My plan is to write a check for it purchase and leave it with the broker. It would take at least a full week for it to be processed at the bank… haha- that was the kind of money habits I had- how to float a check was quickly learned.
If you had an existing brokerage account, you could have. Computerized trading was a thing then. My dad was an active investor and would have gotten right on that tip.
Even today E*trade takes days to settle an executed order. I guess you’d have to figure out what happens to your account when you don’t touch it for 38 years.
My store was right next to an Olde Discount Stock location. I used to stop by on my lunch hour sometimes, and make a stock purchase.
Dabbled in penny stocks until I learned my lesson 🙄
Did that in the early 90s when it looked like the company was circling the drain. My dad was an engineer there, and I thought I was either helping pay his last paycheck or making a good financial move.
I truly wish I had dropped my whole paycheck on that whim. I mean, it’s a chunk of my “retirement” cash, but I could be retired now if I dropped an entire paycheck.
In 1990 I had to do a stock investment project in my high school class. We had pick what stocks we’d invest $10k in and track it over the semester. My dad was into the stock market at the time and thought it’d be fun to take real money, and invest it, and I could keep the profits. Being a typical teenage at the time, I was like “meh, whatever.”
My “safe” stock was Disney. The other two were this mail order computer company called Dell, and a little company no one in my class had heard of called Adobe.
A graduate student teacher of mine in 1996 told me that it was not a matter of if, but when Apple would be completely toast. This was just before Steve came back.
I should’ve bought the stock. I considered it.
Remember when Jobs was giving a Keynote and had to introduce Bill Gates to the audience? I think it was when Apple was still PowerPC chips. MS had just invested $100m in Apple to help save it (and to possibly disprove the appearance of any marketplace monopolies).
That’s about the price I paid. Even a relatively few shares I bought have turned into a decent bit of cash after a bunch of stock splits.
Heck. The shares I got as part of the employee purchase plan at the beginning of my time there in 2010 have had a good run. There was a 7 for 1 split in 2014 that has done wonders for my account.
I worked at McAfee in the 90s and made good money on the stock there. Put a lot into Dell instead of Apple and just made a good return rather than the great one that Apple would have been. If I had just listened to myself instead of my broker at the time, I could have made a killing. Oh well.
Lets be honest. Would our younger selves actually listen to us? My teenage self would call me a sellout and tell me to piss off. And not pay attention at all so I'd still make the same mistakes.
12 year old me was always on the lookout for messages from the future. I'm sure I'm not the only one who would be unsurprised by a visit from future self. I had even worked out tests to verify if it was me.
Agree! This sub is like the old Reddit where every post was either legitimately teaching something by a qualified person or these witty posts and chains of retorts that keep me laughing and optimistic that there are still plenty of clever people out there.
Wait, say again, I had the water running sorry.
Lmao I'm so deaf I drive myself nuts with all the what's, pardon me, sorry I'm deaf AF what was that?
Thanks music.
Ahhh bit which apple stock. One will crash the other will skyrocket. Apple had two arms back then dealing with diffrent things.... And the one you think will be the winner wasn't...
Well, I would have to float a check to even buy stock back then. One of you math whizzes please tell me what $100 in Macintosh or Microsoft shares would be worth today please? If I’m going to fantasize about this more, I’d like some details please.
Hopefully you'll of had chance to check the name of the stock becouse it's not called apple :) and your stuck in the 80s with no way to check via Internet and only 24 hours find some money research the name of Macintoshs stock options, hire a broker ect.
It's also in very different sectors.
This was a thought experiment in college. it always seems easy till you look at the actual logistics.
I guess it's doable if you know ahead of time you're going to 1985 and have time to research. Otherwise yeah you'd probably waste the whole time trying to figure out how to invest in Apple.
Bill gates was going around to mom and pop computer stores selling investments allocations into Microsoft.
I was working part time at one, a dumb 16 year old kid, thought the shirt dork in a sears suit was nuts.
