Or Slipping outside my means

I have done it, others have done it, and maybe you have done it. I'm talking about placing a bid on books with the thought 'there is no way I am going to win'. The final seconds tick down and a message appears in my inbox congratulating me on my good fortune.

I have also placed bids so low I was shocked with the same congratulations. I have been fortunate by only bidding what I can afford, even going so far as bidding to the final dollar in my account, after all my bills are paid of course. I wrote about this particular time in my journal entry "666". If you don't wish to go back and read it I'll spoil the ending for you, I lost.

If the grade of the comic book matters, I like a solid looking 9.8. If the grade doesn't matter it's more about owning the book itself. How many of you can say they are the proud owner of a 1.8 or below copy of Amazing Fantasy #15? I like my 9.8 collection of New Mutants. I also like working on my original New Mutants starting as low as a 4.5 up to the most desirable financially attainable grade of 9.8. Don't get me wrong I would live to attain another 9.9, but at the moment the two issue numbers that are available are outside anything I can currently hope to purchase.

For 2013 I hope to get ten more of my New Mutants collection signed and graded and then another simply graded. In a perfect world I would get the full 109 graded with at least half of them signed before 2014, but doing that and purchasing other books doesn't really fall under the category of what I can afford but what I want to afford.

Thanks for Reading

Tnerb

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