Official Tax Return/Bonus/Raise Show and Tell

[WormGod]

How about a fun little thread where where we share our new OT "toys" with fellow forum cultists. Always pretty fun to see what people do with their funds and what they interests are. Bet this kinda thing gets REALLY interesting after tax returns.

This past week, I received my bonus from last year and with small chunk of it, I took delivery on my new weekend plinker.

Bushmaster AR-15 .223Rem/5.56NATO

http://www.kscch.com/Bushmaster1.jpg

(pic from web, not mine)

Have yet to have plink any rounds off with it yet, only got around to giving it it's first good cleaning. Really looking forward to firing some rounds down range with it though. Currently looking for a new forearm and optics for it.

[JAMAS]

I got a washing machine with my tax return.....


do you guys really want to see pictures???

:):)

[samneil2000]

I planned my family vacation to the beach (FL panhandle area) in June. I'll post some pics of me in my speedo after the trip takes place. :p

[vt_maverick]

Got a nice bonus this year so we're finally paying off some credit card debt that we incurred paying for our daughter's ICU stay, start-up costs from moving into a house, and getting screwed on selling my wife's car (she was an E-3 at the time she bought it, and the O-4 who sold it to her neglected to mention the frame damage that didn't show up on the CarFax report, so we lost $6500 on trade-in - I swear to God I'll beat his *** if I ever see him again).

Hoping to pick up a new set of tires and rims in the next month or so... can't wait to post pics!

[MSHardeman]

No pickies...yet, but part of my tax refund is paying for new summer shoes and a timing belt/water pump swap.

[erland]

I am not getting a refund, so I get to go further in debt.:nogray:

[Triathlete]

My refund is my yearly race trip/vacation funding. First part of it will pay for my trip to Coronado this weekend for Superfrog (http://www.superfrogtriathlon.com/index.html) and then a trip to Vegas in November for Silverman (http://www.silvermannv.com/)....



....and hopefully enough to get me to Moab!:bwgy:

[Mile High VX]

I am not getting a refund, so I get to go further in debt.:nogray:

X 2 and no bonus from work...but no more debt either.

Even so still taking my family on a Summer cruise...my wife is graduating with her Masters in Education and it's our 30th anniversary.

Really blessed to have them...:bgwo::bgwb::bwgy::smilewink

[RickOKC]

My refund is going toward the "Official VX Initial Purchase Fund."

[VX KAT]

My refund is going toward the "Official VX Initial Purchase Fund."
I hear that investment fund has a really great rate of return! Return on investment is pure fun!!! :thumbup:

[ZEUS]

I can't decide if I should pay off my VX with my tax return or if I should buy goodies. I have too many projects and vehicles to know what to do...

[vt_maverick]

I can't decide if I should pay off my VX with my tax return or if I should buy goodies. I have too many projects and vehicles to know what to do...

Well assuming you're going to do both no matter what, better to buy goodies in cash and keep a (hopefully) low interest auto loan, vice credit card-ing goodies at a much higher rate.

Just my $.02. :)

[Ascinder]

I have one of these you can have for the cost of shipping if you want. The project I got it for went another direction and I couldn't use it. It's been collecting dust ever since.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31cqG-yATFL._SS500_.jpg

[ZEUS]

Well assuming you're going to do both no matter what, better to buy goodies in cash and keep a (hopefully) low interest auto loan, vice credit card-ing goodies at a much higher rate.

Just my $.02. :)Yeah, yer prolly right. I've GOTTA sell it soon anyway... 02-04 GMC Sierra Denali w/ Quadrasteer will be replacing my VX this year! :yeso: Army truck parts it is! Thanks Mav!

[Ldub]

Get a little pre Moab ink with the munny uncle has been keepin' for me INTREST FREE...:upsetgray

I mean, SERIOUSLY...why use valuable Moab party time sittn' in the local tat parlor, when you can get it done before the reunion...:yesgray:

I'm tryin' to talk my ink guy into coming to Moab with his rig (both ink & off road) in the next year or two (not this year) for anyone interested...:naughty:

This is only a few hours old, so it's still a little red...:mbrasd:

http://www.vehicross.info/gallery/data/500/DSC04370hf.jpg

[rowhard]

Larry, that can't be your arm, there is no skull

[Ldub]

Larry, that can't be your arm, there is no skull

Skully is on the right...:smilewink

And whaddya call that thing with the eye sockets & fangs in it, that looks like a snake head...:_thinking

Snakes have skulls...& feelings too...:yesgray:

