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I'm on $20 (AUD) from my parents for entertainment. Plus the $5 I find lying in the road from time to time.

Wow it's interesting to see how highly people are distributed towards the low end of the range, not too many people at that high end.

I stretch myself thin because i prefer to save money, so I keep it around 50-75$

It hovers around 200. would be more, since i value my happiness! However "responsibilities" dictate that the money should go elsewhere

We should do a 'How much do you spend on booze' poll!

lol

Total?

I spend roughly $40 a month on movies...(Dependant on if there's something I actually want to watch)

About $30 a month on a new Video-Game/DVD

And $25-35 a month on WH40k items, considering I buy a single box of [Insert unit here] every month...

Bringing my total to somewhere in the range of: $95-105...

Uriels_Flame wrote:Holy cow. 6+ have $1k month hobby/entertainment budgets?

I need different parents.

I'm blaming that on the Internet's Rule of Anonymity.

16 at this point said 1000+. I call BS. Unless they're getting pilot's lessons...

Now, if they're also including wining and dining the fairer sex, then I might see that as possible.

If I include taking the wife to nice dinners and movies and the theater and the museum and so on PLUS my little plastic men and my Pathfinder books and my HH books, then you're talking 400-500, easy. More than that in the summer, but vacations you save up for all year.

Newt-Of-Death wrote:We should do a 'How much do you spend on booze' poll!

lol

AGREED

I loves my scotch and wiskey

legoburner wrote:As a vaguely related followup to the 'how much did you spend on wargaming last year' poll, it was suggested that we poll the average entertainment budget of dakka's users to see how much actually gets spent on wargaming over other things like computer games, movies, etc.

Not surprising. I've been into 40K for 4 weeks now, I've currently spent about £200 or so. Totally worth it

I only spend like 30 bucks when im not deployed. But it goes up to around 100 when I am.

I clock in at around 950$. Most of it goes into liver-abuse, but normally I spend like 50$ a month 40K, but as I currently have an ork-load to paint I'm down to the bare essentials I need for that - paint and brushes.

Yeah, I spend upwards of $1400 CAD a month on entertainment...so a little bit more since it is in the weaker american dollar...

If I wanted to be liberal with the question I could have put 1000+,

Typically I buy a new video game or two monthly, go to the movies a few times, buy odds and ends to work on all the unfinished minis in boxes I have, eat out a lot, monthly video game costs, netflix, xbox live, It all adds up.

Those items typically run me 200-350 a month.

If I thought about it I would have marked it higher though, since internet and cable bills are also entertainment, and I save back about 100 each month for vacation in the summer.

That would have put me at 500-600.

Now creatively I could say that driving my car was "entertainment" and thrown the car payment and insurance in there, as well as gas. That would have easily tipped over the $1000+ category.
It's all about how you interpret the question

0 € right now. Gotta get less addicted to miniatures

On the bright side I got a shiny new bass for the money

Doctorcheese wrote:0 € right now. Gotta get less addicted to miniatures

On the bright side I got a shiny new bass for the money

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im2randomghgh wrote:

Doctorcheese wrote:0 € right now. Gotta get less addicted to miniatures

On the bright side I got a shiny new bass for the money

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Well that fish does look shiny, but I got an electric bass xD

Doctorcheese wrote:

im2randomghgh wrote:

Doctorcheese wrote:0 € right now. Gotta get less addicted to miniatures

On the bright side I got a shiny new bass for the money

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Well that fish does look shiny, but I got an electric bass xD

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im2randomghgh wrote:

Doctorcheese wrote:

im2randomghgh wrote:

Doctorcheese wrote:0 € right now. Gotta get less addicted to miniatures

On the bright side I got a shiny new bass for the money

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Well that fish does look shiny, but I got an electric bass xD

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Yes, exactly what I meant!

Oh god you gave me a good laugh

£15 a month pocket money... almost enogh for a pack of WOC

Uriels_Flame wrote:Holy cow. 6+ have $1k month hobby/entertainment budgets?

