It's all a matter of choices. I ran a total on my costs; Test Cyp (600 mg./week), Arimidex (0.5mg/day), HGH (4 iu/day), and supplies such as syringes, alcohol pads, vitamins & supps, etc. Not counting food or other weightlifting needs such as gloves, chalk, tape, whatever... It's about $1500/month, and that's including doctor & blood tests, and averaged over one year. I'm probably on the very low end, as I don't do cycles. I'm on a permanent replacemement program, and maybe let's call it a little boost above normal

. I eat properly anyway, so I didn't add the cost of food. Being a farmer, I just get my ass out there at 0500 and grow food.
NOW: Here's what I mean about choices: I know a lot of guys (and girls) who go clubbing, drinking, and they smoke. Cigarettes are about $5/pack with tax in California, last time I heard about it. So a pack a day is $150/month. A 6-pack is $9 for a middle-priced beer, so that's about $150/month if you have 2 or 3 beers a day. Social nights at a club; at least $150 for drinks and cover every night, if it's not a dump downtown. And you can't expect to get any results from going to the club in an '83 Plymouth, so you need a cool car... Now we add at least $750/month for that, and I mean maybe a lower end BMW. And now let's talk clothes for that lifestyle... My $1500/month for what we do here, is blown right out of the water.
So you don't have to be rich; you need a normal working man's income, and good spending discipline and know how to make choices. I have an excellent physique to show for my work & money, and I'm fine driving my primered '96 Toyota 4x4 rock crawler. Naturally no beer or cigarettes to pay for with my way of doing things, and I'm married, so no clubbing needed to get laid. I watch a 40-year-old TV, and no cable or satellite. None of that stuff is as important to me as my body is.
Charles