You have 15$. How would you spend it so that you'll be the happiest you can be for 15$ ?
And yes you have to spend it all
Edit: There are a lot of little good things in these answers that I often ignore. Thanks everyone.
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Weed
Came to check how high this comment was. Ofcourse it's the top comment.
What
What the fuck does that even mean?
Ya, can you explain why you are such an asshole? I'm betting g it's because your parents didn't give you enough love.
Tell me you haven't smoked without telling me you haven't smoked
15$?
Register a domain name based on some hair brain fantasy for the year.
Then spend the year ideating and fantasizing about what might be while doing nothing.
Thats a whole year of value for 15 bucks.
This feels like a personal attack
You're also fat.
I... think we have different definitions of happiness, and drastically different ideas of the "the happiest we could be".
And eventually, 10 years and over £100 for a domain you'll never use.
It's me. Too many domains I have no idea what to do with.
Cat cafe, you can chill in there for ages slurpin on coffee surrounded by the lil gremlins
I want rat cafes. Sadly there's only one, and it's in japan.
I just want to pet chaos potatoes while eating food that they are stealing from me
There’s the New York Subway if you can stomach the smell
Most of the subway smells fine.
you've been in NYC too long :-p
If we're talking random animal Cafes, I want a lizard cafe with separate rooms for tropical and desert lizards.
That would be neat. I couldn't handle having rats anymore due to the prospect of constant loss but would love a place to hang out with some.
Done it. But it took more money just to get there via Uber.
Worth it.
Give it to someone that needs it.
I need it
What for?
Weed
Aha, so I was right, you will give it to someone. >=3
Had to check if you were also the top commentor.
To be happy
The other guy already said weed
You might need it for your cekeday today!
Wtf its been a year?? What a wild ride!
Ikr it feels like the API debacle just happened a couple of months ago
A big breakfast burrito and a latte.
“Yeah, well, I really don't think we have time for a hand job.“
I think I'd buy some bugs for my lizard. Maybe some hornworms? They're very good for hydration and basically every reptile that eats bugs goes absolutely crazy for them!
If my buddy is happy, then I'm happy, too.
Here's a picture of my ugly boy, Pączki.
Superb nakey wrinkly man!!! That Beardie morph was called something like Silkback or Leatherback right? Do they still slightly change their color like normal Beardies? :o
I'd go with the same gist of answer! I'd get some fun snack for my girl Revy, maybe Quail or African Soft Fur, and the rest of the budget would go to random fun enrichment items :)
Man, snake faces look so stupid and cute
Herps herps herps!!
Yeah, he's a silkback. Less of a "morph" and more of a genetic nightmare. Definitely would never recommend to anyone who doesn't have a ton of time & money to spend caring for them, + extensive experience with bearded dragon care. A leatherback is the best option of you're looking for a bit of a smoother dragon!
Revy is adorable!! What breed & morph is she?
Whoa, that sounds exhausting haha! Do they need like, moisturizer to help them shed? :o
Revy is a Ball Python, her morphs are Black Pastel, Lesser and GHI (maybe also Confusion and maybe het Clown, the breeder wasn't sure). Surprisingly, the cool stripe isn't from something like the Genetic Stripe morph, just a weird effect from the combination of her 3 morphs. Her mom (also BP, Lesser and GHI) actually looks super similar, but has random breaks in the stripe, so Revy just got lucky I guess!
Well I love Paczki with all my heart! I’m spending my $15 on Paczki too
OMG! That's the best name for a pet! As a Paczki lover I approve!
He is pretty!
What species is this? It looks like house gecko but larger and oddly cute
He's a bearded dragon with a genetic defect that caused him to be born without proper scales or spikes.
Because of that, he's a "special needs" animal, so he needs lots of extra care to keep him healthy.
I'd definitely recommend (fully scaled) bearded dragons as pets! Mine is an excellent cuddle-buddy and constantly makes me smile with his dumb goofy antics and curiosity.
My guess is a Bearded Dragon
You're correct! But he has a genetic defect, so he looks pretty different from a standard healthy dragon.
Huh, I didn't know that there were beardies without scales and spikes. Judging by his face, they still shed and it looks like sunburned skin peeling.
An icecream for me, one for my wife, and enough fuel to drive to the waterfront so we can eat them while sitting at the edge of the pier, swinging our legs.
That's very sweet. I guess I'd do something similar: buy a crab bucket and a rope, and head down to the waterfront where I'd swim under piers and see how many people's dangling legs I can hook and pull under with the rope
That makes me laugh harder than it should. 😆
10 bucks weed 5 bucks ben and jerrys
Who's going to sell you a spoonful of BJs?
