• Destide@feddit.ukEnglish
    29·
    10 days ago

    S&P 500. Apple for the tilt. If I have to live through the rest of that time withdraw a bit late 90s for a house lie on the mortgage application because you could.2008-2009 buy cheap houses to fund bitcoin sell bitcoin in 2020. Laugh in Boomer min max game

      • Destide@feddit.ukEnglish
        61·
        10 days ago

        Boring comment, let me just write up a 100% full manifesto on how I would do it! But to appease your contrarian everything has to be realife outlook I’d prob just add to the inheritance my dad left me in 89 as that was in S&S at the time then I’d go find myself and give me the fiancial advice I never got happy?

  • tiramichu@lemm.eeEnglish
    10·
    10 days ago

    Spend it on completely mundane and practical things like securing a place to live, and buying a suit to interview for a job - because 5k simply isn’t enough to make any immediate life-changing money on, even if you’re from the future.

    And I really need a place to sleep.

    5k might be quick money if I was a sports buff and could remember match results, or knew the exact dates of significant events, or remembered a bunch of old lottery numbers, but that’s not the case so it’s off the table.

    So yeah. Get a place. Get a suit (it’s 1990, you need a suit), Get a job, earn some money, and spend half my wage on shares in Microsoft and other companies I remember as doing well.

  • RebekahWSD@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    10 days ago

    Am I like. Here? I know who lived here and they would be concerned about random woman appearing in their master bedroom. Am I where I was in the 90s, so confusing past me but looking a lot like my parents so I might convince them what happened?

    Regardless my first thing to do is freak the fuck out.

      • ramble81@lemm.eeEnglish
        41·
        10 days ago

        Are you commenting on every single response to be a buzzkill?

      • RebekahWSD@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        10 days ago

        Oooh that makes it worse for me. I thought I was my current age but back in 1990. If I’m transported back to my body back then, I’m just straight fucked for awhile. I’m like…a toddler…

        However dad absolutely would take my toddler investing advice so. There’s that.

          • RebekahWSD@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            10 days ago

            Oh, sure. That’s also an issue. But where I am had restaurants and you can get into dishwasher there easy. It’s not the best but at least it’s something. I’m also white in a white area, it’ll be…okayish.

              • RebekahWSD@lemmy.worldEnglish
                2·
                10 days ago

                Ahhh, but all I have to do is wait a few years and meet the guy who would become my husband and be nice to him, and I’m in or something. I don’t have to wait long until he’s looking for a roommate in the 90s. Convince past me to fucking finish college and steal other me’s future husband.

                This sounds dystopian, but it all sounds bad in general, hence the “I freak the fuck out as my first action”

                Bank account is an issue. But yeah, there’s a large immigrant community here from a lot of places.

  • PennyRoyal@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    5·
    10 days ago

    Go find my school friend’s hot single mum who I always fancied and got on really well with, and live out some teenage fantasies

  • tetris11@lemmy.ml
    English
    5·
    10 days ago

    Immediately move abroad, buy a cheap flat in the centre of town to live in, and another to rent. Learn a new language, carry on life as usual

  • Secret Music@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    3·
    10 days ago

    Oof. I’d be me at the tail end of apartheid in my country. I’m going to assume (and hope) that this timeline magic also puts me in my home town of the vicinity of where I was at that time because then I’d at least know where to go to find the people I would want to be around. I’d go straight to where the alternative scene is and get in with the punks and goths and hippies, so that I’m at least around decent people. Might even meet some of the people that I knew when I got into the scene originally as their younger selves, which would actually be pretty cool.

    As for what I’d do to survive, honestly not sure, considering that I would still be the same age that I am now with the same lack of career and shit. I guess I’d just keep doing this or that for a while. With my limited knowledge, maybe invest a little in Microsoft, then Facebook at the appropriate times. Until Bitcoin is a new thing, then I’d definitely dump whatever cash I had into a few Bit oin. Then be rich enough to never worry about anything again at like 70 years old or something lol.

  • corsicanguppyEnglish
    3·
    9 days ago

    I have a year before a grievous back injury. I’d make a phone call and prevent that, I guess, and a other injury after that which was career-altering … but would that help me now?

    I guess I wouldn’t survive a plan with Bitcoin where I snap up a whack of them on day one.