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Recently I went to MLG (Major League Gaming) in Dallas. As a poor art student, going to events is not really my thing, because it is so easy to spend money.
For this event this is what I spent:
Gas - $10 Snacks on the way - $10 Lunch we brought from Kroger - $12 Ticket for my fiance and I - $80 T-shirt of my favorite game character - $30
Total: $142.00
This was all for one day. The even lasts for 3 days, so If I had been able to come for the full event I would have spend much more on food and entertainment. What I normally do on a weekend is eat, sleep, work on homework and play video games.
I would maybe spend $30 bucks max if I had stayed at home.
Even if the arts is more mainstream like video games, art plays an extremely important roll in that. For example, without the T-shirt artist I would have never bought the overpriced T-shirt. I'm very thrifty, so spending over $120 dollars does not happen very often for me.
Gas to and from Downtown Dallas: $25.00 Parking: $5.00 Concert Tickets (both): $57.00 Money to a homeless man: $3.00 A Fine Frenzy CD: $10.00 Joshua Radin CD: $10.00 Madi Diaz CD: $10.00 Red Bull: $5.00 A glass of red wine: $7.00 Received three citations on the way home: $253.00
impacting the economy through the arts: I went to Warp Tour a couple of years in a row. Each time it was at the Smirnoff Music Center. Tickets were $30 and up x 2 attendees= $60 each event x 2 events = $120 Distance to and from was roughly 80 miles each time. Gas being about $3 a gallon and car getting about 30 miles per gallon=about $16 dollars in gas. Had at least 2 drinks and 2 meals at each event. Drinks = $4 eachx4=$16 Meals at least $6 (at event) 4 meals total=$24 After several hours of music we head home and stop again to eat. We spend roughly $25 each time x 2 events = $50 Total for both events = $226 or $113 per event.
Recently myself and 3 friends went to see Neil Young & Crazy Horse at the Tulsa convention center in Oklahoma.
Tickets (with convenience fee): 80 each Gas to Tulsa: 80 total Stopped for food twice: 15 apiece Had a couple drinks each at the venue: 20 Bought merch/t-shirts: 30
I went with my family to New York City to look at Colleges for my brother. While we were there, we saw the Book of Mormon off Broadway. Getting to the play, I or my parents spent:
$300 X 5 round trip plane tickets $10 to get from the airport in Newark to NYC by train $25 for subway passes to get to the hotel and around the city $400 for three nights in the hotel $20 on lunch at a bistro in China town $50 on dinner in little Italy $100 on four standing room only tickets $30 on Italian pastries $50 on lox bagels for the family $10 on train ticket back to the airport $15 on a sandwich, chips, a drink, and a magazine at the airport
We had a "reason" for going to New York, to help my brother look at schools in the area, but really we spent most of our time wandering about the city, eating and taking in the sights.
In October some buddies and I went to the Austin City Limits music festival. We stayed the weekend in Austin at my friend Jonathon's apartment. It got kind of expensive…
3-day ACL concert tickets: $260 Gas (to and from Austin): ~$60 Coffee on the road: $6 Overpriced beer: $30 Sunglasses (because I broke mine on the first day): $10 Sunscreen: $8 Food: $50 Really cool Kurt Vonnegut poster: $20
My parents brother and I took a day to go to the Ripley's Believe it or not museum in grand prairie and then to Medieval Times. Breakfast at McDonalds that morning: $20 Ripley's museum: $91.98 Medieval Times: $130 gas: $60
I wasn't the one who was paying then so these prices are approximate and I don't know if there were any other things that they probably paid for during that time, which they probably did. Like: a photo from medieval times of our family, a wax figure of my hand from the museum, and probably some snacks during the museum too.
Incubus Concert (anytime they come to Dallas) at the Superpages place (Aug): Tickets: $125 Water for shower: $1? Gas to and from show: $10 Clothes (something cool because it is too hot in summer in Texas): $10 Food/Beer/Water: $70 T-shirts: $100 After concert food: $15 Memory card for camera: $5 Electricity used to load pictures onto computer: $5? Totals around:$ 340 (wow!)
Tickets for show/dinner: $60 a person Transportation: 20$ (two vans full of people one hour drive there, one hour back) Souvenirs: $175 collectively Side show of the 'Torture Chamber': $5 a person, $20 total
My lovely date to Cirque du Soleil in Dallas Texas.
