The 2010 list of Thrifty People

Opening Balance £1740

Painkiller Collection Steam £6

Closing Balance £1734

Rik wrote:Opening Balance £1740

Painkiller Collection Steam £6

Closing Balance £1734

Opening balance £600.

£19 wasted on Tekken 6

New balance £581

Ok, I'm in - hopefully this will restrain my buying games I don't really want - 'just because they are a bargain' - habit.

Ok - maybe not....

Put me down for £350 please, I spent a hell of a lot on games last year! I've already spent £10.19 on the Crysis and Crysis Warhead pack on Steam.

I will be including accessories in the total.

Edit: Bollocks! I forgot the Logitech USB headset I ordered on New Years Day for £25.99.

Make that balance £314.15. £35.85 spent so far.

Can i join i followed it last year but i want to do it this year.
I think id like a budget of 800 please.

PostGo on then by **Mr.Jeff** » Sun Jan 03, 2010 3:33 pm

I'd like in on this.

Slightly excessive budget of £1000 but after that last year just gone it might not be.

HSH28 wrote:Quite how you'd hope to enforce something like that I'm not sure. Its a ridiculous idea that people can't decide for themselves what they want to keep an eye on spending wise.

If someone desires only to count games they buy on weekdays or ones that have a connection to cheese...so the hell what, good for them I say. Its their budget, and conditions on whats included makes it no less of a budget than anyone elses.

Where you differ is that you don't really make any effort to cut down on your spending at all really, which is the entire point of this experiment for most people here, is it not? You certainly didn't last year :lol:

Don't get me wrong mate, I have zero problem with it - your money is your money.
With regards to what should be included, it is the individuals perogative. I mean, I had to dig out £165 for a new 360 last year, but I didn't include it into my budget because "it's not my problem that it broke" or some gooseberry fool :fp:

I ended up losing track of my spending soon after this unfortunate incident :oops:

Poststrawberry float by **Mr.Jeff** » Sun Jan 03, 2010 7:12 pm

Okay, so my balance is already down to £976.50.

**Updated**

Opening balance - £600

Bought Audiosurf through Steam - £1.49

Closing balance - £598.51

my first game is going to be a late xmas present so im onto a winner from Jan

Opening balance - £314.15

Purchased S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Shadow of Chernobyl for £2 from Steam

Closing balance - £312.15

£9.24
Steam Goodies
BioShock
Killing Floor
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl

Doubt I will play them either :fp:

I should not have opened my mouth

Rubix78 = £1000 (Spent £0.00) Balance = £1000

PSN Wallet -£10 ***Vagrant Story™ (Full Game) £4.79***

New Balance = £990

Couple more Steam things to take off...

Killing Floor and Defence Grid total up to £5.50, taking overall January spend to date to £9.25...
Budget remaining: £590.75.

Could you put me down for £400 please? Not sure how much I spent last year, but most of what I did buy was less than full price.

With any luck I'll be buying an iMac soon ish, but I'm not including that as I'm not planning on using it for games.

Go on then, I might as well take part this year. I've no idea what my spending will add up to, so I'll set a random, round £1000 as my budget. As for my personal policy, I might choose not to include a PS3 in my budgeting, if I decide to buy one. Depends how I'm feeling at the time. I won't be including MS points etc. as I buy them, but will instead deduct a proportional amount as I spend them.

rinks = £1000 (Spent £0.00) Balance = £1000

btw, those arguing that every gaming-related expense should be included: are you budgeting in a proportion of the electric bill?

Opening balance - £1000

Bought three lots of DLC (one for Dragon Age and two for Mass Effect), totalling 1360 MS points, but with an 800 point "cashback" offer, so I'll count that as 560 points spent.
Spent £4.76

Closing balance - £995.24

rinks wrote:Go on then, I might as well take part this year. I've no idea what my spending will add up to, so I'll set a random, round £1000 as my budget. As for my personal policy, I might choose not to include a PS3 in my budgeting, if I decide to buy one. Depends how I'm feeling at the time. I won't be including MS points etc. as I buy them, but will instead deduct a proportional amount as I spend them.

rinks = £1000 (Spent £0.00) Balance = £1000

btw, those arguing that every gaming-related expense should be included: are you budgeting in a proportion of the electric bill?

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