So, I didn’t invest.
Total dumbasss.
I was only 7, but I would too. Or just listen to my mom when she told me to save. Every $ I got from family in a birthday or Christmas card I’d put straight into the bank.
I never had enough extra money to open up retirement or savings accounts, though I am very fortunate to have a pension plan through the state I worked for.. I think it’s hilarious how millennials think we had it so much better than them. When I married my husband was making $135 a week. I have two advanced degrees and worked for 27 years in the same career and my son made more money straight out of college than I did after 27 years.
Breaking up with that shitty boy I stayed with for 3 fucking years! Or never going out with him in the first place… depends on which day I go back to….
Writing down all the post 1990 song lyrics and recording myself singing what parts I can remember. Then learning to play a guitar and claiming all those songs as my own. Guess who wrote Smells Like Teen Spirit? This guy. Guess who wrote Wonderwall? That’s right, this guy.
Outside of the obvious stock purchases, I’d make up with my Dad- instead of not talking to him for 35 years- and give my kids a chance at knowing their grandpa.
He left my mother and lied about his whereabouts while he was re-establishing his new life. I was angry about the divorce itself and the way he handled it…..partly because at one point I ran away to find him and was headed to the wrong coast based on his misinformation.
Going to the mall!!
I'm going to Ferrells for lunch, later an orange Julius, then Contempo Casuals and buying all the clothes my monster never would, then buying some music from Tower records, smoking cigs and getting loaded!! Would be so much fun to go back for a day.
Investing $1000 in Apple in 1985 would be worth approximately $1,608,320 today.
The same investment in Microsoft in 1986 would be worth about $15,379,748.57 now.
I’m with Patton Oswalt. I’d kill George Lucas with a shovel.
Call me a poindexter all you want. I was too big and wrestle-y to beat the nerd out of then, and we’re all to afraid to hurt more at our age now. Plus we’ve got to work in the AM
Star Wars ended with the original expanded universe.
The Mandalorian can play too.
So many people that are no longer here that I want to go see and hug!!! Also, I would like to advise myself again the perm that I’m going to get the next year. Ugh.
I turned 17 that summer and I had my first tastes of freedom, responsibility, and my own car. I met people and made enough reckless choices that didn't harm me in the long run while being thrilling for that time. I have no regrets.
I'm still angry and disappointed he turned out to be a piece of shit. I loved his work and he made regular appearances on The Electric Company where I learned a big chunk of reading. It feels like betrayal.
This whole branch of conversation proves that just because he was personally flawed, even egregiously so, it doesn't take the positive things away from the good work he did. The man did a lot with his talents that benefitted a lot of people, and that doesn't change because he also did things that damaged others with the power that afforded him. No more than the good he did takes away from the damage he caused...
A person's deeds are no less good or evil by the measure of their other deeds. Each act is one unto itself with its own consequence. If we decide all good things anyone does are erased by those things we don't like, we are doomed to disappointment in everyone, and the idea that anyone can atone is folly. There have surely been many great things done by horrible people, and horrible acts committed by good folks all the time. No one is perfect, so what advantage is there to measuring a deed by the doer?
Easy Reader and Dr. Huxtable and many others are his contributions to the world. The value of those is not diminished by Cosby's failings as a man. We don't read less well because of them.
What if Superman only saved people because he was actually as narcissistic as Homelander but we just never know that?
I memorized so many of his original comedy albums, that I feel torn when I remember them:
Here’s Noah, working in his shop:
“Voopa-voopa-voopa”
“Ding!”
“Who’s that?”
“It’s the Lord, Noah…”
Have a long talk with young me. Things at home were already bad, but they were about to get worse in 86. I think I handled it all pretty well in the end ( maybe not so great during) but I could sorely have used some guidance then and in the years after. Life ended up pretty good (now) but it took a long, roundabout way to get there and I could maybe have been ok sooner, or tried things I didn't have the confidence to do, but now know I totally could have done.
