engagement ring :)
better than my bitcoin investment...
Ask HN: What was your best $1000 investment?
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Re: Ask HN: What was your best $1000 investment?
#32My beloved book. My kids books. My cat.
Re: Ask HN: What was your best $1000 investment?
#33It feels like this question wants to be saying "what price did you buy bitcoin"? :-)
He said best investment, not luckiest :^)
Re: Ask HN: What was your best $1000 investment?
#34I bought a business/website while in school for about $400. This year I anticipate earning about 7-10k from that site.
It was a great investment for the financial return alone, but I also learned a lot about business, marketing, and the technical skills needed to run the website.
Re: Ask HN: What was your best $1000 investment?
#35This might not be the answer that you are looking for, but a good set of peripherals for my PC.
A good mechanical keyboard, 3 decent screens, a stand to mount them up high and make room on my desk, and a few other smaller things.
Those parts have done more for my career and sanity than anything else I could have spent my money on at the time.
I spend 40+ hours a week at or around this desk, I want it to be comfortable and work well for me. Not to mention that even if something makes me 1% more productive, it's worth it to spend $1000 a year on it and still "break even" in terms of cost (in theory)
Re: Ask HN: What was your best $1000 investment?
#36Buying a 1 year commitment to my gym; I went from a bad cholesterol of 421 to 189. Amazing drop, 3 months in and I've lost 30 pounds and significantly reduced my A1C and other factors. On target to lose 100 pounds.
Way to go!
Re: Ask HN: What was your best $1000 investment?
#37the first $1000 we saved for the down payment on our house
Re: Ask HN: What was your best $1000 investment?
#38This might not be the answer that you are looking for, but a good set of peripherals for my PC. A good mechanical keyboard, 3 decent screens, a stand to mount them up high and make room on my desk, and a few other smaller things. Those parts have done more for my career and sanity than anything else I could have spent my money on at the time. I spend 40+ hours a week at or around this desk, I want it to be comfortabl…
A good chair?
Re: Ask HN: What was your best $1000 investment?
#39Buying a 1 year commitment to my gym; I went from a bad cholesterol of 421 to 189. Amazing drop, 3 months in and I've lost 30 pounds and significantly reduced my A1C and other factors. On target to lose 100 pounds.
Did you change your diet at the same time or it was just gym?
Re: Ask HN: What was your best $1000 investment?
#40The AWS bill for my first personal website. Being able to say "I built a website on AWS" in 2009 was probably the reason I got my first job making >100k.