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Mine varies but average is $75. I keep thinking I will get all I could ever need, but someone keeps coming up with new toys & ideas!! My husband asked not long ago "Does everybody have as many stamps as you?" and he saw only the Christmas stamps! Better keep the rest hidden huh? But he loves for me make cards for his friends and family.
I definately spend way too much and i should put my energy and money paying off bills. I went with the highest which could be double that LOL> i have my minimums for SU which i always spent at least that. Also my scrapbook clubs which is $100 a month and all the numerous other things i order and my Michaels and Joanns visits. Good thing i work and hubby don't care what i spend or i might be in trouble...
If you seen my scrapbook room you would know!! My dh just walks in and smiles. Thank goodness he has an expensive hobby, makes mine look like nothing. LOL
With Sell-A-Bration here, I'm sure I'll go way over.
I voted the $0-35 range but that is only when Hobby Lobby doesn't have a 50% off on stamps and when I don't host a workshop or attend a workshop then of coarse it goes up.
I also always spend more when the new catalogs come out, I have a wonderful demo, she allows me to make purchases and make cash payments to her, this is our husband un-awareness program and she doesn't care if it takes me 2 months to pay her cause she says she trust me because half the time she forgets that I even owe her until I show up with cash for her.
__________________ With God all things are possible
I became a demo for the same reason everyone else did: For the discount!!! Do you think that means I save money? Lol, I spend so much I not only won't admit it to you- but I don't even want to admit it to myself :-)!
I am learning to just accept my addiction and not freak out about it. It is what it is, and I'm not giving it up!!
I really don't want to say - more than I should probably since I just bought the Cricut!
Seriously, the mortgage, heat & light, etc and we have food to eat, plus still some left over for vacations, etc. so I guess it's not really too much and dh knows it makes me happy.
That said, I made our Christmas cards from what I had on hand, only ordered materials for HIS 60th Birthday album, HIS calendar present. And he gave me $100 toward SAB along with saying he'd split the cost of the Cricut & cartridge w/me~!
gotta love that guy. smooches
__________________ Liz
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless ~ Mother Teresa
I'm afraid to add it up! Ignorance is bliss! Some months I do really good, but last month I bought the Cuttlebug, and a ton of dies, and this month I just placed big orders with Stampin'Up and CTMH.
I went with $35-70. I spend at least $30 a month with my stamp club, but there is always something else that I *need* - like the Rhonda Ferrer clear stamps at Joanns that I picked up yesterday!
Wellllll, let's see now... I can spend several hundred dollars at a convention, but I only go once a year. I do make a hundred fifty dollar SU order once a year but months may go by where I don't think I spend anything. Well, there was that punch last month... I probably spend more than I should. I am trying to resist temptation. I didn't order any Longaberger baskets and they are having a sale this month, so I am patting myself on the back for that!
A few months ago we were thinking about getting a new card so we took a hard look at where our money was going. And I was shocked to find out how much I really spent a month. So now, I'm suppose to have $100 freebie money a month for crafts, or whatever I want. (Mostly crafts.) But last month I blew through that quickly making cards, neighbor gifts, etc. (Does that count?) And this month between SAB and my new Bug, well . . . . My dh is on an extended business trip so I am counting it as therapy!
This reminds me of in medical school they say if you ask someone how much they smoke double it. So if they say a pack a day that means two! So do you think that is the way we are all answering this question? ;)
Well, this month starts SellaBration, so let's not count Jan-Feb, ok? OK!
I'm also headed to Convention this year, so let's not count July either, ok? Ok! that's settled. : )
Then I can safely say I spend less than $35 per month, expept when I need to make a big $50 adhesive order.
__________________ Lyssa Griffin Zwolanek, Gold EliteSong of My Heart Stampers14-time incentive trip earner
This reminds me of in medical school they say if you ask someone how much they smoke double it. So if they say a pack a day that means two! So do you think that is the way we are all answering this question? ;)
Toooo funny. I just heard the same thing about "how many calories do you consume daily"...
There is no one on this earth will know how much I spend in one month. I keep thinking I am not going to spend that much next month. The trouble is, the next month never comes.
I used to spend about $75 a month on stamp/scrapbooking supplies. Between going to the scrapbook store and going to crops and ordering from SU or CTMH that was the average. Now that I packed up all my goodies to move I realized that I have a LOT of stuff!! Stuff I found in my closet I literally forgot I had.
So now I have spent about $10 this month -- only because I went to a crop and had no adhesive and had to get a tape runner and refill. If I had the box my adhesive had been in, I wouldn'thave to spend a dime except for crop fee.
After I move in the house I will be spending $0 a month for the next 10 years at least or until I go back to work full time which will probably be at least 3 or 4 years.
I would be between the $100 - $200.00 range and I am not ashamed. This is my sanity money. I do use many of my supplies, my stamps are very loved and it is going into something I can give to my kids later, their scrapbooks. Please keep in mind that I rarely buy myself new clothes or shoes so that I can do this. No regrets!
Mine is about $150.00 to $200.00 per month. I spend about $60.00 at my SU class and about $60.00 at my TAC class every month!! The rest is sepent at Joannes & Michaels! DH does not realize this total!
