So, I found a new T206 rare back.

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Originally Posted by Eric72

Every now and then I go well past my "card budget" in an auction.

For a while afterwards, there's no disposable income on hand. As a result, I'll miss out on a few things.

However, I've never regretted the decision to "go all in" on a card. It's the "one that got away" which will gnaw at me...

I hear that. I'm just getting back into cards after collecting as a kid in the 90s... and obviously, I just got interested again months before the pandemic price boom.

So, I've still got sticker shocker from going from 90s prices to pandemic prices.

I've got a few gnawing flubs. But you're right, sometimes you've got to throw the frugality out the window for something.