How big is your entertainment budget?
OhioGuy
have two adults and 2 children in our family, and we set aside $40 every
two weeks for all entertainment purposes.
This means eating out, movies, music, books, tickets to anything,
etc.
We have to have the $ in there, or we do an alternative low cost or free
activity. (board games, DVD from the library, etc.)
How much do you set aside in your budget for these things?
Thanks
Jeff
> I'm just curious how much others set aside for this category. We have
> two adults and 2 children in our family, and we set aside $40 every two
> weeks for all entertainment purposes.
$20/week for the family?
Well, I guess it depends on where you live. If I lived somewhere where
there was less to do I would spend less.
I go out to eat twice a week to a decent restaurant, do an outing
every Sunday, catch an occasional Concert, festival or party, am a
museum member and this time of year catch at least a couple of
photographic exhibits a week. Been down to the beach twice this summer
and up to the lake a lot. Mountain season now... and lots of Halloween
parties.
>
> This means eating out, movies, music, books, tickets to anything, etc.
> We have to have the $ in there, or we do an alternative low cost or free
> activity. (board games, DVD from the library, etc.)
>
> How much do you set aside in your budget for these things?
Sorry, no budget, just spend as I go. My living costs are
extraordinarily low otherwise. Old car, house is paid for. Mostly solar
heat. Eat a lot of chicken... I'd rather have fun than a new car.
YMMV.
Jeff
>
> Thanks
Rod Speed
> I'm just curious how much others set aside for this category.
Zero, nada, ziltch. I just watch free to air digital TV and occasionally download stuff I miss.
> We have two adults and 2 children in our family, and we set aside $40 every two weeks for all entertainment purposes.
> This means eating out, movies, music, books, tickets to anything, etc.
I do spend quite a bit on books, but nothing of any of the rest. And I dont bother
to budget with the books, just buy what interest me or what shows up etc.
> We have to have the $ in there, or we do an alternative low cost or free activity. (board games, DVD from the library,
> etc.)
> How much do you set aside in your budget for these things?
Zero, nada, ziltch.
William Souden
> OhioGuy <no...@none.net> wrote:
>
>> I'm just curious how much others set aside for this category.
>
> Zero, nada, ziltch. I just watch free to air digital TV and occasionally download stuff I miss.
>
>> We have two adults and 2 children in our family, and we set aside $40 every two weeks for all entertainment purposes.
>
>> This means eating out, movies, music, books, tickets to anything, etc.
>
> I do spend quite a bit on books, but nothing of any of the rest. And I dont bother
> to budget with the books, just buy what interest me or what shows up etc.
You mean you dumpster dive for old books.
>
>> We have to have the $ in there, or we do an alternative low cost or free activity. (board games, DVD from the library,
>> etc.)
>
>> How much do you set aside in your budget for these things?
>
> Zero, nada, ziltch.
One can not set aside what when does not have.
>
>
JonquilJan
very different from yours. I have seen one movie in a theatre since moving
here in 1981 (Jurrasic Park). And renting videos stopped for me about 10
years ago. I have eaten from McDonalds once this year - and from the
oriental take out twice this year (once using a gift certificate). No trips
to the sub shop or the pizza place. And no restaturants - I can fix
something much less expensively at home - and with my dietary problems -
feel much more comfortable later.
Books - have plenty - and the library fee is $1 - for 3 years. The library
is 1 mile from my home. Cancelled book clubs a while ago.
Perhaps magazine subscriptions - I do have some of those - but usually get
them when the really big offers come through.
But my form of entertainment - 3 trips a week to Physical Therapy for a
workout - and socialization. That costs $30 a month. Yeds, it is a very
different kind of medical clinic. More of a family and friends along with
the healing therapies.
JonquilJan
Learn something new every day
As long as you are learning, you are living
When you stop learning, you start dying
asiand...@gmail.com
entertainment means to a person. Some people may spend more while some
people spend less.
Maybe its because we don't have kids we can spend more on
entertainment. We go out shopping almost every single day and most of
the time we eat out especially at the shopping mall. Whenever there is
a new blockbuster movies we will definitely go watch it. What about
holiday trips? We go on short trips a few months once.
In all we don't really have a budget for entertainment. Sometime we
can spend more than $100 per week Anyway why budget yourself it just
ruin the meaning of entertainment.
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OhioGuy
entertainment category - $3.50 a month for 150 hours of connectivity.
(since I play a lot of board games online for free on brettspielwelt)
>Anyway why budget yourself it just
> ruin the meaning of entertainment.
We do it out of necessity. Rather than ruining it, I feel that it
makes us more creative when it comes to entertainment. Out of habit, I
usually want to go to the cheap theater with the family. However, that
really adds up fast unless we can go on Tuesdays. ($8 on Tuesdays, vs
$14 other days for 4) My wife has been getting me more interested in
doing crafts and other less expensive things.
rick++
So it is 10% of my budget and 3% of my income.
Probably first to be cut in a crisis.
I could do a lot with cheap hikes in the nearby mountains
and $1 threater movies, if pressed.
George Grapman
,unlimited. With store rentals I have to drive to the store,park ,hope
they have what I want and repeat the process.
When a movie is due at a store and I have not watched it my choices
are stay up late,pay a late fee or return the unwatched movie. With
Netflix I simply turn it off and continue at my convenience.
One of the last things I would give up is the baseball tv package.
It comes out to less than a dollar a day.
I eat out as much as before but I often oder plain water with my
meal instead of soft drinks or beer.
h
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We have cable tv with the cheapest premium channel package bundled in with
roadrunner and phone, both of which are necessary for business use
(self-employed, work at home). Other than that, we don't have any
"entertainment". We only eat out if we're traveling, and we don't rent
movies or go to the theatre. Just too expensive. Also, now that I'm old and
crotchety, I find the behavior of most people in theatres appalling. I'd
rather watch it on my tv where there are no people talking or children
screaming.
clams_casino
Over 28 years, we have averaged 10% of our income going for
entertainment (motels, movies, eating out, plays, travel costs other
than driving, etc.
Seerialmom
No budget, just very tight grasp on the purse strings. Which hasn't
changed, I've always been that way and why I'm not in over my head in
this housing market.
Seerialmom
You know you can get discount movie tickets at Costco, right? $7.50
per ticket; not limited to matinees? I saw "Beverly Hills Chihuahua"
with one of those and plan to see Zach and Mira Make a Porno on Friday
with my last one.
Lou
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There are movie sites all over the web. I don't know if they're legal or
not, but you can stream stuff directly to your computer for no more cost
that your existing broadband connection and the electricity to run your
computer. Quality varies from pretty poor to OK. Some of the stuff is
pretty vintage, some of it is as current as last week. A movie viewed this
way isn't a communal experience (unless you cable the computer to your TV)
but reclined on the couch with a laptop on your lap and a cheap pair of
headphones jacked into the computer, it's almost like reading a book. Some
TV shows are available this way as well, some from the networks' web sites.
Commercials are non-existent to much briefer than you get when watching TV.