You have 15$. How would you spend it so that you'll be the happiest you can be for 15$ ?

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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.

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

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

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 :)

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!

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.

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.

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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

10 bucks weed 5 bucks ben and jerrys

Who's going to sell you a spoonful of BJs?

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

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.

You're not gonna grab some lactase pills with part of the cash, or spend that $15 on dairy free ice cream?

Go to the zoo. See some owls.

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...

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.

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.

But why would I really care if the money is going to Microsoft and Mojang if I'm getting a very good product?

Cause they have a history of embrace, extend, and extinguish, and they have played a key role in enshittification of tech and internet.

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.

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?

Yeah the ones at the Post Office, right?

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.

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

Imagine being the top star and never even getting a copy :'(

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!

Did this when I was a kid with a 50 pence piece. Superglued it to the pavement in our town and watched from across the street as numerous people bent down to try and pick it up. Classic.

My dad did this once, he came back to find an old abandonned screwdriver and a "thank you" note

Acid!

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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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

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!

Coffee and a croissant for me and my wife.

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.

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.

Gonna take one more ride to my beloved girl this weekend

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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 :)

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.

San Fransisco

Or Boulder

I haven't been to SF in more than a decade at this point and I've never been to Boulder (I've only ever been to Colorado for a layover). I'm afraid I'll have to pass on that one.

You could get a ham sandwich if you wait in queue. Or a coffee that tests you.

Probably spend it on a favorites restaurant visit

50 loafs of bread

Where the fuck you at $15 gets you fifty whole loaves of bread?

Two plates of rice or noodles with vegetables and salmon. Delicious. Actually, highest ROI that you could possibly hope to achieve in the universe.

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.

And then there's whatever they do in India, where a comma indicates the thousands place, but then they put commas every two numbers....

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.

But which is 'before' the number? We use arabic numbers so they're actually reversed...

I don't think I'd be happy if all my savings were reduced to $15.

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

Literally? Buy some heroin.

Aftermath might not be so good though.

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.

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.

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.

Can get a night in a small campsite for about £15.

Even cheaper if i'm only taking my tent

15 $1 dollar coins stashed around the house for me to stumble upon later.

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.

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).

  • Convert it into 1,500 pennies
  • Fashion a slingshot from a balloon, tube, and some tape.
  • Have fun shooting cans, balloons, people, etc.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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

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.

Add a tenner to it and put it into Premium Bonds for later

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.

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.

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!

A cheap pair of earbuds.

I lose and break them all the time, so I don't buy nice ones, and I don't get around to replacing them until I'm really desperate. I think it's close to that time, because I tried to think of something that would make me happy right now, and my first thought was music

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

Save it until I can afford to spend it in a 3rd world country for at least 5x the return value

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...

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.