Just went to GA last month and gas in Macon was like .15 cheaper!

it's always cheaper by the interstate(s). get it when you get off I-10. fuck Starke.

and go to gasbuddy.com if you really want to nitpick.

Awesome thanks!

http://www.floridastategasprices.com/Gainesville/index.aspx

i'll probably drop a quarter mil. pocketchange muhfugga

gas there is about the same as AZ!

I spent so far:

$55 ticket

$220 on a plane ticket, but I had a credit for not using my plane ticket last year and going out there with a band.

$720ish on a hotel for four nights (I still need a place for Wed night, maybe Tampa)

I'll spend about $250 on a rental car (stupid under 25 charge) because it is cheaper than taking the shuttle from JAX to GNV.

I have friends that will be pitching in for some of this shit! yay

projected spending:

Food - 100
Drink - 100
Merch - not much I don't wanna carry it back home

Erica, you have no idea how refreshing it is to see someone actually not bitching about expenses! cheers!

If you rent with Avis there is no under 25 charge. They're age limit is 21, I'm picking one up from Orlando for 4 days and the estimate is only $140 or something

Thanks for the tip on Avis, I will check it out!

How much is gas usually in Florida? I mean I know it's probably higher right now cause of the refineries being shut down and stuff but what would you say the average price is? I'm trying to get a breakdown of how much I'm gonna need to save up.

I am pretty bored at work right now, so everything from this point on is really just me doing a bunch of math to entertain myself to try to figure out exactly how much money I'm gonna probably spend and have left when I get home. So if you are also bored and decide to go ahead and continue reading, then that's cool with me.

I get 3 paychecks before Fest, and one more on the Friday that it starts 10/31 (direct deposit). I'm planning on allowing at least $500 of that paycheck for use as Fest spending money. I've got a $586 car insurance payment due 11/1, and right now I've got $595 in savings. This puts my current Fest money at $509 if I include the paycheck I'm gonna get on that Friday.

I'm gonna owe approx. $150 for the rental car, $90 for the Comfort Inn on Thursday, $50 a night for the room I'm splitting at the Holiday Inn for the rest of the weekend ($150 total), and I was thinking maybe $40 in gas total (one fill up driving to and from Orlando?). This comes out to around $460 max that I will have to have set aside as required cash that I will need.

So if I subtract that from the $509, I've currently got $49 for beer, food & merch money. I'm gonna put at least $250 from each of my next 3 paychecks into savings for use as Fest money, putting my estimated beer/food/merch money total at $800.

I'll probably wind up spending at least $300 on merch, which would allow for 20 items that are $15 a piece between vinyl/cds/shirts.

I don't know how much beer goes for down there, but I figure maybe $100 total on beer, $150 at the max between a case or two for the hotel room, and buying beers for myself and probably alot of strangers at the venues.

I'll probably just live off a few slices of pizza or something every day, so it shouldn't be more than $50 all together for food.

So all together it's probably around $500 of that $800 that I'll spend. That leaves me with $231 in my checking acount to come home to until the next payday on 11/14, and $300 in my savings.

Like I said this post was really just for me to entertain myself to alleviate some boredom, so I apologize if you've read this far.

if you like beer, you can drink it for cheap at the bars here.

esp like pbr and old milwaukee

Yeah I'll probably live off PBR for the weekend, what's it like $2 each?

yup. Tallboys are $2 each.

bought one for a homeless guy last night at market st. best $2 i've spent in awhile, his stories were awesome. and he creeped out my friends girlfriend who I hate so she left really fast!

I spent £400 (nearly 800 dollars) last year just at Fest i.e. not including travel, hotel etc.
I think most of it was on t-shirts and cd's as i came home with 15 shirts, around the same number of CD's and a couple of hoodies. I don't count the cost of PBR as it was so cheap it was ridiculous!!!

I guess if I want to hang out with you, I've got to go to Market Street. haha.

Once I was at a gas station - the one on the corner of 13th & Univ one winter and a homeless dude leveled with me and said I'm not going to lie - I want some money for beer because its fucking cold and I'm going to have to be drunk to make it through the night.

I HATE the cold, so I bought him a shitton of beer. He asked the right sucker.