How Do you fund your Lust.

I don't, and it doesn't.  

I live frugally on my student benefits, so I can spend about 150 euros on audio stuff every year. When you start getting some vintage gear and realize the modern equivalent is overpriced, you need to spend less to get the same satisfaction.

Am disabled and on a fixed income (arent we all). So i save and save while keeping busy doing volunteer work.

I also:

Dont smoke.

Dont drink.

Dont have cable television.

Dont have a girlfriend (of course that goes both ways with the mothering types).

Dont impulse buy.

Buy used except for video games which i dont buy often but when i do its on the release date usually. I should really stop that and start hitting the discount bins considering all the duds which have come out lately.

Buy clothes which lasts for years.

Buy used videos or get them at discounts which is way better then watching the recycled crud on cable these days.

Get my news and plenty of other legal freebies off the internet.

Research everything before i buy and then ask my commonsense grounded in reality brother inlaw if i could do better.

I teach for a living, which doesn't pay particularly well in and of itself. Most of my "extra spendin' money" comes from side jobs as a translator. When I get a good project, I'll suddenly find myself with money for my hobbies.

What, invest? Save? Nah. Because I'm not particularly smart.

Oh, and I also don't drive a car. Which is becoming increasingly problematic. So much so, in fact, that I'm getting to the point where I'm seriously considering selling all of my audio gear except for some basic components and saving my next few checks.

I saw a sign saying "you will have enough if you live a simple life".  

I dont fund my lust for headphones anymore because I dont have any money as it's all been spent on my much, much more expensive other hobby.

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Originally Posted by Uncle Erik 

I'm with you. I'll transition to teaching in about a week and am thinking about stripping down to the essentials. Though that will be to buy a house outright and get my cost of living down to property taxes, insurance and utilities. The car is paid for.
I've been agonizing over it, but I think I'll be happier with a streamlined rig and life's major expenses taken care of. I can always buy more audio gear in the future.
Just curious, what other language do you speak? I'm in a largely Spanish-speaking community and live close to Mexico. I had five years of Spanish through junior high and high school. I can get by, but one of my goals through 2012 is to get completely fluent. I love the culture, language and people. I'd really love to travel through Central and South America being fluent. I'd love to spend a summer in Spain, too. [Apologies for any thread derailment.]

It's a thankless job sometimes, but when you see your students actually learning and taking an interest it's surprisingly rewarding. What subject / grade level will you be teaching? As for languages, my field is in ancient literature and philosophy, so I've studied classical Greek and Latin for a while now. Nothing as useful as Spanish. 

Most of the work I do translating is actually editing the translations of others, making sure they're accurate, etc. I worked for an educational company for a while, basically writing textbooks and worksheets for classical language students. That was fun but a huge amount of work.

RIght now, my plan is to wait until I can audition the LCD-3 or SR-009 and then sell pretty much everything else besides the most synergistic amp and source for whichever I go with. I suppose that gives me an excuse to hold out a little while longer, since the LCD-3 isn't readily available yet.

In the words of St. Augustine, "give me chastity and continence, Lord. But not yet."

I'm looking for a job right now since asking for money from my parents for headphones is not exactly a long term solution. 

Right now, I don't fund it at all since I am searching for employment.  Perhaps when I am done with school it will be more feasible to start to build a system.

Allowances, and other means. Anything I can really.

A part-time job. Rest is bargained with my Dad to pay half because he wants a listen too.