-Tickets(2):$240 -My new dress and heels:$84 -Food:$100 -Alcoholic Beverages:$75 -Popcorn:$5 -That cool mask I had to have:$135 -Gas:$15 -Spending an amazing night with the man of my dreams:Priceless
At home: Birthday Presents: New shoes - $60 Wine - $10 Champagne - $15 New wine glass - $12 New make up - $80 New clothes - $60 Walmart gift card - $50 Birthday Cash - $25
Gas going to/from dinner - $15 Wine at dinner - $60 Pizza at dinner - $30 Dessert - $10 Valet - $20
Night out with my amazing family in Uptown: PRICELESS! ;)
Student tickets: $9x4= $36 Parent's tickets: $14x2= $28 Gas for us = $20 Gas for parents = $50 (minivan) Food for us = $20 Food for parents = $20 ish Parking = $6
My husband and I went to go see Wicked the musical.
ReplyDeleteTickets: $120.00
Bought a new outfit: $60.00
Did my hair: $5.00
Makeup: $5.00-$10.00
Went out to dinner: $60.00
Gas to and from Dallas: $15.00
Drinks: $20.00
I went to the DFW Arts festival
ReplyDeletegas(premium) 57.00(sports cars are not that cool....)
Tickets to galleries 180 a piece
20.00 donation X 2
Food. 32.00 for two
Drinks. 8.00 (adult)
Grand total....
497.00
Recently I went to MLG (Major League Gaming) in Dallas. As a poor art student, going to events is not really my thing, because it is so easy to spend money.
ReplyDeleteFor this event this is what I spent:
Gas - $10
Snacks on the way - $10
Lunch we brought from Kroger - $12
Ticket for my fiance and I - $80
T-shirt of my favorite game character - $30
Total: $142.00
This was all for one day. The even lasts for 3 days, so If I had been able to come for the full event I would have spend much more on food and entertainment. What I normally do on a weekend is eat, sleep, work on homework and play video games.
I would maybe spend $30 bucks max if I had stayed at home.
Even if the arts is more mainstream like video games, art plays an extremely important roll in that. For example, without the T-shirt artist I would have never bought the overpriced T-shirt. I'm very thrifty, so spending over $120 dollars does not happen very often for me.
Sister Night Out to a Concert
ReplyDeleteGas to and from Downtown Dallas: $25.00
Parking: $5.00
Concert Tickets (both): $57.00
Money to a homeless man: $3.00
A Fine Frenzy CD: $10.00
Joshua Radin CD: $10.00
Madi Diaz CD: $10.00
Red Bull: $5.00
A glass of red wine: $7.00
Received three citations on the way home: $253.00
Total: $385.00
impacting the economy through the arts:
ReplyDeleteI went to Warp Tour a couple of years in a row.
Each time it was at the Smirnoff Music Center.
Tickets were $30 and up x 2 attendees= $60 each event x 2 events = $120
Distance to and from was roughly 80 miles each time.
Gas being about $3 a gallon and car getting about 30 miles per gallon=about $16 dollars in gas.
Had at least 2 drinks and 2 meals at each event.
Drinks = $4 eachx4=$16
Meals at least $6 (at event) 4 meals total=$24
After several hours of music we head home and stop again to eat. We spend roughly $25 each time x 2 events = $50
Total for both events = $226 or $113 per event.
My trip to MTAC (Middle Tennessee Anime Convention)
ReplyDeleteI lived in Memphis - the convention was in Nashville. (3 hr drive)
Hotel - My share =165
Tickets to event = $30
Buying of handmade art, plushies, videos, goodies = $300
Gas = $150
Food = $30
Together, we four spent about $2,700!!
Economics for the win! Go arts!
Recently myself and 3 friends went to see Neil Young & Crazy Horse at the Tulsa convention center in Oklahoma.
