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I'm a single homeowner with no children, and I earn a fair wage. I do not deficit spend, in other words I cover all my expenditures with what's in the bank. The negative, if you will, is that I have no plans for the future. Retirement? No idea what that concept is. If I were to be injured and unable to work, I'd likely be in trouble. I have no problem affording everything today. I just don't have much of a cushion in case something bad happened tomorrow.

Sadly, Sailor S, the fact that you merely have no cushion still puts you ahead of most North Americans, who, like me, are in various stages of indebtness (and I'm not even counting mortgages in the category of debt even though they are). My debt load is far from marvelous, but it is manageable. Currently.

I'm married without children and we both make healthy salaries (mine's about to go down with a job switch, but his covers all bills plus a little extra, so it's not a big deal). So I pay for everything as it comes in without using credit cards.

That said, I still try to limit myself to about $300 per month (for all pleasure expenditures--not just anime/manga-related). It helps to make purchases a bit more special and carefully selected.

My wife and I are retired. No children and our income is adaquate. My hobby spending is not high enough to impact our income and is significently less than my wife's spending on dolls.

I haven't posted any of this years expenses yet. I ought to tally up and report.

Interesting little thread. Let's total up what I spent from last month (all these prices, except the Gatekeepers set, include shipping).

Wind Named Amnesia = $10.42
Gundam 0083 Anime Legends set = $32.43
Roujin Z = $19.59
Spring and Chaos = $12.05
Junkers Come Here = $8.97
Mars Daybreak Anime Legends set = $19.96
Gatekeepers/ Gatekeepers 21 set = $72.00
Vampire Princess Miyu box set = $85.76

Total: $261.18

I am employed, but barely and I live with my partner in a rented place. No kids to deal with though. I try and limit myself, but I keep finding new pretties to buy!

Let's see... for March:

Lucky Star(anime & OVA), Haruhi seasons 1 & 2, Got Anime membership $121.60
Cheerful Japan Miku $146.52
Total: $268.12

Now to wait for my preorders to ship to get an April total(though I suspect I'll be paying about $250 with shipping for those).

My budgeted monthly expenses are like this, mostly for DVDs but about 5% goes to manga. Well, I say manga but it's really only Negima:

One new release around 40 dollars or so.

Budget anime releases based on the overtime I worked for that week. Curiously, this far exceeds the first category each month. Why I'm working so hard, I don't know but I didn't think it was for anime.

Total expenses per month, around 200. Though I did get a bonus in March so I had a bit more to spend this month.

For March:
Hand Maid May 1-3 (*)
Shattered Angels
RomeoXJuliet
Elfen Lied
Bubblegum Crisis 2040
Strike Witches
Jubei Chan *
Jubei Chan 2 *
Saber Marionette J *
UFO Valkyrie Maiden 3, 4 *
Midori Days *
Soultaker *
Fantastic Children

Except for the ones I bought at *Rightstuf, all DVD sets were around 20 dollars or much less. With the new DVD/BD of Okami-San budgeted for March.

And a new DVD shelf for some reason. Don't know why that was part of my anime budget.

Interesting. I've gone back and tabulated my expenses for 2012, and I'm a bit surprised. I actually thought I had spent more.

Jan
Figures: $101
DVDs: $111
Total: $212

Feb
Figures: $141
DVDs: $0
Total: $141

Mar
Figures: $289
DVDs: $64
Total: $353

Apr
Figures: $112
DVDs: $0
Total: $112

Grand Total: $818

I haven't broke $1000 yet, which surprised me.

This will break next week, as I'm sure the bill to my two figures currently at HS will come in.

@ Meso: that's always a pleasant surprise when your mental tally is actually higher than your real tally. That never happens to me. If I try to keep a rough mental tally in my head, reality is always higher. I think it's called "denial."

Figured I would rack up my expenses from January and February as well. Would be kind of interesting to see how much I spend on anime throughout this year. As noted in my last post, the prices I list also include shipping.

January
Ramen Fighter Miki = $14.75
Ghost Hunt (SAVE edition) = $20.47
Redline = $21.37
Geneshaft = $13.92
Zone of the Enders Complete Series set = $33.66
Megazone 23 = $16.96

Total: $121.13

February
Peach Girl (Viridian Collection set) = $12.37
Nerima Daikon Brothers (SAVE edition) = $10.93
Strawberry Panic = $31.20
Barefoot Gen movies = $14.72
Patlabor: The New Files = $62.97
Argentosoma = $18.99
They Were Eleven = $12.97
Broken Blade Collection = $30.57

Total: $194.72

March Total: $261.18

YTD Total: $577.03

Not too bad for the year thus far, though my spending appears to be noticeably greater by each month since either I snagged pre-orders or OOP anime.

OK, I went back and totaled up:

January
Anime $328.01
Figures $55.99
Novel $8.39
Manga $218.73
Total $611.12

February
Anime $295.43
Manga $181.28
Total $476.71

March
Anime $727.42
Figures $349.61
Manga $173.22
Total 1250.25

So far in April it has been only manga which I will report later. I have no current preorders

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