How many percent of your income on dancing ?

Originally Posted by ChaChaMama
I'm starting to think maybe Blue Cross should be covering this... :wink: :wink:
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I also agree that all dancing lessons and dancing related training should be covered by health insurance;) Dancing is very helpful to promote health
 
Afraid to add it up. Anyone else try not to let non-dancers know how much we spend. everyone would think I was insane.
 
fascination said:
even I KNOW that I am insane...no secret about it
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Ha! And sometimes I think that dancing is the only thing that's keeping me sane. Every time I start talking with DH about how I don't think we have the money for me to keep taking lessons he comes back and tells me that absolutely under no circumstances am I to cut them out. Even he likes me better (which is to say, he notices that I'm so much happier) when I'm dancing regularly.

Yep, should definitely be covered by insurance. It is exercise, after all. And it is good for mental health and stress relief.
 
Even when I grossly understate my dance expenses, my non-dancing associates still freak out. Heck, my social dancing peers freak out too.
 
heya guys!

i just want to say.... that I think its important to stay balanced.......I almost feel sorry for someone who takes too many lessons per week....these are usually very serious pro/am students...

I tell my students to do as many lessons and as many competitions as they can/want to the point where they don't feel bad about it!

So I think if you feel like its taking money out of your pocket to the point where you feel its taking away from you "enjoying your life journey at this moment", then ask yourself is it really worth it?

I find that for many people, when it sinks in for them how much they really are spending, together with getting disappointed with some result.....they either take a huge break or quit all together.. and its sad that it has to come to that point.

I think it should be a luxury for people...meaning they spend only the extra money..this way they will be able to enjoy it forever....
 
I don't even want to mention to my non-dancing friends how much $$$ I spent on dancing...no way in the hell they will understand;)
 
BestTeacher said:
i just want to say.... that I think its important to stay balanced.......I almost feel sorry for someone who takes too many lessons per week....these are usually very serious pro/am students...
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do you feel sorry for olympic athletes and those in pursuit of such a goal?
do you feel sorry for ballet and modern dancers who train ceaselessly?
do you feel sorry for passionate inventors in pursuit of the realization of an inspired thought?
do you feel sorry for *anyone* who is pursuing *anything* passionately?

balance has it's place. but balance also requires that certain levels of determination must be sacrificed.

maybe it's your driving determination to remain balanced, but someone else's to tip the scale in the extreme direction of discovering the outer limits of what is possible in some arena...which you can't discover when you're "balanced."
 
I got more of an impression that BestTeacher was advocating keeping it within the realm of something you can afford. As in, perhaps if you're draining your kids' college funds or not saving for retirement, maybe you should stop and rethink priorities. Especially if the enjoyment you're getting out of it is purely from winning (and less on the enjoyment of dancing side).

Then again, perhaps I'm reading it wrong. *shrug*

I don't think there's anything wrong with doing something 100% and with passion. I don't think there's anything wrong with sacrificing for that passion. But I think it's important to make sure you're still actually passionate about it, and just not so caught up in it that you've forgotten to take stock of what you liked in the first place. (Seen that happen...not pretty...) And, too, I think some sacrifices are just beyond the pale in terms of being acceptable. Mostly that comes into play, IMO, when there are children involved.

But, hey...if you love it, and can afford it, and are willing and able to make reasonable sacrifices...knock yourself out!
 
I can only somewhat accurately calculate my lessons and practice expenses and guesstimate my comp/gear expenses and I would say I spend, at the most 10% of my gross income. But then again, I don't own multiple $3000 ballgowns and only probably buy new shoes once or at most twice a year. We compete about once a month, on average, practice 4-5 times a week (only two of those we have to pay for; the rest are at the gym membership to which I included in my estimate) and take a weekly lesson.

Given the earlier posts (70%!!!!???), I guess I won't feel bad if in the future I decide to spend more although having bought a house last year, the vast majority of my $ is now going to the mortgage, unfortunately, for the foreseeable future:( When you live at home with your parents like many of the US champ dancers do, it really frees up your income to be spent on dancing! No way could I allocate even 20% of mine to dancing!
 
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