How'd you save money for headphone?

well, I work and I live alone and I'm single.

Wow, you should really eat less junk food :S

 

Anyways I just beg may parents...LOL JK I'm still in school and only get money on my  birthday and christmas...

 

I have about 150 euros saved up and I can't buy the MDR V6s because my parents won't let me AAAAARGH 

 

I happen to live in an appartment gave it to my the the company i work for. same goes for the food ..... guess Im lucky.

 

anyway, is not like i have no expenses, but i think that if it wasnt because of that i wouldnt be abble to buy audio gear. and even so, i try not to break my savings in it.

I bully people out of their lunch money.

man, this is enough to save money! 

 

usually, i sell my old hp's to friends.. and upgrade. 

you must bully some very rich people to get that LCD2

I have a fixed budget for headphones and amps. 

Sell unnecessary stuff..and buy the headphones i want! 

I had a well-paying job and didn't spend much on other stuff.

Also, I've sort of gotten out of the game. I haven't made a big audio purchase since July 2009. I've bought some DIY parts, but no more than a few hundred.

I don't know when I'll make another major purchase. I have pretty much everything I always wanted. (Some of that is still in boxes, needing to be built, though.) I won't drop out of the hobby, though. I plan to build more amps and try to produce some interesting casework. And I still want a bigger music collection.

^^^That's the key for me. There's usually some new piece of hardware that catches my eye. A tube amp to go along with a solid state one. A different pair of headphones that might have a little different sound than the one I have. But for every piece of stuff I buy, that's less money I have to spend on new music. Unfortunately, there isn't a lot of new music that's got me that excited recently.

Every week I put away some extra cash in an envelope.

 

Being thrifty (cheap) helps too. I don't spend a lot of money on other things.

I usually just tell my wife that I'm going to buy "X".  She usually doesn't resist when it comes to headphones since they appear to be smaller purchase items.  If it were speakers or subwoofers, she'd have a few objections for me though.  However, I'm covered in that area.