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What do you spend most on with your disposable income?

Sep 12, 2007 8:50AM PDT

What do you spend most on with your disposable income?

-- Entertainment (Please specify.)
-- Vacation (Please specify.)
-- Hobbies (Please specify.)
-- Luxury items (Please specify.)
-- Donations (Please specify.)
-- What disposable income? Are you talking about the pennies that you drop?
-- Others (Please specify.)

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What I spend most of my disposable income on i
Sep 12, 2007 12:48PM PDT

I spend most of my money on Amateur radio stuff and going to events that are related to Amateur radio.

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That takes me back
Sep 12, 2007 3:33PM PDT

I remember back in the 60's lying in bed at night and calls from around the world coming in for my father who's call sign of G3TQN I can still recall ... happy memories!

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What disposable income is right...
Sep 12, 2007 12:55PM PDT

Can't wait to see what others can afford to waste their money on.

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What do I spend most on with my disposable income
Sep 12, 2007 12:58PM PDT

Hi there.
I go to ebay and buy some photos of my favorite actors and actresses. If they don't have it, I go to the music or the video stores for it. I even buy the videos I just want.

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Hobbies? Actually Grandkids . . . . .
Sep 12, 2007 12:59PM PDT

I love sewing for my grandkids. Printing out their photos, making beaded jewelry, teaching them the old crafts.

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Disposable Income?
Sep 12, 2007 1:01PM PDT

Since minimum wage went up (along with everything else), I no longer have any disposable income!

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Minimum wage up try again
Sep 12, 2007 3:41PM PDT

Minimum wage as dropped in every republican term and only leveled out in democratic term when indexed to inflation in fact if min wage was indexed by inflation it would be over 10 dollars an hour now
Also sadly skilled wages have be deflated by the decline in min wage

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Tell me about it
Sep 13, 2007 3:39AM PDT

I used to make $20 an hour in commercial construction. 25 years. Now I can't find a job that pays more than $9. that won't even pay the rent and keep the lights on. Never mind other things (like food, gas, phone, etc.). My 'Net access is likely history the end of this month.

The Fed and State governments acknowledge the problem with illegal immigrants but obviously won't do anything about it. At least not here in Florida. Walk onto any construction site and shout 'la migra' and it's a ghost town in 15 seconds.

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never ending renovations
Sep 12, 2007 1:08PM PDT

This past year all "diaposable" income has gone into bringing our 30 year old mobile home into the current, inside & out. It's expensive but it will be worth it in the long run

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Never ending renovations is right!
Sep 15, 2007 5:01AM PDT

We must be neighbors! Rather than having house payments until I'm 92 I am trying to "fix up" my 23-year old mobile home, although my domestic partner (no, not my dog, my boyfriend) wants to trade it for a double-wide (I have 3 rural acres). Although he is only 44 and feasibly has YEARS to work you never know what may happen. I was elated when the minimum wage in my state went to $6.15 an hour although I still work part-time. There is no disposable income until this November when I can collect my first (pitifully small) SS check. I will still have to work in order to raise my standard of living so I can get a few "luxuries, i.e. DVD player, replace the timing belt on my 2000 Toyota, maybe a pre-paid cell phone. This is all due to my stupidity when I was much younger and did not plan for the future. I could be on easy street now if I had just had some financial guidance.
But I am truly thankful for what I do have: my health, a job, a place to live so I really don't have much to ***** about. ;-}

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Digital Photography
Sep 12, 2007 1:13PM PDT

I usually travel about 400 miles in a weekend taking pictures of wildlife.

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Fantasic
Sep 12, 2007 3:45PM PDT

I too love photography. I have a Canon EOS 5 with a range of lenses, which I use in combination with my other hobbies of travel and sports ... hope to get some good photos of the Scotland v New Zealand in the Rugby World Cup next week. Any advice?

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I spend my disposable income on Hobbies
Sep 12, 2007 1:15PM PDT

Hobbies are computer related, building the latest and greatest computer, within my budget. Vacation photo and video editing software. Also, photography, but very new at this, finally just purchasing a Nikon Digital SLR about a year ago. This has been quite a learning curve, but I am making progress.

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I spend my disposable income on Hobbies
Sep 12, 2007 8:22PM PDT

My hobbies include my PC and my entertainment. I recently retired but then took a job as a school bus driver so I could use that money to buy my toys. So far they include a 24" monitor for my PC, a 52" HDTV for my exercise room, a 46" HDTV for the bedroom (that's the biggest the hutch would fit) and a HD DVD player.

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It's really pleasing...
Sep 13, 2007 8:42AM PDT

It's really pleasing to find so many retired (or almost) men and women who are computer geeks like me. I derive a lot of pleasure with my PC, downloading music and some software, and going to sites like this.

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disposable income
Sep 12, 2007 1:23PM PDT

I'm a sports nut ... this year I not only have season tix to NY Islanders, but also have plans (2) for NY Mets and Brooklyn Cyclones (short-season A affiliate of Mets). Went to some additional games that were not in my [ticket]plans.

