I decided to do this Brent's way, and break down my spending month by month. I will say again, I am so glad that I'm keeping track of my purchases this year, it has been a definite eye opener. September was my highest spending month ever, and has really made me realize I should probably try to taper back a little bit from now on. I don't know if it is the combination of their being so much OT stuff this year, or if there has just been more stuff this year due to the DVD release, but I sure don't think that I used to spend this much each month when I started. I believe when I first started regularly collecting SW, I spent about $30 a month, and sometimes not that. For this year, I am hovering around the $80-ish mark. Part of it might be due to picking up other lines along the way too, which doesn't help matters any. My wife would like to see me limit my purchases to just Star Wars, which would make sense, but part of me wants to do main Star Wars, and one other small sub-collection. I've wavered which way I want to go with that, but I really need to try to pick one...and one that won't be such a huge undertaking to keep up with. Anyways, like I said, a definite eye opener, and I think my spending habits need to change. It might be a drop in the bucket for some, but this is fairly spendy for us. Here's my month by month breakdown:
January - $32.95
February - $88.93
March - $21.99
April - $58.52
May - $10.99
June - $81.82
July - $110.09
August - $71.23
September - $115.01
Total for the Year (Star Wars) - $474.16
Total for the Year (Other) - $123.55 (including one October purchase)
Total Total
- 597.71
Yikes. I don't know what I spent my money on before
, or what I would now if I didn't collect. That's a lot of extra dough.
