I just spend it for the state. That pretty much describes my job. It's their (your) money. They want something for a laboratory, I buy it for them. Everything from centrifuges to numbered eartags for rats to toner cartridges to computers to paper clips to membership renewals to the Infectious Diseases Society. Yes, it's BORING, but it's a living, and I have weekends off and 3.5 weeks of paid vacation each year.