I hate having expensive hobbies/needs

[EGGO]

I love my 5 year old 17" Compaq CRT monitor, but I may want to start looking for a 19" CRT that's perfect for graphic designing. There is that LaCie 19" monitor, but any other 19" CRT made for professionals are non-existant anymore, so looking for an LCD may be best. In walks the 20" Apple Cinema Display for exactly $1,000.

I can spring for that, I got $750 for tax refund, but if I spend that, I cannot get my Canon i9900 (which I can get with a 2 year warranty for exactly $500).

OR I can wait until summer to get that printer, but then I can't spend $1000 on a new Digital SLR camera that I've been saving up for (yep, advertising graphic artistt/designer AND photographer).

I don't want to spend over $1,500 by the end of this summer.

Where the hell are my priorities? Each component is equally as important as the next.

It reminds me of that, "Quick, cheap, and high-quality. You can only choose 2."

Bah, I might just screw the monitor.

 

[MaverickBP]

Originally posted by: EGGO

Bah, I might just screw the monitor.

:camera: 's?

 

[djpolstee]

Yea, that's an expensive hobby, but my paintballin hobby has hurt my checkbook more so than my pc hobby.

 

[Jzero]

These sound like business expenses. Write off!

 

[MikeyIs4Dcats]

get a job!

 

[moshquerade]

Originally posted by: MaverickBP

Originally posted by: EGGO

Bah, I might just screw the monitor.

:camera: 's?

hahaha :thumbsup:

 

[EGGO]

Originally posted by: MikeyIs4Dcats
get a job!

I do, of course. Otherwise I wouldn't have been able to buy my $3,500+ rig without one. =0)

 

[osiris3mc]

I too, hate having expensive hobbies/needs. My SO is the complete opposite so she gets a little POed every now and then. But hey? I can't help it!

 

[Queasy]

Find a cheaper hobby?

 

[kami333]

I need a hobby

 

[Jeff7181]

Originally posted by: kami333
I need a hobby

ATOT?

 

[Audiotherapy]

pfff... you been doing graphics on 17"? get dual 20"+ LCD

 

[Fritzo]

Consider yourself lucky. I'm into computers AND I'm a musician. If I'm not forking out $500 for a new LCD, I'm forking out $1000 for a new guitar that I fell in love with

 

[CRXican]

Ha, that's nothing. Be happy you're not a car person,
$1,500 is chump change, I've spent 3 times that in a summer on my car.

 

[Blastomyces]

Out of curiosity is the following scenario legit:

Sell a photo or some other piece of graphic design for $1 (to a friend)
Now your "hobby" is a "business"
Get a business license to make it official
Deduct computer, camera, etc... as business expenses.

Sounds legit, but is it?

 

[trmiv]

My expensive "hobby" makes your expensive hobby look frugal. I drive race cars. Now THAT is expensive.

 

[Spike]

I find the problem is not having a single or even a few moderate to expensive hobbies, it's having a TON of these that really starts adding up. Here are some of the things I spend the money on:

Computers (duh, of course)
Skiing
Photography
Random Gadgets (from PDA to MP3 player)
Vacations (3 continents in 2 years gets expensive...)
Backpacking
Paintballing
Watersports (Wave runner, sailing, body surfing, etc...)
Social occasions (seasons tickets to the opera, at least 20 baseball games a year, eating out once a week min)

That just some of the stuff my wife and I spend money on, and we are currently looking for a house! We are not rich by any means so I am always looking to cut something out so I actually have money instead of always being at $0! You can go hog wild on a single hooby and survive, but trying to maintain many is freaking killing me. What a materialistic society we have become...

<--- goes back to gotapex.com looking for cool tech deals

-spike