When something comes along that's to good to pass up do you bend your rules a bit.

When I start to collect a series of comics I plan it out and set a bunch of rules to keep me from getting carried away. You know, rules like- only CGC slabs, only grades between this and that, off-white pages or better, issues 1 thru whatever, and on and on it could go. An example would be my collection of "Ghosts". Rule #1 was issues #1-15, rule #2 is well centered copies with no elements cut off, rule #3 was CGC copies only 8.0 or better with C/OW pages or better. Bingo, I'm within all my rules for years, and then, Dingo, I went and broke them. Quality Comix had a nice auction going on and I spotted a great copy of Showcase #20, first Rip Hunter, that would have been a nice upgrade for my set. Wouldn't you know it, there were also some high grade Ghosts issues that didn't fit my rules, not within issues #1-15. I kept telling myself no but I ended up telling myself I'd bid on then and if I won I wouldn't put them in my set on the Registry. That's a little bend of the rules but now that I won them I just had to put them in my Registry set. So I broke all the rules, big deal, I'm happy and it did move me ahead of one other collector in the Registry. I do hope I don't feel the need to now go after the whole set as then I'd have to make a whole bunch of new rules. You know what they say "The more rules you set the more rules you get to break".