On the other hand, being in a specific place at a specific time brought my husband into my life and I wouldn't trade him for anything. I can directly trace the events that brought me there over quite a few years, so idk- maybe meeting him is one of those things that took a particular life path. But yeah, all hell was about to break loose in 85. It makes me sad and kind of melancholy to think of what was coming for young me. I didn't bow down to that shit, so there is that.
Giving my Grandma a great big hug and telling her how much I love her. Then I'd get out my tape recorder and tape all of her stories from when she was a kid/young adult going through WWI, The Great Depression, WWII, Korea and Vietnam. She had her husband in WWI-he came back a very different 21 year old than the 19 year old who entered the war at America's entrance into it. The horrors he saw pretty much destroyed him and he only got through it by being a raging drunk which ended up killing him when he was in his 70's. His father lived to be 103 and only died cos he fell off his roof while sweeping snow off of it after an early, wet snow. He got up like he was fine-went inside and made his dinner and went to bed--and never woke up. His mom was in her 90's when she passed. Grandpa-the person he should have been-died over there in the bloody, muddy trenches in 1918. He had to fight his own government in Washington D.C. to get his pay and benefits he was entitled to.
Sorry I'm rambling, but you asked. LOL. I miss my grandparents...can you tell?
That is an incredible story. I've read and studied quite a bit about The First World War over the years as I just can't imagine what absolute hell on Earth it must have been. What unit did you Grandpa serve in?
I have no idea. He never talked about it with me-he died in 1973, ten days before Christmas. I do know from talking with my uncles, his sons, that he was gassed in the trenches in France and went to some small town near Paris to recuperate. He was there when the war ended and he stayed for awhile longer helping the nuns of an Abbey (or whatever they're called in France) repair the place. Grampa said that in the basements of all the buildings they found the bodies of A LOT of tiny babies. The only people allowed in those Abbeys are the nuns and priests. That was the last time my Grandpa stepped foot in a church until he was wheeled into one at his funeral service.
The 1900's were a real bitch, man.
Finding my 17 year old self and telling him/me to invest every spare penny into Microsoft, Apple, and something called google. Stay out of New York in 2001, New Orleans in 2005 and Israel in 2023.
Buy Apple Stock. Hug my parents, my grandparents, my friends, and my pets. Tell 11-year-old me about inattentive ADHD. Explain to little me that I am enough as I am, that eating disorders are not weight management plans, and that my parents are imperfect and a little crazy, but they don’t have to make me crazy, and I will end up in a good place with people who love me.
Depending on how the scenario plays out, regardless; I'm finding my father, hugging him as hard as I can, for as long as I can and thanking him profusely. He is the reason I've made it to where I am in life. I'd also go find my mother and let her know what a disappointment she is going to be to the entire family, if she doesn't get her head out of her ass. Pointless, but I'd do it anyway.
With that being said, if I'm the age I am now....
After that, if I am full-on debauchery and setting myself (family and unborn family) up financially. Most likely gambling on events that I know the outcome of then investing in Teva Pharmaceutical Industries (TEVA), UnitedHealth (UNH), and Vista Gold (VGZ), then retirement fund, high interest CD's and whatnot.
If I'm the age I was in 1985, I'd go ride my bike with my childhood friends, search for crawdads in the creek, go annoy my sister while she's on the phone, then (still financially minded, even as a kid) I'd take all my G.I Joe's, Star Wars, Masters of the Universe and Hot Wheels toys and box them up and ask my father to store them for future me. Then I'd go beat up Steve. You know what's up Steve.
The one good thing the patriots did in that game is send McMahon into a full on air back flip. Then they collapsed and the Bears won the last game they would ever win again…I am a bears fan. I watch that Super Bowl once a year usually around this time.
