Or Clean it up Buttetcup

Supply and Demand, cost exceeding worth, or craving the necessary drug without reciprocal means, whatever you want to call it. This hobby that we are in can be as cheap as finding blow out boxes at conventions. Normally the contents of these boxes are a dollar a piece but if you pull enough from their confined space to take up with you a two for a dollar sale might magically appear. Older books, key issues, number ones pre-90 (of which I hate to admit) and graded comic books allow a substantial increase in allocated funds to our budgets.

The cheapest graded comic book I have ever purchased was only just recently. It cost me $9.50 and my most expensive was a very limited signature series 9.8 edition that ran me $625? This only happened last year. I started vowing never to pay higher than forty five dollars a book. This limitation was squashed as books I wanted were rare or one of a kind in a 9.8 status. The Bronze Age books I want and the older Silver Age books increase the cost exponentially.

I have not purchased a book for more than I was willing to pay. I have placed "why not?" bids not thinking I would win and won. And I even placed a bid on books I had no right bidding on, in other words starting a new set. BUT I never used money I needed for necessities.

I struggle from time to time. I post all my purchases, bills, rent, and other amenities in a ledger. I've wanted to stop collecting a few times to only buying what appealed to me. This year I hope my struggles of the past have taught me a lesson. I wonder though will I spend less this year or more.

Thanks for Reading

Tnerb

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