as Heeble said, it was upwards of 60k. I had 20k at the time started and ended up selling around 45k worth of furniture collected since 2009.

Just farming for a few hours gets you all gold and with this farm that is already 6k. I would say maybe 2-4hrs (lets just say 4 hours, to get an idea of the longest it would take). So, that would take a maximum of about 40 hrs to make that money back. Now obviously no one farms for 40hrs straight, so just divide that up by how often you play/farm. If you play/farm for 5hrs a day then thats just 8 days to make that back. Doesn't sound like such a waste now does it? Besides, you get the added bonus of your house looking fancy xD

Edit: add in another 20-40 mins for the daily bounty and you could decrease the total time a lot.