I've been really trying to cut down on spending lately and focusing my collection to where I don't feel like I need to keep spending a ton of money all the time to be really stoked on it.

man, this thread could go on for a long time...

i tell people (co-workers mainly) that it's just like collecting art or whatever. people like what they like...plain & simple.

my rule has always been

once the bills are paid and the monthly retirement money salted away and ALL other real life needs are taken care of ( this means NO credit card debt etc) then I am free to spend any or all extra money on any goddamn thing I please. I mean, wtf is it about anyway? PLEASURE.

u only live once.

my co-workers also said that they were going to give me an intervention.....to each his own i say. as long as your hobby doesn't interfere with regular expenditures i say go for it.....we all make choices of what to spend our money on, we just choose to spend our extra $ on jp vinyl.....

That's how I look at it. Rather blow some $'s on a couple of toys every fortnight than waste it on being a barfly. Its too easy to blow cash on crap. Everyone's into something, dvd's, video games, eating out. The problem arises when your into a few things... its about focus.