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>have a wide array of interests in pop culture because I was never autistically into just one thing
>collecting 1/6th mainly
>collecting 1/18th 40K as a secondary
>also buying specific comic/vidya/movie characters in every scale and form because I love them that much
>also collecting my favorite runs in omnibus format, but following specific characters to the end, so end up paying 100$ for literal schlock just to complete the lines of the volumes I truly loved
>have to juggle X-Men, Star Wars, Fantastic Four, things like Vertigo Absolutes and so on
>am a completionist so have to buy the entire team/writer run/etc
>spending ~1K on figures and comics per month in this economy when I most certainly am not affluent enough to do it without risk
Does anyone have any tips on how to control this? Yesterday I bought a 1/18th 40K Adepta Sororitas for ~50$. I didn't feel bad about it but then I started thinking on hw I spent ~80$ for Castellan Crowe last week, how I bought 2 Omnis for 200$ three days ago, the last 1/6th I bought some months back, the list of 50 omnis I have to buy this year, the list of ~15 1/6ths I have to buy within 2023-2024, and it becomes too much. I'm wondering how many of them I actually like and how many I'll forget about. Right now I'm torn between buying the Onslaught or JMS Spider-Man Omni. One is 90s schlock but I enjoyed it back in the day and am already deep into X-Men. The other is a good SM run but I've already written off trying to collect SM and just buy random one-off Omnis and Ultimate. Then it dawns to me that the people around me barely buy a 20$ book every so often, I see that I'm spending 200$/week on food, and I'm feeling like a moron.
When I started I just wanted my top favorite characters in the best format available. Then I started getting supporting characters, then I expanded to other lines, and then everything snowballed from there. I feel that in 10 years I'll look back and hate myself for being so careless.
>collecting 1/6th mainly
>collecting 1/18th 40K as a secondary
>also buying specific comic/vidya/movie characters in every scale and form because I love them that much
>also collecting my favorite runs in omnibus format, but following specific characters to the end, so end up paying 100$ for literal schlock just to complete the lines of the volumes I truly loved
>have to juggle X-Men, Star Wars, Fantastic Four, things like Vertigo Absolutes and so on
>am a completionist so have to buy the entire team/writer run/etc
>spending ~1K on figures and comics per month in this economy when I most certainly am not affluent enough to do it without risk
Does anyone have any tips on how to control this? Yesterday I bought a 1/18th 40K Adepta Sororitas for ~50$. I didn't feel bad about it but then I started thinking on hw I spent ~80$ for Castellan Crowe last week, how I bought 2 Omnis for 200$ three days ago, the last 1/6th I bought some months back, the list of 50 omnis I have to buy this year, the list of ~15 1/6ths I have to buy within 2023-2024, and it becomes too much. I'm wondering how many of them I actually like and how many I'll forget about. Right now I'm torn between buying the Onslaught or JMS Spider-Man Omni. One is 90s schlock but I enjoyed it back in the day and am already deep into X-Men. The other is a good SM run but I've already written off trying to collect SM and just buy random one-off Omnis and Ultimate. Then it dawns to me that the people around me barely buy a 20$ book every so often, I see that I'm spending 200$/week on food, and I'm feeling like a moron.
When I started I just wanted my top favorite characters in the best format available. Then I started getting supporting characters, then I expanded to other lines, and then everything snowballed from there. I feel that in 10 years I'll look back and hate myself for being so careless.
