I'm piecing together a system on a shoestring budget. Just bought the analog Mackie 24-4 board that my bass player bough and used in our first band back in 99 - its old, but clean and little use. I have a powered peavey monitor, and an unpowered one I just replaced the diaphram - (thanks, KISS tribute band!), and am using 2 old square dance "Yak Stack" column sets as "mains" in my garage for practice, driving them with the power section of a friend's 300 watt powered 6 channel mixer.
One decent AKG vocal mic, one cheaper Peavey. 24 channels seams like a bunch until you realize the drummer is going to use up 10 of them!
So I'm on the look-out for subs, speakers, amps, eq, effects, a snake, etc.
Keeping an eye on craigslist and fakebook marketplace....