When obsessions get expensive

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My obsession is Oldsmobile. It was expensive enough buying the Hotwheels and Johnny Lightning 1:46 models and the radio controlled Olds 442. It was bad enough clogging my computer with pictures and videos of the cars. T-shirts weren't cheap, either. But the real expensive part came with the purchase of a full-sized Oldsmobile--- I guess when you obsess on something enough, you'll find any means to afford/pursue/obtain it. I'll probably end up penniless with my love for this car, but I don't really care. Plenty of normal people blow everything they have on the things they love, whether they be children, trips to other countries or gym memberships. I have my thing and so I pursue it with great passion and liberty.
I believe that as long as I can pay my bills and put food on my table, then I should be fine pursuing my dream. When the day comes that I can no longer provide for myself due to any obsession of mine... THEN I'll admit it is a problem.

Is that the thing in your profile? It looks well worth the money to me and I'm not even remotely interested in cars.

Human rights being a strange, totally socially constructed (but often necessary) concept as it is, it's hard to define what comes under them. But I don't think this does. It's tough, but if you don't have the money then you'll probably have to settle for, say, reading a book about cars, if that was your interest, or reading about the place that you're interested in travelling to.

Records would definatly be my problem.. seems particularly pointless as my decks still aren't even set up in my house.. :s

Just can't help myself most of the time, I never want to pass things up as I know there's not much in the stores round here and It'll most likely be gone tomorrow. Card's And internet shopping actually made it worse though as I seem to attach even less value to the mone because I can't see it.

Also tend to end up in record stores (probably because there's little else to do in this town..) and often buy something because I have an unexplainable feeling that it'll be good, or just because it has one mix or guest vocals by an artist Ilike or something.. :s


That and wargames minis and such.. that comes and goes though. :s

Not an option. My interests can ONLY be satiated by travel. There is no other way - and I rely on it to avoid becoming a vegetable. If there was another way, I'd do it. But there isn't. No books - in fact what I'm doing will hopefully become a book, and the first of it's kind as well.

My obsessions certianly have gotten expensive before.

Buying nintendo memorabilia off the internet for one, costs a fortune to get it shipped, my poor credit card
I'm also starting to get obsessed with my apperance, and that will cost the most money of all. Gyms, fake tans, hair dye, I dunno. Never had fake tan before but i'm interested in getting a light one.

I spent over $2000 in one year buying Games Workshop miniatures. That was on a part time wage for working there and after the 60% discount.
I had previously and afterwards spent at least another 1000 on them. Then my interest left and I got piles of the minis just sitting in my closet.

I have got well over a thousand bucks in collectible card games.

I have spent way too much on anime and manga. I don't even want to figure out how much it was. I have been able to wean myself off of buying them by finding libraries that have some mangas them and netflix is a life saver for anime.

I never was aware of how much I spent on my fixations when I was into them, but the realization hit soon after I began to loose interest. I have been pretty good lately and have been much more restrictive, but that is probably only due to necessity at having my wages cut.

my video game collection is insured for $25,000

I have 3 computers on in the house at all times. I have spent approx $70,000 on cars since I was an adult.

I have a few thousand dollars worth of Magic Cards.

What is the point of having a job and making money if you don't use it for the things you like?

rocks and trading cards, my meteorite costed around $250 and the most expencive card ive purchased was also in the $250 dollar range

I play warhammer/40k and warmachine...... that costs alot

I play TCGs .....I have all the first ed pokemon(6 first ed charzards!! !) yu gi oh and magic cards and i've started WoW cards

I have alomst all of the black library books

And I love anime and manga

and I buy the odd comic now and again (Spawn ftw!!)



Tho im lucky one of my obsessions is to horde almost every penny I get.....I cant stand to spend money...... it pains me to even hand over a penny.......

So.... im kinda very cheap lol

i'm currently writing up the single releases for the end of feb and beginning of march for my fanzine. There are eight singles I want to buy on the 25th alone.

I have just written; 'Now, ‘Little Bit’ has already enjoyed one rather sexy vinyl release in ‘not quite a seven, not quite a twelve’ style, but you will buy this one too because it has a different b-side, and also because you can’t stop yourself.'

I'm terrible.

In retrospect, I've been lucky in a double-edged sword kind of way.

I don't have any sort of income and I rarely have any money to spend on obsessions, so it just kinda'... killed the concept of collecting stuff for me, while at the same time making obsessions become quickly boring.

My Bionicles are worth well over $1000.

Well my spending on computers for the last year goes something like this:

16/05/07 - £63.43 - Arctic Cooling Alpine 7 CPU cooler + Asrock Conroe945G Motherboard
09/06/07 - £104.48 - Samsung SH183 18x DVD+-RW + 2x512MB DDR2 800 RAM + Arctic Cooling Silentium T2 pro case
20/06/07 - £18.98 - Actic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU cooler
25/06/07 - £32.72 - Domain name renewal
04/07/07 - £28.00 - ATI Radeon 9700 pro graphics card
04/07/07 - £30.49 - Athlon XP2400+ CPU
04/07/07 - £32.50 - Nvidia FX 5900 graphics card
16/07/07 - £130.40 - C2D E4300 CPU + 8-port Gigabit ethernet switch
04/09/07 - £52.88 - Thermalright Ultra 20 Extreme CPU cooler
05/09/07 - £353.11 - Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 motherboard, EVGA 8800GTS 320 AC3 graphics card, Antec Phantom 500 PSU
17/09/07 - £11.99 - 1GHz PIII CPU
18/09/07 - £133.05 - 2x1GB DDR800 RAM + NZXT Lexa Blackline case
19/09/07 - £27.87 - Fan controller + quiet 120mm fan
03/10/07 - £306.75 - Zalman Reserator XT water cooling system + northbridge water block + fluorescent red coolant
17/10/07 - £40.76 - Saitek Eclipse II keyboard + 2xFluorescent orance SATA cables
18/10/07 - £18.92 - 2x fluorescent green 120mm fans
18/10/07 - £24.89 - Fluorescent blue Cable Sleeving kit for PSU
03/11/07 - £28.91 - The Orange Box game collection
30/01/08 - £46.92 - EVGA step-up (trade in) from 8800GTS320 to 8800GTS 512
19/11/07 - £59.35 - Crysis + Call of Duty 4 games
06/12/07 - £446.43 - Hanns-G 28" LCD Monitor
27/12/07 - £79.88 - Razer Lachesis mouse and Razer Mantis mouse mat
21/01/08 - £10.32 - World of Goo game
01/02/08 - £57.69 - AquaGraFX 8800GT waterblock
09/02/08 - £328.80 - XFX 780i motherboard + CoolerMaster 1000W Real Power Pro PSU + Creative Faality Headphones

or a total of £2466.72. With a few things I bought earlier my main PC looks like this:

Very true, once you have a decent pair of headphones, IEM's, or speakers, you can start to hear the artifacts of compression in MP3's and low sample rates of CD's. Vinyl (at least initially) doesn't have this problem (Although they do end up getting wear and tear, which CD's don't get.) Probably the best way to do it would be to record the output from the record player to a lossless format at whatever sampling rate you can tolerate if you have a good sound card, and then just listen to those. No need to wear out the vinyls then, plus you can put the files on your iPod and enjoy. That said...even the negative aspects of vinyls (the scratches from wear and tear) do have a nice nostalgic value that people enjoy.

As for expensive obsessions, I don't really have any at the moment, although I wasted a lot of money on trading card games back in grade school and high school. I also do tend to make impulse buys on tech items to hack or modify.

polarity is that a carriage clock sitting on top your computer or is it a serious bit of kit disguised as a clock?