About 50 cents a day
Weird that you have paid long distance⌠I havenât seen that since the 90s.
Iâve heard of the FIRE movement which I think you are a part of, and I respect it. At the same time, I think that thereâs quite the feedback loop going on: working many extra hours burns people out which makes them want to retire sooner, which requires that they work even more frequently, and so on.
Where the alternative is maybe working 40 hours (or less) per week and living a little cheaply, but still enjoying things. If you are saving for retirement and investing already at the age of 25, youâll probably be done by 50 anyway thanks to the power of compounding interest.
An admirable goal. Two thoughts though: 1) Be careful you donât burn out, you have a long way to go. Not everything has to be done hard and fast. 2) Many people can feel unfulfilled in life if they donât have something productive to do, and at 40 your life will arguably only be half over so you gotta fill the other half of your life with something fulfilling.
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All figures in Canadian dollars.
Annual sub: $196
2 store mounts: $64
2 pets: $25
Swag: $60
Streamer subs/tips/etc: $50
Expansion per year: $60
My work requirements for computers/peripherals is pretty much the same as gaming so I donât count them.
Total: $355 per year + gaming wine.
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For burn outs I honestly got few things I save on my phone or youtube like a video that I like talks to you its 1minute only not long to keep me going when I feel down I try watch it whenever I feel burnt out.
Also its a bad habit but I go to the massage twice a month some reason it helps me relax and keeps me going lol⌠and a real massage not those fake ones where happy endingâŚ
And I told my older brother when you see me about to be burnt out do whatever to keep me going lol, kick my as.s I donât know just do whatever it is.
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I only play when Iâm at work and have used the tokens since they came out.
So technically nothing.
I am both fortunate and unfortunate when it comes to this question.
I am of bad health or maybe unlucky health in the means that I sleep for 2 hour and im up for four to six hours. While it wasnt always so my wife makes really good money so even before my unfortunate health issue it was decided I would not be returning to work from an incident that took place a year before covid lock downs. The plan was to do man things around the house and the land it rest on. Then about 1.5 year ago I end up in a wheel chairâŚ
Now my chair sits in front of the PC for the better part of those 4 to 6 hours im awake which led to some really good gold farming. Just alts flying the races and collecting those purses. Which allowed me to buy the war within with Bnet bucks along with a monthly sub.
So good news is I havent really spent real money to play in some timeâŚthe bad news is I cant walk.
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There is short term burnout and long term burnout. Itâs a whole different animal when youâve been doing something for a very long time and hit a wall where itâs impossible to do it anymore.
Think of marathon running (I donât do it, but I assume itâs an apt analogy). Thereâs short term burnout, where youâve run many miles and get so tired and are breathing so heavily that you have to stop for a moment and drink water or walk or something. Then thereâs long term burnout, where your body can literally collapse because itâs unable to function anymore due to extreme exertion.
If i figure in beer into the âWoW expense reportâ the number is about to balloon 
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Thatâs sad to hear, everyone got their problems and challenges, hope you have a nice life and enjoy it.
We are temporarily in this life after all.
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Yep! But that was what also broke the camel back between me and Square Enix. Never had that issue with Blizzard.
Oh that happened to me, I hit the wall so hard I stopped working for 1 yearâŚ
I went on Vacation for 35 Days overseas. I was so done.
If you ask me do I regret taking off 1 year? 100% I do.
Not sure if that a long term burnout.
I agree with Nikolo that unless you are working < 40 hr/week and have the choice/opportunity to work a full 40 hr/week, then comparing game expenditures against your potential job income is non-sensical.
Income is not equal to Expenditures. What you earn from your job (and investments) is your income. What you spend after taxes on necessitates and leisure is your expenses.
Games are leisure and on the expenses side of the coin.
The game costs you $13/month sub + $2-4/month for expansion ($50-90 every 2 years), so thatâs $15-17/month or $180-$204/year.
Do you know what it costs to sit in a club for 3 hours buying gals drinks trying to hook up?
wow is cheaper
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Lol, I know at my old job coworkers and manager used to go every Saturday to strip clubs and spend a lot of money he, they invited me a punch of times I refused, they even started calling me gay lolâŚ
out of curiosity I asked them how much it cost you each to go there and spend money one is like 270$ and other one 850$ and someone else 400$.
And that is every week expense going on, not even including restaurants they go to before strip clubsâŚ
So yea WoW is cheaper compared to that 
It would cost me $15 a month if I didnât pay with gold/tokens. Total cost for playing WoW.
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Itâs not, and Iâm not trying to start an argument or anything because everyone responds to prolonged stress differently. The effect 10 years has on one person could be the same as 40 years for another person. All I was doing was trying to give a gentle warning that people do reach the point where they simply canât do it any more. I mean any more, not âtake an extended breakâ.
If I wasnât playing wow Iâd have some other hobby.
Oh I see what you mean got it, that is true not saying your wrong.