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Post By sakuramiyabi. 08/12/08, 04:52 am

Do you try to budget yourself when you make cosplays? Or do you buy according to need?

I think I can make all my cosplays for about $50/cosplay thats excluding money for props and wigs.

what about you?
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Post By Static. 08/12/08, 04:58 am

I don't budget for anything...I can't o___o I've tried! I try instead to spread my purchases out over a long time; getting the staples first (shoes, accessories, wigs) and then fabric, doing the basics, then embellishing. I pretty much get bits when I can afford it, otherwise me and my wallet get very upset with each other.
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Post By Guest. 08/12/08, 05:32 am

We should chuck this in general - but I'm not a mod Very Happy

I try to limit it to ~$100/costume, including shoes/wigs/accessories. But I rarely set a formal budget. I'll skimp on less important things to keep costs down, or reuse, or blatantly steal stuff from Mum - she's a quilter and so long as I want craft-weight cotton and not excessive amounts I'm allowed to raid her 3 cupboard stash. I'm quite happy to sacrifice existing items of clothing for the cause as well, it's usually cheaper than remaking.

But on that note, I have a job and have moved out of home; my budget is MY budget, and not reliant on parentals permission, or pocketmoney or any of the other really restrictive things.

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Post By Auroa. 08/12/08, 07:17 am

Hmm budget, now theres a good idea.
I dont even keep track on how much I spend oO

From now on, I shall try.
Emphasis on try sweatdrop
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Post By Pyro. 08/12/08, 07:29 am

-sigh-
... If any of you learnt how my cosplay spending goes, you'd die of horror...
Mother and I don't budget for my costumes. We buy as we go.
Thankfully, this means lots of leftover fabric, so gradually, my costumes are getting cheaper, thanks to the abundance of red and black in all my outfits.
But... Yeah, no budget here.
(Trust me, cosplaying stuff like Fai D. Flourite's original outfit wouldn't work on one-- the fabric for the coat alone was enough to make most of you weep)
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Post By Duckeh. 08/12/08, 07:52 am

Hrmm~ Well...
Yeah, I don't work as of yet & nana buys fabric etc as my christmas/birthday presents.
Basically, our philosophy is, if I'm going to do it, I might as well put the extra money in to do it as best as I can.

Though as soon as we start totaling it up I'm left to die a little on the inside.
NEW LAPTOP, IT COULD'VE BEEN MINE. ;3;
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Post By Kelchup. 08/12/08, 08:39 am

Duckeh wrote:

NEW LAPTOP, IT COULD'VE BEEN MINE. ;3;

My sentiments exactly sad sad

I watched my savings cut in half v_v
Now it's Christmas.. Everyones getting a budget as present this year XD
Just get some batteries and write "present not included" on them ohohohoh twisted

I don't really calculate how much I spend either.. I've had to invest in a lot of glue etc recently. sad I don't like it.
But yeah, family members and a creative use of free things comes in handy!
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Post By fleyer. 08/12/08, 08:57 am

I get the stuff that makes the outfit firsts then I move onto things like props and contacts, but normally i have no budget cept what is in my bank ^^'
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Post By kyokyogirl. 08/12/08, 09:44 am

I just buy as I go, and what I can affors at the time, don't really set a budget. Each costume can take quite a while to get done so the cost gets spread out, so it doesn't hurt so much lol.

I try not to think about how much each costume has cost in total...
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Post By venom. 08/12/08, 10:24 am

What's a budget.
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Post By Chiritsu. 08/12/08, 01:53 pm

venom wrote:
What's a budget.
Agreed.
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Post By Icarus. 08/12/08, 02:29 pm

A-ha funny...
I wish I knew how a budget works, if my wallet was human it'd probably have starved to death by now.

But on average I think I've spent $50 per costume (not including wigs and props) but I've had to spent over $400 on a costume, luckily there was some spared material, not enough for a costume I don't think....
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Post By JVCA. 08/12/08, 02:38 pm

I don't bother trying, coz I know it won't work for me. >.>;

Instead what I do is I grab stuff early if it's on sale, and I note down all my expenses, so when I eventually retire the costume and sell it, I can try recoup the losses.
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Post By Icarus. 08/12/08, 02:43 pm

JVCA wrote:
when I eventually retire the costume and sell it, I can try recoup the losses.
Too much effort and memories are attached to my costumes to sell, and I don't think they'd sell either lol.
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Post By sakuramiyabi. 08/12/08, 02:48 pm

lol this is my attempt at budgetting this year since i still have no idea how much i spent on my cosplays this year XD though i did use cotton or cotton mix for everything XD

but yeah ... usually buy as i go ... but i has limited money this year so ... have to try =D
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Post By JVCA. 08/12/08, 02:51 pm

@Icarus: Hahah, some of mine would be more likely to sell than others. Bianchi and Misa I can't really sell, as they're pretty much my normal clothes/clothing I bought rather than made. Yuna, I think would sell, and I think I will sell her after a few more wears, though I don't actually know how much I spent on her, so I'd probably take a loss, hahah. Flonne would sell too, but given that Flonne was a gift from Val, I don't think I'd want to sell it anyway. <3 Having said that, I don't think I'd sell my costumes in NZ: while we have cosplayers here, let's face it: we're all stingy. <_> I'd rather sell on ebay or coscom and actually have a chance of getting back what I paid for it - I know I spent at least $150 on Yuna, and I don't think anyone here would pay that. >.> Memories are nice, but I have those in photos, and if I'm not going to wear the costume again, someone else may as well do. Having said that, I wouldn't sell a costume until I knew for sure I wouldn't wear it again.
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Post By Icarus. 08/12/08, 02:58 pm

JVCA wrote:
@Icarus:I wouldn't sell a costume until I knew for sure I wouldn't wear it again.
ah true... *goes stroke an exorcist uniform sleeve*
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Post By firecat70. 08/12/08, 04:11 pm

Ooooooh T____T
I think my cheapest was around $25 and most expensive (and first!) was $100 (since I screwed the dress up and had to make it twice and the fabric was $15 a meter T__T)
Since then I have become much more cheap ^^;
I try to buy things on sale... but sometimes it doesn't go to well.
I guess you always splurge on your hobbies! (And I can compensate in other areas... like eating XD)
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Post By venom. 08/12/08, 11:45 pm

Well, budgets are made to be broken =P
Just like Christmas budgets, which is why I don't budget for Christmas... and cosplay too =p
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Post By Static. 09/12/08, 02:30 am

...I don't think I could bring myself to sell any of my costumes...as much as I'd like to recoup some of what i spent, it's like....meeeeehhh, my babehs! MINE!
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Post By sakuramiyabi. 09/12/08, 02:41 am

i agree with static on this on ...
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Post By Chiritsu. 09/12/08, 03:09 am

selling costumes huh..

but arn't they "tailord to you body" type thing?
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Post By Guest. 09/12/08, 03:27 am

Sometimes mine are tailored to my body, sometimes mine aren't. Like my Alucard Jacket - that'll fit a lot of people but it was my first cosplay and hence to crappy to sell Very Happy
I've lent stuff out - Raillion currently has Sephiroth and he killed the boots, but they were pretty much dead anyway. What really hurts is that a girl I'm not longer speaking to has the Seras Victoria shirt I'm SO proud of, but she paid for the shirt and I just altered it so I can't whinge too much.

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Post By CMKMStephens. 09/12/08, 04:56 am

Budget?
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Post By sakuramiyabi. 10/12/08, 02:38 am

yay doing commissions for mates =3 its a start ... now if i can only convince one of my other mates to actually pay me commission XD LOL
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