A lovely lady behind the Wendy's
Only a spoonful grabs giant spoon
Do you mean that 5 bucks only gets you a spoonfull of BnJ? Because over here a bucket is like <5
A pint of BnJs is about $8 at a convenience store near me. You might be able to get it for $5-6 at Walmart. I was just joking about how expensive it is and writing the name like Blow Job. Was just being silly.
$15 AUD for 458ml of Ben and Jerry's here. So, whats that, 3/4 of a pint?
Damn that's pretty insane. I think normally they are 4.99 euro over here and that's already a lot imo. To be honest I only ever buy them when there is a discount or something.
Do you mean that 5 bucks only gets you a spoonfull of BnJ? Because over here a bucket is like <5
It depends on what I'm trying to maximize.
If I just want the happiness spike ASAP, then I would just buy $15 worth of Magic cards, or maybe a booster pack or three, depending on the set.
If I'm trying to maximize my overall happiness over any amount of time, I think spending $15 on something reusable, like a nice pair of socks or a hat would work out for me.
If I want to maximize happiness in general, then spending it on someone else I care about does double duty. It makes someone else happy, and I get happiness from being involved in the process.
Darn Tough socks on sale. Merino wool, so you dont have to wash them every time if you use wool wash and air then out (and don't wear then without shoes (dirt)), and a lifetime warranty. Now that's a nice $15 pair of socks.
An ex gave me an old pair of her's that she used for work and I've been a fan ever since
Go to the zoo. See some owls.
Millions of peaches?
Peaches for me
Peaches come in a can
They were put there by a man.
in a factory downtown
It's so hot right now I'd probably spend it on ice cream and/or frozen custard. Then be in the bathroom an hour later because I'm lactose intolerant.
I'm gonna pay my $15 to watch.
I also choose watching the shitter.
This better not unlock something in me
You're not gonna grab some lactase pills with part of the cash, or spend that $15 on dairy free ice cream?
Did they stutter? The pain is part of the experience
Buy Minecraft, which apparently is on sale for $14.99. It's not quite as fun when all your friends have the official version and get to play together while you're stuck with an - *ahem* - unofficial version.
How long would it take you to save $15 if you tried?
$15 is like 80 BRL and I don't have a single cent to my name right now so...
Well that sucks
For zero monies you & your friends could run VoxeLibre which has better performance characteristics. Microsoft doesn’t deserve your money or your user data, but I am sure VoxeLibre or Minetest wouldn’t mind a donation.
Minecraft is still a really good game that still gets fairly large updates.
It’s being milked for Bedrock & there are dozens of free software alternatives with VoxeLibre being a standout
Use java than 🤷
Or use bedrock and ignore all the bullshit if you can.
Are free versions even close to Minecraft in features, polish, and all that?
I personally think that Minecraft is one of the best games you can buy for the fairly low price, community, multiplayer, etc.
They are more than complete/polished with multiplatform support, with healthy modding communites, & better performance since they aren’t built on Java. In the past your money went to the developers—now it goes to megacorp Microsoft with little done in terms of maintenance.
Minecraft has gotten a lot of updates after Microsoft bought Mojang.
I don't personally mind paying a small amount for a good product that is constantly getting better after many years.
Sure Java could have better performance but it's rare that it matters much on modern computers.
You do you but I don't think paying for things is the end of the world.
At that point play the free alternative and dont give your money to Microsoft. Do you love throwing your hard earned money at Microsoft?
I just doubt that the free alternatives are as good and Minecraft is really cheap anyways.
Have you tried the free alternatives? I guess to me its not the price alone its the principles of giving Microsoft money.
On the topic of games, Stick Fight The Game is $5 on steam and I got it while drinking with a few friends. It was the most fun I've had in years. I also hop on randomly when I get a chance and it's just as fun with random people.
Stick flight is great!
I got it at launch.
You know those machines that dispense stickers for quarters?
I sat here and thought about it, and I truly think I'd go to the dollar store, buy a few cheap water guns, and have a water fight with my sisters and their kids. Remember how fun water fights are??? Even those cheap little water guns; doesn't have to be fancy. Leftover money would go to popsicles.
Fam sounds like you need to get out there and make this a reality. $15 is cheap compared to a good memory like this
I prefer the little fake Nerf guns but same principle. You can get several and several darts for $15 and then you can do it in the house.
convert it to $1 and $2 coins. get the best super glue I can for $12
buy a $1 bag of popcorn (go pop it at home)
glue the remaining $2 coin to the path somewhere visible and near a bench so I can watch.
sit, with popcorn, and watch people try to pick up the glued $2 coin for as long as I feel entertained
I was thinking this but get a sock and convert $10 to rolls of nickels and hit them in the head when they bend over to get the quarter.
