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1/. Rent/utilities

2/. Wife

3/. Kids

4/. Pathfinder

5/. 40K.

I love 40K, don't ge tme wrong, but i don't actually need to spend that much money on it these days. I have a ton of Orks (but need to paint most of them.. not expensive but very tiem consuming), and only really spend money on 40k for tournament entries at my local (mostly on my DE)

I thought we were just counting hobby budget?

Obviously, rent, food, car payments, child care, health care, taxes, cable and such are a higher portion of most people's overall budgets.

 Easy E wrote:
1. Food I don't have to make
2. Car repairs

1: living in a foodie city (and appreciating it), that's a big one for us, too.
2: $%&ing thieves. Currently working haggling on the cost to replace my car's computer, which the repair shop broke... yeah.


However, strictly a gaming budget-- I rarely actually purchase minis these days, mostly just trade stuff. So, #1 is stuff I have trouble trading for (limited edition, OOP, rare, etc.), #2 is shipping

1.) Books
2.) 40k
3.) Movies
4.) Video Games

I don't really have a 5th....

In this order usually:

1. Warhammer 40k
2. Board/Card Games
3. Books
4. Random Models and Conversion Bitz from other companies
5. Wii or PS3 Games

I average about 50 bucks a month over the year. Some months spending none and others 150-200 depending on what is released, hobby stuff has a bad habit of coming out all at once forcing tough decisions! Being a stay home dad and trophy husband I am eternally grateful to my game gurl wifey. We spend more in single purchases for board or card games but probably more overall on 40k stuff as long as there is a new edition, supplement, or update to one of our armies.

For me its more:

1. Bills/Food/Fuel
2. Everything Else

I recently got a job that pays well starting next year. Right now its paycheck to paycheck.

If I try to do a top 5:
1. Fuel
2. Bills
3. Food
4. Books
5. Wargaming in General

. Bills etc, got to be done

now the fun stuff

1. Books (& ebooks)
2. kits & minis
3. Kickstarter (up to now it's funded by selling stuff)
4. Fun food to cook myself
5. PS3/360 games (used to be at 2 but nothing this year has been a 'have to buy'

1. Domestic exspenses
2. Medical care for fiance
3. Boks
4. Warlord Games( Hail Ceaser & Pike & shot)
5. Warhammer 40k & Fantasy

Sooooo since when real life expenses are on a top 5 Gaming budjet? do you game with your food or petrol?

Rotates month to month, but

Car parts/race fees (335i and RX-7)
Bike stuff/race fees (road and mountain)
WH40K
Travel
Keeping the wife happy (its a hobby if it only happens sometimes, right?)

1. 40K

2. Crack Cocaine

3. Materials to build my shelter from that incoming asteroid

4. Payments to the Albanian Mafia so they don't take my thumbs.

5. Caviare cake.

Top 5 hobbies... geebus, these are close.

1. Motorcycles.

2. Cycling.

3. 3d computer modeling.

4. Wargaming with miniatures. (Historicals, 40k, fantasy, etc...)

5. Target shooting.

1:Shooting
2rinking
3:MTG
4:Firearms
5: 40k

Yes, warhammer is my cheapest hobby, then again I have enough points that I wont be buying too much more.

At the moment, I've entered a few of the Kickstarter things so it looks like this (recent, say, 6 months)

1. Kickstarter (Reaper & Mantic though models are intended for GW conversion bits)
2. ebaying OOP 40k models
3. paint/materials
4. new models

I don't play any other games, don't read comics, don't play video games. I spend a fair amount on theatre tickets, but that's classed as work.

If I was less busy, Kickstarter would easily be replaced by the cost of going to the occasional tournament. I don't really intend to back a lot of Kickstarters, but even if I go to one tournament in six months the cost of petrol, accommodation, food, ticket etc would easily equal my hobby purchases for those six months...

I will give it another go regarding this I spend the least time analyzing before buying with a frequency indicator for flavor....

1. Netflix Instant Subscription- Monthly

2. B-movies as these are typically $5 or less.- Bi-monthly

3. Sculpey as this is my sculpting medium of choice due to local availability and cost.- Quarterly

4. Books from the half price bookstore, typically used wargame rules and history books.- Annually

5. New game rulebooks for games that I never intend to play or buy models for- Annually

1.Tasty food
2. Ps3 games (not so much as nothing good has been coming out)
3. Savings
4. Savings
5. 40k

After recent events:

1)Girlfriend (know the feeling? )
2)Relic Knights Kickstarter
3)Star Wars X-Wing
4)Paintballing
5)Learning to drive

40k has totally fallen off the radar and I intend to keep that way if I'm honest.

 DeffDred wrote:
5: Wait for next paycheck

You spend money waiting for your next paycheck. No wonder it's hand-to-mouth for you.

 kronk wrote:
I thought we were just counting hobby budget?

