You wake up and it's 1990. Youre still your age and you have a bag with 5k in cash with you. What do you do?

S&P 500. Apple for the tilt. If I have to live through the rest of that time withdraw a bit late 90s for a house lie on the mortgage application because you could.2008-2009 buy cheap houses to fund bitcoin sell bitcoin in 2020. Laugh in Boomer min max game

- Boring comment, let me just write up a 100% full manifesto on how I would do it! But to appease your contrarian everything has to be realife outlook I'd prob just add to the inheritance my dad left me in 89 as that was in S&S at the time then I'd go find myself and give me the fiancial advice I never got happy?

the stockmarket is not a casino, you cannot simply put $200 million on a car dealership company in 1993 and expect it to pay out the same way without altering the timeline
Hi billionaire genius it's me your best friend.
You wouldn't know this though unless you are a stock autist in which case, cool
Edit: I am not so I would put it all into apple at 31 cents a share. Would be worth something like 700 mil now with all the stock splits. The Forrest Gump strategy

Spend it on completely mundane and practical things like securing a place to live, and buying a suit to interview for a job - because 5k simply isn't enough to make any immediate life-changing money on, even if you're from the future.

And I really need a place to sleep.

5k might be quick money if I was a sports buff and could remember match results, or knew the exact dates of significant events, or remembered a bunch of old lottery numbers, but that's not the case so it's off the table.

So yeah. Get a place. Get a suit (it's 1990, you need a suit), Get a job, earn some money, and spend half my wage on shares in Microsoft and other companies I remember as doing well.

- Multiple comment buzzkill.
- Yeah, identity is a problem (though I'm not in the US)
- Bob's...

Am I like. Here? I know who lived here and they would be concerned about random woman appearing in their master bedroom. Am I where I was in the 90s, so confusing past me but looking a lot like my parents so I might convince them what happened?

Regardless my first thing to do is freak the fuck out.

- Are you commenting on every single response to be a buzzkill?
- Oooh that makes it worse for me. I thought I was my current age but back in 1990. If I'm transported back to my body back then, I'm just straight fucked for awhile. I'm like...a toddler...
  However dad absolutely would take my toddler investing advice so. There's that.

certainly spend the first week wondering where I left my phone

"why do you keep slapping your butt?"
Heh. "Whaddya MEAN, 'fax you'?!? How crude!"

Immediately move abroad, buy a cheap flat in the centre of town to live in, and another to rent. Learn a new language, carry on life as usual

I'd have gone with nitrogen, myself, but same.
$5k in 1990 isn’t enough to buy a fake identity.
you don't need one. you can coast for years in the 90s without much.
- Maybe the 1890s. $5k would last you a few months at most in 1990
Before exiting, I wonder if I could get a message to my 10-year self. I think he has a bank account, but he'd be an idiot with that much USD.
I could probably convince him I am him from the future, but I wonder how to have a conversation with him.

Go find my school friend’s hot single mum who I always fancied and got on really well with, and live out some teenage fantasies

my age today or my 1990 age?

assassinate Gorbachov

TBH, by 1990 it is far too late.
- Not to change anything but to make a point
Why bother, his successor turned out to be pretty cool. It’s the guy that came after him that you need to worry about.

Oof. I'd be me at the tail end of apartheid in my country. I'm going to assume (and hope) that this timeline magic also puts me in my home town of the vicinity of where I was at that time because then I'd at least know where to go to find the people I would want to be around. I'd go straight to where the alternative scene is and get in with the punks and goths and hippies, so that I'm at least around decent people. Might even meet some of the people that I knew when I got into the scene originally as their younger selves, which would actually be pretty cool.

As for what I'd do to survive, honestly not sure, considering that I would still be the same age that I am now with the same lack of career and shit. I guess I'd just keep doing this or that for a while. With my limited knowledge, maybe invest a little in Microsoft, then Facebook at the appropriate times. Until Bitcoin is a new thing, then I'd definitely dump whatever cash I had into a few Bit oin. Then be rich enough to never worry about anything again at like 70 years old or something lol.

I have a year before a grievous back injury. I'd make a phone call and prevent that, I guess, and a other injury after that which was career-altering ... but would that help me now?

I guess I wouldn't survive a plan with Bitcoin where I snap up a whack of them on day one.

Find a rental apartment and start looking for job, I guess?

Invest in Bre-X for 7 years.

The rest just spends itself after this.

Smuther a 3 year old to death which happens to have the exact same name as I have to save him from a miserable life. And use the 5k to hire a hitman to deal with Elon.

I adopt my best friends whilst they're still babies.