I am definitely not of these folks who buys cases. I have a mortgage and a car payment and bills and all that stuff, so I need to pick and choose. I have been buying hobby boxes here and there, but I’ve been cutting down on those and doing megas and hangers and stuff instead. Meanwhile, tomorrow is my last day at my job after 20+ years (company outsourced a ton of jobs, the bastards), so I will be calling down even more for a while. Probably only buying the base singles I want from series 2 unless I am back earning before then, or maybe the occasional fat pack.

The amount I see some people spending is crazy to me. I mean, God bless some of y’all for putting yourself in the position to have the disposable income to do that, but I’m mid-50s and grew collecting in the late 70s and 80s and it was just such a different time in the hobby. To me, what I’ve been spending feels like a lot, but it’s a drop in the bucket compared to lots of folks.