How much do we spend a year
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Fees only or all costs
It was not clear to me whether the figure in question was to include only direct fees to providers or if it should include all hobbying expenses, such as gifts, hotel rooms (used for no other purpose), paying for meal and/or travel costs and so forth. I assumed the former at the time I "voted", but maybe the latter is really more interesting. It would push my number up by a couple of thousand most years, I guess.
-Ww
It was not clear to me whether the figure in question was to include only direct fees to providers or if it should include all hobbying expenses, such as gifts, hotel rooms (used for no other purpose), paying for meal and/or travel costs and so forth. I assumed the former at the time I "voted", but maybe the latter is really more interesting. It would push my number up by a couple of thousand most years, I guess.
-Ww
Thats a lot of money
Assuming each respondent spends about the middle of the reported bracket (e.g. $3,000 to $5,000 spends $4,000), the 37 respondents (at this time) spend an average of $7,500.
If this is typical for the 8,845 members of UG, that represents annual expenditures of $66 million -- a number that is greater than the Gross Domestic Product of Nauru and Tulavu combined.
Something to think about.
Assuming each respondent spends about the middle of the reported bracket (e.g. $3,000 to $5,000 spends $4,000), the 37 respondents (at this time) spend an average of $7,500.
If this is typical for the 8,845 members of UG, that represents annual expenditures of $66 million -- a number that is greater than the Gross Domestic Product of Nauru and Tulavu combined.
Something to think about.
way more than....
last year, my first full year of hobbying w/ indy's [visited amp's for 2.5 years prior to that], i spent at least $18K - more than my car payment & 401k contribution [but made those payments/contributions]. i visited w/ about 13 women, 1 for 8 months and another for 5 months [still visited w/ her until may ; i temporarily moved up here in early june].
so far this year, about $10k. in jan-mar, it was about every other week. in arp-may, every week. since i've been up here, only 6 times, 2x w/ visiting women, and 2 more at an amp.
and to think i worried when i spent $$$$$/yr on sex-lines.
whatever, it's been fun, pleasurable, enjoyable and sensual.
i posted a similar poll on aspd in oct & dec of last year. another poster submitted a poll earlier this year, wherein i ref'd my polls.
http://www.aspd.net/showthread.php?s=&postid=122750#post122750
have fun out there...
s.l.
last year, my first full year of hobbying w/ indy's [visited amp's for 2.5 years prior to that], i spent at least $18K - more than my car payment & 401k contribution [but made those payments/contributions]. i visited w/ about 13 women, 1 for 8 months and another for 5 months [still visited w/ her until may ; i temporarily moved up here in early june].
so far this year, about $10k. in jan-mar, it was about every other week. in arp-may, every week. since i've been up here, only 6 times, 2x w/ visiting women, and 2 more at an amp.
and to think i worried when i spent $$$$$/yr on sex-lines.
whatever, it's been fun, pleasurable, enjoyable and sensual.
i posted a similar poll on aspd in oct & dec of last year. another poster submitted a poll earlier this year, wherein i ref'd my polls.
http://www.aspd.net/showthread.php?s=&postid=122750#post122750
have fun out there...
s.l.
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Oh Jeesus!
And here I've successfully avoided thinking about the cost all these years ... then you go and do this.
More than my luxury car payments. More than my NNJ property taxes.
About equal to a semester at that private liberal arts college my daughter is attending.
Like most guys, I've never though of myself as much of a shopper.
Guess I'll have to re-think that.
And the funny thing is a great deal of it is spent on impulse!
When the urge strikes, I guess I go for it. A lot.
And here I've successfully avoided thinking about the cost all these years ... then you go and do this.
More than my luxury car payments. More than my NNJ property taxes.
About equal to a semester at that private liberal arts college my daughter is attending.
Like most guys, I've never though of myself as much of a shopper.
Guess I'll have to re-think that.
And the funny thing is a great deal of it is spent on impulse!
When the urge strikes, I guess I go for it. A lot.
My accountant has been telling me to get some expenses to offset my hefty gains for years, but I think that I went a little beyond what he was meaning since I can't even deduct these expenses. LOL!!!
Much more that I would like to admit but worth every penny. I have met some of the nicest people in the hobby and I just want to keep on meeting more. And the hobby parties are so much fun. It is difficult to keep viewing my "relationships" as strictly business. I may be addicted but at least I can afford it.
Glad
Much more that I would like to admit but worth every penny. I have met some of the nicest people in the hobby and I just want to keep on meeting more. And the hobby parties are so much fun. It is difficult to keep viewing my "relationships" as strictly business. I may be addicted but at least I can afford it.
Glad
Appropriate expenditures for a "hobby"?
Calling it "the hobby" is basically euphamistic of course, but it strikes me that the level of spending reported in this survey is in the general ballpark of what many guys spend on major hobbies (guys with incomes in the same general range that I would guess applies for UG gents). For example, among my neighbors I know guys whose hobbies are golf, boating (owns a big looking, to me, boat) and collecting antique swords. I suspect that if they entered their annual expenditures on those hobbies into the survey, their numbers would fall in amongst the distribution of all the rest.
-Ww
Calling it "the hobby" is basically euphamistic of course, but it strikes me that the level of spending reported in this survey is in the general ballpark of what many guys spend on major hobbies (guys with incomes in the same general range that I would guess applies for UG gents). For example, among my neighbors I know guys whose hobbies are golf, boating (owns a big looking, to me, boat) and collecting antique swords. I suspect that if they entered their annual expenditures on those hobbies into the survey, their numbers would fall in amongst the distribution of all the rest.
-Ww