I think I planned a budget for cons around January. I think I budgeted about 400$ for Otakon but I know about a little over half is for hotel. My boyfriend and I decided to splurge on the hotel this year. Since I've been going to Otakon since I was 13 I noticed I stopped buying a lot of things at the DR. Primarily, my mom would ask if I was going to display or do anything with it.
Since my mom pretty much has stopped going to these things and I felt like since this is something that I'm interested in I wanted to pay everything for myself. Since I've gotten to college I have got a on camp