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  • how far would you drive for $50

    If all you had to do was drive somewhere & not even stay 10mins how far would you drive for $50 15 miles 30 miles 45 miles 60 mile 75 mile or more???

  • #2
    Re: how far would you drive for $50

    I'd drive about 30 minutes each way. That is my ballpark including time and gas!

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    • #3
      Re: how far would you drive for $50

      188 miles total (94 miles each way) tops. And that's provided that I didn't have to shuffle any other plans to do it, drove in daylight and good weather, was driving open highways that I like, and if I had to drive someone it was only someone who's company I enjoyed.

      Lynda

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      • #4
        Re: how far would you drive for $50

        No further than 15-20 miles. Its already less than $50 because you have to burn gas to go get it. Factor in my time to go get it. Any further than that I would tell whoever it was to drop it in the mail!

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        • #5
          Re: how far would you drive for $50

          I would probably drive about 50 miles to get it.

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          • #6
            Re: how far would you drive for $50

            Hey, Snoopy, I'll send you a self-addressed stamped envelope and you can drop it in the mail to me. Or would you prefer to just make a PayPal payment?

            I don't know, I can't quite get my head around this question, unconnected to a _reason_ to go pick up $50. Even if it were only 15 miles away, I'd hope to have another reason to drive out that way. I rarely drive that far away unless I am leaving town. Most of my needs and desires are closer than 15 miles away.
            "There is some ontological doubt as to whether it may even be possible in principle to nail down these things in the universe we're given to study." --text msg from my kid

            "It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men." --Frederick Douglass

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            • #7
              Re: how far would you drive for $50

              With the motorbike, I'd ride 75 miles, 150 round trip.

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              • #8
                Re: how far would you drive for $50

                I do that every two weeks. I drive to Chinatown, Houston to save on Chinese groceries.

                It is about 120 miles there and 120 miles back. Granted, it is a very inefficient way to save money. However my family lives in Chinatown so I can visit them on the way.

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                • #9
                  Re: how far would you drive for $50

                  20 miles, and I'm so cheap I'd try to combine the trip with other errands

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