Enough is enough.

For the past year and a half I have been writing journal after journal. I wrote what I was doing, what I did, and what I wanted to do. During this time I have also been diligent in what I have been collecting. I have solidified my second place standing in the full New Mutants set and also lost my 2nd place standing in the ?Liefeld? New Mutants set. So what am I to do?

I have spent thousands of dollars on encapsulated comic books, enough to purchase a new car. Last year in the final six months I spent 3970 dollars. This does not include the new books I get every Wednesday. I do plan on finishing both New Mutants Sets and even have designs on finishing two more, one being the Magik limited series, the second is the X-Infernus limited with variants. I guess since it has something to do with Illyana Rasputin I must have it. I even put a deposit down on a Polystone Statue based on the cover of issue #1.

(Please check out my review at: http://www.comicbooked.com/polystone-darkchilde-statue/ )

It will be a while for me to fill those sets and the knowledge of what I am spending is helping me decide to sell off my dupes, but do I use E-bay, Comiclink, Comic Connect, or even Heritage. I won?t get back what I spent and I wonder how much Bagofleas lost when he sold his 9.8?s he upgraded. I already have dedicated $750 more on the next 4 books I want, all in a 9.8, all with signatures. Did I mention it was ONLY 4 books? I am not even talking about any one of those four being a copy of Daredevil #168. That?s when I realized I am done, with all that money, just gone.

So the decision is made, I?m done procrastinating and now I?m sending in the books I love. My membership ends in August and I only sent in one measly batch of ten. I plan on readjusting my finances and send in some of my own books. I currently have had a small sum of 250 books set aside to be graded, just sitting there for six months now. With that amount of money I stated I could have had every single book graded and sent back to me and still have money left over.

If I am lucky starting in May I will get together a first order for June, then in June for July, and a third in July for August. After that, I am unsure if I will renew, but only because I have always just purchased CGC books form some source online. Fortunately for my books I am not worried about the grade or to protect an investment but only to protect the books I love.

Thanks for reading

Tnerb