I had a grandparent pass away recently, and all us grandkids got a small inheritance (equivalent to just over 500 US dollars).
I’ve never got anything like this before and I feel a little too sentimental to just blow the money (that set of grandparents helped my single mother raise me essentially). Ironically I could really use a cash injection as I have bunch of bills stacked up and well overdue - but on principle I won’t spend the last vestiges of the meagre savings my proletarian grandparents scraped together after a lifetime of labour just to settle some bills for some scumbag capitalists.
I had an idea that I would put the money in a term deposit, and every year redeposit it and spend the tiny bit of interest on a nice meal or a case of beer or something, so that once a year it would feel like they got me a little gift 🥲but apparently you need more money than that to open one of those accounts.
Maybe it’s best to just buy something that brings some joy to my life, but it feels a little gauche to spend your inheritance from beloved family members on a Xbox or some shit lol. Maybe I’m just being overly sentimental.
A few thoughts here:
Spend part of it on a framed picture of your grandmother. Put it somewhere you'll see it every day. If you are going to get a gaming console also consider the Steam Deck (runs Disco Elysium well). Alternatively you could hold onto it and before you know it life will present some bullshit (or maybe an opportunity) that requires a small chunk of money and you will be able to deal with it thanks to your grandmother and there might be some kind of meaning in that.