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

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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-12/this-25-year-old-is-turning-a-profit-selling-pencils

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

Poll Results

OptionVotes
Something Else 16
Invest It In Pencils 5


― 龜, Thursday, 14 April 2016 22:09 (ten years ago)

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

― never had it so ogod (darraghmac), Thursday, 14 April 2016 22:11 (ten years ago)

I'd rather invest it in the Pen15 fund

― human life won't become a cat (man alive), Thursday, 14 April 2016 22:15 (ten years ago)

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.

― Check Yr Scrobbles (Moodles), Thursday, 14 April 2016 22:23 (ten years ago)

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

― never had it so ogod (darraghmac), Thursday, 14 April 2016 22:25 (ten years ago)

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

― nickn, Thursday, 14 April 2016 22:26 (ten years ago)

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

― never had it so ogod (darraghmac), Thursday, 14 April 2016 22:32 (ten years ago)

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.

― clemenza, Thursday, 14 April 2016 22:35 (ten years ago)

“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."

― sexy dander (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 15 April 2016 00:17 (ten years ago)

one pencil a month for a year for $80

― sexy dander (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 15 April 2016 00:17 (ten years ago)

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

― Interesting. No, wait, the other thing: tedious. (Trayce), Friday, 15 April 2016 00:20 (ten years ago)

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.

― emil.y, Friday, 15 April 2016 01:06 (ten years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Tuesday, 19 April 2016 00:01 (ten years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Wednesday, 20 April 2016 00:01 (ten years ago)

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

― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 20 April 2016 00:44 (ten years ago)

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

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― Wes Brodicus, Wednesday, 20 April 2016 05:40 (ten years ago)


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