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.
Sorry for your loss.
Since $500 is substantial but not a ton of money these days, what I'd do is spend part on something that made me think of my grandparent — I'd probably take myself and a friend or a partner out for fried clams, since my grandma and I used to go out for fried clams together a lot. Or I'd get a hat in the style that my grandpa used to wear (big brightly-colored snap backs, like a tropical trucker (fortunately I'm a dyke so this fits right into my fashion)). If it were one of my grandparents I didn't have much relationship with, I'd probably get a couple packs of the mints they liked in the flavor they liked.
Then I'd spend the rest on bills tbh, my grandparents would like knowing that they were able to help me out again.