How to spend £200

Quite a lot

In certain areas of Leicester for example, £50 gets you a 'massage' in one of the 'massage parlours', and £150 is a hell of a lot of cocaine.

It's just common knowledge, like

£150 is like 3 grams of cocaine right? Not THAT much... Personally if I were to hire a hooker, I'd have to get at least 3. 1 at a time wouldn't be worth it.
 
Don't see why you would ever want to spend money when you're not sure on what you want to spend it on.

You'll regret it when you're £200 off whatever you actually want at a future date. (Or more, since you can invest it to make money).

If you really don't want £200, invest in some extremely high risk stuff, hoping to make a return many multiples of your £200. Even if you don't really care about £200, you would care about £2000, right?
 
drugs and hookers

MW

:p

How about some special edition of your favourite genre (be that music, books, films, whatever). No need to spend it all is there? When I know I want something I save / make way for it, but if I don't want something then I continue as is.

Sounds like you need a few weekends out on the tiles my friend!

((Much like me))
 
With the benefit of hindsight i'd have been more mindful of how compound interest worked at the age of 21, and saved hard right from the get go.

Still it's important to have fun, get something that will last you. Graphics cards, games and such are really transient things.

You could get a decent acoustic guitar for £200. That would be my recommendation.
 
Invest in a life insurance plan. You don't want to leave your loved ones with large expenses when you pop your clogs.

That's grim! I'm 21 on Wednesday!

At all the drugs comments,.. hmm.. fun but.. I don't think absolutely ruining myself for a few days is a great idea. I like the ideas of a guitar, and the PS3, and the Android tablet.

On the Android tablet idea... how good is the Nexus Desire Z? Wooosh, I really would save and buy that next month if it wasn't so expensive. It's like £400+ without contract ( i'm locked into orange atm with my HTC Hero which breaks every other day - 4 replacements! ). I don't think I want to spend like £400+ on a phone though.

£250 on a tablet,.. sounds pretty good! I love android stuff aswel, learning Java at Uni which means I can make apps for it. I'm currently working on a few projects.

@ sldsmkd "With the benefit of hindsight i'd have been more mindful of how compound interest worked at the age of 21, and saved hard right from the get go.

Still it's important to have fun, get something that will last you. Graphics cards, games and such are really transient things.

You could get a decent acoustic guitar for £200. That would be my recommendation. ". I like these suggestions. I maybe should save it, but.. I have some savings and hell,.. I'm going to leave uni in debt, almost everyone does, I don't think that saving a little will make a huge difference, I want to enjoy it now / over the next few years. My reasoning is that hopefully, if the market for computer scientists stays the same I should be able to land an ok job when I leave. Who knows though, maybe not.

@ the buy a gun comment. I always wanted to learn archery, I would like to buy a bow and arrow, as in,.. a proper one.. but, I guess we have laws that are going to ruin that for me? Does anyone know?
To be honest, I don't think in the small garden we have here a full sized bow and arrow is a particularly good idea.. but maybe archery lessons.
 
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