Our company gives out length of service awards for every 5 years of service, I get my 15 year award in a couple of weeks and the gift is a £500 allowance to treat yourself with, the odd thing is that you have to buy it youself and send in a receipt and the company reimburses you. The item can be anything, a meal, weekend away, club membership, ipad etc. but you must get a receipt for the claim, the gift can be more that £500 but that's all they will reimburse you.
There's always stuff needs buying like new tyres for the car, clothes, shoes, fix the shower etc. but the idea is that you buy yourself a gift to keep like a watch or a carriage clock or some shit like that. I don't wear a watch and carriage clocks are for grannies.
it's not enought for a PRS DGT and any pedals I buy would eventually be sold off on the conveyor belt of gear sales, although it's tempting to treat myself to a Strymon Timeline...
What would you buy yourself with a £500 gift?
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1. timber to build a deck area off the workshop
2. A Zilla 2x12
3. All of my winter heating fuel
4. New alloys for my car
5. New clothes (since going full time self employed I haven’t exactly had the money to replace all the clothes I’ve wrecked)
6. New tools for the workshop
7. An overnight shopping trip somewhere for me and my wife
8. A trip to go and see a sister I’ve never met before
9. Finally get my sons room plastered and decorated
10. Buy stock and supplies for the business
11. Buy the the last 3 remaining oak doors for my house
12. Get new fitted blinds for all the windows
I could go on and on but it might become an even more tedious read
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Nice dilemma to have @RandallFlagg . Choose carefully
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I bought a DSLR and then gave it to my son for his art and photography college course.
Particularly liked this reportage https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymouth-news/monkey-dust-users-smell-prawns-1903187.amp
Or just buy a Faith acoustic.
I remember my birthday in Feb this year was such a non-event I said to myself that I would go away with the wife and kids next year...
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
Or an Effectrode Blackbird or similar valve pre-amp, maybe. I'd also consider something like an H9 or Helix multi-effects.
I'd also consider a new camera. My current mirrorless is flaky, and I'd like something full-frame. I could just about manage that second hand for that price.
I said maybe.....