Inspirational ways to spend my christmas bonus...

[scoobysnax]

Following on from the handbag thread, I cannot imagine myself ever spending £700 on a handbag!!! I keep wondering idly what I would personally think would be a better application for that amount of money.

Any ideas? It being christmas time, I have a christmas bonus coming up and would like to do something inspirational, deep and meaningful with it this year!

[Forestfly]

Take me on holiday

[dsw]

And me!!! Christmas Bonus - what is that?? Send an email to my boss and tell please

[Hulababy]

What's a Christmas bonus????

Actually DH is just about to spend his bonus on the deposit for our holiday to Florida next summer

[twiglett]

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[scoobysnax]

I want to do something benevolent! It needs to be something I can do myself - a direct action sort of thing...

Not about stoking the fires of selfish materialism, more an antidote to that kind of thing...

Anyone have any ideas or am I on my own here!!!

[roscoe]

There's a great new scheme called "adopt-a-roscoe". You buy her chocolate and wine and send her on a luxury holiday. In return you get a nice postcard to show to all your friends.

[Forestfly]

Sponsor a forestfly?

[Forestfly]

Buy loads of gorgeous food and take it to the local soup kitchen, donate a fabulous prize to raffle at school.......do you mean that kind of thing,or something bigger?

[scoobysnax]

Unfortunately bonus insufficient to take you all on slap up holiday with wine, chocolate and spa treatments - anyway you know you'd hate it really...

[salt]

I can't remember the last time I got a christmas bonus ... must start looking for a new job in January.

[scoobysnax]

soup kitchen food idea is on the right lines, forestfly! But it also needs to have some humour injected in!

[scoobysnax]

There's a children's hospice near me, I wonder of there's something I could do there?

[Forestfly]

Humour, i dont know, buy everyone in your village a bottle of vodka and tell them all to meet up at the local park in drag

[twiglett]

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[Forestfly]

I want to get rid of all my boys toys before christmas as they'll be no room for the amount of crap they'll get. I was thinking of taking it to a childrens hospital

[roscoe]

A silly xmas party for the children and their families?

[scoobysnax]

:0 :0
would that make the world a nicer place?

[Forestfly]

How about all the elderly that are on there own over christmas you could buy them nice hampers?

[scoobysnax]

that wink was for forest fly's idea!

[scoobysnax]

Elderly people is a brilliant idea, they get lonely and forgotten - that's what it will be!

[SenoraPostrophe]

How about a few random acts of kindness?

My sister regularly pays the toll for the car behind her at bridges etc. for example. At least one recipient would deserve it!

[handlemecarefully]

I think for about £175 you can purchase a prosthetic limb for a landmine victim. Can't get much more worthy and inspirational than that.

If you are interested I will try and get you the details (will involve me thinking hard to remember where I read this and what the contact details for the charity concerned were...I think I might have read about it in Marie Claire of all places)

[scoobysnax]

Random acts of kindness is a brillian tone too.

I can take some old folk gifts and try to set them up on blind dates with each other or do old peoples speed dating perhaps...

[scoobysnax]

Prosthetic limbs would indeed be life changing - I was thinking of something in the UK but that does sound like a good idea...
not sure it lends itself to any humourous element mind you...

[roscoe]

Xmas karaoke for the local oldies?