How do you afford your cards...

[s13driver]

Well I noticed there are alot of teenagers on this site, which is all good and well, but how do you afford the high prices of cards these days?

I'm 23 years old and I work as a carpet installer getting paid about $700 a week, but I have rent, car payments, house bills, phone bills, gas...etc. And my girlfriend allows me to have about a $150 per month card budget. I also have another hobby that involves modifying and drifting race cars, my money burns through my pockets quite rapidly.

So how much money do you allow yourselves to spend on cards per month?

[waxbuster]

Well I noticed there are alot of teenagers on this site, which is all good and well, but how do you afford the high prices of cards these days?

I'm 23 years old and I work as a carpet installer getting paid about $700 a week, but I have rent, car payments, house bills, phone bills, gas...etc. And my girlfriend allows me to have about a $150 per month card budget. I also have another hobby that involves modifying and drifting race cars, my money burns through my pockets quite rapidly.

So how much money do you allow yourselves to spend on cards per month?

Dude your girlfriend allows you a $150 per month card budget. Maybe thats why these younger collectors have nice cards they dont have girlfriends. LOL Do you wait for your girlfreind to leave before you bring your cards in this house. In other words hide them from her. Every collector I know does. Maybe a good Idea. LOL

Im not saying you dont have nice cards, but just trying to clarify how some young collectors have nice high end cards. Plus kids are spoiled now days. Come on $400 Xbox $60 video games for Xbox $200 shoes. The List goes on and on. LOL

[troygoesdeep]

hey im 18 and i got my cards by working hard and playing poker .... also i dont spend money hardly on my vehicle as it is an old minivan
i just save for cards

[tylermckinzie]

I get $50 a month to put into the collection...... (got more til we bought a home in the Phoenix housing market!).

However, whatever money I take in selling cards (that doesn't get eaten by the paypal whor.... I mean jerks.....) does not count. So, if I want to buy something for $200, that's cool, I just have to sell something to make up for it.

So, go out there and vote you local school teachers some nice raises :-)

Tyler

[beex215]

i was about to comment on the girl friend allowing you to spend 150 a month.let me guess she wants 200 for her self a month also.jeezzz.

its your money not hers.you spend it the way you want it.



also i do part time construction.

[s13driver]

Dude your girlfriend allows you a $150 per month card budget. Maybe thats why these younger collectors have nice cards they dont have girlfriends. LOL Do you wait for your girlfreind to leave before you bring your cards in this house. In other words hide them from her. Every collector I know does. Maybe a good Idea. LOL

Im not saying you dont have nice cards, but just trying to clarify how some young collectors have nice high end cards. Plus kids are spoiled now days. Come on $400 Xbox $60 video games for Xbox $200 shoes. The List goes on and on. LOL

Yea, well when you get married/engaged....your money, becomes HER money. And every married/engaged person here can back me up on that. If she went and spent $200-300 on a pair of shoes, when we're suppose to be paying for bills and expenses and what not, I'd be pretty upset. So the same goes for me with my cards. We live together, we share the same bills and expenses, so that means we share our incomes as well.

[s13driver]

i was about to comment on the girl friend allowing you to spend 150 a month.let me guess she wants 200 for her self a month also.jeezzz.

its your money not hers.you spend it the way you want it.



also i do part time construction.

Well like I said before, it's not my money just cause I work for it, it's both of ours because we share expenses. But she's not against me collecting cards or anything...She actually gets all excited when I get a couple boxes in the mail cause she helps me open them sometimes.

This week, alone, I already spent $230 on cards (1 master box of Finest, 1 mini box of Finest, 1 box of SP Rookie Ed.) so my $150 budget has already went out the window.

[mufinman009]

im only 13, i like seriously only buy cards lol. my parents think that cards is a watse of money and cards, so they never buy me them. a pack here and there. but no way am i spoiled, i do have the $200 jordan 23's but thats because I paid half/my mom paid half, and i had to get them as team shoes. i also dont get allowance but they buy me food w/e i want. lol. ONCE A COLLECTOR ALWAYS A COLLECTOR

[tylermckinzie]

LOL- my advice to everyone not in a committed relationship.....

SPEND YOUR MONEY ON CARDS NOW.....

I can continue to build my collection through all the wonderful tradebait I accumulated when I didn't have real-world expenses :-) It's not the being married that ends the collecting (Heck, my wife pulled the Adrian Peterson Threads Letterman marked NFT in my bucket, she doesn't have a problem with collecting), but real world expenses. Student loans, mortgages, cars, insurance, having kids, gas prices- those are what puts an end to buying higher end stuff!

[waxbuster]

Yea, well when you get married/engaged....your money, becomes HER money. And every married/engaged person here can back me up on that. If she went and spent $200-300 on a pair of shoes, when we're suppose to be paying for bills and expenses and what not, I'd be pretty upset. So the same goes for me with my cards. We live together, we share the same bills and expenses, so that means we share our incomes as well.

Your money becomes her money, but her money will always be her money. Im engaged and Im not backing you up one bit. All the bills get paid, some goes to savings, but you have to pay yourself first. Remember your the one that worked for it. Be responsible with your money. But dont put a limit on your fun.