21-06-2005 21:00									#1
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So I have a checking and credit card* now and Im getting paid again this wednesday. After paying my rent and bills I'll have about 300-400cash money left to spend on stuff. The weight set Im looking at buying is about $300 (weights+flat bench). That would leave me a few bucks for grocery shopping. Then I would have to wait another two weeks before going clothes shopping.

Clothing will run me about the same amount of monies since I need two new pair of shoes (one excercise one street) , a few pairs of pants, and a few more shirts.

Of course I could use my credit card to buy the clothes this month and pay for it next month, but Im skerd of spending too much money I dont have, even though I have a $300 credit limit.

What do you think is of greater importance? Clothing or workout equipment? They are of about equal importance to me. I feel bad about dressing like a poor man (imagine that, a poor man dressing poorly ) so new clothing would give me greater confidence. However workout equipment would make me spluge all over myself on a daily basis.

*spare me the lectures, Ive heard it all. I will be responsible because I am teh w00t.

	21-06-2005 21:03									#2
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Get the workout equipment first. No use having nice clothes if you fill 'em with a flabby dude.

	21-06-2005 21:05									#3
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quote: Originally posted by Space05us Of course I could use my credit card to buy the clothes this month and pay for it next month

Sure you will

	21-06-2005 21:15									#4
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quote: Get the workout equipment first. No use having nice clothes if you fill 'em with a flabby dude.

The thought of me being flabby is amusing.

As is the thought of me being able to fill anything.

	21-06-2005 21:19									#5
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Why don't you just save it?

Become a Capitalist, not a Consumerist!

	21-06-2005 21:21									#6
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quote: Originally posted by Space05us quote: Get the workout equipment first. No use having nice clothes if you fill 'em with a flabby dude. The thought of me being flabby is amusing. As is the thought of me being able to fill anything.

Since you've moved to the south, your caloric needs have dropped radically. In no time you'll look like Michael Moore.

	21-06-2005 21:22									#7
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I say save the money.

BTW aren't you staying with your mother?

	21-06-2005 21:35									#8
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quote: Originally posted by Urban Ranger I say save the money. BTW aren't you staying with your mother?

I live right next door to her, and spend most of my free time over here since she has a stereo, the internet, and cable.

I have my own apartment though. I pay my own rent, bills, and buy my own food.

	21-06-2005 21:35									#9
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quote: Since you've moved to the south, your caloric needs have dropped radically. In no time you'll look like Michael Moore.

Um. No. Ive been eating more food actually, and I have lost weight.

	21-06-2005 21:52									#10
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Clothing.

If you buy decent clothes and dress well it hides being slightly out of shape - and you will still look better than someone who spends all his money getting fit so has to make do with cheap cast offs that dont suit/flatter him.

Also.....it requires less effort. Why pay for pain?? (unless you're into that stuff of course)

	21-06-2005 21:55									#11
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Since when is dressing well not painful?

	21-06-2005 22:22									#12
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Unless you have a professional use in these clothes / workout equipment, save the money . As you want to pay yourself a demanding education, you should save the money as quickly as possible.

Besides, workout equipment is bulky, and you may want to have as little bulky stuff as possible, so that you can easily move from one place to another, in order to seize better opportunities

	21-06-2005 22:28									#13
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quote: Originally posted by Space05us *spare me the lectures, Ive heard it all. I will be responsible because I am teh w00t.

I wouldn't lecture on a credit card. I use mine for nearly all my purchases and every second week on payday, I pay it completely off. I've been using a credit card in this fashion for almost 20 years and while my limits have grown, the principle remained the same. I think I have paid credit card interest two or three times and thats it.

I assume that other people can be just as disciplined so no lectures unless and until you post the thread that says you can't pay your rent and the credit card is maxxed out.

A 300 limit- wow that seems low

	21-06-2005 22:32									#14
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quote: Unless you have a professional use in these clothes / workout equipment, save the money .

Im getting both eventually. Perhaps you dont understand I love to workout, I only have one pair of pants that are wearable outside of my house and my shoes are filthy from work.

quote: As you want to pay yourself a demanding education, you should save the money as quickly as possible.

Im going to get my associates from the local community college so that I can get a better paying job so I can pay for the more expensive schooling.

Besides I want to live, I dont want to spend all my time saving money in boredom and agony. Screw that, Im going to be happy damn it!

	21-06-2005 22:34									#15
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That because it IS low. Student credit cards are low, and they are much higher -- I have student credit cards yet, because I do not have a full-time, salary income. With my two student credit cards, I have a combined credit limit of only $7,000 or so.



