[behindthemask]

I think it's easy to get carried away with any type of collectable if you have an addictive personality and crave the latest and greatest and are a completist or a customizer/army builder you're gonna end up buying a bunch of toys, life will go on, but if your spending gas $$ , lunch $$ or rent to buy a figure then you need to reevaluate your priorites. If money is the main issue then you need to figure out a budget. How much do you make biweekly/month, subtract fixed costs like rent,food,gas, cellphone, anything that's a consistant bill/month, What you have left is yours so from there you need to find out do u want to go drinking on the weekend and partying with friends or bank the $$ for some MU figures. The best thing for you to do would be figure out what amount of your monthy income is expendable and set a limit. If you set yourself a figure cap like 1-3 figures/month you could end up buyin 3 sentinels and have no $$ for food, but if you have a limit of say $30/month to spend then you stick to it, do your hunts, and if you don't find anything then the $$ goes into a jar for next months hunt, and so on and so on. Before you know it, you maybe have 2-300 $ in there and buy yourself a hot toys figure or something badass. Just a suggestion, MU saving jar to the rescue.

I myself have become a victim of loving too much plastic crack, between drooling over dioramas and fellow collections, I find myself wanting more. Sadly my average income doesn't allow for a ton of extra spending so I try to limit my toy hunts to 1-2/month and if I don't find anything of importance I leave with my $$. I've been trying to buy more from ebay and focus on the figures I'm missing and really want. Ideally I want to have every 6'' Iron man figures, and there's about 10-20 I'm missing, mainly variants, but it's something to pick away at and piece by piece cross off the list.