3700 since 02. Seems like less lol. Total computer hardware...if I had to guess...would be around 6k.
However, since I've started to work, I've changed. Money doesn't come by easy Its easy to think it does, but once you start to think about how much you'll earn over your whole career, it starts to hit you and you say "...oooh maybe I should think twice before I [insert wasteful spending]".
Case in point, I wanted, once I started to work, to buy brand new monitors. I've been using some MAG 19" I got on sale for 200 from Frys for 4 years now. I ended up, a year after that, a 19" (all 5:4 btw...) Hanns-G for 100 AR. The color reproduction on these guys suck. I can't get the two to appear ANYWHERE similar to the other. I'm not sure what is the real color either. On one monitor its too dark, the other it is too bright lol. It makes editing my photos a bitch...a TOTAL bitch because I don't know what is closer to real. So I promised myself to get dual 24" or 26" IPS screens ASAP and never look back. But here I am: still using them. And over this time I've thought about it more and more --> I'm just going to keep using these monitors until they literally break. I'm being faced with the same dilemma for my PC: I'm not playing anything that needs a great system. I have an x4400 with a 7900gs I made 2 years ago (yay for frys deals). It runs WOW (well...save for Dalaran, but that is because there are too many people there) and Dota well. If I play 'anything' beyond that, its stupid flash games that I find on ATOT.
Of course, I'm waiting for SC2. Once I comes out I'll resize my pc. I hope the computer (x4400 2 gigs of ram and 7900gs) is up to the task. I can't upgrade my ram beyond 2 gigs (the bad part about cheap frys motherboards OR atleast this one). I'm hoping I can max out SC2 with my system. If I can't, I will probably see if I can buy a new video card and still make it out on 2 gigs of ram. If it is a ram issue as well, I think I will upgrade my PC and sit on that for a long time. If it can do SC2, it will do D3. Coupled with WOW and DOTA....the pc will do what I need it to do, and Blizzard will continue to have me by the balls.
Anyways the point of all this was as follows:
I'm getting more and more reluctant to simply keep up with tech. If it works, why spend more money and ugprade? True, it isn't the "American Consumer Way" which is to keep buying more new shit to replace our old shit...but I feel better about really using something to the point that I've earned my money back on the purchase.