What Could $25,000 Buy You in Michigan? We Did the Math

Twenty-five thousand dollars.

Sure, you could be responsible with that.

Put it toward a new car. Pay off some bills. Sock it away for retirement.

Or...

You could buy an absolutely stupid amount of Faygo.

$25,000 would buy you several pallets of Faygo. Can you handle it? (Photo via faygo.com)

And that's pretty much how this whole thing started.

I got to wondering... if someone handed me $25,000 and said I had to spend every dime on one Pure Michigan thing, what could I get?

(Hint - it wouldn't be Faygo. There's a very good reason for that.)

What Could $25,000 Buy You in Michigan?

What about coney dogs? How many coneys could you get for 25 grand?

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How many bags of Better Made? Bottles of Vernors? Paczki? Pasties? Olive burgers? Pounds of Mackinac Island fudge?

$25,000 Worth of Michigan Food Is a Lot of Food

Could $25,000 buy enough cheese curds to fill the back of a pickup truck?

I don't know if that's the exact unit of measurement that's appropriate here, but you get the idea.

Then I started thinking bigger.

Detroit Tigers tickets. Rounds of golf. Campground stays. Mackinac Island ferry rides. Snowmobile rental days. County fair tickets. Craft beers.

How much wood would a Michigander buy if a Michigander had $25,000? Photo via Andreas Pajuvirta (Unsplash)

Even cords of firewood, because if you've lived through enough Michigan winters, that one doesn't sound as weird as it probably should.

25 Pure Michigan Ways to Spend $25,000

I came up with 25 different Pure Michigan things and did the math on approximately how many you could get for $25,000.

Some of these would actually be pretty fun.

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Some would be completely unnecessary.

And a few would probably leave you answering some very uncomfortable questions from your spouse.

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Personally, if $25,000 worth of garlic parm wings had made the list, this article might have gone in a completely different direction.

Take a look through the gallery below, and tell me which one you're blowing the entire $25K on.