Back in July I decided to impose a spending cap and immediately spent into a deep deficit when a couple can't pass up auction items came up for sale. So then I had to hold back on my spending to get my allowance back in line. This meant a wait until October at the earliest. July to October. *whew*

At this point it's officially been two months and since no must have items have arisen I've stuck to my goal. Sure, there are some items out there I'm burning to purchase but I'm proving to myself that I control my spending not the other way around. My longest gap between purchases since collecting CGC collecting was 67 days late last year to early this year and I'm very close to surpassing that. This is coming from someone who purchased 27 CGC comics last year alone.

This in no way means I've given up my goal to have the number one Captain Marvel Adventure collection on the planet but it may take awhile. My spending limit is not exactly austere and given my budget for the rest of the year and available comics I plan to add another 1700+ registry points and probably between 4 and 5 thousand registry points a year going forward. Not a small amount but certainly less than I was doing. My hope is to get around 2x registry points per dollar spent but that's not always possible so 4 to 5 thousand may be overly optimistic.

Regardless, I am looking forward to continuing my collecting in the next month or so but not buying anything can sometimes be as refreshing as buying.

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