[VX KAT]

I'm tryin' to talk my ink guy into coming to Moab with his rig (both ink & off road) in the next year or two (not this year) for anyone interested...:naughty:
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You got an "ink guy"? Last yr you didn't even have a single tat...now you got an ink guy? :eek:

OK, gotta admit, it looks pretty kool! :thumbup:

[Ldub]

[I]You got an "ink guy"? Last yr you didn't even have a single tat...now you got an ink guy? :eek:

OK, gotta admit, it looks pretty kool! :thumbup:

I've had an ink guy in the arsenal years before I got any, he was one of my co workers in the cabinet shop.
I felt kinda bad coming back to FGO with ink that wasn't his last year, but he understood the peer pressure involved, & consented to give me my second inking...:smilewink...:laughing:

[VX crazy]

Many many years ago a really hot guy at my tattoo place pierced me, I was gonna go back and get more piercings just to stalk him, I should have just asked him to MOAB.....duh, dub you have all the great ideas!!

[WormGod]

I love tats, but I can't get one. Being an artist, I get tired of looking at the same work over and over. I would get something I loved, and a week later, I would be tired of it. Considered getting one of my back, that would be tough to see, so I wouldn't be able to see it enough to get tired of it.

Had something like this in mind for a couple years now....

http://www.philholtsf.com/blog/tattoos/biomech-spine-tattoo.jpg

.... but still unsure.

On another note, a few more tax and bonus toys arrived.

Track/summer tires for the STi - Dunlop Direzzas

BlackTop Aero spoiler replacement for my STi

Swift springs for the STi

A crap-ton of Magpul gear for my AR and shooting fun. ;)

1000 rds of ammo for the AR

And sadly, nothing for the VX, since she is going to be in the shop soon. She gets repairs, not fun toys. :(

[So-CalVX]

got my lift, rimz n tyrez with my tax return... $1200 came and went real quick

http://www.vehicross.info/gallery/data/500/thumbs/IMG_03581.JPG (http://www.vehicross.info/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=17538)

[tom4bren]

Wifey told me that if I touched the tax return this year that I'd be pullin back a stump.

I later found out that she used it to get us a trip to England/Ireland/Scotland for my birthday.

But ...

I get to tell her that if she touches the 10 tax return, she'll be pullin back a stump. I'll get her a trip to Moab 11 for her birthday next year:)

[VX KAT]

Wifey told me that if I touched the tax return this year that I'd be pullin back a stump.

I later found out that she used it to get us a trip to England/Ireland/Scotland for my birthday.

But ...

I get to tell her that if she touches the 10 tax return, she'll be pullin back a stump. I'll get her a trip to Moab 11 for her birthday next year:)

Boy Tom, yer such a sensitive and thoughtful guy.....well, not the part about chopping her hand off, but the other part, you know....:goof:

[LittleBeast]

Many many years ago a really hot guy at my tattoo place pierced me, I was gonna go back and get more piercings just to stalk him, I should have just asked him to MOAB.....duh, dub you have all the great ideas!!

Lisa, haha, wow ;)


I love tats, but I can't get one. Being an artist, I get tired of looking at the same work over and over. I would get something I loved, and a week later, I would be tired of it. Considered getting one of my back, that would be tough to see, so I wouldn't be able to see it enough to get tired of it.


I am right there with you, I could never get something that permanent, heck I don't even like some of my freckles ;)



Had something like this in mind for a couple years now....

http://www.philholtsf.com/blog/tattoos/biomech-spine-tattoo.jpg


Oh wow, that guy has a tramp stamp too!!!!!! HAHAHAHAHA, major fail on the tramp stamp on a dude, rofl!

[tom4bren]

Boy Tom, yer such a sensitive and thoughtful guy.....well, not the part about chopping her hand off, but the other part, you know....:goof:

I'm all bark & no bite ... she'll be fine.

I'm sure I'll hafta suppliment the trip wit sum BLING!!!

[nfpgasmask]

This is hilarious, mostly because like you Worm, I blew my bonus this year the day it landed in my bank account on this:
http://www.downrange.tv/artman2/uploads/1/stoeger.jpg
http://www.ammoland.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Stoeger-Double-Defense-Shotgun.jpg

I took the rails of mine though because it is kinda silly to put that crap on a side-by-side.

:D Bart

[Ascinder]

I took the rails of mine though because it is kinda silly to put that crap on a side-by-side.

