Mass "What should I get?" Thread 2011

"Cheats" for noobs.

Still calculating. 20 pages of 40 pages of receipts calculated so far.

 

What is that supposed to mean?..I have never jailbroken any of my devices in my life and never will if that's what you're suggesting. Pirating is out of the question. I can screenshot all 41 pages of Apple's purchase history at any time for you.

Still calculating.

 

Wow, that was like 45 minutes straight of punching numbers into my graphing calculator plus recording the data. So, here goes:

01/21/09-07/21/09, $117.38 total, $19.56 monthly on average

07/22/09-01/21/10, $268.35 total, $44.73 monthly on average

01/22/10-07/21/10, $218.79 total, $36.47 monthly on average

07/22/10-01/21/11, $513.97 total, $85.66 monthly on average

01/22/11-04/21/11, $192.90 total, $64.30 monthly on average

## $1311.39 total, $48.57 monthly on average ##

Definitely some interesting stuff for me here. First of all, a few outlier months that I noticed were September and December 2010. I spent $146.62 and $134.86 in those two months respectively. September was when Apple hosted that crazy sales event of all the newest and biggest games. December was just an amazing months of release, probably the most amazing in the history of the AppStore.

I tried to keep my new years resolution of spending less in 2011 and spent only $34.24 on average between 01/01/11 and 02/28/11, which was a significant drop from $85.66 on average per month in the 6 months before that, but that clearly didn't last.

Some last words I have about all of this is that I'm actually surprised by how much I've spent, not necessarily in a bad way though. On average, I spent $48.57 a month in the past 27 months, which is less than a new release on the PSP, PS3, and XBOX360. I used to be a console gamer and purchased a new game every month generally, so I would have averaged more then. But at that time, I was only getting one game a month. On the iOS, I've gotten on average more than 20 new games monthly for less than the price I would have paid for just one game. Not only that, there's no doubt in my mind that the iOS has given me the best video game experience I've ever had.

There's really just something so great about the community for iOS games, the excitement of finding a new great game in the haystack, and knowing that you'll always have a great game to play on a rainy day, no matter how many consecutive days that may be.

Peace.

 

Well, that's really an inflated number due to the reasons I posted in the paragraph following the stats. A more accurate assumption would be that spending has increased by about $250 since then, or by about $45 monthly, which is still a great difference.. The AppStore is indeed much larger place now with releases occurring oh so often.

 

I work a part-time job to pay for my own entertainment even though my parents could file individually and still both be in the top tax bracket. If you don't know where that puts them, http://www.bargaineering.com/articles/federal-income-irs-tax-brackets.html (first table, last row, second column: single). You learn a lot about the world when you make your own money and pay for things that you want by yourself. $50 a month on average is nothing considering that's about how much I get from one three-hour shift, which I work three times a week. Guess who buys their own clothes and gas as well? Definitely none of my friends. College? That's next year. That's for making over 60 grand a year the year you get out. Going to be stuck in college for 6 years to earn my MBA though. The median income for the first year out then becomes over 100 grand a year.