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Re: Cost of Brickfest
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Tue, 13 Jun 2000 00:22:37 GMT
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In lugnet.org.us.wamalug, Frank Filz writes:
> My expenses were:
I'll insert mine as a contrast...
> $140 or so, rental of an Isuzu Trooper for 3 days (it's amazing how much
> you can pack into a trooper, only a few of the locals brought the same
> order of magnitude of volume of stuff as I brought)
$0: I brought my station wagon which could have help substantially more than I
brought.
> $75 or so for gas (travelling from Raleigh NC)
$18.
> $170 or so for two nights at the hotel (shared two ways for about $85
> each for the weekend)
Right, I think we figured it as $87.25 or something.
> $30-40 for food (I didn't keep too much track)
roughly:
- $2 for two burritos from Taco Bell,
- $8 for an egg and cheese sub for Friday dinner,
- $9 for two beers at the bar Friday night,
- $9 for an omlette at IHOP with Frank and Lindsay at 1 AM Saturday,
- $9 for an omlette at the Silver Diner with Stephen and Thomas and Frank at
7:30 Saturday,
- $10 for excellent Indian two blocks from the fest for Saturday lunch with
Lindsay because we mysteriously got left out of the bulk Chinese order ;-),
- $5 for pizza and soda dinner with everyone Saturday evening (or was that
lunch on Sunday?),
- $2 for a peach icee kind of thing in the mall near the LEGO outlet,
- $3 for Taco Bell in Baltimore around 4:00 on my way home,
- and about $5 for misc drink machine purchase.
For a total of about $62 for food. I would have liked to spend more at nicer
places but that would have meant leaving the LEGO.
> close to $600 for purchases at the Lego outlet (I'll have to dig out my
I spent $134 there, but I could easily have matched Frank if I didn't have so
much of my LEGO budget tied up in 50% off from ZB and 75% off from Ames. It
was like a never-ending parade of bargains. I just wish there had been some
Belville damaged :-)
> $0.25 for parking (I arrived at 5:50 PM on Friday and had to feed the
> meter until 6:00)
Friday I arrived at around 1:30 and had to pay the meters until 6:00. The best
meter I found was $.25 per 30 minutes, so that was $2.25.
> $20 for two T-Shirts (they had a big pile left over so I decided to buy
I bought two also, but did so right away because I like T-shirts and knew that
I'd wear them out.
> > ...We hope to pick a weekend soon (current target is 3rd weekend in june,
aka June 15-17,
That's good if it's somewhere with AC. (have I mentioned that I was hot?)
> > I know Chris Weeks and Frank Filz shared and they didn't kill each
> > other to my knowledge, so the concept is sound :-)
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> I can't speak for Chris, but I sure had a great time rooming with him.
> We had some wonderfull winddown discussions, and had compatible morning
> schedules.
Yup. It worked out very well.
> One thing which would be good is to try and line up something for budget
> accomodations. I'm not sure what others did for accomodations, but I'm
> sure many of us would not want to shell out $85 for the weekend for
> lodging.
Every dollar I spent on lodging was a dollar I couldn't spend on LEGO. When I
was younger, I spent entire weekends at SF and gaming cons sleeping under
tables and borrowing showers each day, to keep the price down. I would do
something like that again, to save that much money. An all-night location
would be very good :-)
Chris
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| (...) Same here. I had $60 worth of SW sets waiting for me at the fest (thanks, Jeff!!), which was actually more like $240 worth... :-) So I restrained myself to a 70 bucks buy at the Store. I would've gotten more if my wallet hadn't been (...) (26 years ago, 13-Jun-00, to lugnet.org.us.wamalug)
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| (...) My expenses were: $140 or so, rental of an Isuzu Trooper for 3 days (it's amazing how much you can pack into a trooper, only a few of the locals brought the same order of magnitude of volume of stuff as I brought) $75 or so for gas (travelling (...) (26 years ago, 12-Jun-00, to lugnet.org.us.wamalug)
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