luvmyfamily
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I thought photography hobby was expensive. Well, it all changed after my daughter was born.
No Kidding!!! Glad I bought all the expensive stuff I wanted prior to my son's birth.
Guys... Don't forget there are people who can spend $20k on something but not be wealthy and still need to save. I had a friend who criticized me on my camera equipment... being that I have a tough time walking away from a debate, I proceeded to list out his purchases I see. Starting with his car (3x cost of mine), house (2x mine), cloths (2x mine), etc.. In the end, I proved to him that he is actually more frivolous with his earnings. Once again, I proved the 1 rule I try to stick to when it comes to expenses:
Buy Many Cheap things.
Buy a Few Expensive things.
NEVER buy Many Expensive things.
Its easy to focus on the one expensive item that a person chooses to purchase and loose sight of the whole picture.
That is so true. I may have three to four thousand dollars of photo equipment which isn't much to real photographers but may seem exorbitant to non photographers but on a yearly basis I spend zero dollars on tobacco, zero dollars on alcohol and very few dollars on eating out. I sometimes wonder about people who think nothing of running into Starbucks on a daily basis spending $5.00 or more for coffee when I can buy a can of coffee from the local grocery store for $12.00 that lasts me an entire month. For some reason spending $12.00 per month for coffee seems more reasonable than spending $150. Even if I were a drinker I would have to think twice before purchasing a bottle of beer at a major league baseball game for $7.50. Ouch! So as you said people need to look at the whole picture.
Jerry
I think you should work with what you have, expensive or not and perfect it....