Taking money out of retirement funds to purchase cards

[raulus]

Originally Posted by jingram058

If that is not the case, how then can you explain the constant, endless parade of big, big dollar cards with no mention of any stress or anxiety in picking them up?

Gotta know your limits. And then have the courage to stick to them, no matter how sorely you are tempted to go crazy, throw caution to the wind, and just go for it.

Confession: I went crazy once. But only once. The #1 set registry set for my man Mays was coming online, with crazy rare stuff for sale. I could have bankrupted myself buying all of it. Instead, I focused on the pieces that I couldn’t find anywhere else, got many of them, and figured I would pick up the rest later. It still cost me an uncomfortably high amount, and I’ve never come close to spending that much in a single auction since. And as luck would have it, many of the items that I didn’t get at that auction have come up for sale in the years since, but I’ve had to pay double or triple to get them now. So I guess you could say that I’ve been using the other guys to finance my purchases from the original auction, but at a very high interest rate, which comes due when I finally buy the items off of them years later.

[raulus]

Originally Posted by raulus

Confession: I went crazy once. But only once. The #1 set registry set for my man Mays was coming online, with crazy rare stuff for sale. I could have bankrupted myself buying all of it. Instead, I focused on the pieces that I couldn’t find anywhere else, got many of them, and figured I would pick up the rest later. It still cost me an uncomfortably high amount, and I’ve never come close to spending that much in a single auction since.

What’s a confession without a picture of my biggest pickup from that auction?

[Johnny630]

Originally Posted by raulus

what’s a confession without a picture of my biggest pickup from that auction?

wowzer i love that card dude