- COED & TuitionBids.com $500 AMEX Gift Card Giveaway! -

If COED was to give you a $500 American Express Gift Card what would you buy?
Your parents might suggest that you put the money towards your education (tuition, books, food) or savings, but this is your money to blow on whatever you want!
You want to go to Vegas? Go to Vegas! Thinking about getting a tattoo? Go for it! Do you really need a big box of condoms? $500 will get enough condoms to last Dirk Diggler a whole month!
Below are 9 Things Your Parents Would Get Pissed About If You Spent $500 On. COED wants to know what should be #1 on the list. Leave your suggestion in the comment section below. The person that submits the best idea will receive a $500 AMEX gift card courtesy on TuitionBids.com - all submissions must be received by Friday, May 2nd at 12PM.
TuitionBids.com provides a one-stop resource for parents, current and future students to learn about the college entry process and most importantly to apply for student loans. The unique TuitionBids.com process allows users to quickly apply for a student loan, and allows up to six lenders to compete for business. TutitionBids.com is not only a destination for student loans, but a place for consumer education. The site also provides users with information on schools from around the country - including programs, majors, size and attendance and associated costs as well as a gap analysis that helps a student/parent determine what their private loan needs will be after they receive federal loans.
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10. Buy a Kegerator: $500+

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09. Self produce a music video for your buddies “rock opera”

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08. Get a tattoo

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07. Plane ticket to Vegas: $300-500

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06. Buy 2 bottles of Johnny Walker Blue because one just isn’t enough: $450.00

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05. “Make It Rain“

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04. EVGA GeForce 9800 GX2 Video Card: $549.00

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03. Remote control helicopter

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02. Fund a White Castle Crave Case race for your fraternity

