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175, 000 dollars isn't a lot of money.

posted 15 years ago by nyxxie
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So Nancy's step father dies and they get 175,000 dollars and they buy an pretty large apartment on a high floor with a pretty amazing view of the city. Along with that Nancy buys a red convertible.

Even in 1996 their money would be totally gone after that. Very stupid investment.

What should have happened is they find a pretty reasonable priced house and a inexpensive car.

This part of the movie bugs the hell out of me. But I guess it makes sense since Nancy is completely insane.

[–] LittleQTee14 15 years ago

look at how they lived before.
175,000 dollars was a lot to them.
and they portrayed it by buying extravagant things. though not very realistic, it got its point across.
they were all doing things to improve their lives

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[–] kn84 15 years ago

I thought it was rented? No?

[–] Lokisgodhi 10 years ago

I'm sure it was rented. I think the key here is apartment. If they had owned it I think they would have said condominium or co-op, not apartment. Condo and co-ops are owned, apartments are rented.

kn84 wrote: I thought it was rented? No?

[–] ChemicalCousin 15 years ago

No.

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[–] Warmfire 15 years ago

I thought the same thing. Plus, they were supposed to be in Los Angeles. No way $175K would buy that nice place in a high-rise let alone a nice car. The amount should have been something like $500,000. Then it might have made more sense.

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[–] Warmfire 15 years ago

Obviously in reality no one(i hope) would be as daft to blow that amount of money on a new property, car;without the financial means to upkeep the property/car etc.

You're in for quite a surprise.

If the intent was to show drastic change, then they should have upped the amount. It would have been easy to do.

[–] flansysoda 14 years ago

I doubt that loser would have been worth 175K in the first place, dead or alive. He couldn't even pay a bill, even when his wife gave him money--he was totally useless, and it didn't seem like he worked at all, let alone for a company (I'm not sure if they mentioned which company it was in the movie) that would offer that kind of pension.

[–] Definition00 14 years ago

It was life insurance wasn't it.

[–] CaptainStrange 14 years ago

They were white trash. Hand somebody that trashy $175,000 and they're going to think they're rich.

We're looking at getting a huge settlement in the near future. Much larger than $175,000. Know what we're going to spend it on? Paying off debt. That's it. The rest will go in savings of some form.

[–] Nellaberry 9 years ago

like 260 now. 100K now was back then. nuff to buy all of that

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[–] MrsMonroe74 14 years ago

I think they should have bought a resonable priced house too & been done with it.

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[–] Room_On_Fire 14 years ago

14 years ago, that was like half a million.

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[–] x-nim-pyrate-x 14 years ago

It's easy to blow a whole load of money when you've lived with virtually nothing.

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[–] patronizing_bunnyrabbits 14 years ago

Not exactly. Fourteen years ago, that would have been slightly less than quarter million, not a half million.

They would have likely used up every cent, but it's entirely possible that they bought the condo, the couch, the jukebox, the car, & maybe some clothes.

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[–] Room_On_Fire 14 years ago

I was exaggerating. I didn't do the math but I knew things now weren't worth three times as much back then.

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[–] Viltrumite 14 years ago

I guess the apartment wasn't a bad investment if they bought it, even if they had nothing left after purchasing it. If times get tough, they could sell it, if the market goes up, they could sell it. I just hope they weren't renting, because that would be idiotic.

[–] jaiblue25 10 years ago

But it all comes back to income. Sure, if you were to travel back in time with the "income of today" you'd be better off financially (and yes, I know you could get into the economically difficult side, depending on the country, but you know what I am trying to say). Things weren't any cheaper then than they are now because cost of living, inflation, wages change. Sure gas was $1 in 1995 (Good times:) But even then we thought that was expensive haha.

[–] pioneergrrrl (2389) 5 years ago

if you are dirt poor and a high schooler in 1996 who does not have to pay bills of any kind it is. They never ever get into how Nancy is able to attend what is apparently a private religious school (scholarship?) at the very least she'd be kicked out for conduct unless she is a good student academically.