31 Things We’d Do If We Were Debt-Free & Had Well-Paying Jobs

…buy a Bentley! …charter a private jet! More like, um… afford food? Seriously, as twenty-somethings, we’re all a little strapped for cash. With rising education costs, increased cost of living and high unemployment, particularly for Millennials, sometimes it helps to take a mental vacation from counting our pennies and imagine what life would be like to live in the land of positive bank account balances. Here’s what we’d do if we were debt-free and had well-paying jobs.

1. Buy a house and decorate it with real adult things like matching kitchenware, padded patio chairs and 800 thread count sheets.
2. Take more vacations.
3. Go to a restaurant and not immediately look for the cheapest item on the menu.
4. Pad that savings account like Scrooge McDuck.
5. Mail more gifts to far-away friends.
6. Have a closet full of clothes for every possible occasion.
7. Make sure the car was always in tip-top shape.
8. Buy food that isn’t ramen.
9. Never eat ramen again.
10. Pay for haircuts.
11. Buy the good toilet paper.
12. Meander through Anthropologie.
13. Sleep soundly.
14. Binge-buy all of the high-quality makeup (Urban Decay, Lorac, NARS, Mac) and set up a gorgeous makeup counter with lots of little drawers and lights.
15. Buy a small house with a big yard and adopt lots of cats and dogs from the shelter, and then take wicked awesome care of them.
16. Pay off our student loans.
17. Peruse the cheese aisle and take home loads of delightful local and foreign cheeses to eat with little crackers while sipping wine on the back porch in the evening.
18. Avocados galore!
19. Get fallopian tubes cut/burned/immobilized – i.e. no babies please.
20. Acquire some of those designer jeans that really and truly can be made to fit tall or short people.
21. Have a desktop AND a laptop computer.
22. Buy movies instead of finding skeezy back-alley ways to get our grimy hands on them.
23. Build big, beautiful bookshelves, filled to the brink with books of all kinds, that dominate our houses in only the very best way.
24. Those dresses that Margaery Tyrell and Daenerys Targaryen wear in “Game of Thrones?” We WANT them. Those qualify as business-casual, right?
25. Laser hair removal, anyone?
26. Have a garage that we can stash our cars in during hail storms and other dubious weather.
27. Keep the air conditioning below 75 degrees Fahrenheit during the summers in the South without fear of an electric bill retribution.
28. Always buy hardback books.
29. Eat four-course meals (with specials!) at our favorite restaurants without thinking twice.
30. Buy a Tesla aka an “Intergalactic SpaceBoat of Light and Wonder” and feel smug about saving the planet slightly more.
31. Move to the UK, buy a Land Rover Defender to drive us in and out of our hermit estate in the Highlands.

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