It's free money!
My dad did this once, he came back to find an old abandonned screwdriver and a "thank you" note
An edible
A 40
A little Caesars pizza, crazy bread
Give it to your dad for last night!
Haha, got 'em!
Fellow lemmings, I, for one, would spend that 15 dollars on a copy of the "Barbie" movie on Blu-ray and digital, because nothing would make me happier.
Margot Robbie I would expect you to already have one
Shh... I'm astroturfing.
When's the next movie come out? Barbie is so last year.
Imagine being the top star and never even getting a copy :'(
Acid!
If you can get it for $5 a tab.
I don't know what it goes for now but somehow the price of LSD stayed the same for at least 30 years.
I could a few years back, it was a hell of a summer
Same
Great value for the money with it. One ~$7-$10 hit will get you going for 8 hours. Can any other non rc drugs compete price wise?
Stardew valley could bring you hundreds of hours if you already have something to play on
Version 1.6 came out this year in March. It was super fun to start a new game, so much new content.
Ecstacy.
Some of my happiest times were rolling at a concert. Im empathetic, happy, social, and my anxiety is pretty much gone.
And as far as I don't go too far, the only down time I need to recover is the next 24 hours eating junk food and watching Netflix motionless in bed.
Oh totally. Outside of a few festivals where I took it three nights in a row, typically I was only rolling at a show maybe once a month. I couldn't imagine doing it frequently or having an urge specifically to roll.
Straight to the casino baby.
15 on red
no black FUCK
Buy someone a gift.
I invest it in the next stupid crypto fas and either lose $15 or become a millionaire.
I choose millionaire.
Send a gift to a friend. I don't know what I would send, but it would make them happy and it would make me happy, so it's a win-win. Mind you,I should actually just do that
I'd give it to a homeless person or another person in need
Put it towards a stupid sounding investment scheme that will turn those 15 into 5 within the month
I never had the income to do that. It sounds exciting. It's like gambling except it's considered classy instead of trashy.
Honestly, one month of a service like Netflix or Disney. I'm against these services but I feel $15 will give great value for a month.
Can you even get a month for $15?
For 16€ you could get Real-Debrid + Stremio for 6 months and watch all the movies.
It has really nice UI for mobile/TV/PC.
If it's $15 on a credit card, and you're willing to pay a few more fifteens of dollars later, sure
How about a vpn instead, for reasons...
2 months of Dropout
Do like GeoWizard. Pocket the money and start walking in a direction. See how far you can get on the money. Buy simple needed items like water and snacks. Accept charity. Speak with people. Seems extremely fulfilling!
If I have to spend money to be happy, then I’m already unhappy.
But now you have the means to change that with a free $15!
Let Hetty Green be a lesson.
Fallaffel Kebap (11$) Soft drink (4$)
$4 coke? Jesus Christ just kill me
Not too bad. It was 4.5$ for one of those smallish bottles last I checked.
I would hold 5 owls.
Does it cost $3 to hold an owl? I did not know that...
There was a really fun show I found.... Let me get the name.... "Joe and Katherine bargain holidays", where they"vacation" on a "budget", in the first (or second?) episode the go to an owl sanctuary, where they learn it's 3$ (pounds) to hold an owl, Joe is flabbergasted by this and announces that he's going to spend more money holding owls than on anything else in this episode, I think they started with 10 owls for 30 pounds, then asked to round it up to a dozen, then a bakers dozen. It actually looked like something I'd gladly spend money to do, and I would imagine it's a pretty good cause.
The series is posted to YouTube, and if you haven't seen "task master" I cannot recommend it highly enough. Joe and Katherine are on season 2. Save season 7 until you've seen enough of it to be comfortable with what's going on, because it's an amazing season (as they all are) but the cast is the least restrained in their antics.
Thanks, definitely going to check it out!
That's good, but 2 lattes and 2 croissants here would be $16 plus tax and tip.
Lattes only with tax and tip are pretty close to $15 and would be my choice. Well, I'd get a latte for her and a cortado with half n half for me.
Buy $15 worth of Taco Bell.
I will spend it educating people that we write fifteen dollars as $15.
I would campaign for fifteen dollars to be written as 15$. The other way around makes no sense. Dollars is the unit, and you say "fifteen dollars" and not "dollars fifteen". That we landed on the backwards convention is a travesty.
Sure, 15$ wouldn't get me far, but it's a start!
