how much dough do you spend a month on this addiction?

[danwelsh]

Just wondering if you fellas are spending 150-250 a month on this "hobby"(more of an addiction) like myself

[Rockhorst]

Easily although I hope to spend a little less in the upcoming months. I've basically acquired everything I need to keep building until june

[stevie1556]

It depends. In March I'll need a restock of parts so I'm guessing a good £400 min. But that will last me for a few months.

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[juansolo]

£178.78 averaged out over 4 years (when I started keeping track of the accounts). We try to sell as much as we spend and to date have managed to keep ourselves around £4-500 in deficit. We've been trying to break even since I started keeping track of this

[selfdestroyer]

I'm sorry guys, but I can not have that in writing just incase my wife is stalking my posts here :]

[haveyouseenhim]

Man. You guys are nuts.    I spend about $50 every 2 months (if even that much)

It has been even less lately. Most of my money has been going into shooting sports.

[midwayfair]

I haven't used anything except my paypal balance in perhaps a year. (Well, sometimes it dips into my bank account if I used the Paypal for something else.)

[Jabulani Jonny]

I just spent about $450 and I hope that lasts me a little while. However that included 7 painted enclosures from PPP for builds for friends so my plan is to recoup all of that. We'll see how that works out though. I can't afford the $150/month amount, but I probably average out to $40'ish per month.  Enclosures and PCB's are what get me. I need to start reading schematics and building on Vero. But MB and others just make it too easy to build great sounding pedals.


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[GermanCdn]

I probably spend, err, $80 a month on parts, $60 a month on PCBs, and $500 a year on enclosures.  Looks like that adds up to about $2k a year.  Actually not bad, figured it would be worse.

[timbo_93631]

I'd say I am spending $250 a month average and recouping all of it and more by doing custom builds.  If I build something for trade that scrubs away profit pretty quick for the month, but I have been able to make some really nice trades for hand built things I appreciate and would never otherwise be able to afford or justify spending the money on with my family in mind. 

Nearly every month I make a profit, and that turns into a pedal here or there that I keep and in the end it was "free" so to speak.  That is a nice thing.

[danwelsh]

The way I look at it even if I was blowing 500$ a month.....I could be spending my hard earned cash on much worse things

[pickdropper]

I'd say I am spending $250 a month average and recouping all of it and more by doing custom builds.  If I build something for trade that scrubs away profit pretty quick for the month, but I have been able to make some really nice trades for hand built things I appreciate and would never otherwise be able to afford or justify spending the money on with my family in mind. 

Nearly every month I make a profit, and that turns into a pedal here or there that I keep and in the end it was "free" so to speak.  That is a nice thing.

Yeah, I don't build for sale as much as some, but I do it here and there and it generally pays for parts and/or yields some really cool trades.

[alanp]

I got $60 once, and that was probably a loss on the pedal. I haven't managed to sell anything, other than that.

[jimilee]

Probably 100 per month on average parts pcbs people selling stuff. Usually when I say ok that's it til I get paid again,somebody will post something I want like a small stone phaser for a stupid low price and I have to buy it. About every 3 or 4 months I place a large order with blms and use the free financing offer with pay me later through PayPal. ( it's the only revolving credit I use and my balance is around 130 right now.) I do that just to keep my credit rating up.

[juansolo]

Building to sell is a necessary evil of the hobby I've found. I don't mind building stuff for friends/friends of friends/people I speak to on the internet. But of late I've been having to put odd things on eBay and for sale to the great unwashed, which I'm not as happy/comfortable with. Still, it keeps me building so in that respect I can put up with it.