Speaker cables.. Budget again.. With a twist...

bluejeanscable is a good place to start unless you want to go the Home Depot orange cable route.

If your speaker runs were not so long, I'd suggest 16 gauge Furutech Fs71144 cable at around $4.60 a meter from Partsconnexion. But 35 feet is awfully long for that gauge. I've recently used Monster Cables new 14 gauge cable you buy for a dollar a foot at BestBuy (the stuff wound around a plastic core.) I needed something to get me by while I was using a loaner amp that wouldn't accept the connectors on my regular cables. I was quite impressed with them for a buck a foot. Timru's suggestion is a good one. Their Belden 5000 series is more in line with what I'd be looking at in your price range/length, it's either 10 or 12 gauge.

Try the White Lightning DIY recipe as described in 6Moons:

http://www.6moons.com/audioreviews/whitelightning/moonshine.html

You can buy 2 bundles of 40 ft. cord at Wal-Mart for around $20. Then get some connectors and give it a whirl.

Go to:

www.diycable.com

Order the required length of "Canare 4S11" wire and the required number of Exodus "EX_BANA" banana connectors (yes, $5.25/pr but worth it).

This should fall just within your budget for the two cables of 55 or so foot combined length.

The bananas require a small jewelers/opticians/electronics screwdriver and, obviously, a wire cutter/stripper is needed. No soldering. The Canare wire is very high quality.

You can do much worse than these speaker cables. Twin 11 ga for both hot and neutral will serve you well, given the lengths needed.