Somehow, this has escaped many people despite being in the title.

 Manchu wrote:
quote=kronk 474352 4734895 489f733d4807afe96ca5ceb3ce6c14c1.png]I thought we were just counting hobby budget?

Somehow, this has escaped many people despite being in the title.

 Manchu wrote:
I bought Smallworld in the recent craze but have yet to play it. Pandemic is great fun, however.

Pandemic is awesome, grab the expansion if you haven't already. Small World is also great fun, and I recommend Globalization too: its a spoof on owning the world's economy-somewhere between Risk and Monopoly, with a Steve Jackson personality mixed in. Speaking of SJ, I recommend Ninja Burger too-just played it, and it's awesome. Dominion and Ascension make for great deck-building games too.

My current budgets include:
Movies
Video Games
Dust Warfare (replaced Warhammer almost entirely)
Board/Card games
Exercise equipment

Just restarted 40k and in the past two weeks I have around 5k points of vanilla space marines as standard, probably over 6k with upgrades, I do run quite successful business's so money isnt tight

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Still have 40 more tac's another land raider 3 more drop pods and quite a bit more to add to that lot

yeah,
this year;

1)40k
2)Kickstarter (was number 1 untill I got a CMON zombiecide refund lolz)
3)Xwing (will buy two of everything at launch)
4)Bloodbowl
5)iphone/ipad/xbox/ps3

Although my actual cash drainage the last couple of months has been zero as I've started selling off stuff on eBay.
It's the way forward.

Panic...

1-My dogs
2-40k
3-Books

As expensive as tabletop wargaming is, It's actually something I enjoy because of how much less expensive it is then collecting videogames and other crap in my entertainment/relaxation time.

1 Banelegions (Darklands) & Sedition Wars models
2 Space Hulk and WHQ model collection (all from eBay)
3 Music
4 Books
5 (recently) motorcycling

Recently being ebaying loads of gw stuff off. I'm finding I have less and less interest in gw these days. Other companies are putting out more interesting, more original and generally better suited models for my tastes.

 Oakenshield wrote:
1-My dogs
2-40k
3-Books

As expensive as tabletop wargaming is, It's actually something I enjoy because of how much less expensive it is then collecting videogames and other crap in my entertainment/relaxation time.

Oh agreed, its my fifth most expensive hobby, since the price of anything associated with the ATF(alcohol Tobacco and Firearms) is pretty high, and well all of them are things I do as a hobby, I find warhammer to be a relatively cheap hobby

1. Board Games
2. Music
3. Unnecessarily fancy clothes
4. Beer
5. Wargaming

I'd second the recommendation for Pandemic, by the way. Out of interest, beyond myself and Manchu, is there much of a Eurogaming crowd on Dakka?

I don't have a top 5 of gaming things. It's my one major hobby. My photography isn't a "hobby" - it's something I used to do for a job and now do purely when I get the time (holidays).

Beer isn't part of gaming, it's a part of life.

1. Modelling Supplies (Will always prioritise these)
2. Epic 40k/6mm
3.Rackham
4. Warhammer
5. 40k

Both Warhammer and 40k emphatically include none GW models and also tend to be second hand.

I'm going to leave life expenses, going out, clothes off my list and just stick to my wargaming hobby. Here's what I'm most likely to spend on. Most of the miniatures below are bought used and the priority list below can get mixed around quite a bit depending on what kind of deals I'm finding at any give time.

1)Terrain building supplies. This could run the gammut from old toys, to hardware store supplies, to porcelain houses, etc. I'm always building terrain, but I seem to acquire the supplies even faster than I build.

2)Post Apoc figure deals. If I find a figure or a vehicle that's on sale that I can shoehorn into my post apoc collection, it likely get's bought. This can be anything includingpost-apoc specific figs, modern cops, necromunda figs, or suitable sci-fi figs from various defunct games.

3)Fantasy figs for Song of Blades warbands. Not as much now that the Reaper kickstarter is over, but I still keep an eye out for deals to supplement my warbands.

4) Suplemental figs for my Sci-Fi armies. I have Void Junker, Spacelords Sarday'kin, and Denizen Khiff armies that I'm always on the lookout for more figs and vehicles that would be suitable. Also if I find deals on the Mechwarrior figs that I build my 10mm sci-fi armies from.

5)Old GW figs. I don't seek them out, but I do acquire old Necromunda and RT era space marine figures and figures that could fit an inquisitorial theme when they appear. I'll paint them up someday.... Like the OP, actively buying 40k dropped off my list years ago, though when a real bargain (metal figs in the 1-2 buck range) presents itself I do sometimes buy.

The priority of the list above is constantly in flux because as my group cycles through our games I'm more apt to spend money on the game we are currently playing.

1. Books (both maths/physics text books and novels)
2. Strength equipment (log press, weight plates, etc)
3. 40k
4. Going out
5. PC Games/PC equipment