ReplyDeleteTickets (with convenience fee): 80 each
Gas to Tulsa: 80 total
Stopped for food twice: 15 apiece
Had a couple drinks each at the venue: 20
Bought merch/t-shirts: 30
So to see this concert, we spent about 150 each
I went with my family to New York City to look at Colleges for my brother. While we were there, we saw the Book of Mormon off Broadway. Getting to the play, I or my parents spent:
ReplyDelete$300 X 5 round trip plane tickets
$10 to get from the airport in Newark to NYC by train
$25 for subway passes to get to the hotel and around the city
$400 for three nights in the hotel
$20 on lunch at a bistro in China town
$50 on dinner in little Italy
$100 on four standing room only tickets
$30 on Italian pastries
$50 on lox bagels for the family
$10 on train ticket back to the airport
$15 on a sandwich, chips, a drink, and a magazine at the airport
We had a "reason" for going to New York, to help my brother look at schools in the area, but really we spent most of our time wandering about the city, eating and taking in the sights.
In October some buddies and I went to the Austin City Limits music festival. We stayed the weekend in Austin at my friend Jonathon's apartment. It got kind of expensive…
ReplyDelete3-day ACL concert tickets: $260
Gas (to and from Austin): ~$60
Coffee on the road: $6
Overpriced beer: $30
Sunglasses (because I broke mine on the first day): $10
Sunscreen: $8
Food: $50
Really cool Kurt Vonnegut poster: $20
Total: $444.00
My parents brother and I took a day to go to the Ripley's Believe it or not museum in grand prairie and then to Medieval Times.
ReplyDeleteBreakfast at McDonalds that morning: $20
Ripley's museum: $91.98
Medieval Times: $130
gas: $60
I wasn't the one who was paying then so these prices are approximate and I don't know if there were any other things that they probably paid for during that time, which they probably did.
Like: a photo from medieval times of our family, a wax figure of my hand from the museum, and probably some snacks during the museum too.
I go to see the Nutcracker every year with my mom around Christmas time, it's tradition, and it's coming up again.
ReplyDeleteTickets are $60 a piece - $120
Dinner before - $60
Gas to and from - $15
New dresses, and shoes for both of us - $150
Hot chocolate after - $10
It adds up! $355... and that's every year for the past 5 years... so that comes out to about $1,775
Incubus Concert (anytime they come to Dallas) at the Superpages place (Aug):
ReplyDeleteTickets: $125
Water for shower: $1?
Gas to and from show: $10
Clothes (something cool because it is too hot in summer in Texas): $10
Food/Beer/Water: $70
T-shirts: $100
After concert food: $15
Memory card for camera: $5
Electricity used to load pictures onto computer: $5?
Totals around:$ 340 (wow!)
Renaissance Festival
ReplyDeleteTickets $20
Gas $40
Food/water $25
rides/entertainment $45
handcraft goods $20
costume $189
total: $339
The trip to Dallas Museum of Art with my family last year. 3 adults and 2 children in total.
ReplyDeleteTickets: $30
Food & drinks & lunch: $40
Transportation: $15 (gas and train)
Memory card for camera: $10
Total: $95
Trip to Medieval Times, 32 people total
ReplyDeleteTickets for show/dinner: $60 a person
Transportation: 20$ (two vans full of people one hour drive there, one hour back)
Souvenirs: $175 collectively
Side show of the 'Torture Chamber': $5 a person, $20 total
Total: $2,135
My lovely date to Cirque du Soleil in Dallas Texas.
ReplyDelete-Tickets(2):$240
-My new dress and heels:$84
-Food:$100
-Alcoholic Beverages:$75
-Popcorn:$5
-That cool mask I had to have:$135
-Gas:$15
-Spending an amazing night with the man of my dreams:Priceless
Grand Total of $654
Die Antwoord Concert in Dallas with my bestie
ReplyDeletetickets: $60
new clothes: $40
gas: $30
food: $20
tshirts: $40
graaannnd total: $190
21st Birthday Dinner at Coalvine's in Uptown:
ReplyDeleteAt home:
Birthday Presents:
New shoes - $60
Wine - $10
Champagne - $15
New wine glass - $12
New make up - $80
New clothes - $60
Walmart gift card - $50
Birthday Cash - $25
Gas going to/from dinner - $15
Wine at dinner - $60
Pizza at dinner - $30
Dessert - $10
Valet - $20
Night out with my amazing family in Uptown: PRICELESS! ;)
Total: $447.00
DMA visit with friends and family.
ReplyDeleteStudent tickets: $9x4= $36
Parent's tickets: $14x2= $28
Gas for us = $20
Gas for parents = $50 (minivan)
Food for us = $20
Food for parents = $20 ish
Parking = $6
Total = $180