Where do you spend most of your Money?

Aldi's

 

It has been a mixed bag lately... I would say most of it in the last year has gone into beefing up the rolling stock fleet. I've always had plenty of power, but nothing to pull behind it! I've recently cut back on that and have been spending more on building a layout finally and my "train room" part of the basement.

 

Most of my funds have gone to finance my die-cast ES44 collection.  Unfortunately I did not purchase these when they first arrived on the shelves a few years back.   No regrets though, despite paying premiums for the four I own, I do not regret 1 penny.  They are the pride and joy of my collection!

Alcohol, cigarettes, and gambling. The rest I just waste.

For those of us who are self-employed...health insurance.

 

What money?

This year,waiting on Atlas Observation and 6-5 Sleeper,MTH 44 Ton ATSF Center Cab,Lionel Y 6B and the new Lionel Catalog is not out yet.On full size trains I will be riding in France,Germany,Austria and Czech Republic,maybe in Spain.

Mikey

Since the Fall of 2012 (when I began repairing locally) I buy mostly parts.

 

Then there's the new Pennsy items by Lionel.

 

And lately I've been buying EXC+ items either for resale or to upgrade items in my collection.

Has to be locomotives. When you start adding it up, even "modest" $500 purchases quickly over-run the cost of everything else.

Up until last Monday, college tuition!    I'm done!

 

Peter

When it comes to children, you're never quite done.  Once you have them, they are yours for life, and the beat goes on.  Bob S.

I sold mine for medical experimentation.

There is a list that easily uses $3,000 per month.  Large items are Medical insurance, utilities and food, including the transportation/car expense.  First SS deposit was March of this year. 

I had done the college expense for (4) wonderful children many years ago.  At the time it was insane.  Today I consider it the best money I ever spent.   I recently got a refresher on college expense, I was helping a deserving nephew with some of his Penn State burden. 

 

I have been gifted to be able to play with such insanity as model trains.  Hopefully this summer a trip to the Grand Tetons, and Glacier National Park. 

 

Are you form Central PA? I usually go to Neely's Train Shop in Altoona to spend all of my money.  However; it was nice to have a few options in the area.  It's a bummer the train shop in State College closed.   The shop in Johnstown closed as well.  

 

 

Excellent.  My family is from Western PA.  I always like to stop at Brady's Train Outlet when I'm in town.

property taxes!!!  but this gives me the land rights to my basement railroafd

And then along comes the grand children. They are more fun though. You can legally spoil them and when they wear you out you can just send them back home.

 Carnival attractions very pricey, locomotives, switches, track, alot of accesories but all pale compared to kids, tuition.....

Gas and hotels from gig to gig.......

 

Oh, you mean on trains?   Probably operating accessories at this point.    I don't regularly buy new locos unless I really like something (like the new Daylight Cab Forward).  Most of my hobby dollars go towards accessories and operating rolling stock.

If I tell you the wife may read this and then I am done for.

Food, I like to eat.

 

 

Art

 

I've had a pretty complete collection of PW Lionel for a few years now...at least the stuff I really want.  Lately, I'm into passenger cars, in both HO and O scales.  O scale was preferred until recently because of the interior possibilities.  Now that Walthers is going nuts on "Name Trains", HO is getting the edge !  

I don't have any to spend.

Taxes.

1.  School tuition/camps/after-school activities;

2.  Taxes (federal, state, and local);

3.  Savings (before and after-tax, including college savings);

4.  Mortgage and home-improvement expenses (our house is at the age where everything ages out);

5.  Groceries;

6.  Automobile related expenses (insurance, fuel, repairs --cars are paid for but when they break they are expensive);

7.  Household services (cleaning, landscaping, etc.); and

8.  Clothes (kids again mostly).

 

As to the trains, I have two boys, they enjoy the hobby but we have too much stuff already and I don't want the O gauge hobby, for them, to become equated with constant consumption.  I want it to be about building things with their own hands, learning how to repair and service machines, learning about electricity, and taking pride in the result of your efforts.  These are all things that I learned as a kid and they have helped me in adulthood as I, like a lot of the folks here, can resolve a lot of household type issues without resorting to a repairman.  I also want them to respect these pieces and the family history that goes along with them -- many of them, for example, were purchased by my grandfather for my dad when he was a kid.  So we've basically stopped buying locomotives and rolling stock.  If they get bored with one of their (formerly my) older MPC or Williams locomotives, I will upgrade it for them so that it is more interesting and they can use the various remotes to run it.  We'll also spend on repair and restoration for an older piece (including accessories) if it is required for it to be enjoyable to use.  These types of things are generally not that expensive, so it means our budget is reasonable and under control.

 

 

  Rent, taxes, and cable.

Rumor has it, that those 1% folks don't pay taxes anyway.  It's the rest of us, carrying the weight.

Good pizzas, just like Tombstones, but WAY cheaper.