Let's say you work part-time on alternate days for afew months and manage to save around 2.5k+. Would you, with a snap of your finger, spend all the money on equipment gear (camera body, lenses etc)? Or would you save abit like $200 or more for emergency?
I feel that if i spend all, it's like for something that you've earned and worked so hard, it just disappear very quickly. On the other hand, you'll get your gears of course.
What do you guys think?
I once had a friendly discussion with my friend about this.
Of course, I pushed the usual points such as "money is precious", "you worked so hard and you shouldn't just spend it all on something you like whimsically".
I think he wanted to play devil's advocate, so this was his reply:
At this age, you earn your ass off, you get $2.5K (just using the figure here) in a few months. Some day, if you work hard enough and you do things right, even if you don't become really successful, $2.5K can come easily from things like bonus, or even insightful investments. Now consider the hard reality of inflation....
Gotta admit, he's got a point there too.
That said, as others have highlighted, if you don't need it, don't buy it. By "need", I don't mean "need" for survival. For example, if you want to take landscapes, and you buy Sigma 10-20 and you are happy with it but you keep thinking that Canon 10-22 mm has better flare control even though you hardly shoot directly into the sun...