My future investments

So, My mom is going to let me use my $500 savings bond (now worth over $600) to get a new drumset. I am going to be selling my old on for $275. This is what I am going to be getting:

ddrum Defiant 7

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$500

Pearl DR-80 Drum Rack
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$180


And when I get money and get a job, these babies!

Axis AL2-CB Longboard Double Bass Pedal
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$545


God I love drums so much.

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Looks cool! I've always wanted to play the drums but I never got around to taking drumming lessons.
 
[quote name='david432111' post='2409669' date='Nov 23 2009, 08:53 AM']Looks cool! I've always wanted to play the drums but I never got around to taking drumming lessons.[/quote]

You should try, I love playing drums. I don't usually ever get bored playing them at all and you look sexy playing on all that sexy equipment. The only downfall is how expensive everything is :(
 
Damn that stuff is expensive! Looks awesome though ^^.

I had this phase when I wanted to play drums. Too bad I never got to actually play them. I am thinking of playing guitar though... Not electric... Like acoustic.
 
[quote name='Splych' post='2411275' date='Nov 24 2009, 04:17 AM']Damn that stuff is expensive! Looks awesome though ^^.

I had this phase when I wanted to play drums. Too bad I never got to actually play them. I am thinking of playing guitar though... Not electric... Like acoustic.[/quote]

Yeah, I finally picked up guitar, I have always been like "Ehhh, maybe I will play someday" then one day I picked up an electric and realized that I was pretty good at playing Death Metal :P so then I pick up Acoustic and my friend taught me some chords. I am still a noob at it though, I'm just glad I can play a little bit.


You should definitely pick up an instrument, it helps with boredom :P
 
It was either an Acoustic Guitar or a Piano. Still deciding, but it still seems like work to think xD
 
[quote name='Splych' post='2412488' date='Nov 24 2009, 11:10 PM']It was either an Acoustic Guitar or a Piano. Still deciding, but it still seems like work to think xD[/quote]

Piano is always schmexy. I love Piano
 
[quote name='PharaohsVizier' post='2412847' date='Nov 25 2009, 01:45 AM']Hey NeSchn, perhaps I'm sort of the ruin-the-day type, but ever think about reinvesting in bonds? I mean if you got $600 from a $500 investment, perhaps it'd be wise to sink that money back in? Or do what I do with good investments, put your original amount back in, and just spend the extras.

Although that drum set does look incredibly awesome. I didn't realize racks and stuff cost so much... XD

@Splych - I made the same decision a month or so back, I was thinking piano or guitar, just for the hell of it. The goal was to be able to play one or two songs just to say I know how to play an instrument. I went with acoustic guitar because it costed me $15 or something at a garage sale, plus its so much easier to bring around. Sort of fun to play from time to time, even if I absolutely blow at it, and still can't read sheet music remotely fast enough.[/quote]

I was thinking that but my mom is like "Oh our country is going to shit! I wouldn't put anymore money in bonds blah blah blah..." so basically she just told me to take it out, use it, and then put the rest in a bank or something and when I am 18 put it in the stock market or something. (Psst, I will probably be using it on the drumrack :P). But yeah, I thought about reinvesting but I also thought that if I get this drumset now, I won't be needing a new drumset for a very long long time. So in a way it is kinda investing because as drumsets get older, they tend to go up in price unless they are shitty ones like that one I have right now :P.

And yeah, I agree with you. Sheet music sucks, I still can read it at all, and I am in Jazz band. So I just make up my own stuff on the drums XD
 

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