Sweet. I did not really watch the game, but I do remember my Dad watching it and I was hanging around the house, doing my teenage things lol. Funny how the memories flood back...
Could make a bunch of money by buying full-auto trigger groups when they were cheap, and registering them for a later sale after the ban lifted, still a tax stamp item but worth so much more.
I've thought about this a lot. I even have a specific day in mind.
It's 12-25-92.
Christmas day, so I can ensure I'll see my grandparents, and all of my family. It's before any of my aunts, uncles, and grandparents died.
It's before my parents divorced and were really fighting, and I'd get to spend most of the day in my childhood home.
It's before my friend got killed in a car accident in 1993, and even though I won't see him, I can maybe call him and warn him about the drunk driver on memorial day.
Assuming I would be in the body of the person I was in 85, I would tell my dad what is going to happen if he and my mom split, so he can ensure he gets custody of me.
I am packing up my 1yr old and we are making our way to Oregon. I’m going to hold on to her tight , make her the most important thing in my life and not fuck it up.
I’m going to put her first in all I do. I’m also going to get help for the undiagnosed adhd that ruined so much of my past.
This one got to me….. I wish I could go back and do it over again.
Same here. Though, they are likely to say the same of me. I remember chasing fireflies with my cousins in my grandparents' large yard. So happy and carefree.
I would take 8 yr old me to DQ for a chili cheesedog and a lime Mr. Misty in one of the Denis the Mennis cups. I would talk to her about her fears and frustration and tell her everything will be okay. Life is full of pain and heartbreak for everyone on this planet, but you are going to go on a crazy, unique adventure and see places and things you have only read about. I would try to impart perspective in a way I would have understood. I would hug her and told her she rocked and I was proud of her. Then I would go and visit my grandparents and picked their brains and ask a bunch of questions I never asked, and watched an episode of Lawrence Welk with them and a Tigers game before going home to tell my parents I forgive them and they were just trying to raise us with the tools they had, but try to be more patient with the kids. It would be nice to go back as the adult that time made me.
First, I'm going to go buy and inhale real Twinkies, Ring Dings, Yodels, basically all Hostess and Drake treats back when they still tasted correct.
Then I'm writing a quick 10 pages to myself about how to protect my health, my love life/heart, my career and investments, where to live and especially certain people and jobs to steer clear of in a way that my then self will believe.
But I will mostly reassure myself that things will be okay and that I end up around good people.
Telling myself that even though my mom said I can’t go to the Beastie Boys/RUN DMC in 2 years time even though I have a ticket, to ignore her, sneak out and go anyway.
Making a note to put in my wallet that says - Keep this with you at all times. When a company called Google and Apple go public, buy the shit out of it.
Find my 8 year old self, convince myself that I really am myself from the future, and hand myself a notebook with all the things I need to know, starting with "YOU HAVE ADHD! GET MEDICATED!!!" in massive letters.
Same franchise, I'd place wagers on sporting events I knew the outcomes on, making sure I "lose" frequently enough so that I don't cause suspicion.
But unlike Biff, I'd keep a significantly lower profile and have more of a focus on philanthropy.
I'm going to jump on my skateboard and roll down the street... enjoying the feeling of being pain free for a while. Then I'm heading to guitar lessons.
If I'm the age I am now, I'm getting on some tech wave before it really takes off. I'll cancel the reservation on some rental apartments in Copenhagen, I never moved into anyway and move the money to my private retirement account.
If I were the age I was back then. If I land before dad moves back to the U.S. I'll announce that I want to live with dad. I know that will eventually make a move back to Denmark harder, but then the years in CA, USA wouldn't have been so hard, I'd probably have lost my accent completely and maybe there would've been a way for me to be a dual citizen.
We'll start the day with some Smurfberry Crunch, then off to school where I'll promptly ditch after homeroom. Walk to the lake with the crew and make out with my girl behind the pines while there. Smoke a number, grab a slice and head back to school to catch the bus.
