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What Financial Matters Prevent You From Collecting Or Made You Retire?
I recently acquired my first DC Direct 13 inch figure.
CLASSIC BATMAN: This figure is awesome and I am aiming to get Robin next. The only problem I face with collecting these figures is that they are pricey as hell. And now, there is no way in eternity that I can ever find a Green Lantern at a good price.
Well this got me to thinking. We all have either financial responsibilities like providing for our spouses and kids or we have financial problems or crunches that keep us from collecting what we want or in some cases, some of us collectors had to retire and sell some if not all our collections.
So for an interesting topic, what financial burdens or duties have made you either curtail collecting temporarily or permanently?
For me, it's the ridiculously high gas prices. I have to gas up my gas guzzling Camaro every other day in my attempt to get to the gym every day due to a 30 minute drive. Plus as a type II Diabetic, I have to keep buying my supplies and medicine until the insurance finally kicks in and covers
pre-existing conditions, which it doesn't in the first year, so I am waiting. And finally, the basic bills.
I'm not married and have no kids, but it still sucks when you don't have money to spare for collectibles, but then again, that's life. We gotta live. In my case, I will never retire, but I have had to stop collecting for a while. This Batman figure is more like a late Christmas present. I haven't ordered a JLU figure in months.
What about you fellow collectors ( or former collectors)?
Cheers.
CLASSIC BATMAN: This figure is awesome and I am aiming to get Robin next. The only problem I face with collecting these figures is that they are pricey as hell. And now, there is no way in eternity that I can ever find a Green Lantern at a good price.
Well this got me to thinking. We all have either financial responsibilities like providing for our spouses and kids or we have financial problems or crunches that keep us from collecting what we want or in some cases, some of us collectors had to retire and sell some if not all our collections.
So for an interesting topic, what financial burdens or duties have made you either curtail collecting temporarily or permanently?
For me, it's the ridiculously high gas prices. I have to gas up my gas guzzling Camaro every other day in my attempt to get to the gym every day due to a 30 minute drive. Plus as a type II Diabetic, I have to keep buying my supplies and medicine until the insurance finally kicks in and covers
pre-existing conditions, which it doesn't in the first year, so I am waiting. And finally, the basic bills.
I'm not married and have no kids, but it still sucks when you don't have money to spare for collectibles, but then again, that's life. We gotta live. In my case, I will never retire, but I have had to stop collecting for a while. This Batman figure is more like a late Christmas present. I haven't ordered a JLU figure in months.
What about you fellow collectors ( or former collectors)?
Cheers.
-Tallahassee 
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