Buying habits?
 

Do you spend a lot of money on books, CDs, DVDs and games? What's the bulk of your entertainment budget?

I'm a compulsive book buyer--a few every month.
CDs--I'm not a big music person, but I do buy CDs every so often.
DVDs--Love movies, but only want to own certain ones.

I buy books and DVDs like crazy, but I've been trying to cut down due to massive backlogs of each. I buy games less frequently, but I still have a backlog on those as well.

Hi, I'm lizzym and I'm a hoarder.

I do not allow myself the pleasure of book, music, or movie shopping. My book count is probably over 3000 again, and that's just from thrifts and garage sales. Oh, and books I could never part with since childhood.

My moratorium on music and movies has worked much better.

dining out....so fleeting

I'm a very conservative buyer. Don't get a lot of stuff unless I know I want it.

I spend too much on other people cooking for me. But until my work hours change, I'm doomed, doomed!

I could spend less on beauty and bath products, but I love them to much to stop. And if I walk into a bookstore, that's it. I probably have at least 10 books lying around that I have yet to open.

Dvds and CDs. Theres some there that are over a year old that I havent watched yet.

Equal with shoes, watches and handbags :)

Books and PC games.

I do the Quality Paperback Book club online, because it's cheaper. I am at the library a couple times a month, but I like the book to be mine, too.

PC games are the big one. I love adventure games...the Nancy Drews, the Agatha Christies, anything by The Adventure Company.

They seem to be few and far between. I hate shootin' games and I hate simulation games. Maybe that's good, money-wise.

Netflix has been a huge moneysaver for us. We used to be buying anywhere from 2-10 anime DVDs a month.

Same here. Books are a big weakness of mine. I could spend and do spend hours in a good book store, Barnes and Noble, Borders, Books-a-Million. CD's use to be a weakness, not so much anymore. DVD's only for a narrow category of films, mostly old classic B&W's, and B-Horror flicks from the 40's through 70's.

Oh yeah, those too. I must've blocked that one out.

Books, DVDs, tarot decks.

Amazon.com gets between $40 and $200 per month out of me.

I also make the occasional impulse purchase from QVC. I am awaiting a set of Cooldannas, some bug repellant stick-ons, and a laptop.

we spend way to much on DVDs, we could give blockbuster a serious run for their money - also we spend on XBox 360, PS3 games - very few CDs - i spend on books.

I figured that they just gave them away at the nunnery...

wine and cheese. stuff for entertaining. dinner parties stuff.

also clothes.

I buy stuff for the boys and my husband too. They don't really seem to care much though. most of the time they just say thanks mum/sweetheart then go their own way.

One of my co-workers said, "I don't spend much on alcohol, probably less than $500 per year," and I thought $500 a year! that's a lot -- until I started adding it up and realized we probably spend about $350 on alcohol every month. I had never added it up before. It seems like a lot.

I'm sure that a lot of people spend considerably more.

Unless it's wine, it's not worth the money!

A good bottle of tequila is $60, which is why I've been switching to bourbon.

Your ratio of books/CDs to alcohol is: ______

This reminds me of a scene in one of my favorite SF series (Vorkosigan); where our heroes are checking out a suspect's financial records.

And it's only going to go up, with the poor cactus crops in the future.

Good thing I cut out tequila a couple years ago. I do love me some Cuervo Gold. :drunk:

"The Cuervo Gold, the fine colombian, make tonight a wonderful thing..."

I don't buy as many CD's or movies as I used to, but I still buy tons of new books. I'd say about 5-10 a month. But, many of them are used.

Spending on $(Books + DVDs)/$alcohol is 1.4:1 for the last 5 year period.

I'm using the library more these days and investing the difference in scotch.

maybe they'll take a tradein...:D

There's a half-price books, but there ain't no half-price booze.

I go through spurts on CDs/online music--I've spent $50 on music in the past week, along with upcoming purchases of Recoil, Ministry, the Smashing Pumpkins and Depeche Mode.

I buy DVDs sporadically...my library is starting to grow, though.

Books...ha! I'm just not much of a reader, so I rarely buy them.

I probably spend too much money on food products--not as much as I used to, but still more than I should. At least I buy a variety of both good and shitty stuff.

Wolf, I was just talking about your love of QVC to April the other day...we both had a good chuckle. :)