I need different parents.

I would presume that's working people, like me, who don't have kids to worry about. I get to spend all my cash on me, although, i do about £500 a month on my most important hobby (regularly getting leathered) so that doesn't leave too much for mini's.

But yeah, I think aside from the children of millionaire businessmen, only a working man gets that much to spend. My Dad was generous and he gave me £10 a week pocket money.

Although, that was in what.. 1990?

So do currency conversion.. add in inflation...

it IS about $1000!

mattyrm wrote:

Uriels_Flame wrote:Holy cow. 6+ have $1k month hobby/entertainment budgets?

I need different parents.

I would presume that's working people, like me, who don't have kids to worry about. I get to spend all my cash on me, although, i do about £500 a month on my most important hobby (regularly getting leathered) so that doesn't leave too much for mini's.

But yeah, I think aside from the children of millionaire businessmen, only a working man gets that much to spend. My Dad was generous and he gave me £10 a week pocket money.

Although, that was in what.. 1990?

So do currency conversion.. add in inflation...

it IS about $1000!

Well...I am still in Highschool (victory lap...MOAR CREDITS NOMNOMNOM)

And I don't work, and I still get more than 1400CAD a month (~1420USD)

Are we counting all money that you spend on yourself? (NOT counting food, living, travel and obviosly money you spend on friends & family)

Little over a hundred, but used to be more until I got a new car. Love that car, hate the payments.

Considering I've just bought myself a new DSLR camera, a new computer monitor and a TB external harddrive. As well as the 3D TV, new PC and new drumkit over the past couple months... I'd have to say like £3000+ XD

Easily over $1000 USD per month. I'm a successful engineer with a 6 figure salary, no kids, no mortgage, and a wife who's into gaming and general nerdiness. I only wish I had the time that my poorer dakkanaughts have.

I think a better poll would be how much do you spend on your entertainment AND how much time can you spend on entertainment as someone stated before. $500 USD isn't that hard to spend on anything as everything is getting more and more expensive due to the current economic state of the world. Even hitting the $1000 a month mark isn't all that hard either. The average contractual cell phone bill is close to, if not well over $100 a month if you really want to do anything other than have 30 minutes a month. Even pay as you go runs $50 a month. For those of you who say phones aren't "entertainment" just look at what you use your phone for most, and I'm pretty sure it's not 100% work. The average all inclusive internet/tv/phone plans are right around $100 a month and upwards of $150-200 if you want all the extra channels, HD, DVR, and whatever else they come up with next week. If you plan a vacation they can easily cost in the multi-thousands of dollars, divided over 12 months, can be an extra $120 on up. Just to going to 1 movie can easily run well over $30 for one person.

Just sit down and really think about all the money you spend on fun. This includes fuel to get to your entertainment destination, what you spend when there on "non-essential" items, and what you spend on the actual event. I generally do not include dinner out in this budget, unless I'm going to medieval times or something like that. So the cash is there, but those who can routinely spend well over $1K USD on entertainment probably don't have much time to spend on fun since they are working 80 and 90 hours weeks. Personally, I think it's all give and take, the more cash you have, the less time you can spend doing what you want. I'd rather be poor and happy than rich and unhappy.

About 30 to 50 Australian, considering the economy at the moment and our high dollar... thats like a 1000 US dollars!

@oatmeal, I have 35$ a month unlimited local calling unlimited text unlimited data and BBM, from Wind Mobile.

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I am so broke

I don't play computer games much - so I have no need to rush out and buy the latest chapter of boringD&Dgame#3211-Baldur'sEverquestforskyrim part 2 or the latest girlymansandtomboyswithhugeswordsbeltingthecrapoutofeachother XVIII.

There are very few movies I want to see - I can usually wait until it hits cable or dvd.
I get a book or three a year.

Most of my entertainment comes from gaming.

$51-100 USD. Mostly our cable access and the odd dvd.