Help me spend my REI Dividend check

Anyone who is a co-op member and shops at REI earns a certain percentage of their purchases back at the end of the year.

My annual dividend check just arrived and I have $232.22 to spend at REI, plus I'll be returning a $240 bike trainer I just don't need. I'm set on bike stuff.

Any suggestions?
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And, yes. You can be creative.

 

A kayak is always cool. Although you'd need to get one for Uma too, so y'all could go together.

http://www.rei.com/online/store/ProductDisplay?productId=48007415&storeId=8000&catalogId=40000008000&color=ORANGE&img=/media/668754.jpg&view=large

 

$232 in dividends? Did you fund a wing in your local store?

 

Three bicycles did the trick. Two were simple ones for my wife and my to cruise up and down a trail next to the river with the kids in the Burley trailer (also from REI) and the other was my road/racing bike.

 

I thought about that. But I'd use it so rarely, I'd prefer to just rent a kayak when I need one.

 

You could get a bunch of camping gear for that eventual ride from San Diego/Seattle to Portland, Maine.

 

You could buy 172 Clif Bars! That would keep me in breakfast almost a full year...

 

Well, it's what I'd buy if my dividends check was that big.

Maybe something for the kids. A really awesome bike for the one in middle school?

 

Yes, you'll need separate kayaks. We took lessons and asked about the two-seaters and the female instructor called them "divorce barges."

 

You're pulling away from me minutes-wise.

How about buy me a plane ticket to the 'Ho and I'll take a 100-mile ride with you.

 

Wait, don't you live in Utah?

 

Second the camping gear. A good backpack that will carry everything you need for a weekend or a week will cost at least $100 but probably more. Try on multiple models, and make sure you try them with at least 40 pounds in them. One can be comfortable as hell in the store but a bitch when you're on the trail and it's loaded down.