I spend ~$200/month on food for when I'm at home, ~$50/month on coffee (between Tim Horton's and shitty work coffee on breaks), and probably another $50/month on lunches when I'm at work for longer than 5 hours.
There are lots of places I can trim some fat in my budget, I just enjoy some of my luxuries too much.
I usually only eat one meal a day. I'll have a small snack (a granola bar, usually) on my first coffee break at work, and if I'm there for a full day I'll have a small sandwich a couple hours later, but otherwise I don't eat until about 5-6PM.
All I've eaten today were a couple of chicken strips and french fries when Dallas and I had dinner. I generally just don't have an appetite.![]()
I guess it would just depend on how good a deal you could find some of the rarer titles for. You could always buy commons whenever you want.
Yeah, I'm glad that I don't mind the cart-only look when it comes to my NES. Although looking at all those boxed games is satisfying I'm sure.I'm the same way as you with my O2 collection though. I'm only going to be satisfied with decent CIB copies. Might be tough to find decent copies of Power Lords, Atlantis, Killer Bees, Turtles, and Demon Attack though. But I guess the hunt is half the fun.
I was also thinking about maybe working on my Sega Saturn or Sega CD collection.![]()
Speaking of food, I'm off to have some dinner.
I could imagine a Saturn collection would get expensive really fast.
I think my ultimate plan, which I decided while drooling over a bunch of CIB games that I want to buy, is going to be get at least the boxed copy of any game where the cart typically sells for less than $10. So pretty much all of the sports titles, a few of the more common action/adventures, most of puzzle games, etc. Once I start getting into the more expensive games (basically anything where the cart alone is costing me more than $30), I'm just going to go for the cart.
The thing I keep telling myself is that I could buy just the cartridge for Jeopardy (as an example) for ~$3, or I can buy it complete for ~$8. Which I'm trying really, really hard to decide if I want to do right now or not.
Fuck it. ON A SPENDING SPREE I GO![]()
What is your opinion on invisible tape? I came across some CIB NES sports games at a Goodwill, but they were closed with invisible tape that would have undoubtedly torn the labels if removed. Aside from the irremovable tape, they were in near mint condition. I have never seen cardboard corners that sharp, but alas the tape... I think the price was $1.99 but it was before you two were collecting, so I ignored them.
OHHHHHHHH! This is horrifying!
Much better acting that the last though.![]()
Last edited by Jazzmarazz; 6th-January-2013 at 07:29.
On one hand, I hate it because if it's on the box long enough, especially near an edge, it can be a pain in the ass to remove. On the other hand, if it's a cheap enough deal, I am willing to put up with it for a bargain. If you see a deal like that again, regardless of whether I have the game or not, if you pick it up I will buy it from you.![]()