The Guess How Much You Have Spent This Year Game

[GoktimusPrime]

$885.75

[BigTransformerTrev]

No idea for the whole year, but on my shott trip to Melb this week I spent about $300 on TFs which I think came to more than food, booze, hotels and shows combined

[Borgeman]

Wow and I thought had a problem. Nice work

I also just remembered I purchased UT Ordin of loophole for $400, it seriously just feels like it never ends.

Haha, I used to have a problem years ago, when I bought for the sake of buying, for the thrill of the hunt - I now sold much of what I bought back then.

What cost me was the fact that the MP line ramped up while I was not active, so instead of a backlog of a dozen or so figs, it was 50+. I was only gonna collect the main cartoon characters, but enough of the repaints looked too damn good, so if I was gonna buy 80% of them, may as well get the rest

[Shirokaze]

Around 2k for me if I include the preorders I've paid for until the end of the year. Way too much, I was supposed to be cutting back....

[Raider]

If I actually took the time to calculate it I would be disgusted at myself I am sure...

[Ralph Wiggum]

Philosophical / hypothetical / non-judgmental question but if anyone is getting negative feelings about the money spent, would it be a catalyst for change?

[SuspectimusPrime]

Haha, I used to have a problem years ago, when I bought for the sake of buying

I know I've got figures (perhaps 10%) in this category, and need to get rid of them. I find that I am enjoying my collection less when I see this category of figures among ones that I really favour.

for the thrill of the hunt

This is the hard one, because there are some that do bring back good memories, even if I have not handled or played with them so much. Botcon Deathsaurus was one: cost me at least $250 shipped, months and years of obsessing to locate one, and I haven't even transformed him.

Philosophical / hypothetical / non-judgmental question but if anyone is getting negative feelings about the money spent, would it be a catalyst for change?

Yes. Slowly coming to the conclusion that less is more - this may be a lesson that will take me another decade to fully realise. A lot of money has been spent, but I have never made purchases at the sacrifice of something else I should have bought, or regretted the time-opportunity cost - running around Japan and HK following HD's maps was the best.

[SharkyMcShark]

I think I ended up paying in the region of 180AUD for Vulcun.

120AUD for MP-28 Hot Rod

54AUD for the two Titans Return figures I own.

354AUD. Not bad.

[CHILENO20]

I haven't bothered to calculate but my guesstimate would be around $2000 minimum. A few pre orders from PC, started collected MP's, some hard to find TakTom exclusives and finishing off my G1's.

[UltraMarginal]

If I actually took the time to calculate it I would be disgusted at myself I am sure...

true, but I have spending money that I have to spend or save and apart from not having the space to display them all, I rarely buy a transformer for the sake of it. I often have to stop myself from doing so.