How much we spend on our hobby
02-24-2011, 07:14 PM
#81
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I have a long way to go before I catch up to his 3 motorcycles and 2 antique cars plus all his electronics!!! I don't feel one bit guilty spending money on fabric and I share alot with other quilting family members.
PS: He doesn't ever give me a hard time either, he knows I shop carefully!
PS: He doesn't ever give me a hard time either, he knows I shop carefully!
02-24-2011, 07:26 PM
#83
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Originally Posted by Pollyv9
I really find that hard to believe. I'm not sure what greens fees are now even on public courses, but when I was playing 20 years ago it was expensive. I also know how much golf clubs, golf ball, boats, fishing poles and reels, shotguns and rifles, cartridges, etc, etc, etc. for all the other hobbies our sons, husbands, SILs, GSs, all put into their hobbies. Then you add on the cabin and lodge fees, food, gasoline, special trailers, it goes on and on. I would have to see their figures in black and white. I bet a man wrote that article!
02-24-2011, 07:34 PM
#84
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Originally Posted by pippa
Got the latest Quiltmania mag. today. In it there is an article on the Houston International Quilt festival which quotes from the 2010 Quilting in America survey and says that there are 21.3 million Americans "playing with bits of fabric" and that in 2009 they spent 3600 million dollars on fabrics, books, sewing machines and notions!
Here comes the stinger: "This is much, much more than their golfing, hunting and fishing partners spend put together"
I always thought that his hobby (photography/vintage cameras) was more expensive than mine. I will have to find another justification LOL
Pippa
Here comes the stinger: "This is much, much more than their golfing, hunting and fishing partners spend put together"
I always thought that his hobby (photography/vintage cameras) was more expensive than mine. I will have to find another justification LOL
Pippa
02-24-2011, 08:54 PM
#86
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Location: Central Willamette Valley, Oregon, USA
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Originally Posted by CarrieAnne
Wow, really? Bullets cost WAY more than fabric....we just must buy way more!!!!
Is it even possible, to stage a conflict, with everyone wearing quilts? (Maybe at a really good sale....)
02-24-2011, 09:38 PM
#87
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Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Council Bluffs, Iowa
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Originally Posted by mjwaggoner040
Originally Posted by pippa
Got the latest Quiltmania mag. today. In it there is an article on the Houston International Quilt festival which quotes from the 2010 Quilting in America survey and says that there are 21.3 million Americans "playing with bits of fabric" and that in 2009 they spent 3600 million dollars on fabrics, books, sewing machines and notions!
Here comes the stinger: "This is much, much more than their golfing, hunting and fishing partners spend put together"
I always thought that his hobby (photography/vintage cameras) was more expensive than mine. I will have to find another justification LOL
Pippa
Here comes the stinger: "This is much, much more than their golfing, hunting and fishing partners spend put together"
I always thought that his hobby (photography/vintage cameras) was more expensive than mine. I will have to find another justification LOL
Pippa
02-25-2011, 06:17 AM
#90
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Location: north central Kansas
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my dh has 26 motorcycles in various stages--4 competition motorcycles and a Harley---I think he won!!!---plus he plays table tennis and the paddles are very expensive---ps he's 75 and still competing and winning---at motorcycle trials--and table tennis
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