It's been right at a year since getting hooked on the MMM blog and starting a final 24 month push to FIRE. Total PERSONAL discretionary spending on "stuff" for the past year was as follows:
$100 deer stand and $30 hunting license-although you could call this an investment as I shot two deer and put close to 100 lbs of meat in the freezer. (Handloaded my own ammo with materials on hand and did my own processing)
$350 Fruit and nut trees-if these ever produce I'll call them an investment, too. Not holding my breath though.
$20 on a used air compressor.
$5 on some misc tools at a yard sale.
Around $25 a month on alcohol.
2 lunches out if I recall properly
I've probably used a tank or two of gas for solo trips to visit friends.
Resoled my shoes twice from walking so much ($120) high I know, but he is the only game in town.
6 haircuts at $13 each
Misc hygiene items, probably not over $25
Bought $0 in clothing. Going to need to spend a few $ here soon though.
To be fair, I've done plenty of things with the family: Dinner out about once a month, weekend camping/hiking trips, a 3000 mile summer road trip to visit family, visited friends, consumed plenty of groceries, enjoyed Prime/Redbox/Netflix, a couple of date nights. I still get pretty nice gifts on birthdays and Christmas from the parents and grandparents with only token gifts in return. I am certainly not deperived, the list is just the items I have absolute 100% control over. All together I've probably cut over $300 a month in personal spending, mostly centered around micro-brews, hobbies, and lunches out.
There are a few things on the shopping list mostly shooting sports related, looking for an unusually low budget month to sneak them in on, but one hasn't shown up yet.