>>47008435poorfag collector here. I stock shelves at a grocery store. Picrel is my Pokemon & other weeb shit collection, MOST of which was purchased when I got bit with the nostalgia bug in March at the beginning of covid.
Collecting is a hobby that costs money, and like everything else that costs money, you have to budget for it. I am frugal with my spending in most other areas so that I can spend it on shiny cardboard. I rent a house with two roommates, I drive a cheap car with good gas mileage, I make an effort to shop for groceries cheaply and I don't eat out very often. Covid killed all my going-out-with-friends expenses too and is what gave me the opportunity to get heavily into Pokemon. Even on my meager wage, after I pay my bills and put 10% of my earnings into savings, I still have a couple hundred bucks of play-money to spend as I please every paycheck.
I rationalize the high costs of some of the vintage stuff I want by knowing that $15 when I was a kid/teenager was a lot more money to me then, than $100 is to me now.
>studentThat's your first problem. Sorry you fell for the college jew