You'll be seeing RIS' on muzzleloaders and pirate pistols next...maybe even one on a swiss army knife:?::_shrug:;wtf;

[WormGod]

That's a wild little bugger Bart. Looks like it means big business in a small frame, heh. My AR goodies came in the mail today so I am giddy to get my day over with to get home and fit them up.

[nfpgasmask]

That's a wild little bugger Bart. Looks like it means big business in a small frame, heh. My AR goodies came in the mail today so I am giddy to get my day over with to get home and fit them up.

The question is, how far do you have to drive to shoot? I can shoot within 15minutes of my house!! :D :D :D

Bart

[RabidPony]

I was wanting to do lift and tires for my VX but ended up getting a new king bed, 42" plasma for the bedroom, and one of the Splinter Cell Xbox 360's for the living room and put the other one on the plasma in the bedroom. Oh yeah, and a new GPS.

[Ldub]

You'll be seeing RIS' on muzzleloaders and pirate pistols next...maybe even one on a swiss army knife:?::_shrug:;wtf;

I just love being given the opprotunity to use this pic again...:laughing:

Thanx Beau...:thanx:

http://www.vehicross.info/gallery/data/500/ultimate-gun.jpg

[WormGod]

The question is, how far do you have to drive to shoot? I can shoot within 15minutes of my house!! :D :D :D

Bart

Got ya beat. The range I usually go to is literally 3 miles from my house. Only 1 stop sign away. I can hear the best of the badda-booms from my deck. ;)

http://www.cresaprifleclub.com/

It's a little backwoods'ish and dumpy, but ANY range in MD is a good enough one for me.... this damned paranoid state.

The better, longer down-range ranges I have to travel a bit.

Dubs, you laugh, but there was a dude 2 weeks ago at the range that showed up with something very similar. He scared the living hell out of me and I do not think he was very mentally stable. Imagine a creepy heavy set dude in his 50's, with long hair in a ponytail sticking out of a DC Comics ballcap, a bunch of comic pins decorating his jean jacket, and SWAT style Magnum boot w/ recon blue military cargo pants tucked in them. He had NEVER fired the gun but spent the last year building it. Also said he hasn't fired a gun in almost 20 years. I fear he is gearing up for something.... like a raid on the comic store to acquire Spiderman #1. :bgwo:

[ZEUS]

I got ya all beat - in my neighborhood we just walk outside and start shooting! :bgwo:

Got ya beat. The range I usually go to is literally 3 miles from my house. Only 1 stop sign away. I can hear the best of the badda-booms from my deck. ;)

http://www.cresaprifleclub.com/

It's a little backwoods'ish and dumpy, but ANY range in MD is a good enough one for me.... this damned paranoid state.

The better, longer down-range ranges I have to travel a bit.

Dubs, you laugh, but there was a dude 2 weeks ago at the range that showed up with something very similar. He scared the living hell out of me and I do not think he was very mentally stable. Imagine a creepy heavy set dude in his 50's, with long hair in a ponytail sticking out of a DC Comics ballcap, a bunch of comic pins decorating his jean jacket, and SWAT style Magnum boot w/ recon blue military cargo pants tucked in them. He had NEVER fired the gun but spent the last year building it. Also said he hasn't fired a gun in almost 20 years. I fear he is gearing up for something.... like a raid on the comic store to acquire Spiderman #1. :bgwo:

[Ldub]

Dubs, you laugh, but there was a dude 2 weeks ago at the range. I do not think he was very mentally stable. Imagine a creepy heavy set dude in his 50's, with long hair in a ponytail...

Skite...I resemble that remark...:yesgray:...:laughing:

A LOT!

[Ascinder]

Possibly the only gun in the world without an RIS-because it's so cool, it doesn't need one:

http://geek.thinkunique.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/silver_wolf.jpg

LINK (http://geek.thinkunique.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/silver_wolf.jpg)

[Cobrajet]

I got ya all beat - in my neighborhood we just walk outside and start shooting! :bgwo:Your profile says SLC. When did you move to DC?? :bwgy:

[etlsport]

nothing to show for it, but monday my VX should be going to the shop to finally get the roof repaired (rust around the windshield thats been leaking for about 2 years now)

[pbkid]

this is what i bought with my tax returns....... :naughty:
http://www.vehicross.info/gallery/data/3249/0414101447-00.jpg
http://www.vehicross.info/gallery/data/3249/0414101458-00.jpg

[WormGod]

Your profile says SLC. When did you move to DC?? :bwgy:

That would be Baltimore nowadays. Riff-raff in DC has been lazy lately. :bgwb: