How Many People Here Carefully Budget Their Hobby and Other Time? 1 1

[Ryan.]

On 10/3/2023 at 9:54 PM, SkOw said:

This!

"Sure honey, I'd love to watch that movie on netfilx with you.  I'm just going to bag and board while we watch."

Exactly. For example, yesterday I scrolled through the MyComicShop Prime auction listings while on various work calls.

[the blob]

On 10/3/2023 at 10:09 PM, southern cross said:

I'm retired and I help out at my lcs on Tuesdays getting new books for Wednesday. So Tuesdays all about comic books for me. Pulling books for subscriptions and selling comic books in between that, bagging boarding and pricing someone else's comic book stock.

I'm way behind in my reading and that is something I'll have to arrange.

Downside or upside to helping out at a lcs is I'm always buying books.

Just look what came into the store in the last four days.

OK, the one on the bottom would get me excited for sure

 

[universal soldier]

I find it a lot harder in the Spring --> Fall with vacations, something going on every weekend it seems and Sunday morning golf. I try and allocate at least an hour at night to either catch up on reading, bag and board, log books etc... but it's a never ending battle. The latest is converting to short boxes while changing all the bags that aren't in mylar yet (everything I bought prior to 2009).  Maybe I'll finish by 2025.

[southern cross]

On 10/3/2023 at 7:09 PM, southern cross said:

I'm retired and I help out at my lcs on Tuesdays getting new books for Wednesday. So Tuesdays all about comic books for me. Pulling books for subscriptions and selling comic books in between that, bagging boarding and pricing someone else's comic book stock.

I'm way behind in my reading and that is something I'll have to arrange.

Downside or upside to helping out at a lcs is I'm always buying books.

Just look what came into the store in the last four days.

 

On 10/6/2023 at 2:46 PM, the blob said:

OK, the one on the bottom would get me excited for sure

 

Why I have 4 copies

 

[s-man]

I personally have never budgeted my time.  I've managed it, taken it, watched it fly, included it in recipes, listened to Floyd sing about it, read it and understood, but never budgeted it.

[WolverineX]

On 10/3/2023 at 4:25 PM, the blob said:

Is this a normal thing for people here? Like budgeting 9 hours a day for your "job" and commuting, an hour for family time/checking homework, an hour to make/eat dinner, an hour of exercise, and then 1.5 hours of comic time -- organizing, selling, shopping, BSing here, an hour for art/reading, etc? I know I should have a financial budget, but basically my wife will not play along, but in my old age I feel like if I am going to do things I should be doing with my time, I need to organize that time better and can't just constantly push my life past midnight because, frankly, the lack of sleep is probably killing me. Is a time budget how some of you manage to get a lot of things done while also being comic nerds? You'd think that someone who used to religiously bill in 6 minute increments should be better at this, but I am not.

Prioritize sleep as number one. Everything else comes second.

[WolverineX]

Start at the bottom, fulfill those and then move up.  

 

[Nick Furious]

I try to multi-task by combining my drinking hours with my hobby hours.  Which most say is better than combining drinking hours with work hours.