Comments on: Concerts & Disposable Income

By: Queercents » Blog Archive » How to save money on tickets? Max Deale dishes out advice in Sold Out So What!

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:45:53 +0000

[...] mentioned before that I’ve only been to about 10 concerts in my entire life… and this includes the 3 times I saw [...]

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By: sf mom

sf mom — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 08:18:16 +0000

We are avid concert-goers. If we bought full-price tickets for every show we saw, we would be broke. It takes a little creativity, but you can see most shows for about $20. Of course, you have to be a bit bold and ask folks, but it works. I saw Paul McCartney, U2 and the Rolling Stones in one week last fall. We paid $20 each for PM and U2 and I ushered the RS show. AND, we sat in fabulous seats. It was amazing! It is amazing to see how people spend their money whether it's disposable or not. We always are in awe. However, we try not to be too judgemental (thankfully, not everyone is like us:) about how people spend their money. Everyone is different. Doesn't make us good or bad. But it does help us retire!

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By: Paula Gregorowicz

Paula Gregorowicz — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 18:39:03 +0000

Good food for thought. While I’m all for keeping a keen eye on where the disposable income goes, what I often see missing in a lot of articles about the topic is — the experience. Let’s face it when you chock it all up, life is just a pile of experiences we choose (and some that show up which may or may not be chosen on some level…but I won’t wax philosophical ) — so perhaps the appeal of concerts and dining, and theater is the experience. Of course you are in the end just left with the memory of the experience, but sometimes that is far richer from a “full life with no regrets” perspective than say owning another $10K of mutual funds over a few decades.

Moderation is a good thing of course…. and perhaps it’s just my disappointment of not being able to score or justify the expense of seeing Babs even though I’ve loved her since before birth (that’s a story only my mother can explain)…

Thanks for another great spin on an everyday money decision!

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