You know you're a hard core collector when.... (1 Viewer)

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You know you're a hard core collector when....

You go up to the dessert counter at a restaurant, thinking about how it would be great for displaying some dioramas you have in mind!
 
You know you're a hard core collector when....

you check the dessert menu in a restaurant and then you calculate that if you skip the dessert twice, it will allow you to get another figure for your collection :wink2:

Konrad
 
"that if you skip the dessert twice"

So does this mean you would normally have two desserts? If so, I like the cut of your gib!
 
kogu said:
You know you're a hard core collector when....

you check the dessert menu in a restaurant and then you calculate that if you skip the dessert twice, it will allow you to get another figure for your collection :wink2:

Konrad
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I used to have a jar that I would drop money in that I had been tempted to waste. I started to walk around shopping centres and say to myself 'I would like some KFC but I will resist the urge and I will drop the money in the jar'. The money saved was then added to my set budget for TS as an extra.

The problem was that I actively started to look for something I did not need, declined to buy it and then dropped the money in the jar. It was impossible to tell the difference between a real saving and a false one. I just gave up and bought what I wanted because I had to admit that the real extravagence was the TS in the first place...not that I ever let that bother me.
 
larso said:
"that if you skip the dessert twice"

So does this mean you would normally have two desserts? If so, I like the cut of your gib!
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^&grin No, I usually don't have two desserts when eating out. I did just bring the "twice" up, because the savings you have for skipping one dessert don't make for a Toy Soldier.
Konrad
 
Jack said:
I used to have a jar that I would drop money in that I had been tempted to waste. I started to walk around shopping centres and say to myself 'I would like some KFC but I will resist the urge and I will drop the money in the jar'. The money saved was then added to my set budget for TS as an extra.

The problem was that I actively started to look for something I did not need, declined to buy it and then dropped the money in the jar. It was impossible to tell the difference between a real saving and a false one. I just gave up and bought what I wanted because I had to admit that the real extravagence was the TS in the first place...not that I ever let that bother me.
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Hi Jack,

I am doing something similar right now. I quit smoking a week ago, or almost. It was last sunday.
Used to smoke a pack a day, which is like $5.00 a day.
Now, tonight I have $30.00 in a box in my Toy Soldier room and I do plan to add $5.00 a day for not smoking.
And once a month is over, I will take that $150.00 and spend it on Toy Soldiers, that's a given :wink2:

Comes the first week of June, I will let you guys know what I got for stopping smoking ^&grin

Cheers!

Konrad
 
kogu said:
Hi Jack,

I am doing something similar right now. I quit smoking a week ago, or almost. It was last sunday.
Used to smoke a pack a day, which is like $5.00 a day.
Now, tonight I have $30.00 in a box in my Toy Soldier room and I do plan to add $5.00 a day for not smoking.
And once a month is over, I will take that $150.00 and spend it on Toy Soldiers, that's a given :wink2:

Comes the first week of June, I will let you guys know what I got for stopping smoking ^&grin

Cheers!

Konrad
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Your story got me thinking. I do not smoke, however, I was at a store in downtown Chicago and saw a pack of Camels for $11.49. Just think how fast your TS budget would grow if you were a former Smoker in Chicago.:)
Brian
 
kogu said:
Hi Jack,

I am doing something similar right now. I quit smoking a week ago, or almost. It was last sunday.
Used to smoke a pack a day, which is like $5.00 a day.
Now, tonight I have $30.00 in a box in my Toy Soldier room and I do plan to add $5.00 a day for not smoking.
And once a month is over, I will take that $150.00 and spend it on Toy Soldiers, that's a given :wink2:

Comes the first week of June, I will let you guys know what I got for stopping smoking ^&grin

Cheers!

Konrad
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Konrad

To my embarrassment my wife referred to the jar as 'my denial jar'. She was less impressed when I said that by eating less junk food I would live longer which would cost her more money in the long run.