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Me too
Sep 12, 2007 3:40PM PDT

I too spend what I can on sports - mostly watching not competing nowadays ... there is nothing like the thrill of a live match or competition. In fact I am off next weekend to the Rugby world cup ... Scotland v New Zealand which will be a great spectacle!

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Disposable Income
Sep 12, 2007 1:34PM PDT

Normally I spend it on our PC's and laptop, but this year we spent it on upgrading our trailer

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Disposable Income
Sep 12, 2007 1:41PM PDT

I guess anything that's not used to live (exist) with would be considered disposable. I use it for the few moments of entertainment that is left in my dreary, useless life. I pay a lot for my satellite TV with all the movie channels, my satellite radio, and my DSL internet connection. All are paid as separate bills and can be deleted, but I don't drink, smoke or have a physical relationship anymore in my life, so what else is left besides pseudo-recreation...

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There's a LOT more to life...think about it..
Sep 13, 2007 8:46AM PDT

Read your unhappy comments about your life...just gotta tell yah I pray a lot, walk a lot, discuss things with other people and work part time. If you can't do a coupla things I mention, there are pleasant alternatives, aren't there, like reading, etc. (I like reading Proverbs and Sirach in the bible). These are very englightening and possibly may help you too!

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food food and just living
Sep 12, 2007 2:05PM PDT

Hello all as a pentioner its hard to do any more than bye food pay rates and medical expences
but i do run a computer and would love to be able to buy a new 2x core cpu and mother board ?and spares out there
EricaJoan@gmail.com

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Disposable Income.
Sep 12, 2007 2:23PM PDT

Recently had to catagorize my expenses for a year and was amazed to find that I spend more money on my three dogs (all rescues) than on any other item. Guess that would be my disposable income.

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What do i spend my disposable income on ?
Sep 12, 2007 2:29PM PDT

I'm an electronics freak so top notch home theatre ,Denon 7.1 run through 9 high end speakers also Logitech 880 remote . Then my media centre computer (600)GB That is connected to my satellite then to my 50" plasma , wireless keyboard & mouse of course .

Why not surf the net in style on your big screen it's all possible with the assistance of the techs. at Cnet .

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Speakers are my spending downfall!
Sep 12, 2007 4:00PM PDT

I have spent way too much over the last few years on home theater products. I have a problem with buying "Flagship" products, I can not settle for middle of the road. Yamaha RX-Z 8.1 receiver, Klipsch RF7 mains, RC7 center, RS7's rear, Klipsch RF sub, etc. I am now trying to get my wife to let me spend the vacation fund on a pair of Sunfire Sig. Jr. subs. I know that I have a problem, but I can quit at any time! The true sign of my problem is that I get bored, and spend more. The problem goes so far that just about everyroom has speakers, JBL Decade 36's in my bedroom, Vintage Bic's in the dinning room, Klipsch 5.1 surround for the computer, Boston Acoustic 5.1 in the office. Boston acoustics in the baby's room, Klipsch RF series outdoors in the patio, Signets in the garage and about 3 more sets of high end speakers, an Onkyo receiver, Carver CD player just sitting in the closet. C/Net please tell me that you have a support group meeting soon. Or at least some reviews on some great high end digital amps.

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Disposable Income?
Sep 12, 2007 2:49PM PDT

My Computer and printer were given to me and Office Depot gives me $3 Coupons towards a purchase of printer paper when I hand them used up printer cartridges.

If I didn't already have a frame of reference for Windows Operating Systems, Microsoft Software, HP Computers and Printers and all of you...I would probably be sitting here playing games on this computer.

I will let you know when I can get off of living on a Disability Check.

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I wouldn't call it disposable. . .
Sep 12, 2007 3:12PM PDT

Hobbies, when i have a few extra dollars laying around.

two seemingly never finished hot rods, a new videogame once in a while, and a little traveling: I live in Nebraska and have family in Iowa, Texas and Oklahoma. Always somewhere I'd like to be when I am not working. Grin Silly Wink

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gadjets galore
Sep 12, 2007 4:31PM PDT

gagjets galore new cameras,mp3 player ,another lcd tv, gps, but the best is my new enV lg verizon phone I just got. I love opening my new elelctronics, it;s always christmas.

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Me=sailing, wife=horses
Sep 12, 2007 4:53PM PDT

Sailing has been described as like standing in a shower tearing up

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disposable income?
Sep 12, 2007 4:59PM PDT

I could have voted for "luxury items", because, as a pensioner, I spend ALL of my disposable income on paying bills for what are already luxury items like WATER, ELECTRICITY,GAS, RENT and heating!
AND......it ain't going to get any better!

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Excess money
Sep 12, 2007 6:07PM PDT

No such thing when you have a family.Between food,clothes and oh ya I forgot the hockey equipment.After that, if there is any left.Heck I'll splurge and buy a Mars bar.