Someone else posted about making an investment and I think, as an elder millennial, this is the right answer. However, they took a prudish and boring take on the matter, one which will almost assuredly back fire as youl get bored of it sitting in an IRA and probably lose it trying to “invest” your self in the rigged casino which is the stock market. Just, having been 19 myself once, I do remember what it’s like to have that kind of psychology. I strongly DONT recommend this form of investment for that age group, because it’s just not a good fit for most 19 year old personalities, and what matters the most is finding a good fit between your personality and what you want to do.

But you can expand your vision on what it means to “invest” that money.

15k is enough to start a small business. Not a big business mind you, but something. A pool cleaning business can be run out of the back of a used car or small truck. People also require the services of power washing, and while a high quality power washer isn’t cheap, it’s also not monumentally expensive either. Landscaping also fits this billet. 6k in tools, a 9k truck, and you’ve got a business that can sustain you. It also teaches you to manage yourself, your time, your customers and potentially other people as employees.

Another way to invest this money would be to buy land. I don’t know where you live, but you can buy 15k parcels of land in plenty of places: https://www.zillow.com/pahoa-hi/ . You could buy a lot, and go live the jungle life off the grid. Or build a cam ground for your family to visit. Or buy a yurt and live in it. Or buy it and do nothing and sell it later. Or buy it and build a house. Or whatever your hearts desire.

Owning a bit of land that you can develop into your own vision can be highly motivated, and there is still plenty of it if you know where to look. Places like Arizona, and new Mexico also have some really amazing deals for land. And don’t be afraid to look internationally. 15 k can get you into some interesting places in South America, Africa, Europe (Italy in particular) and Asia. This could be the start of a whole new adventure! And one that ends with you still owning a piece of land you could then sell at a later date as your goals and motivation changes.

Speaking of adventures… 15k isn’t infinite money, but with a frugal mindset and a spirit of adventure, you could easily travel the world for around a year on that much money. But ding dong, how is that an investment? By spending the time to travel or have meaningful personal experiences you are investing in yourself to find out who you really are. Having clarity and really finding out who you are, these things develop the kind of character that prevents you from making bad decisions down the line. Spending the time to find out what really motivated you, to develop friends from all over the world, to build stories and an identity that will last you a lifetime: these have a strong return on investment. And no one has ever said, “boy I sure do regret those years of my youth I spent tramping around the world when I was young and beautiful”.

So yes. Invest the money. Don’t waste it on groceries or a car that’s going to need gas and insurance and maintenance. Go big. Use it all for one thing, to express one idea. But also, consider a bigger vision of what that idea can be. There is no need to only listen to accountants who only ever plan in living for the brief period of their lives after they reach 65 years old.

The guys been a hate-mongering fixture on the right for around a decade. Far more prominent than Shapiro.

no, I meant marsh their mellow.

it’s slang for yucking some one else’s yumn.

This is the right answer. If you have a problem with the law, work to change the law. If they are consensual adults… it’s really their business.

There is nothing morally wrong about an age gap between consenting partners within the bounds of the law. It’s really wild to see how much shame this gets.

I had a very close personal friend describe herself as a “coffin robber”. And I promise they were more than attractive enough to get whomever they wanted within reason. Nor reason to marsh their mallow because it’s not something you personally would do.

Washing yourself in the shower, difficulty level “going to space”

The most straightforward path to world peace is to increase the global supply of energy to the point of negligibly low prices

I mean even ~133/kWh…

Whats an average, perhaps even gratuitous, level of consumption per household? 24kwh if you are running a clothes drier and an AC nonstop? Lets go nuts, say you are a DIY enthusiast and hosting your own servers, so 36kwh daily.

3192€-4788€ to be and you can be effectively energy independent with a small solar system.

Triple that and you are truly energy independent are any where south of the English channel. I mean obviously its money out of pocket, but its a fixed cost that you pay now, instead of a variable cost that continuously goes up. It just seems basic.

I mean… they are at ~$16/ kwh right now, so…

https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/CATL-75AH-220Ah-Grade-a-Sodium_1600972483761.html

No?

battery and solar at the home level is what makes the most sense.

60% of the planet lives between the subtropics and tropics. There is way more than plenty of sunlight hitting our earth to support all of our energy demands, and any naysaying around battery technology is missing the forest for the trees.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster_(manga)

30 year old vendetta against Microsoft.

I mean who doesn’t?

We will end up hiding in the refuges of deepfried and dank memes from site 19

Damn I kindof feel a certain way.

They’re will be no shrimpin in the champagne room

keeping shooting that shot Mr pidge

pink pony club

I’m genuinely surprised we haven’t seen Alex Jones enter the mukbang phase of his career to try and keep attention going his way.

The next video of him filming from his car, I expect to see no fewer than 40 Dorito loco tacos fom Taco bell in his dashboard.

Feel free to. The vines take ~5 years to get to full production and most of my vines are ~3-4 years old. The beans here are from my one patch of vines that is 4+ years old. I expect to have a fairly significant harvest next season (maybe a few hundred), and then a quite substantial (as in, several thousand beans) moving forwards from there. I’ve got around 150 vines coming online that should be entering their more productive phase next year.

There are some gardening and farming subs I post updates to and I was planning on posting a harvest update today/ tomorrow.

[note: I can’t send you my “finished” vanilla, because export restrictions on alcohol, although I could probably get away with it. But I can send you beans and instructions]