Re: Peer Pressure
Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2012 1:06 pm
This is one thought-provoking thread!
I do sometimes feel peer pressure when looking at some of the other threads/comments on here. It is never intended by the posters, but when I see that people can drop money on expensive figures, I tend to want to do that too.
I do not let that convince me to buy things I don't want. I have a pretty strict set of rules that I stick to. I have been convinced a few times that I needed to get an expensive(ish) figure because it did fit into my collection, but I never felt like I had to to make other people "accept" my collection.
I am fortunate that I have some expendable income and can afford what I want most of the time. But, the most expensive figure I every purchased was MP Grimlock.
Fort Max is a perfect example of this. I think he is a cool figure. I really do. I do not think that he is $300+ cool. I wished I had him as a kid. Part of me wants to get him. But I won't. It just isn't worth the cost.
I do sometimes feel peer pressure when looking at some of the other threads/comments on here. It is never intended by the posters, but when I see that people can drop money on expensive figures, I tend to want to do that too.
I do not let that convince me to buy things I don't want. I have a pretty strict set of rules that I stick to. I have been convinced a few times that I needed to get an expensive(ish) figure because it did fit into my collection, but I never felt like I had to to make other people "accept" my collection.
I am fortunate that I have some expendable income and can afford what I want most of the time. But, the most expensive figure I every purchased was MP Grimlock.
Fort Max is a perfect example of this. I think he is a cool figure. I really do. I do not think that he is $300+ cool. I wished I had him as a kid. Part of me wants to get him. But I won't. It just isn't worth the cost.