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[verbminx]

a question - for you to answer, if you please -

assuming you have some, after all your bills are paid, how do you spend your discretionary income?

I think I mostly spend mine on books, followed in various proportions by clothes, cds, and art-and-craft supplies.

just curious.

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[ex-sanssouci422.livejournal.com]

Clothes, books, entertainment, travel, DVDs.

[ragdoll.livejournal.com]

books, cds, video tapes, dvds, makeup, clothes, sewing patterns, toys, comics

[verian.livejournal.com]

Books, Chapbooks, CD's, B & W film/developing etc, Comrades and Postage Stamps!

Always put books first

[flw.livejournal.com]

I have no doubt that LJ users are heavy readers, but I like how when you ask this sort of question, or one similar (like, "What are your hobbies") to people they always put books or reading first. It is almost certainly true in your case, but when I hear strangers say, "I like to read." I almost always think, "after watching six hours of TV."

I also like how cable television (or satellite or whatever) and the internet are not considered discretionary expenditures anymore, by some miracle.

But, to answer the question, I would have to say my discretionary income goes towards going to see bands (and the liquid expenses that entails), followed by films. Then there's my internet access.

I get all my books out of the library, which computers have made almost miraculous. Any book I want is always available, and I can just have it sent to my local library (about 100 steps from my front door). You can too, in all liklelihood. Libraries are a wonderful resource, especially, like I said, in this the age of computers.

Re: Always put books first

[verbminx.livejournal.com]

oh, oh, but see, i have a problem. i'm a collector. i buy especially beloved books in hardcover... or if I've read them in paperback, I pick up the hardcover when it's remaindered for $5. I just spent $50 on books tonight. we're going to be bankrupt at this rate.

anyway, me and the library are not currently on speaking terms. i've been thinking that i should just start going a few days a week. but i've had books out since 1993... i was on homebound schooling because i was an invalid, and put my books all in a box to be returned by my mom, and each of us thought the other had returned them, and then i found the box years later, and now... i'm afraid to return them. libraries haven't ever really worked out for me because i like to read slowly, read leisurely, fetishize my books, arrange them in series order, etc etc etc. I have an obscenely large library and I'm going to try to start cutting it down.

[acedia.livejournal.com]

Thrift stores, garage sales and auctions.

CD's are the only new/full-price items I buy regularly. I just bought my first DVD after owning a player for over a year, but probably spend $30-40 a month on rentals.

I buy used books almost exclusively, but admittedly I might occasionally spend more for a given one than I would have paid for it new.

[aquagirl.livejournal.com]

if i had discretionary money... well, pigs would be flying by,hell would be frozen over, then my head would explode from joy.

:( discretionary

[verbminx.livejournal.com]

aaawwwwwww... poor honey! :)