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01. (Submit your ideas in the comment section to win a $500 American Express gift card courtsey of TuitionBids.com)
Top 3 ideas will be opened up for public voting on Monday, May 5th.
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172 Comments
i’d buy multiple cases of gatorade
‘95 Jordans
or a Myspace hooker… can’t decide
a top notch sex doll or muscle milk
get an abortion
nosebleed season tix to the yankees
Rent a magician for the greatest two hours of your or anyone’s life ever lived!
http://www.funfactoryparties.com/party/magicians.shtml
I’d rent a top notch room at Soho House in NYC for a weekend night…and pretend I am important
take 4 of my friends zorbing in the smoky mountains http://www.zorb.com/smoky/
amazing!
buy britney spears a new top of the line wig!
Thai she-male mail-order bride?
Buying Britney Spears’ umbrella off of ebay
$500 worth of Dunkin Donuts munchkins — they are delicious
Go HALF on a $1000 Sundae from Serendipity 3
http://www.chow.com/grinder/356
My dreams come true - when I change my name to Carl
http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0WTb_7NTg5IDysByk6jzbkF/SIG=11t1sm8ck/EXP=1208983629/**http%
the link to the pic since it didn’t post previously
Rent midgets for my next family bbq and encourage an afternoon/night of good ol’ fashion midget toss.
last time…
http://www.alftv.net/images/autograph.jpg
Editors DYK: Rihanna’s song “Umbrella” was originally offered to Britney Spears - she turned it down and the rest is history.
http://www.pr-inside.com/spears-turned-down-umbrella-r508856.htm
haha Paul that “last time” link is classic - I wonder how much an Alf autograph would go for on eBay
buy a nice (working) NES with games
Buy a ton of booze and throw a kick ass party.
Pay Erik Estrada to eventually come to my funeral, cry, and leave.
I would put it towards a boob job!!!!!!!
Buy pills to turn my poop to gold!
http://scrapbook.citizen-citizen.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/06/18/goldpills.jpg
Give it to charity. Haha.
Put the money towards my trip to Vegas for my twenty first birthday.
Or maybe a Gold plated McDonalds coke spoon. The $300 rolled dollar bill aint to bad either (#3).
http://www.notcot.com/archives/2007/06/citizen_citizen.php
I would get a surgery to cut my penis so it looks like a snakes tongue
go on spring break in 09 or travel abroad to see the alps
My parents really like dancing with the stars… so maybe I’d use the money to kill my grandpa.
I’d pay to have Rick Astley perform “Never Gonna Give You Up” in my basement and spend the rest of the $475 on chips and refreshments
jager bombs
A lovesac, duh
http://www.lovesac.com/
twenty-five keystone light 30’s and 22 packs of camel lights
how about drop 500 on a roor or a vaporizer
gas for the greatest summer road trip possible… nyc to chitown to minneapolis to denver to vegas to san diego to tijuana back to san diego to la (aka the price is right) to san jose/ san fran to portland to seattle to vancouver to glacier national park to yellowstone national park to the bad lands to st. paul to north star lake in northern minnesota for a week of insanity on a family vaca… the question is; where do you think i will be when i run out of gas money?
in all honesty i’d pay off some of my student loans, i’m broke
get Senator Obama a bowling instructor or donate my money to the McCain campaign
Buy the Beamz Music Performance System.
http://www.sharperimage.com/us/en/catalog/product/sku__BZ100
Hook up my friends fuel inefficient vehicle to a gas pump and put a brick on the gas with the e-brake up until I have cycled through $500 worth of gas.
Buy 2000 bouncy balls out of a quarter machine, then drop them all off the top of a very steep road.
internet roulette
what is internet roulette?
I’d buy 100 orders of Who Pancakes from IHOP!!!
I found Britney on a celebrity dating site called Wealthy Kiss.c o m or something. I forget the screename. I will check it out for you guys and come out with the truth soon.
I’d turn the $500 into 500,000 pennies and use them plant a field of money trees. I’m pretty sure thats how that works.
Shipping out to Djibouti, Africa, meeting a local tribeswoman, flying her home to meet your parents and then breaking to them you two will be living in the basement.
Use the money to fuel an unsanctioned and probably very illegal party in the middle of campus the night after graduation. Which will quite possibly cause the university to revoke my degree. In order for the party to live up to my expectations, there must be the following:
1. Moonbounce
2. Miller Light girls
3. Keg of Patron… That’s right, I said it, a keg of Patron.
4. Never ending supply of natty light.
5. Rick Astley providing entertainment.
Russian Mail Order Bride.
Except marry her to my mom. That’d piss her off.
http://www.russianbrides.com
waste 500 dollars at the strip club, and helplessly
beg the stripper just to put the tip in, all while trying to explain to her that your a DOT COM millionaire.
Buy a car so I can drive around and apply to better jobs upon graduating my matriculation at C.A.U…anyone who would blow $500 on unnecessary garbage doesn’t deserve it and probably shouldn’t be in college.
A pair of customized Jordans
15 minutes with Eliot Spitzer’s girl.
Buy a brand new Nikon D40 DSLR Camera ($499) and then stalk Allison Stokke and constantly take smoking hot pictures of her…
Watch Saving Sarah Marshall like 60 times
Buy a cheap drumkit. Years of aggravation and pissed off parents.
http://cgi.ebay.com/5-Peice-Drum-Kit-w-Extras-and-Cheap-Shipping_W0QQitemZ260232537081QQihZ016QQcategoryZ38097QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
$40 worth of chronic and then 920 tacos from Jack-in-the-Box