Fight a jock behind the cafeteria waiting for the busses, hop on when we're done and ride back to town. Slam a PB&J, meet the crew in the street and wander til dark, then pool our collective change for a couple beer balls, drag 'em up the woods to our hut and get hammered.
Stagger home, pass out, wake up to more Smurfberry Crunch.
All the while, blasting VH on the boom box.
Visiting my grandparents who I love and miss. Then ransacking their homes for a treasure trove of amazing antiques that I was not smart enough to save!
Go hug my grandparents and my friend who died in high school. It would be amazing to see them again. Then I’d go to my favorite stores that went out of business in the late 90s/early 2000s.
Definitely visit my grandparents. I'd hope I had enough time to remember some long lost cousin to pretend to be. I'm only a few years younger than they would have been then, weird.
Walking down to the bowling alley, and buying a couple of packs of cigarettes from the vending machine. Then I'm heading over to the arcade, grabbing a slice of pizza and a Coke, and then pumping quarters into Space Harrier and/or Hang-On.
I know this sounds trivial but I’d like to visit a few of my favorite malls. The stores and food options throughout the malls were pretty cool. I’m thinking before food courts became the norm.
Going to visit my Grandparents and Great Grandmother. They're all retired and in good health at that point, I think Grandma had finally quit smoking too. Nana's next door making pies and watching soap operas. Sure I'd tell Dad to buy some shares of Microsoft and Apple, but I really just want a little more time with people who left too early.
Transported to 1985 as I am today? Well that’s really weird, I guess I’d go spend a day in New York City relishing the sights and sounds. I mean I’d love to spend the day with my maternal grandfather who was alive and well then but he’d be confused as to who I was and would probably call the police on me.
Going to find my parents and my brother because at that point they’re still alive. Spend all the time I can with them realize you can’t change what’s coming but you can change the time in between.
Microsoft, Apple, and a sticky note with the words “Buy Bitcoin” on it.
Then reassure 12 year old me that nothing I’ll go through is gonna break me, no matter how hard it looks.
Calling Morton Thiokol and telling them the O rings in their booster rockets are prone to failure under 40° F.
Apple stock was at it's lowest at $0.08. I'd invest whatever I had on me in it.
Am I this age or my age in 85? If this age probably tell my grandfather to invest heavily into Apple and eventually Google. If the age I was in 85 probably just pop my diaper and run around dirty
I'm going to my grandma's house and telling her how much I love her and just how much she's meant in my life. That I turned out fine, have a wonderful wife that she'd absolutely love and that I've carried the things she taught me through my life and try to live by them today.
She was the best person in the world.
Hug my mum then instruct her on buying shares for Microsoft, Apple, Intel. Then tell my teen self that she's amazing and fighting more battles than even she knows yet.
I was going to write "see Back to the Future in the cinema again" but all these posts about visiting grandparents have hit me harder than I'd have expected. So, yeah, I'd totally go see Grandma and Grandpa. I'd hang out with them the whole damn day.
Find my Mom, tell her I love her, hug her, warn her about meds that will cause her to have a stroke in 1991. Tell her to invest in Apple, Microsoft, etc. as soon as they go public. Go see my Grandparents. Hug them tell them I love them. Find my BFF warn her about heroin, that she will OD. Be nicer to my siblings. Tell myself I look great and to love myself. Hug my Mom over and over. Thank her for being a great Mom.
As nice as it is to fantasize, I read a thing on Reddit that really made think (and is relevant to this question). I'm paraphrasing, but basically it's "Imagine you're from twenty years in the future and you've time traveled back to today. You get to see people who are now gone from your life, go to the places you used to go that are no longer there, and do the things you used to that you no longer can. Look at your life with that perspective and you'll learn to really appreciate the present."
Hanging out with my family and hoping to appreciate it more than I did back then—considering I lost my dad and cousin a few years later and lots more since.
