What is your expensive pieces of gear as a % of weekly income?

Chaff thread if there ever was one. Gonna get all gentrified next.

Certainly could go in chaff, I don't much mind :)

The cost of things is a topic on my mind as of late, mostly due to currency conversions. Back in 2013 I bought a lot of stuff online from US stores, naturally in US dollars. But to do so nowdays…It's a bit more expensive. Suppose an item was the same price in the US – what was $100 in my local currency in 2013 would now be $130 (and it looks to be getting worse).

So now when I look at US prices (which to make things worse, have tended to go up slightly as measured in USD anyway), things are looking more scarily expensive. Which is pushing MYOG to a highly priority.

In my teens, I think my clodhoppers were about $59 at REI. Washing store windows and score-keeping at the bowling alley, that would have taken me 3 weeks of part-time work.
In my 20's, my Jansport tent (Yellowstone) and my Camptrils Pack (Wolf) were each 110% of my full-time, weekly, after-tax income.
In my 30's, I mostly coasted along with 10-year-old gear. I suppose a sleeping bag for 30%. Unless you count the backpacking hot tub but even those were scraps and used plumbing bits.
In my 40's, a hybrid road/trail bike or a family-camping tent. 4 hours of work.
In my 50's, I haven't done any spendy UL purchases. Nothing custom, just off-the-rack quilts and packs for the family. 2 or 3 hours of work each.