Financing your hobby- how do you?

[iceburn]

i just use whatever money i've earned for the month (after paying the necessary house rent, bills, food and fuel for the car). Often will some or little savings for my future...

[1orion2many]

I'm very embarresed to say this but I think I must have spent around $700-$800 last month, that's why I'm broke now. This I might add is well out of the norm for me as I would normally spend about $150 per month.

[Paulbot]

I need to budget so I can save more money but I don't. I just buy what I want when I see it on sale in the shops, and buy some things online if I can get a good deal (but try to space online purchases out to only one a week)

[kup]

I came in late in lots of things that I want (eg BTs) So I am forced to pay after market prices for them. In the case of Jazz and Prowl they reach like $180-$200 each. Several G1 figures that I am after also cost about as much.

The strange thing is that every time I set myself to save some more money or go light on the TF purchases, some rare one in a million offer appears and I am forced to take it because I would regret it later or will cost more later.

[Borgeman]

Financing your hobby- how do you?

Poorly

George

[Tiby]

I have had some horrifically expensive months, that I can't talk about because it will undo all the therapy

I use credit cards to finance the addic... hobby.

[dirge]

Well usually I tend to spend most or all of whatever I have left after I budget on TFs.

In recent months - with the AUD at stupidly high levels - griffin (and some of the other longer-standing fans here) can attest to how much more expensive eBay used to be - I've dipped heavily into savings to buy pretty much everything I had a latent interest in getting.

So for the next year or so... I'll buy some of the new stuff released, and slowly "pay back" my savings and allow myself to slowly open all the stockpiled stuff I have amassed!

[turtle boy]

this month, over $1000 easy

[Geminii]

Mostly by not spending all that much on Transformers. I've gone years between buys, and when I do splash out I'll often get a whole pile at a discount rather than paying full price at stores.

Of course, it helps that I got into real estate recently, partly so I could fund Transformer-related expenses like BotCon trips. A couple of hours' work a year and six-figure payoffs mean a lot more free time and cash than I had working 9-5.