If You Had $80,000 And Were 25 Years Old, Would You

I'd buy 30 hours of Wayne Rooney and not let him eat for any of it

I'd rather invest it in the Pen15 fund

it seems like a decent enough idea, although she should make her money and then get out while she can. It seems her profits all come from olds who certainly won't live forever.

They're replacing olds with new olds all the time I dunno if u heard

The new olds don't like what the old olds liked.

Granted but a subset of the new olds will be the new old version of hipsters

If you spent it all on pencils and sold them back at a modest profit to students of mine who've lost their pencil, you'd make your money back in six or seven weeks.

“I didn’t want it to be in a shopping neighborhood,” she says of the store, on Forsyth Street, above a restaurant, Birds & Bubbles, that specializes in champagne and fried chicken. “I didn’t want anything too polished. I like the idea that this shop kind of has to be discovered, that people seeking it out would be brought to a neighborhood that they might not usually come to."

one pencil a month for a year for $80

Birds & Bubbles, that specializes in champagne and fried chicken
Birds & Bubbles, that specializes in champagne and fried chicken
Birds & Bubbles, that specializes in champagne and fried chicken
Birds & Bubbles, that specializes in champagne and fried chicken

Read the article expecting/half-wanting to hate this obviously privileged person with a stupid idea, found myself warming to someone with seemingly a lot of passion and knowledge about a particular subject. I know it's a puff piece but still.. you do you, pencil seller.

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follow-up question: do you think it would have turned out better than not investing in pencils?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDKgo3jFwFE

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