cheese and meats

scotch, wine, and beer

albums by bands you enjoy (don't download them for free)

pre-amps

pants

socks

breifs

couches and beds (as you spend a lot of time on these usually)

I now move into the realm of TVs as I watch about 3 or 4 films a week and have discovered the Bravia.

Food, but I don't have a kitchen where I live

Beer, Stella or Belgian ale type stuff

Instruments, anything and everything, if I have the money available at the time, I'll buy it

Collectable vinyl that I never get around to listening to, saving it for retirement I guess

Can't say I splurge on anything really.

I'm not trying to be high and mighty, I've just always been a cheapskate.

This is not always a good quality to have.

I am probably doing my fair share of killing off mom and pop stores whilst constantly looking for the cheapest price I can buy something for.

Plus my inability to shell out more than a couple of hundred on musical equipment means I will nearly always be stuck with second rate gear. But I just can't bring myself to spend $1,000 bucks on a guitar (even though I'm fully aware of the superior quality of the more expensive instrument)

I just don't like spending money that much. It's gotten so bad that I'll eat a sandwich or frozen dinner from home before going out with friends to lunch.

I'm happy to spend my money on:

Good food, esp. cheeses, olives, bagels
Fine wine
Exceptionally good beer
Records
Musical Equipment
Fun

Everything else I'm tight as fuck about.

Food and clothes, although the baby makes us more frugal when it comes to clothing.

It was rather alarming to me when I realized that I looked much better in nice, well-fitting clothes.

studio time/tape (never used)
teas
macadamea nuts

that's about it.

simmo wrote:I'm happy to spend my money on:

Good food, esp. cheeses, olives, bagels
Fine wine
Exceptionally good beer
Records
Musical Equipment
Fun

Everything else I'm tight as fuck about.

Seconded.

YardDancer wrote:My girlfriend tells me that the commersh-grade stuff has pus in it. That hippie is probably just trying to scare me.

Nah, it's really in there. My girlfriend worked on a documentary about farms in Ohio, and learned a lot of things. Now I only eat organic.

Also, pre-mixed chocolate milk has blood in it.

care to reference that blood in the pre-mixed chocolate claim?

pyxis360 wrote:care to reference that blood in the pre-mixed chocolate claim?

I heard the same thing and it scared me off the stuff for a while. Snopes says false though. Now I avoid it because of allergies.