Super regional, remember learning 15$ in French class but using $15 everywhere else because I'm an anglophone. Personally, as someone else said, it's a unit, totally makes sense treating it as such and I do tend to use iso currency codes when talking dollars because I'm Canadian, 40 USD is 54.75 CAD, 40 CAD is 29.23 USD, if I don't specify that it makes things look way more expensive comparatively.
Agreed on all aspects.
Gonna take one more ride to my beloved girl this weekend
Best answer
until she breaks up with you 👀
As any lover, I hope that day never comes :)
I wish you to find the love of your life, and never again experience the pain of breaking up!
And I hope the same for you brother!
Best $15 spent :)
Approximately ~7 different packs of Haldiram's Minute Khana.
It'll keep me going another week or so, and is (hopefully) a little healthier than ramen! Certainly more flavorful, at least
Pizza
15 tacos for $15 dollars special
If it's like 100 tacos for $100, I think I could go for that right about now.
Buy my dog a delicious chew treat of her choice and watch her devour it.
Is this in USD? Where would I be located?
It is USD, but you are in Vietnam.
Generic answer would be food and a beer. Depending upon where in Viet Nam, there might be other things I want to do.
I was supposed to go there, reserved hotels, transport, etc. and then corona killed it. Would still love to go.
3 tabs of acid
I want to know where to get $5 tabs damn
1978
I'm buying ingredients to bake brownies for my wife. Or with her.
50 loafs of bread
Where the fuck you at $15 gets you fifty whole loaves of bread?
In Romania, a loaf of bread costs 1.5 RON(5 RON=1 USD)
It used to cost 1 RON a couple years ago so i could have bought 75 loaves of bread
Well....fair enough.
Huh, turns out I can never go to Romania. I would eat until I pop.
As is tradition.
Im going to the roller rink. 3 hours of skating will have me felong great for days
Similarly I was gonna say a couple entries to mountain bike park, and maybe a can of coke after
Probably spend it on a favorites restaurant visit
Two plates of rice or noodles with vegetables and salmon. Delicious. Actually, highest ROI that you could possibly hope to achieve in the universe.
I don't think I'd be happy if all my savings were reduced to $15.
How about 15$ but you also have 24 hours left to live?
Buy an internet ad that tells people the damn dollar sign goes BEFORE the number.
It is funny to see comments like these trying to find creative ways of being pedantic lol
Not in Europe. We put our currency behind the number and our decimal is a "," instead of a "."
Instead we divide thousands by empty spaces or "." (at least in Germany).
Yes, but this is specifically a dollar sign, and in every country that uses dollars, the $ goes before the number.
Not in Canada.
The prices in French have the dollar sign at the end, while in English it's at the front.
More accurately, in English the currency type precedes the number, regardless of what currency it is.
Interestingly, in europe this seems to vary by country!
I was just thinking that I wasn't sure which was correct, but it seems both are actually acceptable in Germany although after the number is preferred
Interesting. Didnt know nor expected a whole wikipedia article about that topic alone....
And then there's whatever they do in India, where a comma indicates the thousands place, but then they put commas every two numbers....
not always. It's a combination of 3 spaces for some, and 2 for others.
The commas seem so wrong.
1.099,99€ :)
Why is your decimal a comma and the separator a full stop? A comma continues a thought just like it continues a number, and a full stop (period) separates sentences, much like it separates a whole and fractional part of a number. Your system is ass-backwards and you fucking know it. You should be ashamed of it.
Turn it into a roll of quarters and fuck myself
Buy some games on discount. I can easily get Fallout 4, or about 7-10 other games on steep discount. PC gaming is the best.
Hmm. I am not convinced I can be much happier for $15 but a coffee for me, split a breakfast sandwich with my husband in the little Cuban cafe near me. Or buy gas and a diet coke and go by myself, alone, to the beach, that is such a relaxing activity.
Donate it to a good cause.
This person gets it. If you have to spend money to be happy, you’re fooling yourself. You’re already lost to capitalist realism.
Literally? Buy some heroin.
Aftermath might not be so good though.
Should've invested in some teeth...
Pretty sure that's meth, not heroin, where your oral health goes to shit because you stop making saliva
Oh yeah! I should do more drugs...
Do bags of heroin still go for $15? Apparently illegal street narcotics are inflation-proof!
Minecraft is on sale
Can get a night in a small campsite for about £15.
Even cheaper if i'm only taking my tent
Taco Bell most likely.
15 $1 dollar coins stashed around the house for me to stumble upon later.
Probably pay for whatever activity I can afford with 15$ to spend time with my partner. Love her to bits and enjoy every minute I spend with her.
board game, with sexy stakes
Buy a mini Blåhaj :3
What a cool question, actually.
