutella client.
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no, RIAA trolls limewire all the time. they'll bait you by sharing files intentionally just to gather your IP address and then proceed to fuck you over. this is why you see banned IP options in those programs...but getting a new IP is easy when you have the resources of the RIAA. NEVER use limewire or any gnutella variant anymore unless you want to get owned. turning sharing on there is even more deadly...i have over 12,000 music files and if i shared all of them, pick your poison, RIAA would get me eventually. i use torrents exclusively (piratebay) and if you know how to configure it right, you'll get faster downloads (i average 1.3MBp/s on my torrents) than you ever would on any gnutella client.
Hmm, okay, I will have to do what you've mentioned then. Good thing I haven't used Limewire in a long time.

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Why do girls always want bigger boobies. I'd much rather have a nice natural good looking set of B's than a set of rock hard poke my eyes out D's.
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