Ok, so what's really an "Affordable Watch" by the forum's standards ?

[pacifichrono]

Ok, so what's really an "Affordable Watch" by the forum's standards ?

A. Any watch that I can afford to purchase.

[vandice]

A typical laptop/computer (tog. with the cost of a modem, router etc) required for posting on this forum cost anything from $500 to say, $2500 or more. Useful life of 3-5 years, on average. So far, I've gotten a grand total of $20 from 5-6 used sets sold as scrap over the last 20 years or so.

I'll use the lower of this price range as the baseline for affordability on this online forum, not least because most, if not all watches will work for more than 5 years, with or without service. One can of course argue that the laptop can do more things than a watch, but this is a watch forum with significant bias towards all things horological.

[KenC]

Here's the bottom line...the forum, with all due respect, was poorly renamed. It was originally the Invicta Forum that became a "general" forum. In searching for a descriptive name, someone came up with "Affordable" which is, about as ambiguous as one can get!

[neveronmonday]

Well, I'm just a humble blue collar worker and I think that any watch costing more than $100.00 is really no longer in the "affordable" category for the average guy.

[Torrid]

I don't really think of affordable or not affordable in the sense that some might. I don't typically set out with an exact set of money to spend. If I see something I like, I'll look into it farther and if the price based on what the watch offers adds up in my head I either buy it or put it on my want to buy list. It's definitely cut down on my impulse buying quite a bit.

[pacifichrono]

Here's the bottom line...the forum, with all due respect, was poorly renamed. It was originally the Invicta Forum that became a "general" forum. In searching for a descriptive name, someone came up with "Affordable" which is, about as ambiguous as one can get!

Blasphemy! Blasphemy!
String him up!

[Radio_Daze]

Yawn.

[KenC]

Blasphemy! Blasphemy!
String him up!

[k7lro]

Last year, anything under $500 would have been considered affordable and anything under $2000 is feasible with a little prep time for the wife.

We cover the wife's parent's expenses - all of their needs. With her father in very, very bad shape and in a nursing home, our expenses for them have tripled as of this month until he passes away. It's now officially financially painful for us.

That means that affordable for me is around the $20 mark. That sucks but I'm 100% thankful that we can take care of them. Otherwise, he'd died years ago.

[k7lro]

It sucks now Gerry, but you are building up some serious Karma points!!!

Thank you but I know that everyone here would do exactly the same given the circumstances. I knew my wife carried her parents when we got married. Gotta take the good w/ the bad.

We can carry about 2/3 from our salaries but the rest comes from savings now. We're talking about the equivalent of an extremely nice house payment. We've cut our budgets and removed things that people take for granted - bass guitar lessons, Blockbuster dvd plan, etc etc. My wife has reduced her "allowance" to $10 per week and takes her lunch to work.

Taking my lunch isn't really an option but I've reduced my allowance also. All travel has been eliminated except a trip I have to Brazil this summer - she refuses to let me drop it even though I insisted.

If it weren't for us, they'd be just another sad, poor couple in Sao Paulo where it's not uncommon where the poor there look at the poor in the US as very well off indeed.

We're blessed - pure and simple - life is good! Besides, that means I'll have more time to bug you guys.