For my husband and myself, $500 a month would be a phenomenal amount of fun money. We often find our fun in things that are related to just plain living.
For example, we can buy a bag of apples when we do the grocery shopping, OR we can head out to a pick-your-own orchard and pull apples directly from the trees, while enjoying the glinting autumn sun, fresh air, happy children around us, the smell of apple vinegar in the air, bees buzzing, gawky-beautiful appearance of the trees, the tractor ride into the orchard, the huge field of chrysanthemums adjoining the orchard, the crunch of pea pebbles underfoot in the entry to the orchard, the drive through the country to the orchard, the roller coaster hills and turns on the country road, the sight of sink-hole ponds with fishing benches placed alongside under willow trees, the bright red giant "brain celosia" flowers in the rural front yards..... An afternoon of that provides food, but also satisfying pleasure for little cost more than buying a bag trucked in from Washington....The apple tree in our own yard? Well that is a whole new level of satisfaction and the one time price of $30 bring seasons and seasons, and years and years of pleasure.
I think I find fun and other kinds of pleasure in just building a good life, so leisure and entertainment money as a separate category is not really necessary for us.
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