How big is your entertainment budget?

    I'm just curious how much others set aside for this category.  We
have two adults and 2 children in our family, and we set aside $40 every
two weeks for all entertainment purposes.

   This means eating out, movies, music, books, tickets to anything,
etc.
We have to have the $ in there, or we do an alternative low cost or free
activity. (board games, DVD from the library, etc.)

   How much do you set aside in your budget for these things?

                                             Thanks

  OhioGuy wrote:

$20/week for the family?

  Well, I guess it depends on where you live. If I lived somewhere where
there was less to do I would spend less.

   I go out to eat twice a week to a decent restaurant, do an outing
every Sunday, catch an occasional Concert, festival or party, am a
museum member and this time of year catch at least a couple of
photographic exhibits a week. Been down to the beach twice this summer
and up to the lake a lot. Mountain season now... and lots of Halloween
parties.


  Sorry, no budget, just spend as I go. My living costs are
extraordinarily low otherwise. Old car, house is paid for. Mostly solar
heat. Eat a lot of chicken... I'd rather have fun than a new car.

YMMV.

   Jeff

 Guess that all depends on what you mean by entertainment.  My concept is
very different from yours.  I have seen one movie in a theatre since moving
here in 1981 (Jurrasic Park).  And renting videos stopped for me about 10
years ago.  I have eaten from McDonalds once this year - and from the
oriental take out twice this year (once using a gift certificate).  No trips
to the sub shop or the pizza place.  And no restaturants - I can fix
something much less expensively at home - and with my dietary problems -
feel much more comfortable later.

Books - have plenty - and the library fee is $1 - for 3 years.  The library
is 1 mile from my home.  Cancelled book clubs a while ago.

Perhaps magazine subscriptions - I do have some of those - but usually get
them when the really big offers come through.

But my form of entertainment - 3 trips a week to Physical Therapy for a
workout - and socialization.  That costs $30 a month.  Yeds, it is a very
different kind of medical clinic.  More of a family and friends along with
the healing therapies.

JonquilJan

Learn something new every day
As long as you are learning, you are living
When you stop learning, you start dying

 

Zero, nada, ziltch. I just watch free to air digital TV and occasionally
download stuff I miss.


two weeks for all entertainment purposes.


I do spend quite a bit on books, but nothing of any of the rest. And I dont
bother
to budget with the books, just buy what interest me or what shows up etc.


activity. (board games, DVD from the library,

Zero, nada, ziltch.

 Rod Speed wrote:

download stuff I miss.

  Hard to pay for cable when you are on welfare.


two weeks for all entertainment purposes.

bother

     You mean you dumpster dive for old books.

activity. (board games, DVD from the library,

   One can not set aside what when does not have.