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I don't budget. I just don't buy anything for 4-6 months and then buy heaps in one go.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/354994.page

After Tax, I get 1300$ CAD/month. Roughly, that's the same in USD, and that's roughly 820 GBP. I live with my folks (though I have to mention that I'm only 21), and my expenses are...

80 - Bus Pass
30 - Cellphone
60 - Laptop
300 - Food (I can cook, I just hate cleaning up)
130 - Misc

That leaves me with 700$ CAD (440GBP)/month. I tend to save a lot, but then I tend to also buy in large heaps. This week, I bought 5 Horus Hersey Books and 2 Codices (I wanted to read up on SW and GK, see what all the fuss is about). My bank account still says 2000 dollars though, and I have no debts to credit cards (woo!) so I'm pretty happy.

H.B.M.C. wrote:I don't budget. I just don't buy anything for 4-6 months and then buy heaps in one go.

This. I buy in bulk from sites like the warstore when i want a new army. a 20% discount is noticeable in bulk. The last thing I bought was about $700 worth of Grey Knights. I bought enough for a Crowe Purifier Army as well as an Inquisitor Coteaz Henchmen army.

Disposeable income a month: ~ 1.000€

Amount alloted for hobby: No more than 500, however, this includes travelcost to most tournaments & hotels.


Imho, it's not a real hobby if you can't justify dumping mpney into it - whenever someone gets buyers remorse, s/he should reconsider what she buys.

If I felt like it, I would have no quarrels spending more.
If I have a not-so-hobby month, I won't spent as much.

For GW games, currently 0.
Spent 80$ with spartan games though. Not planning to spend any more soon.

I give myself £30 a month for GW stuff, although i hardly ever spend that in GW. Can't really justify any more than that, whatever else i have spare I spend on going out with my GF, friends, family etc.

I find all this talk of money crass and vulgar...

[puts on thick nothern accent] Me too, but then I am considerably richer than Yow!

I don't budget specifically for anything. If I have enough left after bills are paid, I buy something.

I work over seas for most of the year, so I don't own any permanent residance, but After taxes since I don't really have any bills my true disposable income every two weeks would be $7,000. I am waiting until the new rulebook comes out and the new necron codex to start making big purchases though.

Usually 50 dollars per order

My budget is sometimes I have money left over from paying to live.

I stopped thinking about my hobby budget in terms of cash when I started working full time. I've got enough stuff still on sprue to make any new purchase silly (but inevitable).

So, no really fixed budget, but I'm at the point financially where there's nothing GW could make that I wouldn't buy if I wanted it.

About €100 - €150 per month, it tends to go up when shiny stuff is released though.

I spend around $200 every 6 months or so at the FLGS. If they didn't have a discount program, I probably would spend $30/mo, max.

As for budget...I work full-time and have a family to support. Very little is left over at the end of the month for hobbies.

Blacksails wrote:Realistically, I could spend upwards of $1000 on whatever I wanted and still have money to burn, but I limit myself to about 100-150$ a month on hobby stuffs.

My living expenses are really low compared to my salary for the time being.

This sounds about like me. I could easily shell out $500-900 a month on stuff but never would. In fact - since I've felt like I've been spending a ton of cash the last few months I took a "no unnecessary spending in September" pledge. Which I broke, but only by < $20. (so far - but less than a week till I'm in the clear). Though really, its the time of year that I pretty much stop buying myself anything anyway so that people have things to get me for Christmas.

Depends on how I feel. If I feel like doing more hobby crap, Ill cut back on going out, if I feel like going out, Ill cut back on hobby crap.

I don't have a 'budget' for gaming stuff.

I spend around $2-300AUD a year on my hobby for gaming things. After over 20 years in the miniatures hobby, there's only a few things I need to get.

Not enough.

Hundreds of pesos a month (so no more than 76 dollars a month)

I allow myself $50 a month for models and stuff. Usually I end up spending double that, but never mean to. It's not my fault I spend more, I blame the game companies for making models I can't resist buying.

Live with my parents, im on a College sabbatical, have a steady 8h day job witch is like 80 disposable income, could waste $500 dollars a month on Plastic crack if i really wanted to. For the last few years i have gotten sick of GWs policies and stunts, considering they no longer want to sell me in LA, i have very little incentive to keep buying from them. For the last few years i have been buying at the very most 3 battle force boxes a year, and Never at FRP.
So there you have it, their policies have driven me to spend about $30 bucks a month on them out of a $500+ disposable income budget. Keep up the good work and make me save money.

filbert wrote:I find all this talk of money crass and vulgar...

Why? 'How do you budget for your hobby' seems like a perfectly reasonable topic of conversation.

I don't have any sort of arbitrary budget. I don't feel compelled to spend X dollars per month. I buy what I need, when I need it.

I don't budget myself on per monthly bases. Because i know what i like doesn't come out month by month, but rather all at once.
Hence i hold in my compulsive buys till there is an annual sale of some sort and throw all my budget in at once.

Though i do keep a separate stash of warhammer fund from selling my unused warhammer stuff,
but that stash is mostly used on Steam ( video games )

slowed down a lot. i am comfortable with my collections and i usually just repaint stuff i have.

once in a while i buy a model, ill say 60 a month.

I don't budget. I just buy on impulse usually and that can vary from $1k a month to $0 a month.

Oh and by the way, i do spend lots on the Hobbie, just not that much on GW any more as they have lost most of the value they used to have, for instance:

From my $500 dollar disposable income last month i bought an aerograph and a compresor Grand totalling $600 bucks. I do plan on re doing my empire army when Mantic releases their human range or doing an undead or dwarft (mixing mantinc and AoW) or chaos dwarft army if i dont fancy their human counter parts.
I like using good hobby products, so i spend quite an amount in paints, planning to get the vallejo full 72 collor game range pack if Maelstrom does a sale in christmas this year, which that alone costs over $200.

Bottom line i spend a lot on my hobby which is about my only real expense, it is just that GW is getting an increasingly smaller piece of my money pie, and they make every humanly possible effort to shrink that even more every chance they get.

I don't have a budget. I buy what I want, if I have the cash and if I think the price is right.

Which, these days, means I'm buying very little GW, and quite a lot of ... well, an awful lot of other companies' minis.