2 sweet beer pong tables (http://www.bjsbeerpong.com/index.php?option=com_virtuemart&page=shop.browse&category_id=1&Itemid=81#BJPT-2-S-FTB), some ping-pong balls, and a couple of 30 packs…
One $499 Envision 32″ LCD HDTV
a stripper getting through school
Use the $500 bartering to afford two side-by-side burial plots for my divorced parents. I know its quite evil.
500$ worth of lottery tickets, hoping to double the money so you can buy 1000$ worth next time.
I would buy Osama Bin Laden a gift certificate to the best day spa in the country.
i would buy 1/10 of ashley alexandra dupree… for an hour.
coke
buy a ben affleck autographed reindeer games movie poster, and then buy $495 worth of qdoba.
pay one of my buddys to give me a bj, then call him gay for the rest of his life.
invest it in china.
buy gary colemans soul.
get simple plan to play in my basement.
buy downey jr drugs and just see what happens.
rick roll bush
Rent a midget to dress as a leprechaun for a St Patrick’s Day Party.
$450!
I would buy a private investigator to help me break up my engagment so its her fault so i dont have to pay her dady back.
or a plane ticket to just disappear
I’d rent ten migets spray them with hairspray and tHrow on some baby powder and have them run around on a work night at 3 in the morning in my parents front yard chasing chikens.
Packing peanuts, lots and lots of packing peanuts. Gotta build a safe landing space to jump off the roof somehow.
250+ Red Bulls.
They’d be pissed, but you could just say it’s study fuel.
i would buy some ill cronic and rent a hot air ballon and be higher than everybody and literaly higher than the rest of the world
Cruzin’ Cooler Motorized Ride-On Ice Chest its a electric cooler for you to ride around on while you drink how sweet is that
Tom Berrenger
cockapalooza!
make a trail of dollar bills from tom seizmores house to an abandon warehouse, then when he follows the trail to the warehouse, throw him a suprise roller rink party with the rest of the money, because i think he needs it.
p.s. seizmore lives next to the warehouse.
Hack a “Alesis DM5 Module/Pad 4-Piece Electronic Drum Set” into the ultimate Rock Band drum controller.
buy the rights to will smiths adolescent, rollercoaster, off pitched obnoxious yell, and put it away in a little locked box forever.
“I have got to get me one o deez!”
“There’s only one way off this planet, baby, and that’s through me.”
“I can help. I can save you. I can save everybody!”
“UNCLE PHILLLLL!”
coke. lots of cocaine
fill up the gas tank to my prius.
Hack a “Alesis DM5 Module/Pad 5!-Piece Electronic Drum Set” into the ultimate Rock Band drum controller.
I would pay a photog to follow me around Boston for the night snapping pics leading drunk women to think I was a celebrity. Than I would see what my options are and make good choices.
$500 on court costs to change my name so noone would know I was their son
i would buy Yankees tickets since ive never been to a game before and ive been living in Nj for alomost 5 yrs now! or a Luis Vitton!
2 ounces of *REALLY* good pot.
two words: moon base
How much does it cost to have sex with a clown? if it’s under 5 hundo, put me down.
buy a pet cat or dog then leave it at their house
Fund a revolution in a small African nation.
505 orders of the $.99 nuggets from wendys.
$500 worth of ball pit balls, put it all in the garage. yes sir… I’ll be fulfilling my childhood dream…
I would buy $500 worth of ky jelly. Then give it all as christmas gifts for the entire family.
Get your own Breathalyzer
http://cgi.ebay.ca/Drager-Alcotest-6510-Breathanalyzer-Breathalizer-Tester_W0QQitemZ280220639576QQihZ018QQcategoryZ58037QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
McDonalds! SUPER-SIZE-ME!
I would get a vasectomy, a cheap one at that, as the cost of such a procedure is usually between 500-1000 dollars, depending on where you live.
I would buy just ONE spinning rim for my car. What a completely worthless idea. My parents would hate it, no doubt.
$500 worth of speeding tickets… drive around speed traps. hahaha!
A set of rims + tint-job on my ‘92 metro.
iphone
I’d buy passports for me and my friends ($97 x 5) and then not have enough money leftover to go anywhere.
CHAIRITY!!!!!!!!
500 TACOS FOR 500 DOLLARS
Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Enough weed to get me stoned for at least a solid year.
(10) $50 hookers
copyright the phrases “rick-rolled” and “epic fail”
A broken-down Delorian so that I can recreate my favorite scenes from Back to the Future.
A bathtub full of used condoms.
How about $500 for court costs to change my name so noone would know I was their son ?
Pay a hair-stylist to dye all my body hair red. Yes, all of it. Then id use the rest of the money to buy a lime green thong so i could run up and down the stairs at my parents house during thanksgiving yelling, “Im a WINNER!”
$500 worth of heroin would do the trick.
An online degree!
Use it to pay their bail after you called the cops and told them they made you smoke crack since a young age.
Use money to legally change your name to “Mama’s Mistake”.
I would buy 5 bottles of Boston brewery Samuel Adams Utopias for $100.00/24 ounce bottle.
$500
Custom license plates, “COPUL8″ or “SEX4GAS”
13 Acres of the Sea of Tranquillity on the moon. Lunar property is SO hot right now. From lunarregistry.com, The Sea of Tranquillity is THE premiere lunar location, selling at an easy 37.50 per acre.
12 8-Bit Nintendo Entertainment Systems
porn subscription for many sites
porn subscription
50 $10 ZJs
/if you have to ask, you can’t afford it
Change your entire wardrobe to socially unacceptable t-shirts, or just those tuxedo t-shirts, either one…
I would buy 50 paperback copies of “The God Delusion” by Richard Dawkins, and then I would sneak into my parents church and replace the hymnals with them.
