My parents met working in a bank, and now one is a financial adviser and the other is a book keeper; money was all around me growing up and they are stupidly responsible with it.

In your hypothetical, it would depend on how urgently I needed to buy those things you mentioned. If they aren't too urgent, all that money would go into savings.

If I were to stumble across $1,000 in my current situation, I would put a decent portion of it aside to use as a buffer to help me pay bills next semester when I have to do a 10-week unpaid teaching prac, and the rest would go into savings. I struggle with spending large sums of money on myself unless they have been specifically set aside for that purpose.