In my current situation? Probably a coffee date with someone new.
In a hypothetical "blank slate" scenario? Some easy way to play music. An mp3 player or something among those lines.
Alternatively - I could absolutely purchase a used dumb phone for that amount of money, as well as free calls within network for a year (in my country).
Pound of good coffee.
Tacos
Good chocolate.
There's an independent coffee shop in the park by me, so a cappuccino, a big slice of carrot cake and just enough change for a lottery ticket.
Downvote me all you want but I'd buy $15 of Bitcoin then wait a few years. So far I have been immensely happy with every single one of my BTC purchases and I don't think that's going to change any time soon. Whatever amount I buy now will be the same % of the total supply (21 million coins) in 5 or 10 years time which is more than I can say about pretty much anything else.
Bitcoin isn’t destined to go up because supply is theoretically set. Demand could easily disappear and there could be a massive sell-off that puts more supply out there. It’s easy to imagine BTC mining being banned in a major country because it’s incompatible with carbon emission goals, raises electricity bills, puts pressure of electricity grids, facilitates money laundering, or any number of things. That would trigger a sell-off and unless some whale is capable of being the unofficial central bank, there’s nothing to stop it.
He meant available supply, not total supply.
I got scared and sold lol :(
Two bags of cherry sours!
Some Xbox 360 videogame I haven't played. Either that or Johnnie walker.
Johnny!
For $15 good luck
I've seen airline bottles of Johnnie Walker for about $5 around me. I'd spend the $15 on a full sized bottle of Evan Williams, though.
Gas for the motorcycle, and ride. Maybe $10 for gas and $5 for a coffee somewhere.
I just got the 24 street triple r, full tank costs me about $11. Best 2 hours of fun for $11, 100% agree with you
put it towards a train ticket to visit the fam :)
Hit of LSD and some water.
Buy two and a half carrots. Or maybe a big potato! $15 doesn’t go far these days.
You can buy like 15lbs of potatos or carrots.
Lemmy and literal interpretations. Name a more iconic duo.
Reddit and literal interpretations
Lemmy and snarky references back to Reddit like that ex-girlfriend you've "totally moved on from"
Peanut butter and chocolate, i don't unstand how this is a question, like 30 people know about Lemmy
The best Reese's are the holiday eggs, trees, pumpkins, etc. They have a better ratio of peanut butter to chocolate than regular peanut butter cups.
Chocolate.
3 tomato plants
Take the train to a nice walking spot.
Well if we are going to min-max our money then I guess
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A decent sized package of medium quality chocolate.
Buy a kebab. Really not much you can do with $15.
Trying out a shooter I never played that looks good. From now me taking a look at my wishlist, could be a random one between SUPERHOT, Diabotical Rogue, ULTRAKILL, Turbo Overkill,
With the remaining money grab some snacks.
Get SUPER HOT. You won't regret it.
Super fun in VR
Still the best VR game I've ever played
That's just enough to buy my wife and I ice cream cones at the best place in town and leave enough of a tip that we don't feel like we're being cheap. Date night sorted!
Go somewhere further away by a coach bus. Or maybe a 1st class train ticket (as a student I can travel in 2nd class for free in most trains).
I like travelling. Just sitting in a bus/train doing nothing.
Rockstar (2.25), 4pk of Snickers (4.40), Burger King Double Cheeseburger (3.50)... Shit, I went over. I don't know how I could make any compromises here.
You can get better choc than snickers for around $2
IDK, probably go to the import store near my house and pick up some white rabbit milk candies to start. Then spend the rest on cheap snacks at the dollar store. However much it left, if it's just change, probably throw downtown where I live because I can guarantee some homeless drug addict might scramble to pick it up.
Ice cream for the wife and kids :)
$10 for a bag of rhinestones, $5 for glue
Or weed, but weed is temporary
Invest it
I'd just buy 30 dollars right away.
I'd spend it teaching people how to use a dollar sign
Putting it behind the number makes way more sense though, because you don't read it as "dollar 15"
So I petition to make it okay to write "15$"
I'd buy you a $15 book on critical thinking, so you could stop and consider that maybe not everyone is a native English speaker, and their syntax may vary.
Otherwise, you're just making assumptions based on what someone has written. You know, like how many people might assume from your reply that you're a massive dickhead. Just an assumption of course...
That's great but it's still wrong.
Save it until I can afford to spend it in a 3rd world country for at least 5x the return value
I would buy 15 bullets and see how many fit in my head.
Hey, you ok? I am not ok today, but I definitely don't want to fill my skull with bullets. Go wash your sheets/bedding. For whatever reason, clean sheets are the best.
My man! 🤝