My dad is the bishop.
I’d get some strippers and throw a house party
I would break into a zoo and kill a baby penguin, and then pay the zoo keeper the hundo to keep his mouth shut.
5 hundo*
take out a small equity loan. put a payment down on a house.
I’d give it to this poor Nigerian guy who’s last uncle died leaving the family fortune stuck in an oppresive regime’s bank where, unfortunately, he is unable to retrieve it. Poor dude. If he sticks that in the bank he can just watch the interest compound!
bring back grundge rock
1. Go to bank.
2. Get 500 1 dollar bills.
3. See how much money it takes to ride one of the patrons while having them squeel like a pig.
4. Repeat until money is gone.
A clown that does magical things with balloons.
I think no parent could not feel overly ashamed and pissed off if their son or daughter spent $500 on either
1) Dirty Transvestite Prostitutes
or
2) 500 dollars worth of Nerd/Star Wars memorabilia
A quarter of weed and a xbox 360 and gta 4 now you have wasted $500 plus failed every class this semester
id fucking hang outttt brooooooo
pay someone to follow me around telling me how sick i am
id make love to someone in a club.
id buy a $500 sword and start slicing shit
$500 dollars worth of illegal drugs and do them all in one sitting
i would go back in time and put all $500 down on Scarlett Johansson bid a date and tell all my friends i won. Yeah that would be worth it.
500 one dollar bills in the thong of a stripper.
2 kegs - $150
Petting zoo - $300
Whores off the block (preferably midgets/LP’s) - $50
Staging your own private miniaturized donkey show for you and your friends to watch while getting wasted - priceless
save all of the children from Singapore’s sex trade and start my own sex trade in America.
$500 could buy you chuck norris’ strand of hair so you could genetically clone him and have an army of chucks to mess some serious stuff up
Get a “massage”.
Buy one of those massaging chairs…
Buy 500 McDonald’s Double Cheeseburgers and then get a bunch of people together in a field and throw them at each other. Like a snowball fight but instead a cheeseburger fight…
Buy the cheapest kiddie pool you can.
Change the rest of the money to pennies.
Dump the pennies in the kiddie pool.
Swim in the kiddie pool full of pennies.
Film the whole thing including parents getting pissed off and put it on YouTube.
Buy the whole bar shots while underage.
Down payment on Audi R8.
Drop out of school and go to bartending school.
Give it to your nerdy roommate to keep quiet from telling your parents all the drugs you do.
If you guys gave me 500 bucks I’d get my bestfriend and I matching butterfly tattoo’s on our butt cheeks, then I’d invest in a mobile stripper pole for pimping out my friends when the money runs out!
me: id buy a 500 dollar car
thorny: id still pull you over
me: bullshit, you couldnt pull me over- even if you did id activate my cars wings and fly away.
I’d rent an apartment for a month and make my parents think I got a job and was out on my own, only to anger them one month later when I am forced to move back in with them.
bottle service at a GGW party
I would become a 500 dollar ‘menunaire’ at McDonalds.
54 Pounds of Green Jello …………. “Its Jello wrestling Time” ……….RIP Blue
$500 non-refundable donation to Bill Richardson’s presidential campaign.
To get parents really pissed, what you spend the money on has to affect them. I would buy $500 worth of packing peanuts and fill their entire house top to bottom, and fill their cars.
Buy a plane ticket to Vegas, find a hot dancer, get her drunk and have “Elvis” marry us. If it doesn’t work out, just get it annulled. More than enough ways to piss off Catholic parents.
I imagine it would really piss off your parents if you were the idiot who spent $451.00 (almost $500.00) on the sales receipt for a Nintendo Wii on E-Bay.
Not the system… the receipt someone has from when they bought the system.
Really… this happend:: http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/best-buy-wii-receipt-sells-for-451-on-ebay
Better yet get yourself 3, count ‘em 3, sets of antlers a guy found on the ground.
http://cgi.ebay.com/3-SETS-Deer-Sheds-Horns-Antlers-184-Boon-Crocket-14-pt_W0QQitemZ130218618882QQihZ003QQcategoryZ71124QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
Buy each of the following movies…
The Hillz, Pearl Harbor, Daddy Day Camp, Kazaam, You Got Served, Glitter, Crossroads, Gigli, Starship Troopers 2, Bratz, Spice World, Titanic, Norbit, Leprechaun, Leprechaun 2, Leprechaun 3, Leprechaun 4, Leprechaun in the Hood, Material Girls, High School Musical, Brokeback Mountain, The Notebook, Howard the Duck, White Noise, Troll, Troll 2, Free Willy, Free Willy 2, Free Willy 3, Master of Disguise, Fear Dot Com, The Fog, Corky Romano, Summer Catch, Cheaper by the Dozen, Cheaper by the Dozen 2, Underclassmen, Kangaroo Jack, Grind, The Hot Chick, Sorority Boys, How Stella got Her Groove Back, Constantine, The Village, House of Wax, Snow Dogs, Iron Eagle 3, John Tucker Must Die, Swimfan, From Justin to Kelly, Signs, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Eyes Wide Shut, Vanilla Sky…
500 junior bacon cheeseburgers from Wendys… and then have a giant eating contest with all my friends, and the winner wins the remaining burgers…
Pay Mexican contractors to build me a sweet water slide like the one in Blank Check, only into like a shitty above ground pool…
Pay Chris Hansen to come to my house and then invite my friends over one at a time and have him tell them they are on to catch a predator, and “to have a seat over there…”
print as many flyers as possible that say my dad is a sex offender and post them all over their neighborhood…
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