Convince my parents I am from the future. Discuss the power of long term investment hold strategy. Give them a written plan to liquidate what they can, take out a 2nd mortgage on the house, and buy as much Microsoft stock as they can afford on March 13, 1986.
A $5,000 investment would have purchased 238 shares at the IPO price. After the splits, you would now own 68,544 shares. Those shares would be worth $10,592,104. That's a compound annual return of about 25% per year, or a cumulative return of nearly 211,000%.
Not bad for an 11 year old.
Come out to the older kids who were already out or assumed to be gay. That may have kicked off a lot of things going differently.
The only thing I regret is not having my first romantic and sexual experiences with the people I wanted to. IYKYK
1) Hug my parents.
2) Get my tickets for the Purple Rain concert at Nassau Coliseum.
3) looking for Drew, a busker in NYC that was seemingly everywhere in the 1980's.
4) getting some Koronet pizza before class.
5) practicing the fuq out of my guitar - learning Stairway to Heaven from the guys
I would buy stocks so i could set myself up to not have so much money anxiety. But i would tell myself not to tell my 1st husband because he would blow it all and leave me broke. I wouldn't change being married to him, because I got an amazing kid, but i would like to have been better set up then, and now.
Looking at the day it is and hoping its before my mom died in 1985.
If it is, I'm going to talk and stare and hold her until she begs for mercy then keep doing it anyway.
I’m going to hug my mom and dad. I’m an orphan now, and it is a maelstrom that left me shattered.
I’d call the people who are shockingly departed from this planet along with my parents and would say, “Hey. Let’s go to the lake today.”
While I’m calling everyone, I’m going to buy some stock with my high school savings.
Then, I’m going to write myself a note.
Dear me,
Hi. Yes, it’s me. Or you. Listen. Don’t be paralyzed by worrying about little things. You will keep your sense of wonder, love books, and you totally marry the right guy. Make dad go IMMEDIATELY NOT LATER to a good cancer center after he retires because otherwise he’ll die a year later. Mom is not the bad sibling. She’s just the weak one. Keep your Star Wars stuff, books, everything really, and ALL OF YOUR CLOTHES. You will want ALL of it thirty years. Trust me. Buy extra jams and Banner House. You will always love preppy stuff and whimsical stuff. Buy Apple stock every year. Grown up you will still be you… and there are great people in your future. Keep being happy!
Sincerely,
Me (You)
Go back to see 5 year old me and see if I was happy. I don't remember much, if anything, from that age. My parents separated in 1986, so I imagine I was having a tough early childhood that I've repressed, but I'd like to see that I was happy.
I'd tell Joey how loved he is and to not hide who he is. And to practice safe sex so he doesn't get HIV from the evil bastard who basically murdered him...❤️while buying stocks...
My dudes...this is one you can actually recreate in the present day! Of course, now you may have some friends who are dying or are already dead. In which case, they'd really want you to do this.
I’ll write an anonymous letter to my older brother, who in 1985 is in college for a finance degree. It will spell out his opportunities to make a bunch of money, and ask that he does good things with it. To prove I know what I’m talking about, I’ll tell him about the Challenger explosion, Chernobyl, and tell him all the lyrics to Where The Streets Have No Names. That oughta get his attention. Curiosity will get the better of him, and he will keep that letter.
I remember thinking I had tix lined up to see them on the unforgettable fire tour in 85 ( I think) but it fell through. You know… a friend has a friend at another school who is getting the for a bunch of ppl.
I was ten; I’m going to spend all day in my childhood comic book store that has been gone for many years. Actually, I’d also visit my childhood mall which is essentially abandoned and a few other long gone childhood haunts. It’d be an amazing day.
A couple months back my daughter and I went to the town I spent those tween/early teen years in. It was weird how little everything changed there compared to the rate of change where we live now. It was extra odd being back in those places because we were listening to the classic rock/pop station so all the music from those days was in the background for us. I half expected to see myself on my bike cruising down the hill to the park we ate lunch at.
