I could have more fun.
$38,000 would buy:

• 10,857 beers
  
  
• 76,000 condoms
  
  
• 1,900 dinners at Marion's on the Bowery
  
  
• 3,800 dinners at Planeat Thailand in Williamsburg
  
  
• 19,000 slices of pizza
  
  
• 2,714 CD's