EDIT: cross-post and meant for replying to Flubber

	21-06-2005 22:56									#16
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quote: Originally posted by Space05us Im getting both eventually. Perhaps you dont understand I love to workout, I only have one pair of pants that are wearable outside of my house and my shoes are filthy from work.

Well, then buy the workout thingy first. Since you probnably won't especially need clothes until next month, it's as good to buy the thing you really enjoy.

	22-06-2005 00:18									#17
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Don't you have a date this Friday? Buy the clothes; weights won't do you any good by Friday.

	22-06-2005 00:24									#18
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neither will clothes... hopefully

	22-06-2005 00:28									#19
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quote: Don't you have a date this Friday? Buy the clothes; weights won't do you any good by Friday.

The clothes are for me. Women dont like me because of how I look, they like me because I make them smile. Besides everyone I work with understands what it means to be poor. They wont hold it against me.

	22-06-2005 00:28									#20
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I'd buy the clothes first-- you can work out without the weights for a couple more weeks.

I also advocate some saving. Even if you just set aside 10 bucks a pay, not spending that 10 bucks will be a great exercise in budgeting.

	22-06-2005 00:29									#21
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i'd go for the clothes, mostly because i'm lazy but also because the birds are going to be more impressed with some nice threads, rather than a week's worth of excerise.

	22-06-2005 00:29									#22
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Do push up & pull ups then go for a jog and your work out is done. Spend it on clothes.

	22-06-2005 00:30									#23
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quote: Originally posted by Flubber I also advocate some saving. Even if you just set aside 10 bucks a pay, not spending that 10 bucks will be a great exercise in budgeting.

Mayhaps I shall open a savings account for just that purpose. Even though it aint much you are right, its a good habit to form.

	22-06-2005 00:30									#24
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quote: not spending that 10 bucks will be a great exercise in budgeting.

So is spending... Revolving debt does wonders for your credit

	22-06-2005 00:30									#25
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quote: Originally posted by Space05us So I have a checking and credit card* now and Im getting paid again this wednesday. After paying my rent and bills I'll have about 300-400cash money left to spend on stuff. The weight set Im looking at buying is about $300 (weights+flat bench). That would leave me a few bucks for grocery shopping. Then I would have to wait another two weeks before going clothes shopping. Clothing will run me about the same amount of monies since I need two new pair of shoes (one excercise one street) , a few pairs of pants, and a few more shirts. Of course I could use my credit card to buy the clothes this month and pay for it next month, but Im skerd of spending too much money I dont have, even though I have a $300 credit limit. What do you think is of greater importance? Clothing or workout equipment? They are of about equal importance to me. I feel bad about dressing like a poor man (imagine that, a poor man dressing poorly ) so new clothing would give me greater confidence. However workout equipment would make me spluge all over myself on a daily basis. *spare me the lectures, Ive heard it all. I will be responsible because I am teh w00t.

Save half of it, and get decent clothes with the rest. You can do a lot of the workout part for free with good calisthenics, running, endurance hikes up local mountains with weighted pack, etc.

	22-06-2005 00:31									#26
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quote: Originally posted by Oerdin Do push up & pull ups then go for a jog and your work out is done.

I do. Im small. You dont get big by lifting small things. Besides I cant get that testosterone surge from body-weight exercises. I LOVE TESTOSTERONE!

	22-06-2005 00:52									#27
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quote: Originally posted by Space05us I do. Im small. You dont get big by lifting small things. Besides I cant get that testosterone surge from body-weight exercises. I LOVE TESTOSTERONE!

Go someplace where there's a low wall or a bench, and assume the pushup position with your feet elevated so more of your body weight is forward.

	22-06-2005 00:59									#28
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Those are ass kickers; elevated push ups were one way the drill instructors found to push people and it was very effective. Also try wide arm and close hand push ups along crunches, flutter kicks, dips, fron arm pull ups then back arm pull ups, and finish off with sit ups & squats. Vary your running so that you get hills into the course and if you are feeling like a macho man then go to a stadium (high school stadiums work well for this) then run up and down all the stairs in the entire stadium. It well nearly kill you but your leg muscles will get the work out of a life tme.

Unless you are trying to get HUGE you can do almost everything without any equipment. If you are trying to get huge then don't buy a home gym as they'll never have everything you need and instead get a gym membership.

	22-06-2005 01:03									#29
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quote: Unless you are trying to get HUGE you can do almost everything without any equipment. If you are trying to get huge then don't buy a home gym as they'll never have everything you need and instead get a gym membership.

Perhaps Im just impatient then. I still like freeweights though. And no I dont want to get HUGE, 170-180 would be fine.

	22-06-2005 01:05									#30
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I have a 5, 15, and 20lb dumbbells (2 each of course) and they do me just fine.