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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alkiera" data-source="post: 4235846" data-attributes="member: 41353">Where I am (western NY), $30 will buy my wife and I dinner at a restaurant, once tax and tip are rolled in.  And by restaurant, I mean one step above fast food, aka the Family Diner.Even at a cheap station, putting 10 gallons of gas in either of my cars is ~$40.The kid who comes by to help with raking leaves and stuff makes $10/hr, tax free.  Even at minimum wage, you can make $30 in 5 hours, after taxes.  I've worked minimum wage, for about a year.  The good side is you have lots of time to think, and work is pretty low-stress.  Bad side is you have little-to-no money to spend in your copious free time.  I now make... a fair bit more than that, but with stress and deadlines and overtime.Heck, $30 is 3 movie tickets at a first-run theater; a nominal 5-6 person-hours of entertainment.  You should get that from the first 2-3 encounters, and there's 20+ of them.  Also, time spent hanging out with friends is priceless.EDIT: MatsI bought ~2 yards of a fabric that has a grid of 1/2" black squares on a white background, with 1" centers.  I draw on it with washable markers, and it's big enough I can get half a large adventure's maps drawn out (or all of a big dungeon) before I need to drop it in the wash.  It also folds up nicely to fit in my bag of gaming books.  Looking forward to 4e, so I can reduce my book-load from my current 3.5/AE/Eberron game.</blockquote>