I have a budget of $150/month that I allocate to Patreon/Kickstarter. If I spend a bit more over a month because there were multiple projects that caught my fancy, I try to spend less the next few months.

I mostly spend money on projects that I believe would have a lower chance of happening without kickstarter. For patreon, I mostly fund comics and webnovels.

Sidenote, I dislike Patreon. They have a great idea but the interface is really awful and it hasn't improved much. I wish someone more worthy had had that idea first because with the network effect, it would be hard for a competitor to get traction.

Patreon is a budget. It's not really comparable to kickstarter unless you're doing weird one-off juggling.

I'd like to say there is a budget. It's mostly whatever looks interesting budget. But I DO limit myself to only board games.

Not the parent but I'll chime in. It really depends on the type of games you enjoy. Mechanic-heavy ("eurogames") vs. more themed ("ameritrash"), cooperative, competitive, etc. BoardGameGeek is a great site for reference.

Off the top of my head, my wife and I enjoy: Ticket to Ride, Splendor, Ascension, Lost Cities, Settlers of Catan, Elder Sign.

To play with each other or as part of a group? There's a deep, deep division between 2-player games and 3+ player games.

I recently picked up Scythe and loved it enough to buy every possible add-on and piece upgrade for it :)

Twilight Struggle

People on HN love to hate on Reddit but /r/boardgames is a great community where you can find many, many answers to questions like this. https://reddit.com/r/boardgames

Caverna, Food Chain Magnate, Dead of Winter, Blood Rage, Fury of Dracula, Arkham Horror Card Game. Are you into miniatures? You can go seriously deep down the rabbit hole with that stuff.