Hauling ass to the bank before 7PM on Friday to deposit my paycheck and take out enough cash to last the week since ATMs aren’t ubiquitous and no stores have debit card terminals yet.
Experience a 1980s Christmas again. Where the tree is ugly and covered with tinsel, and there’s shag carpet on the floor, and we don’t have that much money but somehow it’s the most magical experience ever.
First half of the year I'd be attending classes at technical school graduating in soring
Second half of the year I'd be at my new, first grown up job and in my first apartment.
I had brain surgery in 1985. So, depending on when I return, I have a long talk with myself. But then I'd try to see some of the things I wasn't able to see or do back then due to the medical stuff going on.
Writing my younger self a very long and important letter and putting it into my childhood house mailbox while little me is at school.
I was always the first one to bring in the mail everyday. I remember this because my brother would always come home and ask me if he got any mail and I'd always respond: "No. Did you get any female?"
Give 14-year-old me a hug, tell her it’s going to be okay, tell her to stay away from that guy who’s going to show a special interest in her in about a year, and like everyone else said, buy some apple stock.
Getting on my 1981 Yamaha YZ125 and taking a good rip through the fields behind my old house, winding it out and laughing out loud when the power band kicked in.
I'd watch a Cubs game with my Dad and see if I could figure out a way to convince him the Cubs actually would win the World Series in 2016 (5 years after he died, unfortunately).
This. I still can't believe how much sex I accidentally turned down by being *completely* tone deaf. I now owe those ladies an apology or, if I'm time travelling, the best 45 seconds of their young lives.
I would be reflexively checking my pocket for my phone, then try to make up some unconvincing story to explain it. Soon after I'll be burned as a witch, I suspect.
I would go see my grandmother and tell her she is s wonderful person amd her grandkids are lucky to have her. Then probably spend the rest of the time in jail for freezing out a 60 year old x
I’m going to spend the day at my grandparents’ house. I’ll “help” my grandmother cook and bake while my grandfather putzes around the yard/house. Then we’ll all sit on the porch with glasses of homemade lemonade. It would be an awesome day!
Find me and tell me that the guy mom’s dating is a douchecactus so I should do what I can to break them up.
Then explain to me that there’s this company called Microsoft and their IPO will be a week after my 18th birthday so save up everything I can between now and then and buy!
And a whole bunch of other advice for my 16/17 year old self.
Buy stock, duh. Warn my dad about his pancreatic cancer and make him swear a damn blood oath to not do fucking chemo. Go hug my cousin. Go shoot his dealer (who, btw, had the unmitigated gall to show up at the funeral). Spend the rest of the day with my grandparents. Leave myself a note of which men to avoid like the plague.
Hug my grandma, I was 9 in 85, she passed await 89.
Heck I’d probably spend the day with her asking about her life (she was born in 1905), then spend the rest with mom, or with both!
And invest in Apple and Microsoft.
I would sit my parents down and have a talk with them about the future. Ask them to take me to papas house so I could spend the week with him. Ask my grandma to make me my fav breakfast. I would hug my sisters and figure out how to buy properties in different places. And probably invest in apple.
Going to my room, soaking it allll in; hugging my Mom, my Great Aunts & Uncles...buying some Microsoft (although I would need someone to buy it for me as I was 15) and just tell myself not to stress, it's okay, and be more assertive! ❤️
Smacking 15 year old me on the back of the head for being a dumbass and not realizing she was, in fact, totally in to me. I mean you. I mean, that 15 year old I just smacked in the back of the head.
Why did I want to go back to 1985 again?
Hanging out at home with my family probably. Excited for holiday break and getting out of school for a week. Reading, watching tv, hanging out with friends or whatever.
Leaving myself a note about when to buy and sell certain stocks. And a list of technolgies to invest in so that they can be sold to the public without corporate proiteering preveting mass access.
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