One of the other collectors on the Forum gave up smoking and spent it on TS and still came out ahead so neither seems a cheap habit. Good that you will have some TS to show for it. Spend it on more of the figures from Sarum Toy Soldiers. I like them ... I am even tempted to put my cream bun down and order some!

Jack
 
Deitz said:
Your story got me thinking. I do not smoke, however, I was at a store in downtown Chicago and saw a pack of Camels for $11.49. Just think how fast your TS budget would grow if you were a former Smoker in Chicago.:)
Brian
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Are you serious, Brian??? {eek3}
Years ago I had to go to Chicago to visit the German Consulate for a passport renewal. Was hanging out downtown after the business was taken care of, and at some point I was trying to find a place to buy a pack of cigarettes. Took me forever to find one, but at one point I saw that a Walgreen's shop had cigarettes at their counter. Went in and asked for a pack, putting down a $5.00 note. Got the pack and a 5 cents of change. Kept staying there and looking at the clerk, until I realized that $4.95 was the actual price.
At that time in KY, cigarettes were like $3.50 a pack.

Oh well, with just now quitting the habit, I am going to be just happy not to spend any money on the smoke no more.

Konrad
 
I was surprised when I saw the price of a pack cigarettes. I was use to seeing a little more or less than $10.00 a pack. In the burbs it is a little cheaper right around $8.00 or so a pack. The taxes in Cook county, Illinois, are crazy. I almost never shop in Chicago the sales tax is 9.25%(I think the highest in the states) plus $1.98 per pack. Not sure why anyone would smoke in Chicago.

Brian
 
I stopped smoking about ten years ago when a pack of 20 was about £5.00! no idea what they are now. Anyway when I stopped I discovered that nicotine was only masking my real addiction for cream cakes.^&grin

Martin
 
Martin Tabony said:
I stopped smoking about ten years ago when a pack of 20 was about £5.00! no idea what they are now. Anyway when I stopped I discovered that nicotine was only masking my real addiction for cream cakes.^&grin

Martin
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I neither drink nor smoke and the number of things I have bought over the years based on my wife's view (and to be honest, mine) that 'we don't drink and we don't smoke so ... ' are legion. The most obvious example would be an addition to Walt! All up I have spent 19 days at four different Disney parks (the first when I was 25 years old!) so it would have been cheaper to smoke. {sm4}
 
larso said:
You know you're a hard core collector when....

You go up to the dessert counter at a restaurant, thinking about how it would be great for displaying some dioramas you have in mind!
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I see your point. The shape of some of these glass enclosed lit displays would make for a really nice cabinet. ^&cool
 
larso said:
You know you're a hard core collector when....

You go up to the dessert counter at a restaurant, thinking about how it would be great for displaying some dioramas you have in mind!
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......I know I'm hard core when I've somehow managed to convince the Mrs's that displaying a small collection of TS in our bedroom is really quite romantic and won't distract from the colour coordinated décor.....{eek3}{sm4}
 
Desertkiwi said:
......I know I'm hard core when I've somehow managed to convince the Mrs's that displaying a small collection of TS in our bedroom is really quite romantic and won't distract from the colour coordinated décor.....{eek3}{sm4}
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Won't she be surprised to find out its the TS that arrouse you...:salute:: No offence intended to the 1000's of collectors who have TS displayed in their bedrooms..:redface2: Michael
 
maddadicus said:
Won't she be surprised to find out its the TS that arrouse you...:salute:: No offence intended to the 1000's of collectors who have TS displayed in their bedrooms..:redface2: Michael
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haha.....thanks Michael......yes they certainly stimulate the senses, but I'm neither going to confirm or deny they cause any form of 'arousal' ......although I can't speak for anyone else{eek3}:tongue::wink2:
Cheers!
 
You know you are hard core collector when you plan your holidays for the family close to military museums or battlefields. Chris.:salute::
 
sammy719 said:
I can top that, you plan your family vacation around an area that has a toy soldier shop:)...Sammy
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Agreed Sammy, i already did that with my trip to Hong Kong last year (K&C Shop)! No family in tow though, i did it on my own!!!!

Tom
 
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