I got an addiction>_>.....

Tobe

My wishlist right now are basically carts filled with orders that I always look at few times a day and telling myself I don't need to buy all these 500 USD worth of decks...

there are like several websites that I bookmarked on and constantly fighting my urge to click in QvQ...

My fellow readers, lend me your strengths to fight this temptation QvQ!!
 

rwcarter

Welcome to the club Tobe! :laugh:

It was much easier in the days of paper catalogs. I could get the thrill of shopping by going through the catalog, marking everything I wanted and possibly even going so far as to fill out the order form and then sit the catalog aside where it would get buried under other stuff so that by the time I found it again, it would be way too late to order any of those things.

I guess the closest thing we have now is wishlists. Put everything on your wishlist to fulfill the thrill of wanting it, just don't ever put those things in your cart!

Rodney
 

lantana

I would say give in just a little: buy the deck you want the absolute most and then, after spending some good quality time with that deck, see if some decks fall off your wishlist. I had a lot of decks I thought I NEEDED when I was first starting out that I no longer lust over, because I've realized what bases I have covered and what I actually like in decks.

Granted, there are people who don't approach buying the same way I do (hello, TOADIES) and in the end my three year old collection probably does cost around 500 USD (and I might be having a mini-heart attack over this realization) so uh, take this all with a grain of salt! :D
 

Le Fanu

It was much easier in the days of paper catalogs. I could get the thrill of shopping by going through the catalog, marking everything I wanted and possibly even going so far as to fill out the order form and then sit the catalog aside where it would get buried under other stuff so that by the time I found it again, it would be way too late to order any of those things.
I think wish lists are pretty much the same idea - I never keep wish lists - I either buy stuff or just plan to and then forget about it.

I think with a new addiction like this, you need to shop until you get it out of your system. Only when you get to the point where a deck arrives after after great excitement and it doesn't change your life, do you start to see that there's really no point. That life doesn't change.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if you had all these $500-worth of decks? Not really. Everything would be exactly the same.

Another technique for satiating the shopping urge is watching YouTube unboxing porn videos. All the thrill of taking off the shrink-wrap, none of the expense or acute disappointment, after great expectation, that life hasn't changed. Try those. You might enjoy them -it might help you to forget your wish list.
 

Tobe

I think wish lists are pretty much the same idea - I never keep wish lists - I either buy stuff or just plan to and then forget about it.

I think with a new addiction like this, you need to shop until you get it out of your system. Only when you get to the point where a deck arrives after after great excitement and it doesn't change your life, do you start to see that there's really no point. That life doesn't change.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if you had all these $500-worth of decks? Not really. Everything would be exactly the same.

Another technique for satiating the shopping urge is watching YouTube unboxing porn videos. All the thrill of taking off the shrink-wrap, none of the expense or acute disappointment, after great expectation, that life hasn't changed. Try those. You might enjoy them -it might help you to forget your wish list.

yea I've been watching those videos along with videos like "my 100+ collections"
making me want to shop more >_>...
 

Barleywine

My approach to wish lists is to put them on the back burner and let them simmer, only looking at them when I want to add something new. At that time I browse through them and wonder why I ever added some of the stuff, which I promptly remove. That doesn't mean they won't creep back on some day, but it does eliminate the impulse buy in many cases. Also, sometimes you will get the "No longer available from your chosen seller" message from Amazon, which neatly solves the dilemma. The brief pang of regret is easier to handle than the long-term distress in the wallet.
 

Trogon

Yeaaahhh. Don't look at me, I'm not very good at "de-enabling". I'm much better at going along with you as you plunge off the precipice of buying new decks. I have learned to control myself a little bit (kind of) over the years. But I now have wish-lists on Amazon, Tarot Garden and sticky notes on my laptop. :rolleyes:

I bought 3 new decks in the past couple of weeks. I guess the only way I'm stopping myself from going on-line and buying decks is by going to an actual, physical store and buying them (as with these last 3).

So ... yeah, here ... take my hand as I step off this cliff with my puppy nipping at my heels ...
 

Barleywine

I followed the path of the Hanged Man rather than the Fool: get married, buy a house, have kids; you never have to worry where the money went, it's just gone. There is such a thing as the covert spousal veto that puts a chill on profligate spending, the kind that sounds like a dismissive "OK, whatever . . ." but really means "No way!"
 

Tanga

You guys can join TOADies anonymous thread (Tarot Over Aquisition Disorder).

http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=246914

"Shop until you get it out of your system" - No way. It never would. :joke:

I do Barleywine's "let it simmer" over a long time thing.
Plus... I'm not allowed more than 80 decks (not including duplicates - which I have of my favourites, unless they were pricey or OOP)... so if I go over - I've got to give something away. Lol...

Tarot Conference this Autumn... I'll have a few to put on the swap table then. :)
 

MysticMoonlight

I'm right there with you. I have wish lists that never dwindle very much. On the occasion though some that are on my wish lists fall out of favor after I've watched an unboxing on YouTube and I then decide that I don't like it as much as I thought I would or something about the deck/images really bothers me and I figure that if I purchase it, it will bother me even more. That's why when I get a new deck in my mind, I make sure to research it well. I tired fairly quickly of buying the next best thing without so much as a blink and then, once in hand, I was so disappointed. So now, while my wish list still grows, I keep them away and out of the cart...mostly.